Poor White Trash No More: From Sharecropper to Country Squire
ISBN: 9781532005251 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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180,11 zł |
The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault
ISBN: 9781945333033 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born to Fly China's wide-open skies were perfect... if you didn't mind typhoons, sand storms, blizzards, uncharted mountains and Japanese Zeros hunting you. Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II. He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault's famed aerobatic flying group Three Men on a Flying Trapeze. In China, he moved from instructor for the Chinese Air Force to combat pilot flying Chennault's legendary Hawk 75 Special against the Japanese over Nanking in... Born to Fly China's wide-open skies were perfect... if you didn't mind typhoons, sand storms, blizzards, uncharted mountains and Japanese Ze... |
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Sir Guy Carleton: (Lord Dorchester)
ISBN: 9781442652217 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of Sir Guy Carleton was first published in the famous Makers of Canada series in 1907, and re-issued in 1926 with supplementary notes incorporating later research by A.L. Burt. When it first appeared it was reviewed by William Wood, who described it as "a really good book on one of the greatest makers of the Empire." This biography of Sir Guy Carleton was first published in the famous Makers of Canada series in 1907, and re-issued in 1926 with supplementary note... |
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144,90 zł |
We Can, We Will, Ready and Forward
ISBN: 9780984774272 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trooper Harold S. Cole offers rare insights into America's past by highlighting the tumultuous and triumphant history of the Buffalo Soldier. Growing up in North Pelham, New York, he started his military career prior to the start of World War II, and completed his service during the years of the Vietnam War. We Can, We Will, Ready and Forward are the tenets of the famed 9th and 10th Cavalry respectively, and served as Trooper Cole's motivation in life. He is more than a military man, he is a leader, disciplinarian, husband, father, and served as President for the Ninth and Tenth (Horse)...
Trooper Harold S. Cole offers rare insights into America's past by highlighting the tumultuous and triumphant history of the Buffalo Soldier. Growing ...
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139,24 zł |
The Note-Books of Captain Coignet: Soldier of Empire, 1799-1816
ISBN: 9781473882850 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. He writes truthfully of himself and his times in these fascinating memoirs.
In the pages of his note-book, Coignet relates the ordinary soldier's views of the great campaigns and battles - Montebello and Marengo in 1800; the campaigns of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland in 1805-7; a brief dash into Spain in 1808, where he helped to pursue Sir John Moore, the campaign of Aspern and Wagram in 1809,... Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, ...
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108,94 zł |
Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer: Jean-Baptiste Barres, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
ISBN: 9781473882935 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lively memoirs of an officer in Napoleon's Garde Imperiale. Based on a diary maintained from 1804 until the fall of Napoleon.
Lively memoirs of an officer in Napoleon's Garde Imperiale. Based on a diary maintained from 1804 until the fall of Napoleon.
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108,94 zł |
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female Ata Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story
ISBN: 9781473895362 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We visualize dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft - and that person was Mary Wilkins. Her story is one of the most remarkable and endearing of the war, as this young woman, serving as a ferry pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, transported aircraft for the RAF, including fast fighter planes and huge four-engine bombers. On one occasion Mary delivered a Wellington bomber to an airfield, and as she climbed out of the...
We visualize dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew n...
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136,24 zł |
Reflections of The Past: The Personal Photographs of A Young Soldier in the 1950s: The Personal Photographs of A Young Soldier in the 1950
ISBN: 9781537594781 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Manckiy, was born in Poland in 1932 and lived through the horrors of the Secord War Word. With nothing left for them in Europe, his family moved to the United States. Remembering the kindness American Soldiers had shown him and his family and wanting to do his part for his new country George joined the army. He served during the Koran War and was posted to a number of bases in the United States and in Germany during his six years in the army. The photographs in this small book have never been seen by the public and are from an album he kept from his army days, also included are the...
George Manckiy, was born in Poland in 1932 and lived through the horrors of the Secord War Word. With nothing left for them in Europe, his family move...
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52,78 zł |
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There
ISBN: 9781848324411 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial bombing. The fear of invasion the following year resulted in another mass evacuation from the coastal towns. Hundreds of thousands of school children, and mothers with babies and infants, were removed from their homes and families, and sent to live with strangers in distant rural areas and to entirely unfamiliar environments. Some children were...
With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mos...
