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2122 руб"When Is Daddy Coming Home?": An American Family during World War II
Richard Carlton Haney Book Description "When Is Daddy Coming Home?" is the moving story of one young American family during World War II. The war was coming to a close in Europe, and Richard Carlton Haney was only four years old when a telegram arrived at his family’s home, informing them of his father’s death. That moment was burned into the young boy’s memory and it changed his and his mother’s lives forever. Sixty years later Haney, now a professional historian, reconstructs his parents’ lives during the war, drawing from their letters, his mother’s recollections, and his own memories to create a unique blend of history and memoir. As the author recounts his father’s experiences in the 17th Airborne Division, he also recalls the effects of wartime rationing, scrap drives, and censored mail on his family at home. Richard Haney is an expert on early-twentieth-century American history and on military history....
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4226 руб1813: Leipzig
Digby Smith The crucial three-day battle of Leipzig, known to posterity as the Battle of the Nations, was the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars. It was also one of Napoleon's worst defeats - Leipzig sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. Now, in this superbly narrated account of the battle, Digby Smith describes the events of 16, 17, 18 and 19 October 1813, and stresses both the significance of the battle and the brutality of the fighting. At the height of the battle Napoleon fielded more than 200,000 men against an Allied force - which included contingents from Russia, Austria, Prussia and Sweden - of some 360,000 soldiers. Cornered against the River Estler, Napoleon, outnumbered and suffering heavily from the fire of 1,400 Allied guns, was soundly defeated, had to relinquish control of Germany and was forced back into France. Digby Smith's evocative account of Leipzig concentrates on the ferocious fighting, charts the fortunes of the three day struggle and underlines the incredible human...
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2391 руб90 Day Wonder - Darkness Remembered
Leon Cooper Book DescriptionLeon Cooper was a young WWII US Navy Officer who was in a number of battles. The other conflict was between Cooper and his ship's Captain, a former enlisted man who had been awarded a battlefield commission. Captain Boda resented "gentlemen" officers like Cooper, commissioned after only 90 days' training. Besides, Cooper's standup nature riled Boda to the extent that he resolved to have him killed. Boda's sociopathic behavior, including his reckless commands, caused the death of many of Cooper's shipmates. Cooper was unsuccessful in reporting Boda to the Naval High Command, resulting in even more dire straits in his relations with Boda. Civilian Cooper promised his dying wife he would stop his neurotic quest for revenge. In a bizarre turn of events, Boda is punished, allowing Cooper to keep his promise to his wife. It is a riveting tale about the abuse of power, madness, murder,revenge, love and redemption.
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3178 рубA Bundu Boy in Bomber Command: Memoirs of a Royal Air Force Lancaster Pilot from Rhodesia
William Dives Book DescriptionIn these memoirs of his early life and wartime RAF service William (Bill) Dives takes us back in time into two different worlds, both now so far away. Pre-war colonial life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the perilous existance ofa Lancaster pilot during the second world war. Bill's father held a post as Native Commissioner in the north west of the country. It was in the remote bush, or "bundu", country that Bill was born and from where he and his elder sister were taken by their parents on working safaris hence the "Bundu Boy" in the title. Sadly their father died from cancer while the children were young. Their mother moved to Salisbury to find work. The carefree, pre-war colonial life of a schoolboy in Southern Rhodesia was brought to an abrupt end as the sirens of war in the Northern Hemisphere summoned the scattered youth around the world to come to the aid of the mother country. In the spring of 1942 at the age of 18 he was accepted into...
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3129 рубA Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine (Voices of the Civil War Series,)
Edward William Drummond Book DescriptionA native of Maine, Drummond served in the Confederate forces as a commisary sergeant. Drummond came from an abolitionist family, and his brother and cousins served for the North. An interesting twist on the brother-against-brother theme common in the Civil War.
