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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty (Dear America)
by Ellen Emerson WhiteIn 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the Vietnam War and tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
by Adam ZamoyskiThe clash between Napoleon and Russia which led to Napoleon's downfall.
In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Amazing Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement
by Yaron Svoray Nick TaylorSvoray to be a sympathetic American and not realizing he was Jewish, introduced him to the semisecret world of German neo-Nazism. In a short time, Svoray contacted the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and, with the center's backing, returned to Germany under the name of "Ron Furey," the American representative of a fictitious right-wing organization. So began a remarkable and shocking series of encounters between Svoray and members of Germany's neo-Nazi underground. Putting himself at great personal risk and constantly fearing that his identity would be discovered, Svoray met-and documented with hidden cameras and recording devices-a terrifying array of believers both young and old whose reach, he was shocked to find out, extends throughout Germany and beyond. He came across brutal young skinheads; paramilitary training camps that have sent neo-Nazi fighters to support Croatian soldiers in the former Yugoslavia; a network of committed neo-Nazis who are using their money and connections to establish political organizations; and politicians of the far right who cloak their connections to the movement in nationalist rhetoric. In Hitler's Shadow is a sobering report on the real threat that is posed by Germany's neo-Nazi movement, and a startling portrayal of the dangerous personalities behind it, told by a man of immense courage who has penetrated its heart of darkness. YARON SVORAY has been a paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Force and a detective in Israel's Central Police Command, and is currently an investigative journalist. He lives in Israel. NICK TAYLOR is the author of four previous works of nonfiction: Bass Wars, Sins of the Father, Ordinary Miraclesand A Necessary End. He lives in New York.
Against All Enemies: The Gulf War Syndrome, The War Between America's Ailing Veterans and their Government
by Seymour M. HershThe dangers, hidden from combatants by the Government, resulted in suffering and uncompensated damages.
The Secret Glass
by Beryl Bainbridge"In the dark places of her mind they spoke to one another tenderly, talking about the future, how they loved each other. He would say: "You're pretty as a picture, you're lovely as a rose garden" But he said nothing. And in his cool untroubled eyes she saw an absence of warmth as if he didn't yet realize he had been waiting all his life to find her.... A gothic tale about the loyal, yet destructive ties of an English family.
Red Phoenix
by Larry Bond Patrick LarkinA novel of the second Korean war by one of the authors of Red Storm Rising.
The Hour Before the Dawn
by W. Somerset MaughamA passionate, powerful story fo a whole nation, fighting for its survival, and of a man and a woman who tried to create their own island of love in the midst of war's blazing inferno.
War Lord (SuperBolan #82)
by David L. Robbins Don PendletonWhen a weapon of devastating nuclear potential is stolen, it's up to Mack Bolan to find the culprits and get the weapon back--or destroy it before armageddon!
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
by Michael KordaGrant said: I read but few lives of great men because biographers do not, as a rule, tell enough about the formative period of life. What I want to know is what a man did as a boy." Yet, we do not know a lot about the genuine boyhood of Ulyses Simpson Grant. Corda tells us why and provides a readable and interesting biography of this U.S. President and famous General. This book is part of the Immenint Lives series.
Z
by Vassilis VassilikosThe story of a political murder and the corruption of a ruthless and powerful military regime in a novel charged with anger, passion and suspense.
Forgotten Warrior Project: Identity, Ideology and Crisis: The Vietnam Veteran in Transition
by John P. WilsonIdentity, Ideology and Crisis: The Vietnam Veteran in Transition, a partial and preliminary report submitted to the Disabled American Veterans Association on the Forgotten Warrior Project by John P. Wilson.
Promise or Peril: The Strategic Defense Initiative
by Zbigniew Brzezinski Richard Sincere Marin Stnnecki Peter WehnerThirty-five Essays by statesmen, scholars, and strategic analysts.
World's End
by Upton SinclairThe Lanny Budd novels, of which this is the first, portray the changing pattern of world events from the first stirrings to WWI to 1940.
