Glories to Useless Heroism: The Seven Years' War in North America from the French Journals of Comte Maures De Malartic, 1755-1760
ISBN: 9781911512196 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'These are the facts and notes taken by a soldier on campaign, written daily, sometimes in a tent, sometimes in a canoe, today in the presence of the enemy, tomorrow in conference with a tribe of savages.' This succinct description is taken from the original French edition of the journal of Comte Maures de Malartic. It offers a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a French soldier. Malartic, major of the Regiment de Bearn, sailed to the North American colony of New France in 1755 as France responded to British forces sent out to Virginia in the same year. As war escalated, he remained...
'These are the facts and notes taken by a soldier on campaign, written daily, sometimes in a tent, sometimes in a canoe, today in the presence of the ...
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Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir
ISBN: 9781911512028 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay 'Kiwi' O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and advisor. Much has been written about the Army's elite units, but Support Unit's war record was mainly unknown during the conflict, and has faded into obscurity afterwards. Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber of the men,...
Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay 'Kiwi' O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Poli...
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Night Duel Over Germany: Bomber Command's Battle Over the Reich During WWII
ISBN: 9781783463374 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bomber Command s night offensive against Nazi Germany, which lasted for nearly six years, was one of Britain s major contributions to the Allied effort during the Second World War. But the decision to conduct its main operations at night only came about following heavy losses by day, when its prewar medium bombers had been found lacking in modern air warfare. The Luftwaffe, too, had its early problems. Initially without a dedicated night fighter, it was ill-equipped to defend the Reich, and so the stage was set for what would become one of the most critical strategic encounters of the...
Bomber Command s night offensive against Nazi Germany, which lasted for nearly six years, was one of Britain s major contributions to the Allied effor...
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The Long Blue Walk: My Journey as a Philly Cop
ISBN: 9781532001468 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Norman A. Carter Jr. was sitting in an Army barracks in the 1960s when he decided to become a police officer--and in 1967, he was accepted into the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police academy. His wife and family did not like the idea of him becoming an officer of the law. Police officers were known as people not to be trusted, and the people in Carter's neighborhood saw them as corrupt and brutal. But Carter was convinced that the best way to change that perception and help the country heal during the turbulent Civil Rights Movement was to get a badge. He knew that once he... Norman A. Carter Jr. was sitting in an Army barracks in the 1960s when he decided to become a police officer--and in 1967, he was accepted into the... |
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The Story of Robert B. Tracy U.S. Marine Corps 1943-1945
ISBN: 9781536825589 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
ISBN: 9780552171625 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of Sir Maurice Oldfield's life that portrays one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of MI6 that hadn't come from an upper-class background or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer's son from a provincial grammar school.
A study of Sir Maurice Oldfield's life that portrays one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of M...
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Manchester's Radical Mayor: Abel Heywood, The Man Who Built the Town Hall
ISBN: 9780750984089 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going beyond the experiences of one man, this book explores the wider political, cultural and class context of the Victorian city. It is an honest tale of rags to riches that will appeal to all who wish to discover more about the dramatic history of industrial Manchester and its people.
Going beyond the experiences of one man, this book explores the wider political, cultural and class context of the Victorian city. It is an honest tal...
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Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor: Working with Bletchley Park, the Sds and the OSS
ISBN: 9781473887121 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario in which her talents could be put to an unexpected use. But her war was destined to play out almost entirely in secret.
Jenny served as a bilingual wireless operator in the top-secret Special Duties service (Y) at Dover, intercepting traffic from German surface craft in the English... The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, th...
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Surviving the Japanese Onslaught: An RAF POW in Burma
ISBN: 9781473880733 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are the firsthand memoirs of the late William Albert Tate (W.O, RAF Bomber Command) framed within the factual history of his service career in the Royal Air Force between the years 1938 and 1946, penned by his son. This gripping narrative relays William's firsthand recollections of his time spent as a Japanese Prisoner of War, when he was incarcerated for two years in Rangoon Gaol, after bailing out of his Wellington over Burma. Tales of the harsh brutalities inflicted by his captors and the unsanitary conditions in which he and his fellow captives were held offer a real sense of the...
