Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Military

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was a Marine legend who received the Medal of Honor for holding off 3,000 Japanese on Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross posthumously for his bravery on Iwo Jima. This is the story of how a young man from Raritan, New Jersey, became one of America's biggest World War II heroes.

• Profiles one of three main characters in HBO's The Pacific, the successful sequel to the popular mini-series...

The Russian revolution in 1917 and ensuing civil war caused a massive exodus of upper class, intelligentsia, and military families from Russia. The author's parents were part of that exodus, having stayed on until the very end of the Russian Civil War during which the author's father, Major General Paul Petroff, played an important role in the struggle against the Bolsheviks.
They lived in northern China, Shanghai, Japan, and, after years of wandering, arrived in California where they became U.S. citizens and part of the American establishment. As you leaf through the memoir, you will...

The Russian revolution in 1917 and ensuing civil war caused a massive exodus of upper class, intelligentsia, and military families from Russia. The author's parents were part of that exodus, having stayed on until the very end of the Russian Civil War during which the author's father, Major General Paul Petroff, played an important role in the struggle against the Bolsheviks.
They lived in northern China, Shanghai, Japan, and, after years of wandering, arrived in California where they became U.S. citizens and part of the American establishment. As you leaf through the memoir, you will...

Follow the amazing life of a man who changed lives. Chaplain (Col) Arthur Estes, U.S.A. (Retired) began life in a home where lonliness was a way of life. Searching for his place in life, Arthur excelled in all that he attempted, except self-confidence. Many avenues were taken by this man, but God had definite plans for him. Entering the military, his self confidence grew. His combination of patriotism and will moved hm forward in the ranks of the military. A veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, he has seen the worst of war and the best of men. A Centurian...

Jeff Struecker, a -Black Hawk Down- hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own fears with faith in a mighty God. Just as he told one of his charges in Mogadishu: -The difference between being a coward and a hero is not whether you're scared, it's what you do while you're scared.-