Seeds of Liberty - Three Stories
ISBN: 9781781999738 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,04 zł |
Envoy to Klis: Violence Redeeming: Collected Short Stories 2009 - 2011
ISBN: 9781544140209 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klis would be their first failure and it would mark the end of their conquest. When the Mongol envoy entered into the city walls, he offered its citizens the same thing the Mongols offered every conquest - tribute or extermination. The city inhabitants would refuse the former to brave the latter and they would survive. The Mongol hordes once marched from the Far East into Europe. There, they encountered their first breaking point at the fortified city of Klis.
Klis would be their first failure and it would mark the end of their conquest. When the Mongol envoy entered into the city walls, he offered its citiz...
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Spin the Wheels for Ill: Violence Redeeming: Collected Short Stories 2009 - 2011
ISBN: 9781543284393 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No matter how harsh the instruction or inhumane the conditioning, military doctrine cannot replace compassion with uncaring steel. At his post in the bowels of a Japanese submarine, one frightened boy endures the unspeakable slaughter of an illicit war until he reaches a psychological breaking point. Then he begins opening valves that should be closed and closing valves that should be open. Drafted as a teenager into one of the bloodiest and most fanatical navies in the history of the world, he will spin the wheels for ill. What causes the discipline of duty to descend into the degradation of...
No matter how harsh the instruction or inhumane the conditioning, military doctrine cannot replace compassion with uncaring steel. At his post in the ...
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Midway: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories 2014
ISBN: 9781543220193 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most pivotal waterborne engagements in history would not be fought ship-to-ship in the traditional fashion of naval warfare, a brutal duel between massive battleships. This titanic contest would be decided without either commander sighting the other, for victory would ultimately be claimed in the skies, aircraft to aircraft. Its outcome directly determined the future of the individual sailor and aviator, but it also indirectly decided the fates of their homelands, as well. For the combatants, Midway was not merely an isolated battle in the larger conflict, rather it would decide...
One of the most pivotal waterborne engagements in history would not be fought ship-to-ship in the traditional fashion of naval warfare, a brutal duel ...
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Hinterlands: Korengal Valley 2008: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories 2014
ISBN: 9781543219289 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Korengal Valley of Afghanistan was one of the most dangerous places in the world during 2008. There on a daily basis, brave Americans confronted the grim realities of a determined guerilla resistance, as they opposed an all but invisible enemy exercising a ruthless determination to achieve their objectives at all costs and without heed to civilized rules of war. Using improvised explosive devices and ambush tactics, the stubborn jihadists of the region worked fanatically to sap the American will to fight by bleeding its forward forces white via use of the most brutal weapons on hand....
The Korengal Valley of Afghanistan was one of the most dangerous places in the world during 2008. There on a daily basis, brave Americans confronted t...
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Pretty Birds
ISBN: 9781534966185 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pretty Birds, first in the series Tender Heroes, tells not only the tragic story of the Vietnam War, but also teaches us about human triumph from one of war's youngest survivors. A mother shares memories of Thailand, describing village life before and after conflict touches village soil.
Pretty Birds, first in the series Tender Heroes, tells not only the tragic story of the Vietnam War, but also teaches us about human triumph from one ...
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43,26 zł |
Forever Comes the Storm: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544618364 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How long can one sensitive youth tolerate the incessant shelling, the nerve-wracking eruptions, the slumber-slaying shockwaves of bombardment? How much terror can a soldier endure, before he takes that last short walk beyond the trenches and coiled barbed wire into no-man's land to meet his violent fate? The bloodiest war of the bloodiest century in human history. For some, it never ends.
How long can one sensitive youth tolerate the incessant shelling, the nerve-wracking eruptions, the slumber-slaying shockwaves of bombardment? How muc...
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The Corporal Would Survive: Shores of Silver Seas: Collected Short Stories 2000 - 2006
ISBN: 9781544656298 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This particular corporal served all four years of the bloodiest war in European history, many of them as a message runner - one of the most dangerous and elite jobs of trench-bound combat. By all accounts, he was a strange young man with many strange ideas. He loved the war and thought it the best time of his life. To be sure, he would survive when so many around him perished, but how? He should have died a thousand times, but nobody could kill him. Only he could do that for himself.
This particular corporal served all four years of the bloodiest war in European history, many of them as a message runner - one of the most dangerous ...
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Numbers: Shores of Silver Seas: Collected Short Stories 2000 - 2006
ISBN: 9781544657004 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He's the most prolific sniper in a long, deadly war. In fact, he's successful to the point that his own comrades have learned to shun him. Not even this form of isolation can prevent him from compiling a frightful tally of numbers, a tally of the slain. It's his job. He's good at it. Too damned good.
He's the most prolific sniper in a long, deadly war. In fact, he's successful to the point that his own comrades have learned to shun him. Not even th...
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45,49 zł |
Ebb Tide
ISBN: 9781546370741 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,25 zł |
The Queen's Cup
ISBN: 9781548259013 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G.A. Henty does it again with a fictional yarn of adventure and exploration deeply rooted in history. In The Queen's Cup a young British naval officer sets off for adventure in the West Indies. Along the way a heroine is kidnapped. Will she be rescued? Will our hero survive? Read The Queeen's Cup and find out Alacrity Press is proud to make this G.A. henty classic available to a new generation of readers.
G.A. Henty does it again with a fictional yarn of adventure and exploration deeply rooted in history. In The Queen's Cup a young British naval officer...
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44,35 zł |
Echoes of Friendship
ISBN: 9781781325971 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andy is inspired by a school trip to the First World War battlefields where he learns about his great-grandfather's past.
Andy is inspired by a school trip to the First World War battlefields where he learns about his great-grandfather's past.
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63,09 zł |
Tortot, The Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His Heart
ISBN: 9781782691549 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A spectacularly illustrated story about war and friendship. Tortot is a cold-hearted field cook who goes off to war. Soldiers drop like flies around him but Tortot just doesn't care. Until, that is, he finds a deserter in his kitchen: a boy who has lost his brothers and his legs in battle. Tortot feels no real sympathy for him, but decides to shelter him for one night. It's a decision that will change him for ever...
A spectacularly illustrated story about war and friendship. Tortot is a cold-hearted field cook who goes off to war. Soldiers drop like fli...
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65,84 zł |
Lost Boys
ISBN: 9781250158826 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1982, twelve-year-old Reza has no interest in joining Iran's war effort. But in the wake of a tragedy and at his mother's urging, he decides to enlist, assured by the authorities that he will achieve paradise should he die in service to his country. War does not bring the glory the boys of Iran have been promised, and Reza soon finds himself held in a prisoner-of-war camp in Iraq, where the guards not only threaten violence--they act upon it. Will Reza make it out alive? And if he does, will he even have a home to return to? In this unforgettable tale of friendship and... In 1982, twelve-year-old Reza has no interest in joining Iran's war effort. But in the wake of a tragedy and at his mother's urging, he decides to ... |
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The War Below
ISBN: 9781338233025 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This companion novel to Skrypuch's "Making Bombs for Hitler" follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler.
This companion novel to Skrypuch's "Making Bombs for Hitler" follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler....
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78,02 zł |
The Amber Beads
ISBN: 9781626947610 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,15 zł |
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII
ISBN: 9781911171881 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,08 zł |
The Bicycle Spy
ISBN: 9780545850964 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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34,65 zł |
Grenade
ISBN: 9781338245691 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,72 zł |
Edith Cavell, Nurse Hero
ISBN: 9781595985200 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,23 zł |