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2854 рубA Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II
Anne Noggle The world's first women combat pilots were members of the Soviet Army Air Force, flying fighters and bomber aircraft against the Luftwaffe. Thirty women flyers were named the Hero of the Soviet Union, one of that nation's highest honors. During three extended visits to Moscow during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Anne Noggle interviewed and photographed more than seventy of these veteran pilots. Freed by glasnost to speak openly of their experiences, they tell in their own words of flying flimsy aircraft, fighting distrust from male pilots and officers, and taking to the air for as many as a thousand nights during the war. The women who tell their stories here began the war mostly as inexperienced girls - many of them teenagers. In support of their homeland, they volunteered to serve as bomber and fighter pilots, navigator-bombardiers, gunners, and support crews. They saw many of their friends - as well as many of their foes - fall to earth in flames. ...
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3041 рубA Different View of Marilyn
Al Carmen Guastafeste I couldn't believe that Marilyn Monroe would leave her husband, Joe Di Maggio, to be with her pianist Al Guastafeste on her tour of Korea in February of 1954.
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3190 рубA Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
Thomas R. Hargrove
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1714 рубA German Pow In New Mexico (Historical Society of New Mexico Publication Series)
Walter Schmid Book DescriptionWalter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II. Drafted into the German army at twenty, he had fought for only five months when captured in Tunisia in May 1943. Schmid was sent first to POW camps in Oklahoma (Gruber, Bixby, and McAlester) and was soon transferred to New Mexico in July 1944. Walter Schmid worked in southern New Mexico's Mesilla Valley picking cotton and harvesting melons alongside Mexican-American laborers. He recalls playing trumpet in the camp orchestra and watching Sunday soccer games between the teams of rival POW camps. Based on his diary and the letters he sent home to his German girlfriend, whom he later married, Schmid's memoir was published in Germany in 2000. This abbreviated English translation begins with his capture in North Africa and his voyage to the United States and ends with his work experience in England, where he was transferred...
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1351 рубA Knight and His Horse
Ewart R. Oakeshott Oakeshott's multivolume study of medieval knights continues with this 1962 volume. The gallant knight clad in armor upon his charging steed is an image we all know from literature and film, but Oakeshott eschews the romance of jousts in favor of the facts behind them, their rules, and the equipment used. This update adds a 13-page glossary. Both adults and children will find this of interest.
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2692 рубA Life Disturbed: My Pacific War Revisited
Merrel Clubb Book DescriptionAn exceptional storyteller with an analytical eye, Merrel Clubb has gathered the letters he sent his parents from the Pacific Theater of World War II and his subsequent reflections on that war and on his life into a kind of then-and-now memoir. The letters are a treasure trove of humor, anxiety, and hope, revealing a young man thrust into a war that he does not understand. Through this exceptional portal on the past, we learn of the tragic absurdity of war, of a soldier trained for naval warfare but sent into land battle with weapons he'd never before fired; of command post latrines at which even commanding officers were sitting ducks; of the ghoulish trophies and mementos that soldiers collected from the battlefields. The letters describe a vivid cast of characters, from Clubb's childhood friend who instilled a love of poetry in his comrades to the hillbilly singer and the prostitute with whom the young Clubb had varied amorous adventures. But the most compelling...
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3087 рубA Life In Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero
John C. Whitehead Book DescriptionThe autobiography of an unsung hero of the Greatest Generation, a leader on the frontlines of American history John Whitehead began life in Montclair, New Jersey, as a child of the Depression and went on to lead an exemplary life in the years of the Greatest Generation. In this intimate, charming autobiography, he shares his stories and the lessons he's learned about quiet leadership. He describes how on D-Day he commanded one of the landing crafts at Omaha Beach, and witnessed oneof the greatest battles in American military history. Later, in his role as co-chair of Goldman Sachs, he was one of the pioneers of the globalization of international finance that was to change the face of American business. In 1985, Whitehead was appointed Deputy Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and became the architect of the Reagan administration's successful efforts to wean the countries of Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union and to open up space there for the...
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2423 рубA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
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1370 рубA Marine's Lapse in Synapse: A Collection of Unbelievable, but True Short Stories
Joey D. Ossian
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2823 рубA Noontide Blazing: Brigid Lyons Thornton - Rebel, Soldier, Doctor
John Cowell
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