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Wehrmacht Diary
The Story of Siegfried Knappe (1936-1999)
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2000
In the beginning, I was so proud of my country and what I thought we were accomplishing. Yet by 1943, I knew the Nazi government was leading Germany and the world down a path of destruction.
Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would someday be standing in the basement of the Fuhrer Bunker...
A Berliner's Luck
Surviving the Third Reich and World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
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Defeat and Triumph
The Story of a Controversial Allied Invasion and French Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Defeat and Triumph tells the story of the still controversial, important, dramatic but little known Allied invasion of the French Riviera on August 15, 1944. This was known as Operation Anvil and later renamed Operation Dragoon.
Notwithstanding the massive opposition of Winston Churchill, his...
People and Their Contexts
A Chronology of the 16Th Century World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
This chronology was begun to fill my own needs. While preparing lectures and articles on Renaissance music, I sought general information on the period in order to place specific events in their context. I had already done considerable reading on 16th century subjects, but it had been specialized rather...
by Stephen Robertson CD BA ATPL
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Go For Shakedown follows my experiences through Afghanistan. It is a fictionalized dialogue between characters based on true events. It aims to capture the human side of war from the absurd situations to the complexity of actual helicopter missions; all through the development of about a dozen characters...
Portsea
A True Love Story from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Charlie and Violet were born in Portsmouth at the end of , the Victorian era. Their story is the true story of two , young people being born and raised in a great garrison , town, becoming childhood sweethearts, and then being , separated by the Great War. When Charlie returns from , the Western Front,...
by Thomas Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbrights Washington D. C. Office arranged a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He could not have known how this factor would affect the future decisions he would...
by Howard G. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Basically this book is about the week that I spent with Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at their apartment in New York City on East Fifty Seventh Street back in 1960 when I was a young wide eyed aspiring actor of twenty. Marilyn showed me the whole city; took me everywhere. It was and still is the...
by William Uchtman
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
"Every state has its own ghost. Every city has a few spirits. In Ghosts Coast to Coast, a friendly apparition named John takes the reader on a spirited journey through the fifty states visiting famous and obscure haunted houses throughout the United States. It's a haunting journey discovering the haunting activity of Ghosts Coast To Coast...."
by H. D. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This book is a collection of fascinating short stories, photos, and documents furnished by the heroic and courageous men that served as air or ground crew members in Vietnam. The chopper units were located throughout Vietnam. During the course of the war, we lost at least 5,139 helicopter air crew...
My Arizona Adventures
The Recollections of Thomas Dudley Sanders: Miner, Freighter and Rancher in Arizona Territory
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
My Arizona Adventures is the true first-person account of an authentic American pioneer. When Tom Sanders came to Arizonas central highlands there was nothing there; there were no roads, no towns, no law, and no protection from marauding Indians. There was nothing there but opportunities for the strong,...
The Diary of the African Veterinary Doctor
I Love My Profession
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The idea of writing my lifetime memory during my childhood time and adulthood period goes back to the last twenty years. Unfortunately, I did not have the courage and the willpower to embark on this task. I was always hindered by a silent feeling that I did not have the potential and capacity to write...
Keepers of the Gate: Defenders of the Free World
Defenders of the Free World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
"Keepers of the Gate" What began as a grand experiment to form a multi-national counter-terrorist special operations group (MCTSOG), to combat the global spread of terrorism in the 21st century, eventually became the worlds premier special ops organization. The SOG commandos tackle traditional...
The Feats of an Unsung American Heroine
The Triumphs of Mrs. Millie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The book commemorates my mother, Millie B. Davis, for her achievements and contributions as a virtuous woman and mother, devoted Christian, outstanding member of the community, and loyal citizen of the United States. Mothers play an indispensable role in the existence of the human race; without them,...