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After fifty years of silence, a soldier finally spoke. What the River Kept: A Story of War, Survival, and the Silence That Followed is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the wartime experience of Joseph Paul “Pop” Janscak, a World War II infantryman whose survival came at a cost he carried quietly for the rest of his life. Through training fields, frozen marches, captivity, and return, his story unfolds as a tale of endurance and what it means to live through war and then learn how to live afterward.

The Old Rules of Leadership Are Broken Most leadership books tell you to take charge and command the room. But what if the most effective leaders do the opposite? In Lead Last, Marine Corps officer and award-winning author Olaolu Ogunyemi reveals twenty-one counterintuitive principles that challenge conventional wisdom and drive real, measurable results. Drawing from over a decade of experience leading high-performing teams, he offers a refreshing blueprint rooted in servant leadership, emotional intelligence, and long-term vision.

This thrilling memoir by a heroic special forces soldier reads like a real-life version of an action movie. It was midafternoon on January 15, 2019, and Christian Craighead was stepping out of the shower. The forty-three-year-old British special-ops soldier was at home in Kenya’s bustling...

From Brandywine to Yorktown, follow the astonishing real-life journey of the Revolutionary War’s most mythic warrior. “One-Man Army” was George Washington’s nom de guerre for Peter Francisco. Abducted from the Azores and deposited in the colony of Virginia at the age of four, little...

In early June 1967, Marine Corps recruits from Minneapolis-St. Paul and outlying Minnesota received a letter stating all those scheduled for active duty in June would go as one platoon on June 28, 1967. One hundred fifty Marine applicants would be shipped to San Diego, California, to the recruit training depot. The Minnesota Twins baseball team was sponsoring the unit. They were sworn in on television at a pregame ceremony and were guests of the Twins at the game.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Embark on a riveting journey through the lens of brave men from the military and their tales of courage, leadership and resilience with "Lead From The Front." Over the past 5 years, the authors, both corporate executives, travelled across India in...

Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest general It's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and...

Yrjö Ylisirniö syntyi Posiolla ja osallistui talvi- ja jatkosotaan (1939–44). Hän taltioi sotakokemuksensa C-kasetteille 90-luvun alussa. Hänen tarkoituksensa oli myös kirjoittaa kirja kokemuksistaan. Kirja jäi kuitenkin tuolloin kirjoittamatta. Minä, hänen tyttärensä Anne Ylisirniö-Kemppanen, päätin kirjoittaa isäni kertomusten perusteella tämän kirjan mahdollisimman totuuden mukaisesti. Kirja kertoo myös ajasta ennen sotia ja se sisältää paljon kuvamateriaalia.

History often records the Holocaust in numbers. This audiobook tells that history through the experience of one Hungarian Jewish family. *Taken. Numbered. Survived. is not a typical Holocaust memoir. It is a documented historical narrative built from survivor testimony, archival records, and verified sources. Through the experience of Mary Katz Claman and her family, it shows how the Holocaust unfolded in human terms: through exclusion, ghettoization, deportation, selection, forced labor, mass murder, displacement, and survival.

Award-winning author, Thomas J. Cutler offers an in-depth and inspiring look at the truly heroic story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The term “hero” is overused today, but the story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston...

People first. Mission always. It takes grit to rise above mediocrity and lead with conviction. Whether your fight is on the battlefield, in business, or at home, true victory is won through integrity and servant leadership. As a decorated special warfare officer and nonprofit founder, Dr. Damon Friedman has learned firsthand that before you can lead others, you must first conquer yourself. Special Warfare CEO blends elite military wisdom with real-world leadership insights for overcoming obstacles and transforming your mission —whatever it may be.

This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon’s military might. In this triumphant biography, Kate Williams tells Josephine’s searing story, of sexual obsession, politics and surviving as a woman in a man’s world...

The larger-than-life exploits of Walter Patrick Lang—the Green Beret at the center of America’s covert conflicts from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Army Colonel Walter Patrick Lang led the life that many men would love to live. He faced firefights on three continents and led a band of...

The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck...

Roy Raisor signed up to go to Vietnam before he was even eighteen years old, proudly intending to serve his country and do his patriotic duty. Like many of the young men that served in the Vietnam War, he came face-to-face with a situation entirely different than what he expected. Inside, you will find the story of Roy's time in Vietnam through a first-hand account of his experiences. Written even for those that don't have a military background or much knowledge of the War itself, Roy tells of battles and what really happened on the front lines.

When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, teenager Odd Bjerke bid his family farewell and confidently made his way to Sweden alone, on skis, with the intention of traveling to Britain to fight for his country. His wartime odyssey began when he joined the Norwegian Free Army in Scotland in 1940...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This written text was created using AI. **Still Here: Life Unresolved** is a memoir about what happens after the war—when the deployment ends, but the nervous system doesn’t reset. Told in clear, scene-driven chapters, Andrew Ford traces his path...

When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, forcing the U.S. to enter WWII, MAC was 23 years old. He had graduated with honors from high school, served two years in the Merchant Marine, and had a year of college under his belt. During the summer he had graduated from DePaul University's preliminary army air course to become a pilot and graduated as their highest-ranking student. Joining the U.S. Army Air Forces, he was assigned to the newly formed 307th BG and trained to fly the brand-new B †¢ 24 Liberator.

In the year 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean Henry Ford revealed Ford’s newest vehicle, the Model A , and Ray Oehrtmann was born to Frederick and Mary Oehrtmann in Lafayette, Indiana, the youngest of five children. Little did his parents know that they would experience the Great Depression, that Ray and his brother, Bob, would fight in a World War, and that Ray would move to Colorado, where he eventually worked on machining parts for the United States space station, Skylab.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A tribute to the female agents whose war in the shadows saved thousands of lives, this is the first-ever to tell the story of all 40 SOE female agents of F Section, including Nancy Wake The history of SOE's war in the shadows has been told many times...