wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Jungle Ace: Col. Gerald R. Johnson, the USAAF's Top Fighter Leader of the Pacific War
ISBN: 9781574886948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the highest-scoring fighter group in the Pacific. Tragically, though Johnson had survived three combat tours, which included a mid-air collision with a Japanese aircraft and being shot down by friendly fire, the new father disappeared without a trace while flying a courier mission one month after the war's end.
Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the high...
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62,91 zł |
The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy Seal Leader
ISBN: 9780062278432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Decorated US Navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction until he was critically wounded in 2007, when his team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery that followed, Redman gained national attention after posting a sign on his hospital door that went on to become a symbol for wounded warriors every-where. In this inspiring account he speaks candidly of his career and the extraordinary devotion of his wife and family, without whom he would not have survived. Vivid and... Decorated US Navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction until he was critically wounded in 2007, when h... |
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115,06 zł |
Race of Aces: WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Masters of the Sky
ISBN: 9780316508636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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77,39 zł |
Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
ISBN: 9780316339414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way. From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and always survived on his wits and fists. But when he fell for a conservative Southern belle, her love transformed him from a wild and reckless airman to a cunning entrepreneur whose...
In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to res...
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80,96 zł |
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
ISBN: 9780316508650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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144,54 zł |
House to House: A Soldier's Memoir
ISBN: 9781416546979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. House to House is a soldier's memoir that is destined to rank with the finest personal accounts of men at war. An instant classic in hardcover, this timeless story features a new afterword and a question and answer section with the author. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of characters, it develops the intensely close relationships that form between soldiers under fire. Their friendships, tested in brutal combat, would never be quite...
House to House is a soldier's memoir that is destined to rank with the finest personal accounts of men at war. An instant classic in hardcover,...
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80,96 zł |
Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
ISBN: 9780230339910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot--he was a high-ranking military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. In 2007, Fred Burton--who had since become a State Department counterterrorism special agent--reopened the...
On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, a...
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98,01 zł |
How to Break a Terrorist
ISBN: 9780312675110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority--trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded exactly nothing, and, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the military rushed a new breed of interrogator to Iraq. Matthew Alexander, a former criminal investigator and head of a handpicked interrogation team, gives us the first inside look at the U.S. military's attempt at more civilized... Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority--trumping even the search for Osama bi... |
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80,96 zł |