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Book DescriptionThrough diary entries, letters home and personal remembrances, the author describes his adventures as a Marine Raider in the South Pacific during World War II.

Book DescriptionMosquito Victory is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy which includes Wings Over Georgia and Lancaster Target. ?The westward sky was full of thunderclouds, a line of ghostly battlements above the German coast. The anvil-top ahead of me was brilliantly white ? whiter than a prince?s pillowcase, or Caribbean teeth, or angel?s wings. Pittam and I were flying at 25,000 feet, and it hung above us, dazzling in the April sun. Underneath that flattened head, in the great mass of cloud, were thousands of gallons of water, in vapour, rain and hail; profligate discharges of electricity spasmodically occurred, each enough to light a city for a week. There was ice in there and airframe-breaking turbulence. That cloud was trouble from the bottom ? which was pouring rain on Emden ? to the top. Its name was cumulonimbus, and people back in Huntingdon, at PFF Headquarters, would be interested to know that it was there." Extract from Mosquito...

Book DescriptionIn 1939 a new grade in the Iron Cross series was introduced, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). It was awarded for a variety of reasons, from skilled leadership to a single act of extreme gallantry, and was bestowed across all ranks, grades, and branches of service. As the war progresed, further distinctions were created for bestowal on existing winners, namely Oak-Leaves (Eichenlaub); Oak-Leaves with Swords (Eichenlaub und Schwertern); and Oak-Leaveswith Swords and Diamonds (Eichenlaub, Schwerter und Brillanten). This book, the first in a sequence of four, covers winners of the Knights Cross and the Oak-Leaves distinction in the period 1939-40.

Book Description1909. Contents: The Young Soldier. 1836-1846; Round the Horn to California. 1846; A Soldier in California. 1846-1850; Two Years in the Mississippi Valley. 1850-1852; The Man of Business. 1853-1859; Directing a Southern Military School. 1859-1861; The War Begun. 1861-1862; Vicksburg. 1863; Mississippi and Georgia Campaigns. 1863-1864; The War Ended. 1865; Years of Peach. 1886-1891.

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Book DescriptionGuderian was a man of ideas equipped with the ability to turn inspiration into reality. A master of strategy and tactics, he was the officer most responsible for creating blitzkrieg in World War II. This biography--fully updated with new material on Enigma and Guderian?s reaction to the July plot--illuminates the struggles within the German hierarchy and examines why Guderian was so admired by some while denigrated by others. This revised edition of the biography of a famous German general provides insight into the man behind blitzkrieg and includes information taken directly from the extensive Guderian family archives.

Book DescriptionThis book covers the life of the author for about two years from the time he was first selected by the draft in 1966-1967 during his junior year in college. It chronicles the following twenty-one months of his military life. Beginning with Basic Training and continuing through to his return to civilian life in 1969. In particular, this story covers his routine and not so routine days in 1968 Vietnam. These include his memories of being the "New Guy" Private without a clue to nine months later becoming the Sergeant in charge of his section. It also covers the remainder of his brief military career at Ft. Carson Colorado and his return to college life as a 24 year old veteran in 1969.

Book DescriptionThis book, based on more than one thousand interviews and based on the research of thousands of secret documents recently declassified, is the story of the man who continues to gain momentum in finding a place in the universal history of infamy. This is the life of an old, but still challenging and threatening general who encouraged the tenebrous "Caravan of Death". Ernesto Ekaizer won the journalism award "Ortega and Gasset" for his essays about the Pinochet case. Description in Spanish: Contra todo pronostico, la noche del 16 de octubre de 1998 Augusto Pinochet era arrestado en una clinica londinense. El bombardeo del Palacio de la Moneda, las ultimas palabras de Salvador Allende y los rostros de las victimas dela sangrienta represion que desato en Chile el golpe del 11 de septiembre de 1973 resucitaban casi treinta anos despues. La detencion del dictador abria un debate acerca de las competencias de la justicia...