Fateful Flight of the Lonesome Polecat II
ISBN: 9780595325887 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 60 years the author felt much anguish and yearned to discover what happened to his only brother, S/Sgt. Eugene F. Darter, who enlisted in the Army-Air Force after Pearl Harbor and was assigned to a B-17 crew. Just before departing for England and never to be heard from again, his brother came home and carried his newly born brother through the neighborhood on a pillow.
Over the years attempts to locate information were of no avail but the initial bonding of brothers did not diminish. Then in 2000, through a World War II B-17 web site, a summary of the aircraft's missions and a list of... For 60 years the author felt much anguish and yearned to discover what happened to his only brother, S/Sgt. Eugene F. Darter, who enlisted in the Army...
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The Crooked Road To Combat: An Autobiographical History of the Trials and Tribulations of an Aircrew Trainee in World War II
ISBN: 9780595331819 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,75 zł |
Letters from a War Hero
ISBN: 9780595343256 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I have to laugh at the bunk they spread all over the newspapers. Every time somebody hears a rumor or gets an idea he flashes it out on the front page in huge black print. The papers are full of speculation as to what will happen where and when. It sounds to me as though the home front thought the surrender of Italy practically ended the war. We received the news over the radio while underway for the invasion. We took it with little excitement. We had been expecting it any day and also knew that the fighting would still be plenty tough. I guess the people at home thought that would mean a...
"I have to laugh at the bunk they spread all over the newspapers. Every time somebody hears a rumor or gets an idea he flashes it out on the front pag...
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Ten Men, a Flying Boxcar, and a War: A Journal of B-24 Crew 313, 1944 to 1945
ISBN: 9780595347384 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..".the simple fact is that ten men, boy's really, came together out of nowhere... did what was asked of them, and returned to their nowhere." These are the no-nonsense words of Crew 313's navigator, Mike Ozckus, that hint at the camaraderie, skill, danger, and sacrifice required for missions over Nazi-occupied Europe in the B-24 heavy bomber, known not-so-affectionately as the "Flying Boxcar." Nose gunner, Emmett (Mac) MacKenzie weaves the memories of his crewmembers with historical accounts about air combat during the Second World War. Every daunting mission demanded heroism, yet Ozckus...
..".the simple fact is that ten men, boy's really, came together out of nowhere... did what was asked of them, and returned to their nowhere." These a...
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An Infantryman's War: 1937 - 1946
ISBN: 9780595362448 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexander Waddell is my brother. He is fifteen months younger than me, but he soon surpassed me in size, strength, and mechanical ingenuity. He was good with his hands as well as his head, far outclassing me in his ability to make things work. This was to stand him in good stead throughout his army career.
In 1937, with Hitler threatening the peace of Europe, he enrolled in the Territorial Army, along with about thirty others from the Perthshire town of Auchterarder. This book describes his experiences from the day he joined until the day he was demobbed. His was no easy war. The Black... Alexander Waddell is my brother. He is fifteen months younger than me, but he soon surpassed me in size, strength, and mechanical ingenuity. He was go...
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Journey to Freedom and Beyond
ISBN: 9780595374588 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ."Two soldiers manned each gun. As this action was taking place on the ground, we noticed that every guard tower was being reinforced with an additional occupant and the weather cover that normally protected their machine guns had been removed. Each guard in the tower had also been equipped with a rifle. All weapons were pointed in our direction. It was a chilling, sobering experience. We received word from Col. Goodrich that the "passive resistance" was over. The directive did not require repeating. The German commandant had clearly made his point. The prisoner count and subsequent... ."Two soldiers manned each gun. As this action was taking place on the ground, we noticed that every guard tower was being reinforced with an addit... |
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Old Gods, New Nations: A Memoir of War, Peace, and Nation Building
ISBN: 9780595376629 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old Gods, New Nations celebrates a life lived intensely on the far horizons of the world while America built something like an empire on the ruins of World War II and the victory of the Cold War. As a Marine Corps fighter pilot, author Eugene ( Rocky ) Staples flew Corsairs in combat against the Japanese in World War II. As a journalist and foreign service officer in the postwar years, he reported on and subsequently fought in the political and propaganda wars of the Cold War in Latin America and the Soviet Union. Staples then devoted his career to institution and nation-building in Asia and...