These are the firsthand memoirs of the late William Albert Tate (W.O, RAF Bomber Command) framed within the factual history of his service career in t...
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Fallen Eagles: Airmen Who Survived the Great War Only to Die in Peacetime
ISBN: 9781473879966 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 50 pilots featured in Fallen Eagles were all decorated for bravery during The Great War. All survived the conflict only to die flying in the postwar years. The causes of their deaths ranged from being casualties of small wars, then as now rife in the Middle East, mechanical failure or pilot error. The 1920s were still pioneering years for aviation and aviators and test flying, air races and displays, record attempts etc were fraught with dangers known and unknown. In addition to the better known names such as Sir John Alcock, Captain W Beauchamp-Proctor VC and Sammy Kincaid there are many...
The 50 pilots featured in Fallen Eagles were all decorated for bravery during The Great War. All survived the conflict only to die flying in the postw...
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We Stormed the Reichstag
ISBN: 9781473877757 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army's great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent, he went into Berlin with the troops who fought the ferocious final battles in the streets and sealed Germany's defeat. Later he recorded in vivid impressionistic detail the climax of the last act of the campaign and of the entire war in the east - the storming of the Reichstag which came to symbolize of the Soviet victory over the Nazis.
His firsthand experience of that final operation... In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army's great retreat. In 1945, during t...
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Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace: The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914 - 1917
ISBN: 9781473870864 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone.
Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar's daughter Gabrielle joined the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer cook in two army convalescent hospitals. She then secured paid positions in the canteens of the Farnborough Royal Aircraft Factory and then the Woolwich Arsenal, where she watched Zeppelin raids over London during her night shifts. Having failed a mental arithmetic test to drive a... When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they w...
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In the Trenches: Those Who Were There
ISBN: 9781473867130 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the seventeen chapters of this book. All the stories are written by the participants who describe exactly what happened to them while they fought in the greatest battles of the First World War. What makes them special is that their stories were written while the images were fresh in their minds. The experiences recorded are those of civilians, officers and men, in the mud of the Western Front, in the sand of the desert, on the scorching beaches of Gallipoli and on the forgotten front of Salonika. Where possible information about these men...
A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the seventeen chapters of this book. All the stories are written by the participants who describe ...
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Death Was Their Co-Pilot: Aces of the Skies
ISBN: 9781473859289 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen. In addition to this iconic flying ace, the author presents the thrilling biographies of numerous others and recounts their exploits and the tragedies they suffered. Likewise, the book illustrates the Great War s historical background and documents the increasing sophistication of aviation technology and warfare."
It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduc...
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The 9/11 Dogs: The Heroes Who Searched for Survivors at Ground Zero
ISBN: 9780008105099 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers.
Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers.
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Chocolate Soldier: The Story of a Conchie
ISBN: 9781925139860 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. London. 1940. This compelling story tells the tale of a different kind of soldier: a... London. 1940. |
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Footnotes to History: The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (1809-1830), a "Group Family"
ISBN: 9781845198305 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Footnotes to History brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" - an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. From diaries, personal letters, newspaper articles, Chancery papers and Government documents, Footnotes to...
Footnotes to History brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" - an extended family closely structured though m...
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Combat Medic World War II
ISBN: 9781596874565 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pancho Villa: The Legendary Life of the Mexican Revolution's Most Famous General
ISBN: 9781537350837 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Poor White Trash No More: From Sharecropper to Country Squire
ISBN: 9781532005169 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one would have guessed that Donald Neese--who grew up poor in Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s--would become an Air Force pilot, a CIA agent, and a senior executive with Lockheed Martin.
But Neese always had a way of surprising folks. No one ever saw him coming, which may be why he made a great spy.
He looks back at his adventure-filled life, from growing up with an abusive father and an overly religious mother to trying to live up to his valedictorian brother and then flying missions over the battlegrounds of Vietnam and beyond.
Not... No one would have guessed that Donald Neese--who grew up poor in Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s--would become an Air Force pilot, a CIA agent, and ... |
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121,45 zł |