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Albert Speer was the man in charge of designing Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet he was more than just an architect—he was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and a key player in the Nazi war machine. Born into a wealthy German family, Speer’s life was shaped by privilege and ambition. He rose quickly through the ranks of the Nazi Party after impressing Hitler with his grand architectural visions and sharp organizational skills. Before long, he found himself at the heart of the Third Reich, helping to fuel its war effort and shape its image.

Perils of Flight is an exciting collection of stories about a young college graduate turned fighter pilot. The book spans across the globe and across decades from rural Tennessee to Vietnam and interesting places in between.

When you enlist in the United States military, you don't just sign up for duty; you also commit your loved ones to lives of service all their own. No one knows this better than Elaine Brye, an "Army brat" turned military wife and the mother of four officers—one each in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. For more than a decade she's endured countless teary goodbyes, empty chairs at Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless hours waiting for phone calls in the night. She's navigated the complicated tangle of emotions that are part and parcel of life as a military mother.

Die bewegende Geschichte der 29-jährigen Ukrainerin Julija Mykytenko, Kommandeurin einer 25-köpfigen Drohneneinheit an der Front. Aus einer Reihe von langen Gesprächen mit der Autorin und Journalistin Lara Marlowe entstand das eindringliche Selbstporträt dieser einzigartigen jungen Frau.

Pulsating with action from the first chapter to the last, Dangerous Company: Misadventures of a “Foreign Agent” is a memoir that reads like a thriller. Sam Patten left US politics behind when he went overseas to promote democracy during George W. Bush's first administration. Then he became an advisor to political leaders in countries like Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, the Congo, Nigeria, and Mexico.

Jessica Dudley is a child of the Vietnam War. Her parents came from two different worlds and were not able to make things work between them. With her father returning to the United States after his tour of service and her mother staying behind to have her baby, Jessica is born into a home without love.

"Battlefields to Boardrooms" invites you to follow William E. Burgess III as he transitions from a disciplined Marine to a leading corporate security expert. This practical guide helps you navigate new career paths and effectively apply your military or law enforcement skills in the corporate world.

Fifty years ago, women had the choice to serve in uniform but lost that choice once they became a mom. And today, Congress is still dealing with that decision to force women to separate simply because they had a child. Today, almost fifty years later, women continue to prove that motherhood is compatible with service in the Armed Forces. The women in this book have served or are serving their country and raising their children in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines Corps, or Coast Guard.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Something Is Better than Nothing and learn about how life changed for Alicia Delory after her army husband's return from Afghanistan.

In his riveting debut, Where the Birds Never Sing, Jack Sacco recounts the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II. Told through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco—a farm boy from Alabama who was flung into the chaos of Normandy and survived the terrors of the Bulge—this is no ordinary war story. As part of the 92nd Signal Battalion and Patton’s famed 3rd Army, Joe and his buddies found themselves at the forefront—often in front of the infantry or behind enemy lines—of the Allied push through France and Germany.

Des Powell left school with no qualifications and little in the way of formal education. At nineteen he signed up to join the Parachute Regiment. Famously, the Paras is home to the UK military's second-toughest training regime after the SAS. Des Powell knows all about both. In fact, Des knows SAS selection better than anyone because he's done it twice. In SAS: Trial by Fire he tells the story of those gruelling tests: how Para training turned him into a soldier but, more crucially, how the SAS process turned him into a member of the elite.

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. Together they have crafted a vital book that challenges us to think beyond warfare's acute violence of bullets and bombs to the "slow violence" of toxic exposure and lasting trauma.

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day.

Revisited 60 years on. Capt Hugh Pilkington enjoyed the full and fun life of a rubber planter in pre-war Malaya. Then war broke out and he found himself fighting in Johor. Blasted by a sniper, he was hospitalised in Singapore, only for the hospital to be overrun by the Japanese in a horrific massacre. Then as a POW he was soon sent to labour on the Death Railway in Thailand. Can you imagine the horrors? All the while he kept secret diaries, written on paper stolen from the Japanese.

Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras estrangeiras, o sociólogo e professor José Henrique Bortoluci parte de entrevistas realizadas com seu pai, que durante cinquenta anos foi motorista de caminhão, para retraçar a história recente do país e da própria família.

30 января 1933 года Адольф Гитлер принял присягу в качестве канцлера Германии — и культурный ландшафт Поздней Веймарской республики изменился в мгновение ока. Февраль определил, кому из ведущих писателей, артистов и интеллектуалов придется опасаться за свою жизнь и спасаться бегством, кто будет делать карьеру под протекцией преступников, а кто удалится во внутреннюю эмиграцию, чтобы воочию увидеть, как творится история. Уве Витшток на основе дневников, писем и архивных материалов воссоздает ощущение исторического слома, охватившего Германию.

Reinhard Rodner wurde im Juli 1943 als jüngstes von sechs Kindern seiner Eltern. geboren. Mitten im Zweiten Weltkrieg, im damaligen Sudetenland. Dieses Buch ist die. Geschichte seines Lebens - und zugleich die seiner Familie bis zurück zu seinen. Großeltern Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine lesenswerte Reise durch eine schwere. Zeit der Geschichte, und auch Erinnerungen an den Neuanfang in der sowjetischen. Besatzungszone bzw. der DDR. Ursprünglich geschrieben für seine Nachfahren wurde dieses Buch gleichzeitig ein.

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy—and sometimes ruthlessness as well.

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler’s enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Willi, now aged fourteen, and his schoolmates were ordered to stave off the relentless Russian advance. None were expected to return alive from the final battles of the Third Reich.

Rev. Wallace A. Evans is my grandfather who lived to be 100 years old. He was born August 22nd, 1884, and he died November 29th, 1984. My grandfather was a man among men. I have come to realize he will live on in all of us.