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I Never Liked Those C-130's Anyway
ISBN: 9781412004077 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your chance to relive a little piece of "The Good Old Days" and find the answers to these burning questions: Which future Coast Guard Captain said "Shit, Mal, let's do a 360 and get out of here." Which Coast Guard astronaut said, when asked to describe his scariest moment, "Flying as Malcolm Smith's co-pilot." Which Coast Guard aviator got the blame for putting training wheels and streamers on the commanding officer's and XO's new bicycles. Which Coast Guard aviator threw up in his glove while flying rather than make a mess in the cockpit.
This book brings back some of the funniest... Your chance to relive a little piece of "The Good Old Days" and find the answers to these burning questions: Which future Coast Guard Captain said "Sh...
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83,43 |
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Warriors and the Battle Within
ISBN: 9781412014748 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warriors is the story of a Canadian fighter pilot whose operational flying career ended with his introduction to a headquarters staff job. He was engaged in the Cold War from his youth through an ever-changing career path.
His military account begins as a raw recruit and the most junior member of the air force. As the story unfolds, the reader is taken through the author's career progression as a radar technician, his remuster to commissioned officer status and his training as a pilot in the air force. His experiences as a fighter pilot provide the layman an inside look at "the right... Warriors is the story of a Canadian fighter pilot whose operational flying career ended with his introduction to a headquarters staff job. He was enga...
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110,23 |
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Journey to Freedom and Beyond
ISBN: 9781412016728 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true-life story of combat during World War II. In the book the author describes the action that leads up to the loss of his combat crew when their aircraft is downed by German forces. Events after he crash-lands his aircraft provide a narrative history that leads the reader into the emotional life of a prisoner of war.
The reader is taken through a progressive series of events as the author adjusts to a life that is a composite mixture of boredom, fear and danger. With escape uppermost in his mind he is made increasingly aware of the risks and retribution following a failed escape... A true-life story of combat during World War II. In the book the author describes the action that leads up to the loss of his combat crew when their a...
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98,64 |
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Buster: A Canadian Patriot and Imperialist - The Life and Times of Brigadier James Sutherland Brown.
ISBN: 9781412025225 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buster is a biography of James Sutherland Brown, CMG, DSO, a distinguished Canadian soldier who advanced from boy bugler to Brigadier General. He was noted for his organizational and planning abilities as well as his humane command. As Assistant Quartermaster General of the 1st Canadian Division he was substantially responsible for the rapid advance of the Division through Mons, Beligium, to the Rhine in the last 100 days of WWI. He also provided for the efficient demobilization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1919-20. As Director of Operations and Intelligence he was the author of...
Buster is a biography of James Sutherland Brown, CMG, DSO, a distinguished Canadian soldier who advanced from boy bugler to Brigadier General. He was ...
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96,09 |
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In a Bosnian Trench: A Wartime Memoir of a Muslim Bosnian Soldier
ISBN: 9781412048842 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elvir Kulin was a quiet, shy teenager living in Hrasnica, a settlement next to Sarajevo. He worked in his sister's grocery store and studied to be an English teacher. Then the war came. The grocery store closed, and shells rained on his settlement. He saw some of his neighbors die from shrapnel wounds and witnessed UN troops allowing Serbian soldiers to kill 11 Bosnian civilians at the Sarajevo Airport. With only a week's training, Kulin was sent to the front line and was shelled and shot at on his first day because a fellow soldier yelled insults at Serbian soldiers across a minefield....
Elvir Kulin was a quiet, shy teenager living in Hrasnica, a settlement next to Sarajevo. He worked in his sister's grocery store and studied to be an ...
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77,92 |
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Fallen Drummer
ISBN: 9781412054973 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book incorporates the division of memories from an imperialist world where because of circumstances, the boundaries of military rule became blurred. This account deals with the rational of thought that carried casualties from comflict areas and deposited them in hostile safe zones, where innocence is lost and fought for by children who nurture the will to survive that, which they cannot comprehend.
This book incorporates the division of memories from an imperialist world where because of circumstances, the boundaries of military rule became blurr...
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66,02 |
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I'm a Lucky Man...
ISBN: 9781412066990 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is about a young boy growing up during the Depression under horrible conditions and his struggle for survival. How he turned this around and became a productive adult.
This is about a young boy growing up during the Depression under horrible conditions and his struggle for survival. How he turned this around and beca...
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98,83 |
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Bomber Crew
ISBN: 9781412067157 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bomber Crew was self-published by the author, Jack E. Thompson, in 1989. This second edition has been re-published to acknowledge the 60th anniversary of VE-Day, to commemorate 2005 as the Year of the Veteran and to help celebrate the life of Jack E. Thompson (1923-2003). Some additional material including photographs, not available for the original version, have been added by the author's son, Stephen Thompson.
Bomber Crew is the record of a tour of duty of the crew of the Lancaster bomber G-George of Bomber Command 12 Squadron based at RAF base Wickenby, Lincolnshire. This is a story of... Bomber Crew was self-published by the author, Jack E. Thompson, in 1989. This second edition has been re-published to acknowledge the 60th anniversary...
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53,21 |
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A Salute to Our Veterans: Vignettes of Those Who Made the Difference, 1939-2000
ISBN: 9781412071307 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Salute To Our Veterans is a book about individual stories that veterans have told the writer during interviews, what they did as youngsters, about when they were old enough to go to war, where they signed up, went to basic training, what unit they served with, and where they fought during the wars.
In the book are stories never told before by 29 veterans of World War II, 10 Korean War veterans, and six veterans from the Vietnam War and others. In the book are sailors, solders, marines and Air Force men. The stories mention the ships they were apart of and the ships that carried them... A Salute To Our Veterans is a book about individual stories that veterans have told the writer during interviews, what they did as youngsters, about w...
