I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag Iib

DescriptionThe second volume of Stalag IIB begins when Ren Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom, as prisoners and German officers alike are forced...

After five agonizing years as a prisoner of war and five months on a grueling march homeward, Rene Tardi, the legendary cartoonist's father, is awa...

"[A] remarkable life story" -Senator Bob Dole I'll See You Again, Lady Liberty is the story of a young German whose father dared to rip a required ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, ...

Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles. Like Remarque, he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the ...

Reducere. Meet Judy: an English Pointer and member of her Majesty's Royal Navy who served bravely alongside her crew during World War II. When her ship was s...

DescriptionSan Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan.With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly realizes th...

Reducere. In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga...

Reducere. Geronimo was hated by some of his own people, loved by others, but respected by all. The Odyssey of Geronimo, based on history and Apache culture b...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an...

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makep...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): David BakerIllustration(s): Over 500 imagesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 287 x ...

Twin sisters - Jill Robertson and Jan Slimming - provide an exhilarating account via their father's secret POW diary.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

Reducere. This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering s...

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi pr...

John Valentine's letters home from his time in a Prisoner of War camp during World War Two.

1400 years, 206 bones, 1 extraordinary story... A fighter with no name, painstakingly brought back to life by the archaeologist who found his remai...

This official account of this prisoner of war camp was written for the War Office at the end of the war, drawing on testimony and information from ...

A unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually esc...

The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I - Mark Ethan Grotelueschen

DescriptionThis book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia...

Explores theory for bringing the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital and limited means of warfare

In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries...

Reducere. "We were chasing ghosts in killing fields, where adolescence ended and the war began."A captivating account of the deeply personal experience of mo...

Reducere. "We were chasing ghosts in killing fields, where adolescence ended and the war began."A captivating account of the deeply personal experience of mo...

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

This stirring biography reveals the full story of a remarkable man who survived against the odds to save countless lives.Publisher: Pen & Sword Boo...

Reducere. Praise for David Kertzer and Prisoner of the Vatican: Kertzer once again proves himself a truly compelling historian. -- André Aciman Prisoner of t...

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

Reducere. From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centu...

Reducere. The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior-a deep reconnaissance scout and attack aircraft-was legendary to those it supported. Regularly flying mere feet off of the...

Praised as an "unforgettable love story" by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life,...

Reducere. The true story of one of the most heroic feats of World War II...the daring prison camp breakout that inspired the classic film The Great Escape St...

Over 185, 000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official government reports alongside ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Bear F. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio ...

'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

Reducere. This encyclopaedic volume, including 1500 species and 650 illustrations, shows the diversity of mycoflora throughout all of northeastern North Amer...

This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genoci...

Reducere. Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania in...

Reducere. In this unique history of the "Lost Battalion" of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspe...

Reducere. DescriptionThis engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. G rard Chaliand has ranged...

Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its com...

This book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape.