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Where Men Only Dare to Go: Or the Story of a Boy Company, C.S.A. (Updated)
ISBN: 9780807133781 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1885 and long out of print, Where Men Only Dare to Go by Royall W. Figg remains a classic memoir of Confederate service. This updated edition, with a new foreword by historian Robert K. Krick, brings Figg's captivating narrative back into print. Figg tells the story of Captain William W. Parker's Virginia battery, a significant Confederate unit that participated in every important engagement fought by the Army of Northern Virginia. Comprised mainly of young men, it became known as "Parker's Boy Battery." Figg joined the company at age twenty as a charter member at the...
First published in 1885 and long out of print, Where Men Only Dare to Go by Royall W. Figg remains a classic memoir of Confederate service. This updat...
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115,42 |
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Jack Toffey's War: A Son's Memoir
ISBN: 9780823229796 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell. In this moving account of a young man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back, John Toffey weaves memory, history, and his father's vivid letters home into a fascinating tale of a family, a war, and the threads that connect them. John Toffey was nine when his father's National Guard outfit was mobilized. For two years Toffey, his mother, and his sister moved from post to post before his dad shipped out-to...
"I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got ...
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181,22 |
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General George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts (Biography)
ISBN: 9781599863719 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts is the biography of General George S. Patton, a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany (1943-1945). During World War I, Patton was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded both corps and armies in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. The popular image of "Old Blood and Guts" contrasts with historians' image of a brilliant...
General George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts is the biography of General George S. Patton, a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns i...
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60,20 |
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Above the Thunder: Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II
ISBN: 9780873389808 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer, Raymond Kerns dropped out of high school after the eighth grade to help on the farm. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and, after training as a radio operator in the artillery, was assigned to Schofield Barracks (Oahu) where he witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in the ensuing battle. In the months before Pearl Harbor, Kerns had passed the Army's flight training admission exam with flying colors. But because he lacked a high school diploma, the Army refused to give him flying lessons. Undaunted, Private Kerns took... The son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer, Raymond Kerns dropped out of high school after the eighth grade to help on the farm. He enlisted in the Army ... |
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115,42 |
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Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano; With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
ISBN: 9781557288844 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not Without Honor threads together the stories of three American POWsaCarano; his buddy Bill Blackmon, who was also at Stalag 17 b; and John C. Bitzer, who survived the brutal aDeath Marcha from northern Germany to liberation in April 1945. At times the journal reads like a thriller as he records air battles and escape attempts. Yet in their most gripping accounts, these POWs ruminate on psychological survival. The sense of community they formed was instrumental to their endurance. This compelling book allows the reader to journey with these young men as they bore firsthand witness to the...
Not Without Honor threads together the stories of three American POWsaCarano; his buddy Bill Blackmon, who was also at Stalag 17 b; and John C. Bitzer...
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132,18 |
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A Just and Righteous Cause : Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War Memoir
ISBN: 9780809328598 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General Benjamin H. Grierson is most widely known as the brilliant cavalryman whose actions in the Civil War's Mississippi Valley campaign facilitated Ulysses S. Grant's capture of Vicksburg."" There is, however, much more to this key Union officer than a successful raid into Confederate-held Mississippi. In" A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War Memoir, " edited by Bruce J. Dinges and Shirley A. Leckie, Grierson tells his story in forceful, direct, and highly engaging prose."A Just and Righteous Cause" paints a vivid picture of Grierson's prewar and Civil War career,...
General Benjamin H. Grierson is most widely known as the brilliant cavalryman whose actions in the Civil War's Mississippi Valley campaign facilitated...
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141,98 |
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The Memoirs of an American Gladiator: My Story
ISBN: 9781434371218 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication was written after an active service career in the United States Army. Snared for the first time in the midst of emotional challenges that could not be solved with military training, the struggles require solutions beyond military strategy. The uncertain times compelled a desperate need for answers. Frustrated at the notion no one understood, life began dismantling. With a desire for relief, the punishing distractions demanded resolution. There was a need to connect with someone that could provide a way out of the dark confusion of despair. The answers didn't come in...
This publication was written after an active service career in the United States Army. Snared for the first time in the midst of emotional challenges ...
