The Confidence Men. How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, Main, Paperback - Margalit Fox

The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.Publisher: Profile Books L...

The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all...

The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.Illustrations: integrated b/w

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...

Reducere. Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sail...

The most complete and thorough journey through and among the culture, people and history of this defining piece of waterPublisher: Orion Publishing...

A voyage through the culture, people and history of the defining piece of water known as the English Channel.

Helen Fry provides a significant reassessment of MI9, the branch of military intelligence that helped Allied fighters escape from behind enemy line...

Reducere. Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower's policies c...

An extraordinary true account of the enormous tragedy of the Syrian civil conflict.

A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy linesPublisher: Yale University Pres...

Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn he...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe events of World War 2 are often associated with male endeavor, particularly in war books however extraordinarily brave and courageou...

DescriptionWhen Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not...

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Capturing the stories of ordinary human beings who lived through extraordinary times

In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan ...

Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

Reducere. During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff a...

In 1941, Sgt Albert Victor Ient sought adventure in the Services. Stationed in Hong Kong, he faced a different reality when his position was overru...

Reducere. A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' -...

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had wr...

Reducere. Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate...

A tenth anniversary edition of the popular personal development guide, offering acclaimed and endorsed advice on confidence in business and in soci...

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...

Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues t...

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other...

Reducere. We have a short time on this earth. What will you do with it? Your choices affect others who are watching...family, friends, co-workers, even child...

Capturing the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things through the turbulent years of the Second World WarPublisher: The History Press ...

Reducere. These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, dese...

The Tower of London is an iconic building, having held many famous prisoners since it was first built in the 1100s.

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hundred...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

A celebration of the contribution that birds made in the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas MiltonIllustration(s)...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Nazis' escapes *Discusses the question of whether ODESSA actually existed *Includes online reso...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served ...

Reducere. From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to t...

Reducere. Sometimes called "black gold, " Iowa's deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world's grass...

Reducere. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the mos...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the firebombing by both Americans and Japanese civilians in Tokyo *Includes online resources and a bibliog...

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...