The War: A Memoir

Superbly, graphically and sensitively written.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Mooney, BrianIllustration(s): 8pp of B & W platesNumber of...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

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. Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest...

Reducere. In the predawn hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, which would become immortalized as the Longest Day, Bob Bearden and his comrades in the 507th Parachut...

Reducere. 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 ...

Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Du...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

Reducere. In this frank, engaging memoir, Captain Chamberlain chronicles the missions, personal courage and sacrifice of the Marines he was privileged to com...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is an important historical document that reminds us of how much Uganda has changed in the last 30 years and how violent it onc...

Reducere. "A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unf...

Sound and Fury explores war-time memorabilia, tape-recorded conversations, photographs and letters, to uncover amazing stories about his three clos...

A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centenni...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fencers is the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories. It is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking...

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. Aged twenty-one, James R Jump gave up his job as a journalist and went to Spain to fight General Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war of 1936...

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 first-person account of the myriad experiences of the modern soldier and military leader and of close combat, covering the author's 32 years of s...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War: The definitive Civil War classic as Sam wanted it revised complete with his edits, new pe...

Reducere. Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as ``a force of nature on the page and off.`` That force is fully prese...

Description"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt. Tonig...

Reducere. Bob Loewer was an American counterintelligence special agent who served in the Mekong Delta as a district intelligence advisor in the Phoenix Progr...

Reducere. This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infan...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never...

Reducere. "Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that...

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

Reducere. Michigan Notable BooksWhen he was drafted for duty in the United States Army during World War I, Godfrey Anderson had no idea he was about to embar...

After 50 years of keeping the tormenting memories of the Vietnam War at bay, Robert W. Smith unveils the horrific experiences he lives with daily. ...

An exceptional memoir describing operations by, and in support of, the SAS and SBS during the Falklands War.

Reducere. Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROmaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day--read the astonishing true story celebrated by T...

Reducere. One of the great memoirs of World War Two, Zephyr House is please to republish this classic work, written by a spitfire pilot who fought in the Bat...

Vivid memoir of the operations of the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Phil...

Reducere. During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), t...

A thrilling account of a near suicidal attack on the mighty Scharnhorst and other flying experiences.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

Reducere. How can the truth about the devastating atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War be reconciled with the...

Reducere. When Christina discovers her Grandfather's diary years after his death, she is surprised to learn he had been stationed in Iceland as a young Canad...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla wa...

Reducere. An engrossing account of working in the top-secret world of Bletchley Park during World War Two. Perfect for fans of Sinclair McKay, Tessa Dunlop a...