Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam, Paperback - Bob Drury

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Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

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The Sunday Times top ten bestselling story of a British company under siege in Afghanistan - outnumbered, outgunned and out of time.

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Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in this "intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office" (T...

Through the Gate explores the story of the first recorded mass shooting in the United States.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Ellen J....

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

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Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

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Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Ralph SegmanIllustration(s): 8 pages b&w photograph sectionNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2010Dimensio...

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The stranger-than-fiction case that has gripped Iceland for four decades.

In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive military offensive designed to deliver the coup de grace to South Vietnam and its rapidly d...

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Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her siz...

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A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK. A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem St...