Titoli in Militari e guerra

To many they were nothing more than cowards, but the 'conchies' of the First World War had the courage to stand by their principles when the nation was against them... An innovative new history of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Drawing on previously unpublished archive material, Karyn Burnham reconstructs the personal stories of several men who refused to fight, bringing the listener face-to-face with their varied, often brutal, experiences.

The Soldier That Left: The Untold Story of Loose Change is a raw and unflinching memoir by Korey Rowe, tracing his journey from soldier to fugitive to unlikely producer of one of the most controversial documentaries of all time. Beginning with his enlistment just before 9/11, Rowe recounts two brutal combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he witnessed the violence, futility, and corruption of America’s wars. Disillusioned by lies about weapons of mass destruction and trapped by a stop-loss order, Rowe faced a moral crossroads.

Two towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Frémont shaped the Civil War and emancipation. "... a masterwork of history. . .Bicknell deftly interweaves Frémont's story with the grander narrative...

Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnam’s unforgiving jungles. His call sign said it all: Sudden Death. It didn’t take George Uhl long into his tour to learn that in Vietnam death could be lurking behind the next tree, in the next...

One Marine, one camera, and a front-row seat to history—Then All Hell Broke Loose is a gripping visual journey through the Vietnam War. The USNS Hugh J. Gaffey dropped anchor at 1430 hours on December 27, 1966, under an overcast sky at Da Nang, Vietnam. Standing on deck and taking his first...

Using historical documents and translated by Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits? First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day, this book...

USCG Cutter Eagle has been an integral part of the United States Coast Guard since her commissioning in 1946, serving as both a training ship and a representation of the Coast Guard’s commitment to excellence. Originally built in Germany as the Horst Wessel and sailed under the Nazi flag, she was taken as a war prize after World War II and transformed into a vessel that reflects America’s democratic ideals. Eagle trains USCG Academy cadets, offering instruction in navigation, ship handling, and the rigors of life at sea.

Recounts a frontline soldier's Pacific War experience, blending combat hardship, personal reflection, and wartime artistry. Harvey Ball, communications sergeant in Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, served on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II. His memoir...

"A well-written and rewarding memoir that provides keen insight into the mindset of a patriotic young man willing to make sacrifices for his country." —Robert Forczyk In this masterful two-volume account, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch draws on his wartime diaries to detail his...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” (The Guardian) about a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse. “Ben Macintyre has a...

Mesmo após setenta anos do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, completados em 2009, ainda é impossível separar o nome de Adolf Hitler do maior genocídio da história da humanidade. Um conflito atroz, que o mundo jamais conseguiu perdoar. Hitler, seu...

From the battlefields of Korea, Malaya and Vietnam to the struggle for veterans' welfare, Keith Payne has never shied away from a fight. More than 50 years ago, this bravery saw him receive the Commonwealth's highest military honour - the Victoria Cross. Keith grew up one of thirteen children in...

The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed Skunk Works. The aircraft flew so fast and high that not one was ever shot down, even by a missile. SR-71 pilot and instructor Colonel Richard Graham offers a rare cockpit perspective on how regular Air Force pilots and navigators transformed themselves into SR-71 Blackbird crews, turning their unique aviation talents to account in an unprecedented way.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

Tome 2 : Madrid - Essling - Torres - Vedras. Après Austerlitz, Eylau Friedland, nous retrouvons Marbot au siège de Saragosse, il y est grièvement blessé ; quelques semaines s'écoulent et nous le voyons en ligne à Eckmühl, à Essling, à Wagram.

Tome 3 : Polotsk - La beresina - Leipzig - Waterloo. On a laissé Marbot en Portugal, combattant à Torrès Védras, à Fuentes de Ońoro ; dans ce tome, on va le retrouver franchissant le Niémen avec la Grande Armée... "J'engage le colonel Marbot à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises et en confondre les calomniateurs", écrivait Napoléon dans son testament.

From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation.

Abi Amir Muhammad, su nombre verdadero, es una de aquellas figuras de la historia española que gracias a su celo fanático, su escasez de escrúpulos, su furor contra la cristiandad, pero también sus notables dotes de estadista y gobernante, han trascendido del terreno de la realidad al mito o viceversa al quedar su huella grabada en el acerbo colectivo español.

On the morning of August 15, 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II out of Iwo Jima. Today, Captain Yellin is a sharp, engaging, 93-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by best-selling author Don Brown.

Noble franco y último Gran Maestre de la Orden del Temple o los Templarios, fue injustamente arrestado en 1307 por orden del Papa Clemente V, Beltrán de Goth y el rey de Francia Felipe IV "El Hermoso" bajo la acusación de sacrilegio contra la Santa Cruz, simonía, herejía e idolatría.