War Dogs. The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History, Paperback - Guy Lawson

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. From inside the heart of the NYPD - The shattering police corruption scandal and the trial that stunned a city. Detective Stephen Caracappa achieve...

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe...

This is the story of a woman who dared to dive, defy, discover, and inspire. This is the story of Shark Lady. Eugenie Clark fell in love with shark...

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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the ...

It could happen to you. It happened to the girl next door... When Theresa was 15 she moved to a new school and fell for an older pupil, Daniel.

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. DescriptionWhen Smoky, a tiny Yorkie Terrier, is miraculously found in a foxhole in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea, she has no way of kno...

Reducere. DescriptionThe extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War IIIn February 1944, as Japanese mi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera...

Reducere. The Yellow Star That Wasn't: Scandinavia, Miami, and Me takes the reader from the author's childhood as a Swedish Protestant girl in war-torn Finla...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

Reducere. Alternate Reality is the comical telling of the mostly true story of how Steve Ross grew up in a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional relationsh...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mo...

Draws on interviews, letters and diaries from generals and frontline soldiers, statesmen and civilians with first-hand experience of the Christmas ...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

This is the story of Mike and Bernadette Byrne's amazing and uniquely personal journey. They not only witnessed music history being made but they w...

DescriptionCould history have been different? This gripping book looks at top-secret plots that never saw the light of day . . . and considers what...

Reducere. Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August bo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the third book in Diane Moody's bestselling WWII trilogy, Dutch war bride Anya Versteeg McClain is struggling to adapt to her new lif...

The story of five friends who went to Syria to wage jihad, with only one of the radicalised youths surviving. The lead case study in the Home Offic...

Reducere. Brenda Berkman was often told that she couldn't do certain things because she was a girl. When she grew up, she longed for a job that was challengi...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

Reducere. DescriptionAn Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . No...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!* The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and ...

Reducere. The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Sh...

Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating...

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. DescriptionIn 2005, Sarah Edmondson was a young actress getting her start in Vancouver and hungry for purpose. When NXIVM, a personal and professio...

Publisher: Bonnier Books LtdAuthor(s): Gwen StraussNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 30Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local part...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Guy RazNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 25Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farm...

Reducere. THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the contr...

The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England's most distinguished man of lettersPublisher: Yale University PressA...

Double Cross in Cairo uncovers the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

Reducere. About the AuthorHoward Eaton was seven years old when he was diagnosed with severe dyslexia. He dropped out of school in grade five and attended a ...

Reducere. When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

Reducere. A clever story about using your imagination, and a little duct tape, to create an EPIC adventure in your own backyard.Join this young adventurer as...

How I Built This will offer invaluable insight, direction and advice to entrepreneurs at every point on their entrepreneurial path.Publisher: Pan M...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

The extraordinary story of how the besieged Syrian town of Daraya found hope and inspiration in a secret underground library

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...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of B...

Had you said "What a guy " in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder ...

Reducere. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--i...

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...