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  • Terror of the Autumn Skies

    The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I

    par Blaine Pardoe ...
    Frank Luke, Jr. was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still knights of the air,” Luke was an ungallant loner-a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the Western Front. In only ten missions, he destroyed fourteen heavily-defended German balloons and four airplanes, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Original Battle Creek Crime King

    Adam "Pump" Arnold's Vile Reign

    Adam "Pump" Arnold was both feared and regaled in Victorian- era Battle Creek. He was a bootlegger and a pimp, a robber and a con artist, an arsonist and a loan shark and even an assassin. Arnold faced off with the city over illegal liquor sales and flaunted his victory with a life-size statue of the mayor dressed as a hobo. Called the "greatest criminal in the history of Battle Creek," Arnold was ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost Eagles

    One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars

    par Blaine Pardoe ...
    Praise for Lost Eagles"The pilot and observer stories selected have not previously seen much exposure. Not only are they interesting, but I found myself relishing getting to the next chapter to find out what Frederick Zinn was doing during the next stage of his life."---Alan Roesler, founding member, League of World War I Aviation Historians, and former Managing Editor, Over the FrontPraise for ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Secret Witness

    The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan

    par Blaine Pardoe ...
    Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened it and was instantly killed in a fiery explosion.In the months that followed, law enforcement and ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Soldiers

    A Global History of the Fighting Man, 1800–1945

    par John A Haymond ...
    A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Escape Artists

    A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War

    par Neal Bascomb ...
    This "fast-paced account" of WWI airmen who escaped Germany's most notorious POW camp is "expertly narrated" by the New York Times bestselling author ( Kirkus, starred review).During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany's many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape ... En savoir plus

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  • Sergeant York

    His Own Life Story and War Diary

    par Alvin York ...
    October 8th, 1918—amid the last of the Allies attempts to the Germans, Sergeant Alvin York of Tennessee, found himself and his platoon of only seventeen men trapped in the thick of heavy machine gun fire. Rather than retreating or calling upon the artillery to take out the nest, York single-handedly took out twenty-five Germans, dropping them one-by-one, and captured many more.This is only one of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • And There I’ll Be a Soldier

    A Western Story

    par Johnny D. Boggs ...
    Tormented by Southern partisans, Missouri farm boy Caleb Cole joins the Union’s Eighteenth Missouri. About the same time, down on the Texas coast, violin-playing Ryan McCalla, from a well-to-do family, enlists in the Confederacy’s Second Texas—mainly in the spirit of adventure—with some friends.The two teenagers are about to grow up quickly.Fate will bring the two together—along with a teenage ... En savoir plus

    $8.59 CAD

  • End of a Berlin Diary

    "A vivid and unforgettable word picture of the destruction of Nazi Germany" ( The New York Times).A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, when he was still virtually unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness ... En savoir plus

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  • Eyewitness on the Somme 1916

    What was the soldiers experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardsons graphic account, which is based on the vivid personal testimony of those who took part, offers us a direct ... En savoir plus

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  • Twenty-Two on Peleliu

    Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps

    A memoir of a tough childhood—and tough combat—by an "adventurous, lively, outspoken, opinionated" WWII Marine veteran ( Columbus Dispatch).On September 15, 1944, the US First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was twenty-two-year-old George ... En savoir plus

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  • American Guerrilla

    The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces

    par Mike Guardia ...
    A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book ClubWith his parting words, "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of more than 22,000 men. For the next ... En savoir plus

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