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This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard...

Follow the winding path of a Jewish refugee turned US Army interrogator who ends up processing Nazi scientists during WWII. Fred Michel was a teenager when he escaped Nazi Germany with his family. When war broke out, he was drafted and trained at Camp Ritchie, a high level intelligence center. He ended up at an obscure fort along the Potomac River known only as P.O. Box 1142.

Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey. In 1966, he fulfilled his ambition as a conscript in the Royal Rhodesia Regiment, only to embark on a series of adventures that most soldiers can only imagine. From early days in the elite Parachute Regiment in the UK to his pivotal role as the official photographer during the infamous 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland, Jake's path was one of courage and resilience.

Raised as an army brat, Angie Ricketts though she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin – then an Infantry Lieutenant – on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since then, Darrin, now a Colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four of those tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts has lived every one of those deployments intimately – distant enough to survive the years apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common purpose and a lifestyle they both love.

شرٌّ مطلق تجسد في صورة رجلٍ يتلذذ ويستمتع بإجراء تجاربه العلمية والمختبرية على أجساد سجناءه، لا يستثني من ذلك حتى الأطفال، بل بالعكس كان يجد متعة خاصة في تعذيبهم !!...

Carl von Clausewitz's On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been enjoyed throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, political leaders, and intellectuals.

As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America’s most decorated Green Beret. For the first time, Robert Howard’s story is being told in full. Respected military historian...

Viele Angehörige der älteren Generation erinnern sich noch daran, wie die Nazis ihre Kindheit mißbrauchten, ohna daß sie dies damals erfassen konnten. Wie aber erlitten die Söhne und Töchter jüdischer Eltern diese Zeit? Inge Deutschkron, in Berlin aufgewachsen, mußte erfahren, was es heißt, ein jüdisches Kind zu sein. Zunächst bedeutete dies nur, nicht mit Gleichaltrigen spielen zu können, vom Schwimmen- und Sportunterricht ausgeschlossen zu sein, mehrmals die Schule zu wechseln und in andere Stadtviertel umzuziehen zu müssen.

A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometres. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost. In this classic military memoir, Staff Sergeant Sidney Rogerson vividly captures the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

Pero este libro es algo más que las confesiones de uno de los principales actores de la guerra que está desangrando este país sudamericano. Es un reflejo de la descomposición de la sociedad colombiana, de la suciedad de un conflicto armado que hace años dejó de ser ideológico, del cinismo...

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller In this celebration of faith and freedom, Fox News Co-Host Emily Compagno shares first person accounts that show the profound role belief in God has played in the lives of U.S. military servicemembers as they served in combat from World War I to...

Memoirs of a Navy Mustang is filled with personal events and jovial stories of a young man from humble beginnings in East Texas who enlisted in the U.S. Navy for submarine service and who later earned a commission as a surface warfare officer then acceptance into the intelligence community. Consumed by anxiety and the strain on his personal life throughout his military career, he slowly sank into depression.

يسرد هذا الكتاب قصة عمر المختار، إحدى قصص الكفاح العربي الخالد، يظهر فيها الإيمان الصادق، والوفاء للوطن، والإخلاص في العمل، والتضحية في سبيل الحرية. كان عمر...

Mi sueño americano es el conmovedor libro de memorias del actor, productor y activista Wilmer Valderrama, que ahonda en su educación en Venezuela, donde fue criado por dos padres muy trabajadores, mientras su familia atravesaba un país en rápida transformación y el ascenso de Hugo Chávez...

The complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the Nazi occupation during World War II. “Faced with the political disaster, I had to become France.” This was how Charles de Gaulle answered the call of history. One of the few...

Guido Knopp enthüllt die vielen Gesichter des Hermann Göring und entwirft das Psychogramm von Hitlers Paladin, der trotz Terror, Machtwahn und ...

Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and women who were prepared to put their lives on the line in support of the free world during the Cold War, and he enjoyed the life of adventure he had been seeking since childhood. This book brings together tales from his career as a CIA case officer during the Cold War.

Former US Navy SEAL David Brown was the unlikeliest of candidates for the world's most grueling military selection process. Standing just 5' 3" and weighing 110 pounds, he was unlike any of the others around him who aspired to be SEALs. But through dogged determination and an iron will, he overcame every obstacle that life put in front of him to achieve his dream of becoming a SEAL.

Naval Academy midshipman Jim Wilson didn't cuss or smoke or chew or go with girls who do. When a friend asked him if he was going to heaven, Jim replied, "If someone like me can't make it, heaven is going to be thinly populated." It was a serious answer, but his friend laughed. Jim was in for a surprise: You have to be bad to go to heaven.