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Crises in the Cockpit with Medal of Honor Stories
ISBN: 9781977277329 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,63 |
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Bampton Remembers
ISBN: 9781916416499 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,36 |
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Steel and Spirit: The Military Biography of General George S. Patton
ISBN: 9789348738073 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,05 |
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Steel and Spirit: The Military Biography of General George S. Patton
ISBN: 9789348738875 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,99 |
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Transition: Resources For and Stories About Veterans Transitioning to Civilian Life
ISBN: 9781997649083 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,78 |
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End of a New Life
ISBN: 9781961411104 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,03 |
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76,59 |
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Vietnam: On the Outside Looking in
ISBN: 9781967279609 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,30 |
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Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families
ISBN: 9780226094991 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases to inspire U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Tobias Wolff, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front. These unflinching eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, and letters offer an...
Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to mili...
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123,38 |
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Normandy: The Real Story of How Ordinary Allied Soldiers Defeated Hitler
ISBN: 9780345459077 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It was the allied armies'] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe."
--from Normandy: The Real Story For decades, it's been the conventional wisdom that "brute force" alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new history, coauthored by a highly decorated field commander, proves otherwise. Using archival data, oral histories, and exclusive new interviews, Normandy: The Real Story takes the reader deep into the minds, hearts, and souls of the allied... "It was the allied armies'] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of W...
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58,13 |
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Gunner's Glory: Untold Stories of Marine Machine Gunners
ISBN: 9780345463890 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "They were warriors, trained to fight,
dedicated to their country, and determined to win." At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they were given the go-ahead to surrender. Near the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, as the mercury dropped to twenty below, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and cut off by the enemy. The outlook seemed so bleak that many in Washington had privately written off the men. But surrender is... "They were warriors, trained to fight,
dedicated to their country, and determined to win." At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps machine gunner... |
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33,88 |
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Women Veterans: America's Forgotten Heroines
ISBN: 9780595003679 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,43 |
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Vietnam Voices: An Oral History of Eleven Vietnam Veterans
ISBN: 9780595314669 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Vietnam Voices" is an oral history in the spirit of "Terkel's oral history of World War II, The Good War," The reader gets the real Vietnam experience from the personal narratives of servicemen who served in America's longest war. The veterans narrate their reminiscences about the time before their entry into the service and what it was like to be in the military knowing that they would be sacrificing the next two or more years of their lives for their country. The veterans tell about their duties in Vietnam, from being a helicopter pilot to running a base camp beer garden. This work is...
"Vietnam Voices" is an oral history in the spirit of "Terkel's oral history of World War II, The Good War," The reader gets the real Vietnam experienc...
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79,63 |
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Veteran of the Ardennes: The World War II Letters Home of PFC Francis Charles DiPietro
ISBN: 9780595399970 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,43 |
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
ISBN: 9780743211574 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics.
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illumi...
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72,18 |
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Footsteps of David: Common Roots, Uncommon Valor
ISBN: 9780759694484 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While Jewish-Americans have been in the forefront of history since the inception of the Republic, little is known about Jews in the military. This book contains dozens of stories of Jewish GI's.
While Jewish-Americans have been in the forefront of history since the inception of the Republic, little is known about Jews in the military. This boo...
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118,99 |
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Footsteps of David: Common Roots, Uncommon Valor
ISBN: 9780759694491 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While Jewish-Americans have been in the forefront of our history since the inception of our Republic, little is known about Jews in the military. Dozens of stories of Jewish GI?
While Jewish-Americans have been in the forefront of our history since the inception of our Republic, little is known about Jews in the military. Doze...
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157,30 |
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The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
ISBN: 9780773516786 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desmond Morton sets the scene with a survey of the experiences of veterans of the Great War, who found much to fault in Ottawa's policies; Jeff Keshen looks at the very different experience of Canada's veterans of World War II. Dean Oliver examines the organization and administration of the return of Canadian soldiers from Europe after VE-Day, and Don Ives examines the philosophy and program of the Veterans Charter. Focusing on specific benefits of the Charter, Michael Stevenson looks at issues surrounding veterans' right to reinstatement in civil employment, Peter Neary deals with...
Desmond Morton sets the scene with a survey of the experiences of veterans of the Great War, who found much to fault in Ottawa's policies; Jeff Keshen...
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484,79 |
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The Embattled Self
ISBN: 9780801445231 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all... How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situat... |
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184,22 |
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Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
ISBN: 9780802136909 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Lewis Puller tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round in Vietnam, triggering a explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ended--and the battle to reclaim his life began. An extraordinary story of survival. And of love.--Mary Jordan, The Washington Post.
When Lewis Puller tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round in Vietnam, triggering a explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ende...
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68,42 |
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