Going beyond the headlines, this title gives an insight into what its like to live through - and try to make sense of - times of intense political unrest. ...Loe edasi...
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar leads an army that controls most of Libya, stands at the gates of Tripoli, and is threatening to overthrow the Government of National Accord. Backed by the powerful Libyan tribes, Khalifa Haftar has also won the backing...Loe edasi...
_______________ Powerful A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died - Guardian A memoir of resistance and survival unique in the annals of modern war If the s...Loe edasi...
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An unforgettable memoir of growing up in Syria under al-Assads regime, surviving a gas attack, and rallying worldwide support to break the siege of cities across the country, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni Chosen for the Big Issue...Loe edasi...
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An unforgettable memoir of growing up in Syria under al-Assads regime, surviving a gas attack, and rallying worldwide support to break the siege of cities across the country, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni Chosen for the Big Issue...Loe edasi...
Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography where th...Loe edasi...
A rare and forgotten first hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went over the top and survived....Loe edasi...
Hugh Glass was left to die. Attacked Whilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear. Hundreds of miles away from help; his fellow...Loe edasi...
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On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they failed. This volume recreates...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750962179)
War in the Wilderness offers the disturbing and harrowing first-hand accounts of no less than 50 veterans of Major-General Orde Wingate’s two bitterly-fought campaigns in North Burma in 1943–44. Chindit service in the Burmese jungle was w...Loe edasi...
Tells the story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Wars...Loe edasi...
This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance, and subsequent reputations of Union and Confederate mounted units fighting in three pivotal cavalry actions of the Civil War - Second Bull Run/Manassas (1862),...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857501950)
As the summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was difficult for a 16 year-old schoolboy to realize that the world for which he had been prepared at Clifton College was itself preparing for war. By 1916, he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. T...Loe edasi...
Tells the story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of these amateur soldiers who found themselves serving because, as one of them put it, they had made the obsolete choice of Greek at school....Loe edasi...
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On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail... Aust...Loe edasi...
In June 1775 the Continental Congress, leading the American rebellion against the British Crown, created the Continental Army to serve in the line of battle alongside militia and Provincial units. Although supply problems, issues with discipline, a...Loe edasi...