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58,92 |
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Exploits of a Pursuit and Bomber Pilot: WWII - Korea
ISBN: 9781412086660 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living with danger. Plane crashes. Nazi U-boats. Plane and pilots down in a jungle without food or water, facing starvation. Shooting up aircraft in formation while flying.
Living with danger. Plane crashes. Nazi U-boats. Plane and pilots down in a jungle without food or water, facing starvation. Shooting up aircraft in f...
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45,31 |
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Unless You Have Been There
ISBN: 9781412094511 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unless You Have Been There is an infantry soldier's personal account of his participation as a platoon sergeant, in seven major campaigns and two major landings in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
Unless You Have Been There is an infantry soldier's personal account of his participation as a platoon sergeant, in seven major campaigns and two majo...
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66,52 |
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The Easter Bunnies: Long-Distance Reconnaissance by the German Luftwaffe Over Poland, France, England and the Atlantic 1938-1945
ISBN: 9781412095242 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Easter Bunnies was the nickname Staffelkapitan Liebe-Piderit gave to the five young men who joined the 3rd Squadron of the Fernaufklarungsgruppe 123 in Hanau am Main at the end of March 1940. Tragically, four of the five Easter Bunnies did not survive the war.
Roman Gastager is today the last surviving member, not only of the Easter Bunnies, but also of the entire Flight Personnel from the early days. This book tells the story of his life and experiences in the Squadron and contains over 100 previously unpublished photographs. Oberfeldwebel Gastager took part in nearly 400 front... The Easter Bunnies was the nickname Staffelkapitan Liebe-Piderit gave to the five young men who joined the 3rd Squadron of the Fernaufklarungsgruppe 1...
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118,67 |
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Letter Home
ISBN: 9781412099547 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The compelling true story of Karen Alanizi, and her Kuwaiti husband Salem during the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Based on a letter written to her family in England her story reveals the heart-wrenching emotions, fears and the often amusing and sometimes bizarre side of life during the Iraqi occupation. She describes the desperation of their separation, and the journeys that eventually re-unite them in England. As the Gulf War unfolds they fear for their family and friends left behind in Kuwait and wait impatiently for the Liberation of the country that they love so much.
The compelling true story of Karen Alanizi, and her Kuwaiti husband Salem during the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Based on a letter written to her f...
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52,84 |
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Living by the Seat of My Pants! Inspirational Exploits, Splinters and All
ISBN: 9781412200028 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From humble beginnings to a panoply of successes encompassing 87 years of vibrant living. That's the story interestingly told by Edmund C. Hughes in this inspirational book detailing the author's advance from a small town newspaper to the staff of General Douglas MacArthur during World War II.
From humble beginnings to a panoply of successes encompassing 87 years of vibrant living. That's the story interestingly told by Edmund C. Hughes in t...
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119,73 |
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Be All You Can Be: From a Hitler Youth in WWII to a US Army Green Beret
ISBN: 9781412200455 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combat against the Russians as a Hitler Youth, experiencing defeat and hunger, a young man finally became 'all he could be' after emigration and becoming a US Army Green Beret.
Combat against the Russians as a Hitler Youth, experiencing defeat and hunger, a young man finally became 'all he could be' after emigration and becom...
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125,43 |
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My World War Two Air Combat: Learning the Facts of Life by Trial and Error
ISBN: 9781412201070 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harsh labor and isolation in the 1920s, complexity of small town social ethics in the 1930s, surprises through H.S. and college daze with some serious treatment, military and flight training followed shortly by air combat. At age 21, his youth enabled easy endurance - including peacetime 'battles' after the war.
Harsh labor and isolation in the 1920s, complexity of small town social ethics in the 1930s, surprises through H.S. and college daze with some serious...
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121,63 |
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Whispering Death
ISBN: 9781412201292 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lee Heide's wartime adventures read like fiction but they are factual, brought to life by skillful characterization and dialogue. Raised in Vancouver, he was trained as a navigator and flew overseas in a Hudson aircraft in June, 1941. In England he joined an RAF crew for training on Beaufort torpedo bombers. Sent to Malta, he survived a year of the blitz on that island, with heavy losses to his squadron. Upon converting to Beaufighters he was twice posted as missing. The first time, he and his pilot were washed ashore, after five days in a dinghy, on enemy-held Elba whence they escaped by...
Lee Heide's wartime adventures read like fiction but they are factual, brought to life by skillful characterization and dialogue. Raised in Vancouver,...
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112,13 |
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B*u*f*f (Big Ugly Fat F*****)
ISBN: 9781412201513 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. B*U*F*F is a Vietnam era novel written in the vernacular of the B-52 combat crewmembers participating in the Arc Light bombing operations in Southeast Asia. It is the story of one Strategic Air Command B-52 crew that allows the reader to experience the intimate details of modern day conventional weapon bombing.
B*U*F*F is a Vietnam era novel written in the vernacular of the B-52 combat crewmembers participating in the Arc Light bombing operations in Southeast...
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136,84 |
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Hell's Folly
ISBN: 9781412201636 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hell's Folly is a non-fiction story and memoir of the personal experiences of Private William B. Moody from 1941 to 1945 and ranges from rollicking humor to encyclopedic horror in this personal memoir of World War II.
Hell's Folly is a non-fiction story and memoir of the personal experiences of Private William B. Moody from 1941 to 1945 and ranges from rollicking hu...
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114,03 |
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Faded Glory
ISBN: 9781412201834 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fascinating and hard-hitting account kept in the journal of a young Marine Corps infantryman during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War. The epilogue follows the author back to Vietnam in the 1990's.
This is a fascinating and hard-hitting account kept in the journal of a young Marine Corps infantryman during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War. The...
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152,00 |
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