Libri più popolari in Italia●Militare

«L'inferno esiste e io ci sono stato.» Sono queste le parole con cui l'Agente Kasper, un ex carabiniere divenuto agente dei sevizi segreti e poi del ROS, comincia a raccontare la sua vicenda a Luigi Carletti. Il caso dell'Agente Kasper è stato coperto da riserbo e omertà, i media ne sono all'oscuro. La vicenda sembra incredibile: l'ex carabiniere italiano ha trascorso tredici mesi in un campo di concentramento cambogiano. Lo hanno rapito e imprigionato. Hanno tentato di farlo sparire nel nul...

Data di rilascio : 2014-03-22 7,99 €

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1. Non è un libro di spie - Incominci convinto di leggere un resoconto vero di fatti veramente accaduti, finisci per dirti che è proprio un bel libro di spie. Non ci puoi credere che sia vero, che ci sia un mondo diverso da quello che osservi ogni giorno. Sembra esistere un'altra dimensione dove accadono queste cose ma tu non le vedi. Incredibilmente appassionante e stimolante alla riflessione. Senza parole Kasper, ho sempre amato ma non ho mai pensato che esistesse nella realtà uno come lui, ho dovuto ricredermi. Bello bello e tremendamente inquietante... Un tumulto di emozioni...
2014-03-30

« Il libro scritto da David Tell è un manuale su come l’uomo possa essere modellato a non temere, non soffrire, non provare empatia né pietà. » Roberto Saviano, la Repubblica È notte fonda quando il diciottenne David Tell scende dall’autobus che l’ha portato a Parris Island, la base militare dove avviene la prima, estenuante e selettiva fase dell’addestramento dei marines. David è sempre stato idealista e patriottico, ma niente poteva prepararlo a quello che lo aspetta: un addestr...

Data di rilascio : 2014-10-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 7,99 €

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1. Diretto ed onesto - Un titolo consigliato, siamo abituati alle storie raccontate nei film, di eroismo e gloria. Questo libro apre una finestra sulla realtà della vita militare in reparti d’élite a testimoniare che ben poco di quanto siamo abituati a vedere è aderente alla realtà. Che dietro il volto eroico della guerra che ci viene mostrato si nasconde una storia dura, di de-umanizzazione. Consigliato.
2022-07-16

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.  “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career...

Data di rilascio : 2012-01-03 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,49 €

When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden, and the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this internationally bestselling chronicle, former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of ...

Data di rilascio : 2011-06-23 Genere:Biografie e memorie 4,49 €

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lo...

Data di rilascio : 2018-02-20 9,99 €

On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious b...

Data di rilascio : 2011-01-20 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time. Their location: Iraq Their mission: to sever a vital enemy underground communication link, to find and destroy mobile Scud launchers Their call sign: Bravo Two Zero When eight members of the elite SAS regiment embark on a highly covert operation, they are each laden with 15 stones of equipment, needing to tab 20km across the desert to reach their objective. B...

Data di rilascio : 2013-05-23 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Nel 2003 il sergente Brian Turner è a capo di un convoglio di soldati nel deserto iracheno. Dieci anni dopo, a casa, accanto alla moglie addormentata ha una visione: come un drone sulla mappa del mondo, sorvola Bosnia e Vietnam, Iraq, Europa e Cambogia.Figlio e nipote di soldati, le sue esperienze si fondono con quelle del padre e del nonno, con i giochi da bambino e le vite degli amici caduti in battaglia.Così, tutti i conflitti si dispiegano sotto di lui in un unico, immenso, territorio di g...

Data di rilascio : 2016-10-27 8,99 €

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysi...

Data di rilascio : 2011-12-31 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Scritto a New York nel 1941 e pubblicato sia in inglese sia in francese nel 1942, Pilota di guerra condensa l'esperienza dell'autore come aviatore di ricognizione durante la Battaglia di Francia. In particolare, viene rievocata l'eroica quanto disperata missione su Arras del maggio 1940. In pagine assorte e vibranti Saint-Exupéry spiega il significato della propria partecipazione agli eventi bellici e alla lotta contro il nazismo, in nome di un'idea di patria che è difesa amorosa di una civilt...

