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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 11
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In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: someone very close to none other than the current president, Jake Cazalet. Powerful enemies of Cazalet will do anything to...
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The first definitive eyewitness account of the combat in Vietnam, this unforgettable, vividly illustrated report records the story of the 14,000 Americans fighting in a new kind of war. Written by one of the most knowledgeable and experienced of America's war correspondents, Vietnam Diary shows how we developed new techniques for resisting wily guerrilla forces. Roaming the whole of war-torn Vietnam, Tregaskis takes his readers on the tense U.S. missions-with...
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Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne gained international acclaim when the tale of he and his men were depicted in the celebrated book and miniseries Band of Brothers. Hoisted as a modest hero who spurned adulation, Winters epitomized the notion of dignified leadership. His iconic World War II exploits have since been depicted in art and commemorated with monuments.
Beneath this marble image of a reserved officer is the story of a common
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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886—1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of US ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany,...
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James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. These fascinating diaries begin in 1944 shortly after James Forrestal became Secretary of the Navy, and end with his resignation in March 1949 as America's first Secretary of Defense. Blunt and forceful, Forrestal reveals the American strategy that he helped shape with verve. Expertly edited by seasoned...
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A revealing account of Hitler's thoughts and actions throughout World War II from one of his closest aides.
Major Gerhard Engel was Hitler's army adjutant from 1938 to 1943. During his years with Hitler, Engel kept a diary. After the war, he added material to shed further light on certain events, military and political decisions, and Hitler's attitude to particular problems. His diary covers the decision-making process behind crucial military actions,...
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Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.
This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new...
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"In this memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day-to-day conditions in a Japanese labor camp and provides an intimate look at the collapse of Dutch colonial rule." "As a boy growing up on the island of Java, John Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with...
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Dieses Buch enthält die Kriegserlebnisse eines jungen Mannes, der deutscher Art und Bildung Ehre gemacht hat. Der Jugend, die die Welt erobern will, kann kein besseres Beispiel gegeben werden als die Gestalt unseres Helden. Sprachkenntnisse, Kenntnis der Natur und Erdkunde: offenes Auge, körperliche und geistige Gewandtheit, eine einfache, von Genußgiften unabhängige Lebensweise und ein Wagemut seltener Art, das sind die Kräfte, die Kirsch befähigten,...
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This fascinating journal of Kate Cumming, one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South's wounded soldiers of the bloody Civil War, represents a detailed record of her activities and thoughts as a nurse. Spanning the time she was assigned to her first post in Okolona, Mississippi in April 186, working under Doctor S. H. Stout, a progressive military physician committed to the employment of women in hospitals, until May 29,...
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A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times
Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before,...
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The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of the struggle, had created a world unfamiliar to the one in existence before it and brought levels of destruction and loss all too unimaginable to the generation of minds which created it. Despite this, we still find it hard to picture what it was like to...
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Jean, Lady Hamilton's diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London, for fifty years. The story begins with the young couples' wedding, a dazzling bride, Jean Muir, marrying a star-struck Major Ian Hamilton. The daughter of the millionaire businessman Sir John Muir, Jean had all the money whilst Hamilton was penniless.
Having spent their early married years in India, the Hamilton’s...
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This invaluable record presents newly translated, firsthand accounts of Waterloo from French soldiers who fought on the frontline.
With this volume, Andrew Field completes his pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. Readers can now engage with these vivid, ground-level accounts and compare them to the narratives based largely on the British perspective. They will also gain new insight into the trauma that the French experienced...
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The military historian and expert on the Waterloo campaign presents a fascinating selection of firsthand accounts never before published in English.
Andrew Field has written several important volumes on the Battle of Waterloo from the French perspective. Now he takes his pioneering work a step further by publishing these accounts, with all their vivid and personal detail, in full. This volume features Napoleons own description of the battle, as well...
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This book is filled with poetry and words from a U.S. Air Force Veteran that documents his military service and the after-effects of war including depression, PTSD, and stress. The rise from the darkest parts of our minds are explored in the pursuit of happiness, hope, and family. See the world through his eyes. Let this be a step in the right direction to shedding light on the mental health of our active duty and veteran military members.
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat-writings...
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Décryptez Le Journal d'Anne Frank d'Anne Frank avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir du Journal d'Anne Frank, le témoignage phare sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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La guerre de tous les jours dans la vie de tous les jours.
Découverts par hasard peu après sa mort par un historien local, les cahiers de guerre de Christine Flahaut (1923-2008) constituent un document unique sur la vie d'un petit village wallon durant l'Occupation et la Libération. Rédigés en français populaire savoureusement émaillé de wallonismes, ils font revivre toute une époque.
Leur édition s'accompagne de nombreuses illustrations,...
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