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Epic historical fiction focused on the German paratrooper Ulrich Werner, who fights in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. In 1967, a torso washes up on the banks of the Mississippi. Flashback to 1950-Legion paratroops fly over the Vietnamese jungle. Ulrich recollects: Hannover 1940, he celebrates Christmas with his medical student girlfriend, Penelope. The teenager, Cassandra, gives him a Roman ring but he is wary of her Nazi father, Joachim. In 1941, Ulrich and his comrade, Agemund, parachute onto the island of Crete. As Germany's fortune turns, Ulrich is sent to Sicily then Russia.

TODAY, OUR NATION IS LIKE A SHIP being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong...

Im Januar 2023 überquert ein junger Russe mitten in der Nacht die Grenze zu Norwegen. Nachdem er mit der Wagner-Gruppe in der Ukraine gekämpft hat, hofft er auf Asyl. Åsne Seierstad trifft ihn, um seine Geschichte zu erfahren. Dann will sie genauer wissen, wie die Menschen in Russland den Krieg und Putins Herrschaft erleben.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the multi-million copy bestselling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the...

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.

This collection of sharp, irreverent anecdotes offers a brutally honest and often hilarious glimpse into life inside the British Parachute Regiment. Told through a mix of personal experience and well-worn barrack-room legend, the book captures the chaos, camaraderie, and outright madness that define the airborne brotherhood. From punishing training exercises and absurd military logic to pranks that teeter on the edge of disaster, each story reveals the mindset of men pushed to their physical and mental limits.

Misch – Sie werden natürlich noch gebraucht." Dieser gespenstische Befehl ergeht am 22. April 1945 im "Führerbunker" an Rochus Misch, den Leibwächter und Telefonisten Adolf Hitlers. Kaum ein anderer hat die Kriegsjahre in ebenso ungeheuerlicher wie ungewöhnlicher Nähe Hitlers zugebracht. Nun erzählt der "letzte Zeuge" seine Geschichte, mit der beklemmenden Aufrichtigkeit eines Mannes, der erkennen muss, dass er damals sein Tun für richtig hielt.

The astonishing true story of Thomas Cochrane – naval hero, political radical and inspiration for Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey – whose audacity at sea, scandals on land and battles across empires make for a tale as thrilling as any novel. Cochrane’s life was even more remarkable than...

The thrilling and moving classic memoir of a spitfire pilot in World War Two, read by broadcasting legend Jeremy Vine. This is the true story of Richard Hillary, immortalised in Sebastian Faulks' bestselling triple biography, The Fatal Englishman. In The Last Enemy, Richard Hillary tells his...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps' ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive's success. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad...

Jehuda Bacon ist einer der letzten Überlebenden von Auschwitz, und was er über diese Zeit zu sagen hat, ist eindringlich und unglaublich zugleich. Im Gespräch mit dem Psychologen und Bestsellerautor Manfred Lütz erzählt er auf berührende Weise erstmals ausführlich über seine Erlebnisse im KZ. Eindringlich bringt er uns nahe, wie er trotz tiefer Erschütterung den Glauben an die Würde des Menschen zurückgewann und sogar im Leiden Sinn erleben konnte – gelesen von Jaap Achterberg.

What can a lifetime of hard work and discipline make possible? Mike Stevens rose from humble beginnings in Montana to become the 13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, the highest enlisted position in the United States Navy. Following more than three decades of military service, he went on to serve twice as a CEO in the private sector, carrying the leadership principles forged throughout his Navy career into the business world. Across more than four decades of leadership, Stevens learned firsthand that success rarely comes from talent alone.

In this captivating memoir, Bob J. Garcia, a door gunner from the 117th Assault Helicopter Company plunges listeners into a combat helicopter during the height of the Vietnam War and his lifelong struggles with PTSD. “We were God’s young lunatics. We were reckless as we faced death every day in Vietnam. We acted fearlessly, even when we were at times scared as we flew our thinly built Army helicopters into combat, the wind sometimes threatening to crash us into mountains and rice paddies.

On the evening of 20 April 1944, 16-year-old Ferenc Göndör is crushed into the overcrowded synagogue in Ujfehértó. All the Jews in the Hungarian city are to be deported. Ferenc, his mother and his sister are transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his new identity "A-6171" is tattooed on his arm. Ferenc suffers unimaginable atrocities and lives his days surrounded by death. After the liberation, he returns to Hungary, but none of his closest relatives are alive anymore.

From the perspective of a five-time combat veteran and US Army Special Forces officer, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Roth, comes an in-depth account of the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq during the Global War on Terrorism. The author's career, spanning over thirty-five years in the US military, provides the listener with a unique and exciting direct experience from one of the most combat-experienced Green Beret commanders of the current age.

We are outside Ramadi, clearing a route none of us has driven before, and that alone is enough to put everyone on edge. The usual roads are paved; you learn how to read them over time, learn the language of fresh asphalt and disturbed dirt, the subtle signs that something has been opened and closed again. But this road offers no such cues. It's unpaved, a supply line cutting through open terrain, stripped of landmarks or patterns, giving us nothing familiar to anchor to.

Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop. For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself.

Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it’s too late. Saving Our Service Academies covers one man’s unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and...

The final installment of Adolfo Ovies’s groundbreaking The Boy Generals trilogy races from the Shenandoah Valley to Appomattox with the rapidity of a headlong cavalry charge. The turbulent events of the closing months of the Civil War serve as a backdrop for the increasingly dysfunctional—and bitter—relationship between George Armstrong Custer and Wesley Merritt.

In den Jahren 1977, 1979 und 1984 verbrachte ich jeweils sieben Monate auf der Mittelmeerinsel Zypern, um an einem kriegerischen Krisenherd bei den österreichischen UN-Truppen meinen durchaus achtbaren Dienst zu versehen, und das nicht nur mit der Waffe in der Hand.