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  • Women Warriors in History
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    History paints war out to be a man’s business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, fro...
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    139,91 €

  • História Do Comunismo
    Nilton Célio Da Silva Amaral
    A Guerra Fria simbolizou um período de tensão geopolítica entre a União Soviética e os Estados Unidos e seus respectivos aliados, o Bloco Oriental e o Bloco Ocidental, após a 2ª Guerra Mundial até a dissolução da União Soviética em 1991. Essa tensão foi caracterizada pela luta ideológica entre estes dois principais personagens.Essa disputa alastrou-se pelo globo dividindo o mun...
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    11,07 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    In this gripping account, the turbulent first year of World War II, a period that reshaped the global landscape forever, is brought to life. As 1939 unfolds, the world is thrust into an era of unprecedented conflict, marked by groundbreaking strategies, heroic sacrifices, and the relentless advance of military technologies.Through a blend of historical facts and compelling stor...
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    10,84 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    Step back in time to a pivotal moment at the turn of the 20th century, a brief but intense conflict that reshaped the destiny of nations. This gripping narrative unveils the dramatic battles, political maneuvers, and personal heroism that defined the war, bringing to life the echoes of valor that still resonate today.Delve deep into the Battle of Manila Bay, where the U.S. Navy...
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    10,97 €

  • OPTIMIZING YOUR GIFTS FOR CAREER SUCCESS
    Ronald Edward Smiley
    This book describes my unique journey that culminated in a dynamic and successful career as an engineering professional and senior executive working in the public service sector. It illuminates the importance of self-awareness in discovering one’s innate gifts and talents and strengthening and optimizing them to achieve our goals. Further, it offers practical advice and lessons...
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    14,52 €

  • OPTIMIZING YOUR GIFTS FOR CAREER SUCCESS
    Ronald Edward Smiley
    This book describes my unique journey that culminated in a dynamic and successful career as an engineering professional and senior executive working in the public service sector. It illuminates the importance of self-awareness in discovering one’s innate gifts and talents and strengthening and optimizing them to achieve our goals. Further, it offers practical advice and lessons...
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    21,61 €

  • High and Dry on the Beach
    Philip Hoekstra
    -ABOUT THE BOOK: In July 1941 Winston Churchill sent a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt stating that in the fight to save the world from the Nazis it would be necessary not only to have great numbers of tanks but also to have sea-going vessels capable of landing them directly onto the beaches of Europe. Soon thereafter the Landing Ship Tank was designed, and by late 1942, there w...
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    50,98 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    Uncover the harrowing and pivotal battles that marked the commencement of the Great War, a conflict that would reshape the world. In this detailed chronicle, the reader is transported to the tumultuous year of 1914, where empires clashed and the modern age of warfare was born. From the fervent patriotism of August to the brutal onset of trench warfare, this book meticulously na...
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    14,99 €

  • Russia’s Wars of Emergence
    Carol Stevens / Ilya Nahmason
    Russia’s emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter Is radical programme of Westernising reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European concerns. In Russia’s Wars of Emergen...
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    40,20 €

  • Guardians of the Seas
    Commodore Gurnam Singh / Rear Admiral S.K. Gupta
    The most detailed account of the Indian Navy’s naval air campaign in the 1971 Indo-Pak War. India had a decisive victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war. East Pakistan disappeared from the world map and, in its place, Bangladesh was born as a new, independent country. Of the many factors that contributed to this victory in the war, an important one was the active participation ...
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    29,75 €

  • George Washington’s Providence
    Raymond Lorber
    Against all odds, George Washington fostered the world’s first modern democracy and became renowned as the father of our country. At a time when the median age was sixteen, he remarkably lived to the age of sixty-seven. Washington’s life was riddled with multiple life-threatening diseases and countless charges into enemy fire. With a shocking resiliency and remarkable hardiness...
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    16,79 €

  • Echoes of Vietnam | A Soldier’s Voice is Heard
    Ronald Kays
    Echoes of Vietnam captures an American soldier’s memories of the journey from the comforts of home, to the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the grim realities of war. A retrospective five decades in the making, Echoes includes a first-person assessment of our nation’s leaders in their role as overseers of the Vietnam war. Against the backdrop of our nation’s current struggle to r...
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    11,81 €

  • The Last Great Banzai
    Brad Gates
    On July 7, 1944, all remaining Japanese forces on Saipan conducted a massive suicide attack against the American forces that had landed on the island several weeks earlier. At approximately 3am, the Japanese forces rushed southward on the Tanapag Plain and overwhelmed the soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 27th Infantry Division. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers continued unimpeded for 1...
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    141,48 €

  • Churchill’s Few
    John Willis
    Ever wondered what it truly felt like to be in the heart of the Battle of Britain?  John Willis presents an absorbing account of World War II’s Battle of Britain, casting a spotlight on the brave pilots, diligent intelligence officers, and everyday heroes involved. The book is a testament to human resilience, as it uncovers the personal struggles, victories, and emotions of tho...
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    21,67 €

  • Secret Letters
    John Willis
    Dive into the daring deeds of wartime pilots in the throes of World War II.  Our story centres on Geoffrey Myers, an intelligence officer with the RAF 257 Squadron during the Battle of Britain. He’s a dedicated serviceman, but also a husband fearing for his wife’s safety in German-occupied France.Can Geoffrey and his squadron overcome the relentless challenges of war? And will ...
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    22,03 €

  • Nagasaki
    John Willis
    Ever wondered about the untold stories of bravery and resilience during World War II? Penned by esteemed author and documentary maker John Willis, this poignant narrative unveils the harrowing experiences of British and Australian POWs in Japan during World War II. It’s a tale of resilience, camaraderie, and the indomitable human spirit under the shadow of the devastating atomi...
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    21,56 €

