The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York.
Clearly the favourite character of Canada's overseas troops during World War II, "e;Herbie"e; had a penchant for getting into some of the most bizarre predicaments imaginable.
Die Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs nachvollziehbar erklärt- Alle wichtigen Ereignisse, Wendepunkte und Hintergründe - Schlachten, Taktiken, Ideologien: vom Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus über Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Hiroshima bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel 1948 - Anschaulich & verständlich mit innovativen Grafiken aufbereitet - Mit Kurzporträts wichtiger Persönlichkeiten - Zum 80.
Managed Casualty investigates the profound effects of World War II-era policies on Japanese-American families, focusing on their forced removal, internment, and eventual release.
Managed Casualty investigates the profound effects of World War II-era policies on Japanese-American families, focusing on their forced removal, internment, and eventual release.
In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analyzed, apart from one - that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign.
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
From the early morning hours of April 11, 1967, when he stepped onto Oakland Air Force Base, to his return home, this is the author's unflinching memoirs of his time in Vietnam.
Between Hitler and Churchill exposes an unknown facet in the World War II history: the attempt of a senior official in the Polish government-in-exile to collude with the Third Reich and a successful British intelligence operation which thwarted this move in its infancy.
"e;Lost in action,"e; a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for years following his capture by Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan.
Mucho se aprendía del negocio de vivir en aquel Madrid de las verdes manzanas, tan agrias, en el que cada quien se soñaba, creo yo, el único cuerdo entre tantos locos.
Twenty-three powerful, moving, angry and wise essays published over a period of 15 years on subjects ranging from South Africa to Central America, the United States to the Soviet Union, all bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam war.