Old Gods, New Nations celebrates a life lived intensely on the far horizons of the world while America built something like an empire on the ruins of ...
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106,89 zł |
Vermont Hero: Major General Lewis A. Grant
ISBN: 9780595382781 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles; most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by General Meade to lead the brigade to suppress the Draft Riots in New York after Gettysburg, and also, to defend the Brock Road in the Battle of the...
Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont B...
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98,32 zł |
An Irregular Girlhood In Hitler's Shadow: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780595386529 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,90 zł |
Oil and Vinegar: A Conscripted Soldier in the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780595390632 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For those of us who were drafted at the height of the Vietnam War, we found ways of dealing with the moral and social dilemma a draftee was faced with when serving in the military.
Not all draftees went into the infantry, some of use had office jobs to keep the paperwork going. The Army's contempt for us, and our contempt for the Army proved to be a war within a war. If M*A*S*H was to Korea, then certainly our band of RESOBS (rear echelon sons of a bitches) was to Vietnam. What and how we did to rebel against the Army led to many compromising situations. In the long run, there was no pride... For those of us who were drafted at the height of the Vietnam War, we found ways of dealing with the moral and social dilemma a draftee was faced with...
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42,63 zł |
A Roving Commission
ISBN: 9780595391899 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,31 zł |
We Were Not the Enemy: Remembering the United States' Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War II
ISBN: 9780595393336 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,48 zł |
Another Night in Hell
ISBN: 9780595402298 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I sat in the tall elephant grass waiting. I knew the gooks were out there, I could smell them. For once I wished it was raining, because anything would be better than this thick fog that was engulfing everything in the jungle. It was now 0500 hrs and I was waiting for the word to move out and kill this band of gooks.
I sat in the tall elephant grass waiting. I knew the gooks were out there, I could smell them. For once I wished it was raining, because anything woul...
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Warrior Healers: The Untold Story of the Special Forces Medic
ISBN: 9780595402564 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,19 zł |
At War and at Home: One Family's World War II Correspondence
ISBN: 9780595412303 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,32 zł |
A Little Soldier in a Big War
ISBN: 9780595431410 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young soldier's life in the German Army and the German Reserve Officer's Training School, and life in POW camps in Russia, during a war, which had been lost already!
A young soldier's life in the German Army and the German Reserve Officer's Training School, and life in POW camps in Russia, during a war, which had b...
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59,77 zł |
Fateful Flight of the Lonesome Polecat II
ISBN: 9780595666515 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 60 years the author felt much anguish and yearned to discover what happened to his only brother, S/Sgt. Eugene F. Darter, who enlisted in the Army-Air Force after Pearl Harbor and was assigned to a B-17 crew. Just before departing for England and never to be heard from again, his brother came home and carried his newly born brother through the neighborhood on a pillow.
Over the years attempts to locate information were of no avail but the initial bonding of brothers did not diminish. Then in 2000, through a World War II B-17 web site, a summary of the aircraft's missions and a list of... For 60 years the author felt much anguish and yearned to discover what happened to his only brother, S/Sgt. Eugene F. Darter, who enlisted in the Army...
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106,89 zł |
The Crooked Road To Combat: An Autobiographical History of the Trials and Tribulations of an Aircrew Trainee in World War II
ISBN: 9780595667628 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,59 zł |
Letters from a War Hero
ISBN: 9780595671045 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I have to laugh at the bunk they spread all over the newspapers. Every time somebody hears a rumor or gets an idea he flashes it out on the front page in huge black print. The papers are full of speculation as to what will happen where and when. It sounds to me as though the home front thought the surrender of Italy practically ended the war. We received the news over the radio while underway for the invasion. We took it with little excitement. We had been expecting it any day and also knew that the fighting would still be plenty tough. I guess the people at home thought that would mean a...
"I have to laugh at the bunk they spread all over the newspapers. Every time somebody hears a rumor or gets an idea he flashes it out on the front pag...
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157,78 zł |
Vermont Hero: Major General Lewis A. Grant
ISBN: 9780595676101 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles; most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by General Meade to lead the brigade to suppress the Draft Riots in New York after Gettysburg, and also, to defend the Brock Road in the Battle of the...
Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont B...
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141,16 zł |