Data di rilascio : 2015-01-10 6,99 €

'Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' - Tim Peake A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966 , he flew more than 1,000 assault missions....

Data di rilascio : 2012-09-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Chi era Unger Khan, che i mongoli consideravano il Dio della Guerra? Il generale “bianco” che combatté i bolscevichi in Estremo Oriente sino all’ultimo, finché venne sconfitto e fucilato dopo un processo farsa? Il barone Roman Fëdorovič von Ungern-Šternberg (1886-1921) era un nobile baltico di religione buddhista dalle tendenze mistiche, che si riteneva investito di una missione provvidenziale: riconquistare l’Occidente partendo dal cuore della Mongolia. Intorno alla sua figura è f...

Data di rilascio : 2018-05-28 9,99 €

The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm. 'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun 'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton, author of First Man In Tom spent years working covertly to stop those who want to do us harm. In his bestselling memoir Soldier Spy , he told how he was...

Data di rilascio : 2019-05-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

Queste sono le memorie di Pierluigi Tajana, artigliere da montagna in Grecia-Albania e poi comandante della 4a Compagnia Mortai del Battaglione Barbarigo della Decima Flottiglia MAS. Le vicende di Tajana, da lui narrate con grande brio, ci trasportano dalla Scuola Allievi Ufficiali di Complemento di Artiglieria Alpina di Bra, dove l’anticonformista Tajana muove i primi passi tra le anacronistiche regole del Regio Esercito, alla Grecia-Albania, descrivendo causticamente la madornale incompetenz...

Data di rilascio : 2015-12-09 4,99 €

Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s brutal regime. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fi...

Data di rilascio : 2010-10-12 Genere:Biografie e memorie 7,99 €

Una storia, autentica e autobiografica, che narra il processo di trasformazione interiore di un fotoreporter tra guerre, missioni umanitarie, terremoti, camere operatorie, terroristi e guru. In compagnia della sua inseparabile Leica, l’Autore attraversa l’Afghanistan, la Somalia, lo Yemen, il Pakistan, il Mozambico, il Sudan e il Tibet. A Kabul incontra Monica, medico anestesista, durante la missione internazionale di un team di chirurghi plastici che ricostruiscono i volti dei bambini sfigu...

Data di rilascio : 2022-05-04 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

With bullets flying, wounded soldiers scream out in pain as the Chinook comes in to land in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. At the machine's controls is one man and if he doesn't stay calm then everyone could die. That man is Flt Lt Alex 'Frenchie' Duncan DFC and he's been involved in some of the most daring and dangerous missions undertaken by the Chinook force in Afghanistan. In this book he recounts his experiences of life under fire in the dust, heat and bullets of an active ...

Data di rilascio : 2011-06-09 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €

Un ragazzino di quindici anni decide di arruolarsi in Marina perché in tempo di guerra la famiglia non riesce a sopravvivere, tutta la nazione è in condizioni disastrose. Dai primi mesi quasi tranquilli, il protagonista si trova in mezzo a un attacco feroce: riesce a nascondersi per miracolo ma alla fine viene catturato. Il ragazzo-soldato inizia un calvario attraverso l’Europa, in mezzo a orrori ma con il naturale impeto dell’adolescente e una sensibilità non comune. In mezzo a crudeltà...

Data di rilascio : 2015-07-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 4,49 €

Get inside the cockpit with Dan Hampton, the military’s most decorated F-16 pilot, in this enhanced e-book edition of Viper Pilot. Exclusive to this edition are 11 video interviews, where Hampton talks candidly about his time as a Wild Weasel and about the fighter jet that kept him alive through so many dangerous skirmishes. In addition, an interactive “first-person” cockpit diagram lets you get deeper into the action, providing a visual companion to the book that leaves you feeling like y...

Data di rilascio : 2012-10-02 Genere:Biografie e memorie 13,99 €

'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time, he is testing his Maker's indulgence' - John le Car...