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108,94 zł |
The Charge of the Light Brigade: History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries
ISBN: 9781848329423 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to 'reveal the truth' or to understand 'the reason why'; exactly what happened at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 continues to be fiercely debated. Voices from the Past, The Charge of the Light Brigade relives that fateful day not through the opinions of such historians but from the words of those that were there. This is the story of the charge told by the soldiers of both sides, in the most detailed description of the Battle of...
The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge,...
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108,94 zł |
Religious Life of Robert E. Lee
ISBN: 9780802874825 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life
Robert E. Lee was many things accomplished soldier, military engineer, college president, family man, polarizing figure. He was also a person of deep Christian conviction. In this biography of the famous Civil War general, R. David Cox examines Lee's beliefs and how they guided the key events of his life. Delving into family letters and other primary sources some of them newly discovered Cox traces the lifelong development of Lee's convictions and how they influenced his decisions to stand... The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life
Robert E. Lee was many things accomplished soldier, milita... |
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123,60 zł |
Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution
ISBN: 9781476664538 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. It was he who reportedly gave the command "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Detailing Putnam's close relationships with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John and Abigail Adams, this first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a...
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionar...
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211,59 zł |
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
ISBN: 9780393609691 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years. Born in twelfth-century France and bred for violence, Reynald de Chatillon was a young knight who joined the Second Crusade and rose through the ranks to become the preeminent figure in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, chief foe of the Muslim leader Saladin, and one of the most reviled characters in Islamic history. In the West, Reynald has long been considered a minor player in the crusading saga, and is often dismissed as a bloodthirsty maniac who brought disaster... In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years. Born in twelfth-century... |
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138,97 zł |
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780199916863 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington. The other man traveled to New York to accept a captain's commission in a loyalist regiment before returning home to recruit others to join British forces. Neither man completed his mission. Both met their deaths at the end of a hangman's rope, one executed as a spy for the American cause and...
In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way ...
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121,51 zł |
Byrdman's Travels: A Fly-by-Night Affair: We'll Take You for a Ride
ISBN: 9781480931589 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,27 zł |
Sea and Shore Stories, and the Nuclear Boogeyman: Life's Experiences and Lessons
ISBN: 9781532002571 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ebe McCabe’s book opens during the Great Depression. During World War II, dissatisfaction with urban life caused his father to return to his rural hometown with his young family. From there Ebe fulfilled a dream of his parents by attending the Naval Academy, where he learned the “Duty, honor, country” maxim. After graduation, he served on a destroyer, two fleet submarines, two nuclear powered fleet ballistic submarines, and the Atlantic Submarine Force Commander’s staff. That included deployments to the Mediterranean and to the Western Pacific, and seven Polaris... Ebe McCabe’s book opens during the Great Depression. During World War II, dissatisfaction with urban life caused his father to return to his ... |
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87,94 zł |
Sea and Shore Stories, and the Nuclear Boogeyman: Life's Experiences and Lessons
ISBN: 9781532002588 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,59 zł |
Mr. Zea's A Long List of Short Stories
ISBN: 9781535593212 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,14 zł |
Sons of the Greatest Generation: Snapshots and Memories of Vietnam, October 1967 to October 1968
ISBN: 9781460289297 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like thousands of young men before and after him, in 1967 at just nineteen years old, Ron Copeland was drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantry soldier, and shipped off to Vietnam. He spent the next year of his life immersed in the fear, fatigue, tedium, and moral ambiguity that comes with life in a combat zone, while forming deep bonds with his fellow soldiers. Contrary to the losers, addicts, and crazed baby killers that Vietnam veterans have been portrayed to be, Ron found them to be "good boys from every corner of our country, black and white, rich and poor, who did as... Like thousands of young men before and after him, in 1967 at just nineteen years old, Ron Copeland was drafted into the US Army, trained as an infa... |
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211,10 zł |
Sons of the Greatest Generation: Snapshots and Memories of Vietnam, October 1967 to October 1968
ISBN: 9781460289303 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like thousands of young men before and after him, in 1967 at just nineteen years old, Ron Copeland was drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantry soldier, and shipped off to Vietnam. He spent the next year of his life immersed in the fear, fatigue, tedium, and moral ambiguity that comes with life in a combat zone, while forming deep bonds with his fellow soldiers. Contrary to the losers, addicts, and crazed baby killers that Vietnam veterans have been portrayed to be, Ron found them to be "good boys from every corner of our country, black and white, rich and poor, who did as... Like thousands of young men before and after him, in 1967 at just nineteen years old, Ron Copeland was drafted into the US Army, trained as an infa... |
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154,80 zł |