Charlotte Gray
by Sebastian FaulksWritten with a comparable passion, power and breadth of vision, Charlotte Gray is Sebastian Faulks's first novel since Birdsong. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre. From Edinburgh, Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south. In London she conceives a dangerous passion for an English airman. Charlotte goes to France on an errand for a British organisation helping the Resistance and for her own private purposes. Unknown to her, she is also being manipulated by people with no regard for her safety. As the weeks go by Charlotte finds that the struggle for France's soul is intimately linked to her battle to take control of her own life. Charlotte Gray examines the lost domains of the past, the limits of memory and the redemptive power of art. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France, filled with memorable characters, such as Julien Levade, the local resistance leader, and his father, a painter and reformed libertine. As the people in the village of Lavaurette prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in 'the dark years' is finally revealed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative power that readers will recall from Birdsong.
Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Political, Economic and Social Challenges
by Minton F. GoldmanHow this bloc of countries developed during the twentieth century.
Emergency Deep
by Michael DimercurioIslamic terrorists acquire the deadliest submarine in the world
The Lost Boys of Sudan
by Mark BixlerThis book is about the lost boys of Sudan. These boys were separated from their families by war, and walked to Ethiopia. They migrated to the US, which was a world beyond their wildest dreams.
End of a Berlin Diary
by William L. Shirer"When I came home from Berlin at Christmas time in 1940, I found most of my fellow countrymen unaware of what Hitler was really up to and somewhat confused as to how he had accomplished his evil designs. Some Americans didn't much care. Since it had been my lot to witness Europe's agony at first hand, I collected some of my notes in a book for the edification of such citizens as cared to read it. This book of notes is, in a way, a sequel to Berlin Diary. It is the end of my own small contribution to the Berlin story. There was a great deal, of course, that a reporter had not been able to learn in the frenzied Nazi capital beyond the Elbe. The sinister plots, the fateful decisions, that had plunged the world into such awful horror and misery had been made in secret. And what had really gone on in Germany after I left? Had defeat and collapse solved the German problem -- at least for the rest of our lifetime ? After the war's end I went back to Berlin to try to find out. I prowled the obscene ruins of the once proud capital and talked with the remnants of the Herrenvolk. At Nuremberg, amidst the debris of the lovely medieval town, I saw the surviving leaders of the Nazi gangster world, who had wielded such monstrous power so arrogantly when last I beheld them, finally brought to justice. Most important of all, I had access to a good part of the fourteen hundred tons of secret German documents that the Allies had captured intact. You will find the essential portions of many of them in this book. I have been content to let the German authors tell in their own inimitable words the dark and almost unbelievable tale of their savagery and deceit. Had these secret archives of the German government been destroyed, as the Nazis intended them to be, much of the truth about our weird period in history would have been buried forever. Now it is here for those who care to learn it. I have also tried to include in this book the thread of another story -- the story of the beginning of the Peace. Reader, you and I have already forgotten the fleeting moment of glory and man's magnificent sense of dedication the day peace descended on this wretched earth. I know that erring mortals cannot remain on the heights for long. But these notes, scribbled down at the time, may help to remind you that many on our side achieved those heights after the war's bloody struggles had brought out their inhuman courage, their bravery, and their wonderful fortitude."
The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security
by Richard TomlinsonRichard Tomlinson was recruited by MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during his senior year at Cambridge University. He quickly gained the trust and confidence of one of the world's most effective intelligence organisations. MI6 relied on Tomlinson to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to run an undercover operation in Sarajevo while the city was under siege, and to infiltrate and dismantle a criminal group that sought to export chemical weapons capabilities to Iran.
Comanche Six: Company Commander, Vietnam
by James L. EstepThis is a story of American soldiers who fought in a faraway place, for an elusive cause.
Origins of the War of 1914
by Luigi Albertini Isabella M. MasseyA classic study of the causes of World War One written in the 1950's. Vol Two is a stand alone examination of the immediate origins of the war.