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Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.

Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the United States Navy was waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a huge stroke of luck, the Americans under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz dealt the Japanese navy its first major defeat of the war.

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces. "Fascinating ... McRaven's war stories deliver remarkable...

In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them...

In the chaotic months after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War was anything but certain. The US Navy, reeling from sudden loss, scrambled to slow Japanese momentum, while the Imperial Japanese Navy pressed outward, convinced that seizing Southeast Asia's resources was essential to survival. This book...

On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of war. For the next five years, from adjoining offices in the Pentagon, Marshall and Stimson headed...

The surprising and little-known story of how the United States and Russia forged an extraordinary friendship during the Civil War. In 1863, as the Civil War raged, Russian warships suddenly appeared in New York and San Francisco, sparking celebrations across the North and raising hopes that...

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...

From Napoleon to nuclear war, War Is Hell unravels the brutal rise of total war and its devastating impact on soldiers and civilians alike. General William Tecumseh Sherman said it best during the American Civil War: “War is hell” – for soldiers as well as for civilians. As a pioneer and...

The Last Full Measure tells the forgotten story of the sacred mission to return America’s fallen from foreign battlefields. In the fall of 1944, German flak shredded an American bomber in the skies over Austria. Four crew parachuted from the burning aircraft, but six spiraled five miles to...

Follow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the North and South, which...

A prize-winning scholar’s new and expansive telling of the Hundred Years’ War, revealing how the lines drawn on medieval battlefields forged the modern world  “A riveting page-turner that brilliantly revises centuries of history” (Bernard Cornwell, New York Times–bestselling author...

צחוק של עכברוש הוא רומן עמוק, זועם, מקורי להפליא. הוא כתוב בחמישה ז`אנרים שונים: סיפור, אגדה, שירת-אינטרנט, פנטזיה עתידנית ויומן, שמצטרפים ליצירה מרשימה אחת, קצבית...

אדם בן כלב נחשב לאחד הספרים המהפכניים בספרות הישראלית ולאחת מנקודות המפנה בייצוג ובתפיסת השואה בספרות. הספר שראה אור לראשונה בשנת 1968, הקדים את זמנו בשנים רבות...

Wer die Mechanismen totaler Herrschaftssysteme verstehen will, kommt an Hannah Arendt nicht vorbei. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und vermittelt klar strukturiert Basiswissen über eine Publizistin gegen den Antisemitismus, deren Analysen Orientierung geben. Sie lernen, wie Arendt politische Begriffe entwirrte, wie sie Herrschaft als Prozess beschrieb und warum ihre Texte nicht beruhigen wollen, sondern wach machen.

נעמי היא מעצבת וילונות נשואה לא באושר. את סודותיה המסוכנים היא מיטיבה להסתיר מן העולם, אך אמא שלה יודעת הכול. בין השתיים נכרתת ברית משונה: אני אהיה אשת הסוד שלך...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if you could learn the most extraordinary and lesser-known stories from World War II while drifting peacefully into sleep? This captivating collection of fascinating wartime facts transforms bedtime into an educational journey through history's...

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.

Descubre las batallas clave, las tácticas, las tecnologías y los puntos de inflexión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el conflicto que dio forma al mundo moderno. Este audiolibro explora las causas, los eventos importantes y las consecuencias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Utilizando un enfoque original se perfilan más de noventa de las ideas y eventos importantes antes, durante y después del conflicto, desde el surgimiento de Hitler y el fascismo en la década de 1930 hasta Pearl Harbor, los aterrizajes del día D y el bombardeo de Hiroshima a la fundación del Estado de Israel en 1948.

The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt. The elite German Sixth Army was first fought to a standstill, then surrounded and forced to surrender.