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105,42 |
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Will to Win, the : The Life of Gen. James A. Van Fleet
ISBN: 9781591140498 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the Army's -greatest combat general- by President Truman, James Van Fleet led American and allied forces to battlefield victory during a career that spanned World War I and the Cold War. In this biography, a military historian who once commanded a rifle company under Van Fleet in Korea tells the legendary leader's unique story and draws parallels to the U.S. Army's history of diverse challenges met in the twentieth century. Defining the root of Van Fleet's success as devotion to his men and dedication to rigorous field training and mental conditioning, Paul Braim describes Van Fleet's...
Called the Army's -greatest combat general- by President Truman, James Van Fleet led American and allied forces to battlefield victory during a career...
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136,63 |
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Through Our Eyes
ISBN: 9781933523149 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A raw, unfiltered view of the early days of the Iraq invasion--and the haunting aftermath. In a story taken from his personal war journal, a Marine infantryman tells the tale of Alpha Company's march into Baghdad and the capture of Saddam's palace. This is the hard-hitting, straightforward memoir of the brave Marines--the first boots-on-the-ground in Iraq--who paved the way with their blood, sweat, and tears. The story of the first American to die in action in the Iraq War. The account of innocent civilians killed in the crossfire. The private repercussions--how young Marines cope with...
A raw, unfiltered view of the early days of the Iraq invasion--and the haunting aftermath. In a story taken from his personal war journal, a Marine in...
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60,49 |
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Deceptive Rogue
ISBN: 9781425781422 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie: By J.B. Polley of Hood's Texas Brigade
ISBN: 9781572336131 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most cited collections of letters by a Civil War soldier, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie was originally published in 1908. A unit history of the 4th Texas Infantry in epistolary form, Joseph B. Polley's letters make available the correspondence of a soldier who participated in virtually all military action in the Eastern Theater. Polley was an unusually gifted writer, with a talent for satire and humor unmatched by most Civil War diarists.
While the collection met with an enthusiastic audience upon its appearance, it has not been without controversy. Scholars have... One of the most cited collections of letters by a Civil War soldier, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie was originally published in 1908. A unit h...
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166,52 |
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Route Step''
ISBN: 9781418403720 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,61 |
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South Pacific at Seventeen: USS Cofer (Apd-62) World War II
ISBN: 9781425137632 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entering the service at age seventeen, Navy veteran, James Snellen, recounts his World War II experiences aboard the USS Cofer (APD-62) and his mine-sweeping duties within the South Pacific.
Entering the service at age seventeen, Navy veteran, James Snellen, recounts his World War II experiences aboard the USS Cofer (APD-62) and his mine-s...
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73,24 |
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5 Brothers in Arms
ISBN: 9781436325257 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
ISBN: 9780803220836 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story-coming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement upon coming home-is a universal one, rendered wonderfully strange and personal by Stabler's uncommon perspective, which embraces two worlds,...
As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name ...
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76,88 |
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Letters from Verdun : Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France
ISBN: 9781932033946 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A beautifully written and fully illustrated experience of the Great War from a participant . . . Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America's burgeoning industrial heartland. Volunteering as an ambulance driver with the French Army in the Verdun sector, Royce sent back a constant stream of highly detailed letters describing the experience of frontline combat, not excluding comments on strategy, the country he...
A beautifully written and fully illustrated experience of the Great War from a participant . . . Though the United States was late to enter the Great ...
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156,72 |
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First Love: A Fighter Pilot in Korea Memoirs and Love of Flying
ISBN: 9780595481200 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,91 |
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First Love: A Fighter Pilot in Korea Memoirs and Love of Flying
ISBN: 9780595715992 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as a young boy Hank Koenig dreamed of piloting his own airplane.He first fell in love with flying when he and his mother watched a largegroup of barnstormers and airplanes flying above the airport of theirsmall Illinois town. Ever since that day, he went to the airport wheneverpossible, and began taking lessons soon after.
Koenig earned his pilot's license at the age of sixteen and landed a jobas a commercial pilot, taking people for observation rides at the StarvedRock National Park. Soon he had enough to buy his own airplane, andcontinued his flying ventures through high school and... Even as a young boy Hank Koenig dreamed of piloting his own airplane.He first fell in love with flying when he and his mother watched a largegroup of ...
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88,44 |
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Combat Infantryman Badge
ISBN: 9781436336697 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Heroes & Teachers
ISBN: 9781434372994 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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279,68 |
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