"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.
Le journal L'Illustration a permis à ses lecteurs, au cours de ces 222 semaines de guerre, de suivre les combattants sur les champs de bataille d'Europe et d'ailleurs.
Written by a former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory, this book presents original insights on the strategies and tactics undertaken in four major battles of the Second World War.
Accidental Ukrainians: Part Two - Missile Mania is the ongoing account of two US citizens who were on the ground in Kyiv and Chernivtsi from February 2023 through February 2024.
Accidental Ukrainians: Part Two - Missile Mania is the ongoing account of two US citizens who were on the ground in Kyiv and Chernivtsi from February 2023 through February 2024.
Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published in that country in the post-Soviet era.
A fully illustrated account of the World War 2 combat career of the Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bomber, one of the Royal Navy's most resilient and effective aircraft of the period.
Part World War II spy thriller, part romance, and part tale of buried family secrets, The Serpent Bearer is perfect for fans of Kelly Rimmer's The German Wife and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.
Sven Hedin, der berühmte schwedische Forscher, besuchte in den Monaten September und Oktober 1914 die von den Deutschen besetzten Gebiete Belgiens und Frankreichs; er schildert uns, wie er selbst behauptet, die "größten Eindrücke seines Lebens", die er als Gast im Hauptquartier des Deutschen Kaisers, auf den blutgetränkten Schlachtfeldern, in den Schützengräben und Feldlagern sowie bei den Artillerieständen gewonnen hat.
