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Anatomía del valor es un relato radical sobre los efectos psicológicos de la guerra narrados a través de vívidas observaciones de primera mano, así como de jugosas anécdotas. Al exponer el «metabolismo íntimo» de su propia mente y recordar sus experiencias como oficial médico en las trincheras durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, Lord Moran explora la verdadera naturaleza del valor en el frente.

A remarkable real-life story of how a post World War I broken-propeller monument in North Carolina inspired and launched a return-in-time of a retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant to his tenure as director of a unique military education center in Montgomery, Alabama. This memoir is a journey of his experiences and historical events that were collected and developed to educate, motivate, and inspire America and its Airmen, then and now!

In Twenty Times I Almost Died: Life Lessons from the Edge of Survival, John Spencer, a soldier, father, and one of the world’s leading experts on urban warfare, shares gripping true stories drawn from a lifetime spent on the cusp of danger. Transporting the reader through combat tours in Iraq and research trips through modern war zones to childhood struggles, freak accidents, and near disasters, each chapter recounts a close call that could have been his last.

In Ancient Greece, anger was considered a separate part of the soul that required its own education. In What If Anger Is the Answer? Mike LeBlanc shares lessons from his own journey of how the Marine Corps and the war in Afghanistan shaped his anger and aggression. Drawing on lessons from ancient philosophy, military leadership, and Silicon Valley, the Marine Corps major and billionaire tech founder delivers a gripping, unconventional framework for strength, purpose, and personal transformation.

Parallel Lives: Commanders — How Wars Speak to Each OtherParallel Lives: Commanders is not a timeline. It's a conversation across centuries. Each chapter pairs two commanders who never met, yet seem to answer one another through the language of war: Achilles and Alexander, Hannibal and Scipio, Saladin and Richard, Napoleon and Wellington, Nelson and Tōgō, Grant and Lee, Atatürk and Hector, and many more, spanning continents from the ancient Mediterranean to the age of empires and total war.

Unit 669, Israel’s elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines. Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong and when failure is not an option.

En un imponente castillo gótico situado en la cima de una colina, en el corazón de la Alemania nazi, un variopinto grupo de oficia les aliados pasó la segunda guerra mundial intentando escapar de sus captores nazis. Durante cuatro años estos prisioneros pusieron a prueba los muros de Colditz...

La segunda guerra mundial contada por los soldados Estas cartas de soldados alemanes, seleccionadas entre las que se guardan en el Deutsche Dienststelle de Berlín, nos ofrecen el testimonio directo de quienes lucharon en los diversos frentes, de Francia a la Unión Soviética, durante cerca de...

“Abdul Atah’s service and sacrifice for America makes a moving and meaningful story. His dedication to our nation—its ideals of freedom and justice—should reaffirm our own.” — United States Senator Richard Blumenthal Wounded twice in service to America, Afghan combat interpreter...

What moments define a life? In What's Your Turning Point?, Julian M. Slocum Sr. shares a deeply personal story of faith, responsibility, service, loss, and resilience. From nearly drowning as a baby to later being baptized in the same water, Julian's life has been marked by moments that forced him to grow, adapt, and keep moving forward.

In seinem bislang persönlichsten Buch folgt Bestsellerautor Andreas Kossert den Spuren seiner Großmutter Elsa ins polnische Łódź – in eine Stadt, die für seine deutschen Vorfahren einst das „Gelobte Land" war. Kossert erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie vom Aufbruch der Kolonisten im 18. Jahrhundert über den rasanten Aufstieg zur Textilmetropole bis zu Elsas Alltag unter deutscher Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg in erdrückender Nähe von Terror und Vernichtung.

Archie Gibson's initiation into desert warfare almost proved to be his last. Barrelling through the sand dunes at the wheel of his truck, Gibson spied a searing flash of light up ahead, the signature of a feared German 88mm gun firing ... right at him. He leapt from his speeding vehicle just...

Bloomsbury presents Courage Can Save Us, written and read by Rye Barcott. From a U.S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor, and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, comes the story of principled veterans who work across party lines to shape our nation and...

A rare and deeply personal journey into the secretive world of Canada’s intelligence service, told by a former senior CSIS intelligence officer. Following 9/11, Canada joined a coalition of nations undertaking military operations in Afghanistan, calling on the Canadian Security Intelligence...

"I'm not a celebrity. I'm not a politician. I'm not a billionaire. I'm an ordinary American whose life was shaped by decisions. This isn't a book about war. It's a book about the decisions that shape every life. Mine just happened to include combat, a Purple Heart, military command, service in the Pentagon, and twenty-six years in uniform." In the first ten seconds, readers will white-knuckle their armchairs as they meet a man who was hit in the head by an enemy rocket and walked away.

We Went to War pulls you right into the war and drops you in the middle of a Combat Outpost. Follow Chaplain Latham as he makes his rounds, his Battle Field Circulation, visiting the troops and spreading the Word. See first hand the highs and lows of the last deployment of the Global War on Terror of the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Parachute Infantry. Part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from Vicenza, Italy. Follow Chaplain Latham as he ministers to troops during firefights and a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device. A story of courage and strength in the face of mounting odds.

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety. Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting operations deep inside Iraq. They were...

These pages began as real journal entries, written in the middle of struggle, confusion, and rebuilding. Through powerful storytelling and the unique lens of animal archetypes (The Fox, The Bull, The Wild Mare, and more), Daniel gives language to something many people feel but can't explain.

Escaping war-torn Eastern Europe through bullets, Nazi's, politics and chaos. Smuggling and black market were used to survive. Don't miss out on this thrilling read!

A son’s tribute to his Father and the Marine and Civilian Defenders of Wake Island. It was a heroic short battle, but a long time spent in hell. This is a personal story written by the son of one of the marine Defenders of Wake Island. It contains incredible images taken on Wake Island during the survivors' reunion trips back to Wake Island in 1985 and 88. It also contains numerous historical documents, letters from 3 Presidents, and first-hand descriptions of the actual battle and their time in POW camps in China and Japan.