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Rivers in the Desert
ISBN: 9780755211371 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story inspired by a lifetime of remarkable events. Stories of joy and hilarity, despair, danger and excitement. During my lifetime, I have had the good fortune to visit many parts of the world . My experiences during my travels have been many and varied . Some have been exciting some desperately heart rendering. I have seen things which have brought great joy, and others which have haunted my soul and brought tears to my eyes. I have known the joy of love and marriage, and the pain and heartbreak of divorce. I have however been blessed with five amazing children, who have all brought me...
A story inspired by a lifetime of remarkable events. Stories of joy and hilarity, despair, danger and excitement. During my lifetime, I have had the g...
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107,86 |
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Eastern Approaches
ISBN: 9780141042848 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fitzroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book features eight of his classic war stories.
Fitzroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with ...
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65,37 |
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1968 Vietnam Letters and Memories of a Marine
ISBN: 9781441514615 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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How Far Is Forward?
ISBN: 9781441500298 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,53 |
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How Far Is Forward?
ISBN: 9781441500281 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN: 9780803228122 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform and fought together.In The Training Ground, acclaimed historian Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the Civil War, a group of West Point graduates including Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and William Tecumseh Sherman fought together as brothers. Drawing on a range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a...
For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet ...
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96,15 |
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Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood
ISBN: 9780803226586 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Gen. Leonard Wood's meteoric career was no fluke. The ambitious Wood (1860-1927), serving as an army physician, strategically took on tasks and assignments that led him from the pursuit of Geronimo in the deserts of the Southwest (for which he won the Medal of Honor) to chief of staff of the U.S. Army and almost to the presidency of the United States. During his rise to high office, the darker side of Wood's personality became legend. Able administrator and sincere patriot, Wood, together with friend Theodore Roosevelt, organized the famous "Rough Riders" during the...
Gen. Leonard Wood's meteoric career was no fluke. The ambitious Wood (1860-1927), serving as an army physician, strategically took on task... |
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76,88 |
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Letters to Lee: From Pearl Harbor to the War's Final Mission
ISBN: 9780823230969 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his 36 years of military service, Lt. General James V. Edmundson had extensive experience in combat operations and command at every level in the Air Force. He had over 10,000 hours of pilot time in 137 types of airplanes. In addition to the 107 combat missions in World War II, he led 32 combat missions in Korea and 42 in Vietnam. Two years after General Edmundson's death in 2001, his daughter, Celia discovered a trunk of his letters and was particularly fascinated with the correspondence between her father and mother, Lee. This very personal story is told through chronological vignettes,...
In his 36 years of military service, Lt. General James V. Edmundson had extensive experience in combat operations and command at every level in the Ai...
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205,71 |
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Same Date of Rank - Grads at the Top and Bottom from West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy
ISBN: 9781436398954 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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Same Date of Rank - Grads at the top and bottom from West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy
ISBN: 9781436398961 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Through the Eyes of a Tiger: An Army Flight Surgeon's Vietnam Journal
ISBN: 9781440133053 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,44 |
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Through the Eyes of a Tiger: An Army Flight Surgeon's Vietnam Journal
ISBN: 9781440133077 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,98 |
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781574886115 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy Zahn's Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra helicopters during the Vietnam War. First deployed in Vietnam in 1967 and loaded with a formidable arsenal of weaponry, the Cobra was the first helicopter designed from inception as an attack aircraft. It dramatically changed the nature of the war in Vietnam by offering the Army, for the first time, its own powerful and highly accurate weapons platform for close-air-support missions. Randy Zahn arrived in Vietnam shortly before the 1970 U.S....
Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy Zahn's Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra...
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76,88 |
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Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
ISBN: 9780814794678 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor in a war that seemed to have no end, exemplifying ARVN bravery and determination that is largely forgotten or ignored in the West. However, while Hue fought until he was captured by the North Vietnamese Army and then endured thirteen years of captivity, Dinh surrendered... 2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal i... |
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151,83 |
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Jesus, Me and Korea
ISBN: 9781436399401 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Jesus, Me and Korea
ISBN: 9781436399418 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,34 |
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Blue Villa & Other Vietnam Stories
ISBN: 9781440114021 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernest Auerbach served as an Army captain in Vietnam during the build up of the war, 1966-1967. He recounts his adventures there and describes some of the general courts martial cases he tried and defended. This is "Catch 22" in reality.
Ernest Auerbach served as an Army captain in Vietnam during the build up of the war, 1966-1967. He recounts his adventures there and describes some of...
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38,35 |
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
ISBN: 9780553593310 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of...
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in J...
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84,78 |
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Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson
ISBN: 9781597974875 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited -black Lindbergh.- Robinson's fame, which rivaled that of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, came primarily from his wartime role as the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force after Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. As the only African American who served during the war's entirety, the Mississippi-born Robinson garnered widespread recognition, sparking an interest in aviation for young black men and women.
Known as the -Brown Condor of Ethiopia, - he provided a symbolic moral... Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited -black Lindbergh.- Robinson's fame, ...
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153,95 |
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Nelson's Yankee Captain: The Life of Boston Loyalist Sir Benjamin Hallowell
ISBN: 9780887807510 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Benjamin Hallowell, one of Admiral Horatio Nelson's famous "Band of Brothers," served a lifetime in the navy of Great Britain through the American and French Revolutions between 1775 and 1815. His dramafilled life was profoundly shaped by the currents of history, with strong connections with Canada and the United States through his Boston-bred, staunchly Loyalist family. Bryan Elson's thoroughly researched biography illuminates Hallowell's career and his personal life during these history-shaping events. Through Hallowell's eyes, readers will witness key events in British... Sir Benjamin Hallowell, one of Admiral Horatio Nelson's famous "Band of Brothers," served a lifetime in the navy of Great Britain through the Ameri... |
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122,44 |
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