Remarkable Service

The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. ...

For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for r...

Reducere. In 1927 Cuban national Ignacio S. Molinet was recruited to play with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the old NFL for a single season. Mexican natio...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

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DescriptionIn this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, ...

Reducere. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), as a key part of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, have become increasingly important in recent years, owing to thei...

Reducere. Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the i...

Reducere. James Dunwoody Bulloch's central place in history has always rested on his Civil War era achievements as a secret agent of the Confederate States N...

Reducere. All the US forces use of the P-51 Mustang and its stable mate, the P-82 Twin Mustang, are detailed throughout the various theater of operations wit...

Reducere. DescriptionA biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through ...

Working on the Frontline of Mental Health is an account of the day-to-day work in psychological therapies, highlighting the complexities patients p...

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Reducere. In the pre-digital era, the age of mechanical reproduction, the New York Public Library's Picture Collection provided the free circulation of print...

Reducere. Power couples aren't a modern phenomenon. The greatest American couple ever to have served America in a public capacity was the country's fourth pr...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to ...

Reducere. Invented in Australia, the remarkable men's shed movement has spread from the back blocks of Australia to reach a total of more than 1, 400 Men's S...

Reducere. PRAISE FOR HARLOW Giles UNGER'S NOAH WEBSTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN PATRIOT ""Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passiona...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles C. Flint's life story reveals the Political life of a pioneer Black man in service to his community and uplifting of his people....

During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: Rabbi USA. But the United States Po...

Reducere. The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable life stories ever written. For here, in a scrupulously accurate translation ...

Reducere. "These are the stories America needs to hear about the remarkable young men and women who serve." - Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.). The...

Reducere. Dolly Parton isn't just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hos...

Reducere. Confederate brigadier general John Adams refused to leave his men despite his own critical injuries and died at the Battle of Franklin. Until recen...

Reducere. Hurston/Wright LEGACY AwardAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of the knowled...

Reducere. The history of Delta Air Lines can be traced back to 1924 and the start of an aerial crop dusting outfit, but it was in 1929 that scheduled passeng...

Reducere. The New Jersey Central's Blue Comet passenger train service operated from 1929 to 1941, on a route from the New York metropolitan area to Atlantic ...

Reducere. When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an aft...

Reducere. The Western Maryland Railway was never a large Class 1 rail carrier, but during its 131 colorful years of existence, it provided extremely fast, ef...

Reducere. In this deeply intimate and soulful memoir about her father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the serious figure the p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeff Van DuzerJeff Van Duzer grew up thinking business was the source of much damage and evil in the world, the work of gre...

Reducere. "These are the stories America needs to hear about the remarkable young men and women who serve." - Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.). The...

Reducere. From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant G...

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells...

DescriptionSauces Reconsidered: Apr s Escoffier replaces the traditional French hierarchy of sauces with a modern version based on the sauces' phys...

Reducere. DescriptionThe heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who...

Reducere. Too many doctors spend their careers dedicated to building a busy practice at the expense of their own health, happiness, marriage, or children. Wh...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Second World War Chief of MI6 said Alexander Wilson had 'remarkable gifts as a writer of fiction, and no sense of responsibility in ...

Reducere. Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE's first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...

Description'In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mot...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

Reducere. Now a major motion picture -Sully- from Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating Ameri...

Reducere. For five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) traveled the world performing before American and Allied tr...

Now available in paperback Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vita...

Reducere. Although its brown vans are on every block and its delivery service reaches more than 200 countries, UPS is among the world's most underestimated a...

DescriptionWashington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental ...

Reducere. Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander's sits at the top of the list. Born in Toronto in 19...

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist. You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. ...

Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a ...

Reducere. Living with the Soul is an autobiography of a modern day saint, a collection of interviews with a superior individual, who has been recognized arou...

Reducere. Vasily Sukhomlinsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomli...

Reducere. For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as "the man without a face." Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from ...

Reducere. Everyone thought Cedd Moses had lost his mind when he used his life savings to open ten bars in struggling Downtown Los Angeles. Not only would tho...

Reducere. This memoir by Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin tells the extraordinary story of a life spent in service and solidarity with the people of Africa...

DescriptionIn the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline--whether t...

Reducere. Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest ma...

Reducere. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary milita...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

Reducere. For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This w...

This remarkable book brings together for the first time writings of RAF 100 Group who, during WWII, flew secret operations deep into the heart of G...

Reducere. Jerry Mernin's distinguished career in the National Park Service spanned four decades, five national parks, and a remarkable 32-year stay in Yellow...

Reducere. Few people have experienced Yellowstone National Park as thoroughly as Michael Yochim, a former Yellowstone ranger and guide. From visits to the pa...

'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is ...

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, No...

This is the remarkable story of one man's service in the Royal Navy, RAF and the Royal Naval Reserve Air Branch of the Fleet Air Arm.Publisher: Pen...

Reducere. DescriptionAs featured in the 6-part CNN SERIES "Finding Jesus"FINDING JESUS explores six major artifacts, including the Shroud of Turin, the True ...

In WILDLIFE'S QUIET WAR, Terry Grosz continues to chronicle his remarkable career defending America's voiceless wild creatures. Since his first day...

To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in ...

Reducere. The title CHECKLIST COMPLETE derives from the Delta Air Lines practice of concluding each checklist with that phrase, stated aloud, signifying all ...

Perfect for fans of The Founder, this is the real-life story of the world's premier entrepreneurial success. The growth of McDonald's worldwide con...