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Taking Berlin

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany. “Gripping, popular history at its page-turning best.”—Alex Kershaw • “With the precision of a smart bomb, Martin Dugard puts the reader directly …

Taking Hawaii

The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation. On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen …

Sir, They're Taking the Kids Indoors

This is Ken Wharton's eagerly awaited new book chronicling the Northern Ireland troubles from the British soldier's perspective. His finest book to date, surpassing his 2011 work "The Bloodiest Year - Northern Ireland 1972", looks at the bloody period of 1973/4 and features many contributions from those who were there besides superb and painstaking research. …

The Radio Officer's War - Ships, Storms & Submarines

Ian Robert Hendry Waddell was a bright and gifted 19 year old who joined the Merchant Navy in 1940 after qualifying as a Seagoing Radio Officer. He crossed the North Atlantic Ocean 14 times during which German U-boats were sinking a huge amount of Allied shipping. He wrote a series of journals, and wonderfully amusing …

Risk Taking and Decision Making

Risks are an integral part of complex, high-stakes decisions, and decisionmakers are faced with the unavoidable tasks of assessing risks and forming risk preferences. This book examines the elements that influence risk judgements through five case studies of foreign military interventions.

The Taking of K-129

An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War--a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo--about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America's most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk …

Taken at the Flood

The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and determined conquest of the land to whose art, …

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson

A Tous Ceux Qui Aiment La France. Officiers, Sous-Officiers, Soldats. Fabliaux Militaires

A tous ceux qui aiment la France. Officiers, sous-officiers, soldats. Fabliaux militaires. Reservistes et TerritoriauxDate de l'edition originale: 1881Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, …

Taking Fire

Nicknamed Mini-Man for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped by enemy fire, and a fearlessness that …