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A biography of the man who served as head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, Hitler's personal secretary, and the monster who decided the fate of millions.
Born on June 17, 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler of Nazi Germany.
After joining the Nazi...
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When fifty-five rebels descended on Nick and violently pushed him into a car, he knew he might never survive this day. Guns were fired and screams filled the air. The threats of the rebels on Lorna's cellphone: "Pick a coffin! We're sending him back to you in a coffin!" With each phone call Nick made to her, she was painfully aware of the torture and beatings inflicted on him, while the rebels desperately tried to raise the ransom through the only...
3) X Rubicone: Attraversare la vita, il sesso, l'amore, Uccidere nelle guerre per procura della CIA: Un
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"Il libro di Sean conduce il lettore in modo veritiero attraverso gli orrendi due anni e mezzo di inganno e di morte, e gli oltre 40 anni in cui ha rinchiuso emozioni e verità. La sua compassione emerge quando descrive le conseguenze del PTSD. Si tratta di una narrazione sconvolgente, ma c'è la sensazione che conoscere la verità ci inviti a cambiare la realtà della nostra storia d'amore con l'esercito. Possiamo svegliarci, prendere coscienza di...
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Camille, jeune homme pauvre du Gâtinais rural est désigné par le sort pour accomplir en 1904 un service militaire de trois ans.
Mobilisé en 1914 en appartenance à la Territoriale, il rentre au pays en 1919 à l'âge de 36 ans après une guerre bien saignante de quatre ans.
Sept années furent données ainsi au service du pays.
Mais la deuxième guerre allemande contraint la France à signer l'Armistice le 22/06/40. Sa Libération, après le...
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Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de Morgan o de Drake, incluso de Long John Silver o de Jack Sparrow -que nunca existieron-, pero pocos conocen hechos singulares como que Venecia actuó como estado pirata saqueando Constantinopla en 1204, que un rey de Aragón, Alfonso el Magnánimo, disponía de flota propia, y que llegaba al extremo de atacar enclaves de su propio reino para someterlos, que Colón pudo ser pirata, y que, de hecho, colaboró y contó...
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De l'engagement dans la LVF à la bataille de Berlin, mémoires d'un jeune Français parti combattre sur le front de l'Est.
En février 1943, déterminé à participer à la lutte contre le communisme sur le front de l'Est, Jean-Marie Croisile signe son engagement au sein de la Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme. Un choix qui le conduira plus tard à intégrer la 33e Division SS Charlemagne avec laquelle il participera à la...
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Comment supporter que son histoire personnelle soit mêlée à l'horreur de l'Histoire?
Jean Buvens a 10 ans, en 1944, lorsqu'il comprend peu à peu le rle de ses parents pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : sa mère parcourt les rues de Bruxelles à la recherche de noms juifs sur les sonnettes, son père revient les soirs de rafles les bras remplis de jouets d'enfants.
Chauffeur pour la Gestapo, son père aidera les nazis en tant que dénonciateur...
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“The True Adventures of a Vagabond” is the story of a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. without a father and learning firsthand street sense where nothing comes easy for survival in a big city and that would, curiously and eventually come in handy in his street-smart career as a Special Agent. His early years unwittingly started the chain of life’s events that would lead him to many foreign countries and meeting some of the most powerful...
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The true story of the top-secret mission to capture the Russian billionaire arms dealer, the “Merchant of Death”.
Viktor Bout was the world's foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide, supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft missiles. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was hunted by MI6, INTERPOL,...
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Plongé pendant cinq ans dans la tourmente afghane, Pierre Pouchairet, chargé de la coopération en matière de sécurité, a été témoin des prémices de la fin de la campagne des forces alliées en Afghanistan. Il y a ctoyé la communauté expatriée et afghane, ses hypocrisies, ses malheurs et ses doutes, des moments parfois drles, parfois tragiques. Il raconte avec une plume acerbe les missions françaises dans ce pays, et révèle des secrets...
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Ésta es la historia del bandido convertido en revolucionario convertido en héroe popular. El campesino que se abrió camino a sangre y fuego hasta la Ciudad de México para sentarse unos segundos en la silla presidencial, sólo "para ver qué se sentía", y después volver al frente de su ejército popular. Para la mayoría de sus compatriotas es un héroe, aunque en las escuelas de México los maestros todavía lo presentan con cautela a las nuevas...
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This lively biography of America's most famous traitor offers a new perspective on his terrible legacy as well as life in Revolutionary Era Connecticut.
On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and "Remember New London!" would become a rallying cry for troops under General...
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C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by "pirates" who snatched American merchant ships and imprisoned sailors-and the country's young, untested navy took on the task of fighting the pirates in their home waters. This true tale features thrilling ocean battles, hand-to-hand...
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In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling on his ships. He never made his prisoners walk the plank, instead inviting them into his cabin for a friendly chat. And during the course of his extraordinary two-and-a-half-year career as a pirate...
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A historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor.
General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had...
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Canada's past is rich with high-flying adventures - whether it's pilots fighting in the skies or the King of the Rumrunners fleeing the feds! Read their stories in this two-book collection. • Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in Canada - Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to losses occurring in European skies in 1916. A valuable...
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On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Osama bin Laden is still a vivid symbol of outrage and tragedy in the American imagination. One of the most-recognized faces of terror, bin Laden has presented himself to the world as a paragon of ascetic virtue. Journalist Adam Robinson tells a far different story. This authoritative biography lifts bin Laden's mask of moral purity as it recounts his transformation...
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"Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany. He shouldered a major share of responsibility for some...
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