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Very few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk, he volunteered for the newly formed commandos and took part in their first operation: the raid on the Lofoten Islands. He fought and was captured in Tunisia. He went on the run before his POW camp at Fontanellato was taken over by the Nazis after the September 1943 Italian armistice. He spent six months on the run in the Apennine mountains aided by brave and selfless Italians, many of whom were actively fighting their occupiers.

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway, Colonel Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. Of course his account does not admit to this, but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese.

The first and only biography of intrepid attorney James B. Donovan, who was recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to broker near-impossible negotiations - now the basis for Steven Spielberg's Cold War film Bridge of Spies. Charming, bold, and good humored, James Donovan was a larger-than-life figure who led a fascinating and magnificently varied career, primarily as a negotiator on behalf of prisoners.

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943, when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war.

After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina. This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice. At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.

John Gregory Bourke served General George Crook for 15 years and was his right-hand man. This work is an account of his time with the legendary US Army officer in the post-Civil War West. On the Border with Crook is a written recollection of Crook’s campaigns during the American Indian Wars. Bourke makes the American frontier come alive with his description. He also included descriptions not only of Crook and his fellow cavalrymen, but also of legendary Native American leaders. Bourke argues that Crook etched his name into the annals of American history.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military memoir both vets and civilians have been waiting for, from a five-tour Army Ranger turned YouTube phenomenon and zealous advocate for veterans Members of the military’s special operations branches share a closely...

NO.1 BESTSELLER ANT MIDDLETON SHARES HIS SECRETS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE MINDSET AND TEACHES YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WITH ZERO NEGATIVITY There are times when life feels like it has you cornered: financial difficulties, relationship issues, work problems, all of the above. Every one of us, at one time or...

Fue un corajudo campesino, patriota y revolucionario nicaragüense, héroe nacional de Nicaragua y junto con el poeta Rubén Darío constituyen la máxima expresión de la Nacionalidad Nicaragüense. Es llamado el General de Hombres Libres, gracias a su gran protagonismo en la resistencia nicaragüense contra el ejército de ocupación estadounidense en la Nicaragua de comienzos del siglo XX.

Revolucionario mexicano que se inició apoyando el Plan de San Luis de Francisco I. Madero, tras el triunfo de la revolución al lado de Emiliano Zapata se alzó contra este último y reconoció el gobierno golpista de Victoriano Huerta.

Seven days in hell In June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to go behind German lines. These were the Screaming Eagles of...

The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these minutes by famed war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.

Xenophon, after being exiled from Athens, spent the last years of his life hunting, writing, and recalling in his books the great days of the Persian expedition. This record of one of the most famous marches in history contains an account of the day-to-day life of ordinary men and soldiers. Translated by Rex Warner.

José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, su verdadero nombre, fue un temerario y valiente caudillo líder de la mayor rebelión indígena anticolonial que se dio en América durante el siglo XVIII.

José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, mejor conocido por su seudónimo Francisco Villa o el hipocorístico de éste, Pancho Villa, fue uno de los más notables jefes de la revolución mexicana, cuya actuación militar fue decisiva para la derrota del régimen del entonces presidente Victoriano Huerta.

Una casualidad hace que la isla de Córcega cambie de poseedor, años antes del nacimiento de uno de los genios militares más grandes que ha conocido la humanidad, y así se definiría la patria del francés Napoleón Bonaparte. Culto, ambicioso, exitoso, y ególatra durante gran parte de su vida, supo llevar sus campañas militares al éxito hasta casi conquistar toda Europa y, cómo no, coronarse emperador.

No puede perderse la biografía del hombre que dio vida al célebre mito de Drácula. Nacido en el siglo XV, este Príncipe de Valaquia fue conocido por su carácter incendiario, valeroso, sanguinario, pero justo hasta la crueldad, que fue impulsor de un brutal método de tortura, el empalamiento, que asesinó entre 40,000 o 100,000 hombres de su época.

Militar, político y estadista mexicano, fue presidente de México entre 1934 y 1940, tiempo en el que destacó, entre otras cosas, por la reforma agraria y la creación de los "ejidos" en el sector agropecuario mexicano, la nacionalización de los recursos del subsuelo, en especial, del petróleo y por haber brindado asilo político a los exiliados españoles durante la guerra civil.

Militar y político mexicano que participó en la Revolución mexicana, durante su período como Presidente de México entre el 1 de diciembre de 1920 y el 30 de noviembre de 1924, buscó concluir el proceso de pacificación nacional que inició Adolfo de la Huerta, comenzando también la repartición de tierras a los campesinos del Estado de México y Morelos, como parte de su proyecto de reforma social.

Fue un importantísimo político y empresario mexicano que participó en la segunda etapa de la Revolución Mexicana tras el asesinato de Francisco Madero, con el que logró derrocar al gobierno usurpador de Victoriano Huerta, encargándose del Poder Ejecutivo desde 1914 a 1920, año en que fue asesinado por tropas del general Rodolfo Herrero.