Data di rilascio : 2010-09-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS Regiment he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years - on five continents. Recounting with grim humour and in riveting, often ...

Data di rilascio : 2008-10-02 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickte Schönbeck gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Näc...

Data di rilascio : 2022-02-02 Genere:Biografie e memorie 15,99 €

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances. ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hos...

Data di rilascio : 2019-02-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,99 €

The explosive, shocking and honest account from an MI5 officer, revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation 'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.' Recruited after the 7/7 attacks on London, Tom quickly found himself immersed in the tense world of watching, following and infiltrating networks of terrorists, spies and foreign agents. It was a job that took over his life and cost him dear, taking him to the limit of physical and mental endura...

Data di rilascio : 2016-10-06 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,99 €

Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison. It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of his comrades with the longest confirmed sn...

Data di rilascio : 2015-05-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES 'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily armed rebels with bamboo sticks and home-made grenades, and you'll be asking the question... Why wasn't he given TWO MCs?' SUNDAY SPORT 2,000 blood-crazed rebels. 26 elite British soldiers. One man's explosive true story. Airlifted into the hear...

Data di rilascio : 2014-05-22 Genere:Biografie e memorie 4,49 €

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.  “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper ki...

Data di rilascio : 2013-10-15 Genere:Biografie e memorie 16,99 €

Discover the brave, shocking and remarkable true story of two RAF lieutenants' capture during the Gulf War 'HEROISM UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY' Independent 'THE MOST COMPELLING STORY OF THE GULF WAR' Daily Mail _________ RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first mission of the Gulf War. Their capture in the desert, half a mile from their blazing Tornado bomber, led to seven harrowing weeks of torture, confinement and interrogation. An ordeal...

Data di rilascio : 2002-10-31 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,49 €

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-Wes...

Data di rilascio : 2022-11-03 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded Br...

Data di rilascio : 2022-11-03 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat 'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL ________ 'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team to the west of Mosul. We need you to redeploy now . . .' Mike Sutton commanded the RAF's top Typhoon squadron across Iraq and Syria in the war against ISIS. Flying a Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, th...

Data di rilascio : 2021-11-25 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

“Niemand, der diesen Text gelesen hat, wird ihn vergessen können.“ Carolin Emcke Im März 1944 wird Ginette Kolinka zusammen mit ihrem Vater, ihrem Bruder und ihrem Neffen von Avignon nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Ginette ist die Einzige, die Monate später nach Paris zurückkehrt. Sie schildert eindringlich, wie sie die Schläge, den Hunger, die Kälte, die Nacktheit, den Hass, das Grauen im Lager überlebt hat. Und sie erzählt, wie notwendig das Festhalten an der Weiblichkeit für ...

Data di rilascio : 2020-01-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 13,99 €

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Take control of your life, build resilience and learn to thrive in any situation with the powerful and inspiring new book from the number one bestselling author of Battle Scars . In Life Under Fire , ex-Special Forces Sergeant Jason Fox shows you how to build the strength of mind and the resilience of an elite soldier. Recounting stories from high-stakes operations and expeditions, Foxy draws on the practices of the British military and the skills he de...

Data di rilascio : 2020-10-15 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,49 €

THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. ' The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPY Battle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service, to a very different kind of battle that awaited him at home. After more than two decades of active duty, Foxy was diagnosed with complex PTSD, forcing him to leave the militar...

Data di rilascio : 2018-11-01 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wil...

Data di rilascio : 2018-11-01 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

Qualche tempo fa mi è capitato tra le mani il manoscritto “Il mio diario di prigionia” dopo i tanti anni passati dalla sua stesura originale. Stavo per stracciarlo, il ricordo era per me un fatto terribile, quando mi è venuto il desiderio di rileggerlo. La lettura mi ha richiamato alla mente gli anni 1944/45, due anni di sofferenze, sacrifici, di lotte e di speranze tra i reticolati in Germania e ho pensato che sarebbe un errore dimenticare quella incredibile esperienza. Ho battuto a macch...

