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Flags of Our Fathers: A Young People's Edition
ISBN: 9780440229209 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing... In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the...
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37,34 zł |
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The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles
ISBN: 9780763660666 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage, Paul B. Janeczko uncovers two centuries worth of true spy stories in U.S. history.
Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. In this fascinating collection, Paul B. Janeczko probes such stories as that of Elizabeth Van Lew, an aristocrat whose hatred of slavery drove her to be one of the most successful spies in the Civil War; the "Choctaw code talkers," Native Americans who were instrumental in sending... From clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage, Paul B. Janeczko uncovers two centuries worth of true spy stories in U.S. hi...
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56,03 zł |
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
ISBN: 9780374300227 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and... A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ash... |
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93,41 zł |
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781596439528 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This captivating nonfiction investigation of the Pentagon Papers has captured widespread critical acclaim, including features in The Washington Post and on NPR, selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist, and selection as winner of the 2016 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Newbery Honor Book Bomb comes a tense, narrative nonfiction account of what the Times deemed "the greatest story of the century": how whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government... This captivating nonfiction investigation of the Pentagon Papers has captured widespread critical acclaim, including features in The Washingt... |
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93,41 zł |
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In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I
ISBN: 9781613731307 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017 When it started, many thought the Great War would be a great adventure. Yet, as those who saw it up close learned, it was anything but. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the stories of eighteen young idealists swept into the brutal conflict, many of whom would go on to become well-known 20th-century figures in film, science, politics, literature, and business. Writer J. R. R. Tolkien was a signals officer with the British Expeditionary Force and fought at the Battle of the Somme. Scientist Irene Curie helped her...
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017 When it started, many thought the Great War would be a great adventure. Yet, as ...
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105,13 zł |
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Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics
ISBN: 9781613735954 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Heroes of World War I brings to life the brave exploits of 16 women from around the world who served their countries at a time when most women didn't even have the right to vote. Seventeen-year-old Frenchwoman Emilienne Moreau assisted the Allies as a guide and set up a first-aid post in her home. Russian peasant Maria Bochkareva joined the Imperial Russian Army, was twice wounded in battle and decorated for bravery, and created and led the all-women combat unit the Women's Battalion of Death. American journalist Madeleine Zabriskie Doty risked her life to travel twice to Germany...
Women Heroes of World War I brings to life the brave exploits of 16 women from around the world who served their countries at a time when most ...
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66,38 zł |
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
ISBN: 9780763691004 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history--almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall... A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilli... |
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55,36 zł |
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781250180834 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,70 zł |
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Where the War Was Won: Nomonhan 1939
ISBN: 9781784554910 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. pIf the Japanese enter the war on Hitlers side...our cause is hopeless.br /Maj. General Arkady Kozakovtsev, Chief of Operations, Soviet Far East Armybr /What if? What if the Japanese had decided to fight with the Germans? What if Hitler had continued towards Moscow instead of turning south towards Kiev? With thorough research and knowledge, McDonald takes the reader through Japanese military history showing how their ancestry and modern history impacted decisions made by military leaders preceding the Second World War. Drawing well informed conclusions, connecting the Russians, Japanese and...
pIf the Japanese enter the war on Hitlers side...our cause is hopeless.br /Maj. General Arkady Kozakovtsev, Chief of Operations, Soviet Far East Armyb...
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102,56 zł |
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The Last April
ISBN: 9780983078654 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spontaneous, fifteen-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln's death, Gretchen finds an amnesiac Confederate in her garden and believes this is her chance for civic goodwill. But reconciliation is not as simple as Gretchen assumed. When her mother returns from the market with news that a Confederate murdered the president, Gretchen wonders if she caught the killer. Tensions between her aunt and mother rise as Gretchen nurses her Confederate prisoner, revealing secrets from their past that make Gretchen question...
Spontaneous, fifteen-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln's death, Gr...
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58,82 zł |
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780670785063 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. The history of this era is complex; the cultural impact extraordinary. But it's the personal stories of eight people--six American soldiers, one American military...
★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."* America's war in Vietnam. I...
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107,43 zł |
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Nuclear Armament
ISBN: 9780737761146 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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198,86 zł |
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The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781338140347 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,74 zł |
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How Easy Company Became a Band of Brothers
ISBN: 9780692069790 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,66 zł |
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ISBN: 9780062453013 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,41 zł |
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Lost Stories of the Great War
ISBN: 9780692082249 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,50 zł |
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Great Battles for Boys: WWII Europe
ISBN: 9781947076082 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,18 zł |
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Great Battles for Boys: WWII Pacific
ISBN: 9781947076099 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,13 zł |
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Great Battles for Boys: Bunker Hill to Wwi
ISBN: 9781947076105 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,10 zł |
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Great Battles for Boys: The Civil War
ISBN: 9781947076112 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,13 zł |