  • The Double Traitor
    Phillips Oppenheim E.
    'The Double Traitor' is a riveting espionage thriller penned by means of the prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. Set in opposition to the backdrop of early twentieth-century Europe, this gripping narrative offers a tale of intrigue, espionage, and political machinations. The story unfolds with the introduction of a mysterious lady protagonist, who’s each appealing and enigma...
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    14,40 €

  • Time Stood Still
    Paul Cohen-Portheim
    A masterpiece of humanism,Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim’s years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman’s camp' near Wakefiel...
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    28,43 €

  • World War II Sea War, Volume 23
    Donald A. Bertke
    World War II Sea War, Volume 23: Additions & Corrections October - December 1942 should be used with VOLUME 7: THE ALLIES STRIKE BACK covering September 1942 through November 1942VOLUME 8: GUADALCANAL SECURED covering December 1942 through February 1943As in previous Additions & Corrections volumes, Volume 23 corrects old data entries and adds new data to the months of October,...
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    100,39 €

  • 'D’une mort injuste, préserve-nous, Seigneur.'
    Dr Thomas D Wilson
    The Allied Chaplains of the American, British, Canadian and Polish armies in the battles for Northwestern Europe and in the Battle of the Atlantic are often overlooked due to their small numbers in relation to the hundreds of thousands of other men who made up the Allied armies. However, the chaplains were highly respected and appreciated by the men in the various units they se...
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    19,44 €

  • John Anthony Henry Adventures
    A. H. Henderson
    The author A. H. Henderson: was born out of the Depression. Raised out of World War II. The fifties was a pampering and comforting time. The sixties were hectic: college, employment, marriage, and Vietnam. The seventies forward the adventures interfiled. A. H. Henderson has had numerous experiences and exploits during his life that he has folded into the John Anthony Henry Adve...
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    19,26 €

  • Undercover Angels Virginia Hall And The Spy Women Who Fought The Nazis During World War II
    Davis Truman
    Step into the covert world of World War II's untold heroes, the female agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). While history often overlooks their pivotal roles, these daring women defied societal norms and infiltrated enemy lines, rewriting the rules of warfare."Undercover Angels: Virginia Hall And The Spy Women Who Fought The Nazis During World War II" uncovers ...
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    14,46 €

  • A Book of Lives Well Lived SPECIAL EDITION
    Mark S. Rosenthal
    A Book of Lives Well Lived is the civilian’s guide to our incredible military and some of the activities and missions they perform. Detailing Mark Rosenthal’s experiences on military bases and training missions on an aircraft carrier, a nuclear submarine, military planes, and at military balls and retirement ceremonies, this provides an eye-opening foray into the professionalis...
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    39,86 €

  • Untamable
    Billy Sprague
    In every great love story, someone goes the distance against the odds.Aneska Latva was born to play piano, April 4, 1929, in Hamburg, Germany. Just two months older than Anne Frank, child prodigy Aneska battled the shadows of the same villainous tyranny. Like Anne, the darkness threatened her family, dreams and life.Through it all, Aneska’s weapons were music, faith, undying lo...
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    14,85 €

  • Captain William George Gabain M.C.
    Stephen Knight
    The Great War broke out on August 4th, 1914, impacting the lives of millions around the world. Many people thought - or hoped - that the War would be short. One of the young men who entered the fighting that month, and who served until his death in March 1918, was twenty-five year old William George Gabain M.C.Known to family to this day, as 'Uncle Willie,' he lost his life ea...
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    20,46 €

  • Undaunted Valor
    Matt Jackson
    'Get your affairs in order because we are about to go to war...' 'We all go into Laos together and we all come out of Laos together' ' I am on Fire and going down...tell my family I loved them...' (The above are actual quotes from pilots in the battle.) Undaunted Valor, Lam Son 719 is a novel based on an accurate account of the bravery and dedication of helicopter crews, consis...
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    17,69 €

  • SAIGON STORIES
    James De Francia
    'A ’true-to-life’ understanding of a time when success seemed possible...' -Richard J. Wall, A ReviewerThere was a brief time in Vietnam, before the true American-Vietnamese war commenced, when the social and cultural influence of the French was progressively giving way to that of the newly arrived Americans. It was a time of relative peace, albeit interrupted by spasms of guer...
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    10,82 €

  • Echoes of Gallipoli
    Chris Shaw
    Echoes of Gallipoli is a book of compassion, with 25 stories of some combatants, and their Mums and Dads who were left behind, of the 10 nationalities serving with the Allied forces in Gallipoli.Those enormous emotional impacts of the loss of loved ones either killed and buried on foreign soil, or returning home wounded or broken, are being forgotten.Some of these stories are r...
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    15,02 €

  • Cultiver une mentalité de milliardaire
    Danel Homméus
    Dans Cultiver une mentalité de milliardaire : Le parcours inspirant de Toussaint Louverture , vous serez emmené dans un voyage fascinant à travers la vie d’une des figures les plus remarquables de l’histoire. L’histoire de Toussaint Louverture n’est pas seulement un récit de résilience et de courage ; c’est une étude profonde de la culture d’un état d’esprit de grandeur qui pe...
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    17,89 €

  • Sông Bé
    Richard Barlow Adams / TBD
    Sông Bé, a fact-based narrative told in flashback from a present-day evening concert at the New Orleans Orpheum Theater, features a fit, world-renowned architect, Richard Foxworth, a West Point graduate, who reacts to what his wife finds in his old Army footlocker. It triggers long-buried memories of his role in 1968 as a second lieutenant in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offe...
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    19,79 €


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