Data di rilascio : 2016-05-15 4,49 €

Sie sind erbitterte Feinde, als sie am 20. Dezember 1943 in über acht Kilometern Höhe aufeinandertreffen: der Amerikaner Charlie Brown in seinem vom Flakfeuer schwer beschädigten B-17-Bomber und der deutsche Jagdflieger Franz Stigler, der den gegnerischen Piloten einfach nur vom Himmel holen müsste, – doch er tut es nicht. Stattdessen gibt Stigler dem Bomber Geleit über die deutsche Flugabwehr hinweg bis auf die Nordsee hinaus und rettet Brown und seiner gesamten Besatzung das Leben. Die ...

Data di rilascio : 2014-09-12 15,99 €

Incredible true stories of canine loyalty in the Second World War. There were dogs involved with the landings, dogs the soldiers could not bear to leave behind and dogs trained to patrol, protect and locate. The dogs sailed with the Merchant Navy and brought their boats into dangerous waters to retrieve the wounded or stranded. They were on land, in the air and on the water during the D-Day operation – playing their special part in every aspect. Through this inspiring short collection of the t...

Data di rilascio : 2015-06-05 Genere:Biografie e memorie 1,49 €

Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq training indigenous fighters, Gant argued for embedding autonomous units with tribes across Afghanistan to earn the Afghans’ trust and trans...

Data di rilascio : 2014-03-25 Genere:Biografie e memorie 10,99 €

Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the American Depression and risked her life in the Spanish Civil War. Her dispatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her...

Data di rilascio : 2011-08-31 Genere:Biografie e memorie 12,99 €

In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire from 22,000 Japanese. After climbing through a hellish landscape and on to the island's highest peak, six men were photographed raising the stars and stripes. One of those soldiers was the author's father, John Bradley. He never spoke to his family about the p...

Data di rilascio : 2011-02-15 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,49 €

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, a...

Data di rilascio : 2010-05-27 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,99 €

2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War. For much of the time they were hanging on by their fingertips, holed up in remote platoon houses, outnumbered, facing relentless assault and nearly overwhelmed. Only the Chinooks kept them in the game. But that meant their crews putting down in hot LZs, exposing their aircraft to withering attack from an enemy for whom downing one of the big helos would be the ultimate prize. They had been lucky. So f...

Data di rilascio : 2009-08-06 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,99 €

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations...

Data di rilascio : 2022-05-10 Genere:Biografie e memorie 28,99 €

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant prose: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life’ Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily: we value individ...

Data di rilascio : 2021-05-18 Genere:Biografie e memorie 14,99 €

'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton _______ Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms; stories of life-and-death decisions, and learning how to live with the effects of horrific injuries, both physical and mental. In the voices of the men and women who've fought overseas, from Vietnam to...

Data di rilascio : 2021-02-08 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,99 €

'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded the small details that made up our lives, the sheer luck that saved some of us and the atrocities that led to the deaths of so many, as a tribute to all those who suffered and died...' _______________ Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War Two began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherla...

Data di rilascio : 2020-09-17 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

"Poignant . . . Well worth the read." —Wall Street Journal In December 1944, Frank Sisson deployed to Europe as part of General George S. Patton’s famed Third Army. Over the next six months, as the war in Europe raged, Sisson would participate in many of World War II’s most consequential events, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau. Now 95 years old, Frank shares his remarkable story of life under General Patton for the first time. Frank Sisson grew up in rural Okl...

Data di rilascio : 2020-10-20 Genere:Biografie e memorie 18,99 €

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.  Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn ho...

Data di rilascio : 2020-05-05 Genere:Biografie e memorie 18,99 €

Inspired by the incredible true story of the most decorated servicewoman of the second world war. Nancy Wake was an Australian girl who, aged, 16 ran away from her abusive mother to the other side of the world. Nancy Wake was a wife who, when her husband was snatched by the Gestapo, fought to be trained by SOE and returned to France to take her revenge. Nancy Wake was a soldier who led a battalion of 7,000 French Resistance fighters who called her Field Marshall. Who had a 5- million Franc bount...

Data di rilascio : 2020-03-26 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €