Tales Of The Wars

Author : William B. Breuer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047031186X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Top Secret Tales of World War II written by William B. Breuer and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Acclaim for TOP SECRET TALES of World War II "A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the template."-Publishers Weekly "Perfect for the curious and adventure readers and those who love exotic tales and especially history buffs who will be surprised at what they didn't know. Recommended for nearly everyone."-Kirkus Reviews This war was fought by soldiers out of uniform. Stealth and ingenuity were their weapons. Victory was their only code of conduct. In Top Secret Tales of World War II, noted military historian William Breuer documents espionage-in all its forms-as it evolved in the hands of both Allied and Axis agents of intelligence and counterintelligence. Here you'll find riveting tales of patriotism and treachery, subversion and sabotage, kidnappings and assassinations, and bribes and blackmailing-with frequently startling revelations about the secret wars behind both the battlefields and the headlines.

Author : W. B. Marsh
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848312173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of War written by W. B. Marsh and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of historical stories of military endeavour from the Romans to landmarks in American history

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547549210
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To End All Wars written by Adam Hochschild and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

Author : Kevin Anderson
Publisher : Random House Worlds
ISBN 13 : 0307796264
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Bounty Hunters: Star Wars Legends written by Kevin Anderson and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful-and feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life... Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers and Dave Wolverton. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

Author : Ace Landers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484472880
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Rebellion written by Ace Landers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a protocol droid, I prefer to stay out of trouble. Easier said than done. My friends are always getting themselves involved in rebel missions, and I'm usually taken along for the ride!"--Page [4] of cover. This humorous and action-packed book features all of your favorite heroes and villains in three all-new original stories!"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Serge Pey
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810558
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure of the Spanish Civil War written by Serge Pey and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of childhood during Spain's violent fascist regime, rendered in a surreal kaleidoscope of linked stories. Serge Pey's stories are lyrical, vivid vignettes of life during and directly following Spain's violent fascist regime of the thirties and forties. The collection is a defiant ode to the resilience of the human spirit, each story depicting a small act of human resistance: a man plants a fruit tree for each of his assassinated comrades; a professor hides a secret library of banned books in plain sight. Many of the stories are surreal, fable-like impressions from the perspective of children caught in the midst of the political violence. Pey's understated yet unusual prose renders a brutal landscape with childlike wonder. The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War and Other Tales is a strikingly original meditation on courage, survival, and hope in the face of oppression.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958051
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth Is Weeping written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

Author : Chuck Dixon
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781600108815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Cobra Wars written by Chuck Dixon and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects eight stories featuring the special operations team known as G.I. Joe and their adventures battling the evil organization COBRA.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Wars of Montrose written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. J. Stapleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Wars, Or, Naval and Military Chronicle written by R. J. Stapleton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: