Títulos en Ejército y guerra

With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. In his droll storytelling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. Called one of the funniest and most perceptive works ever written about life in the OSS, the book includes a wealth of unforgettable personalities that Hall encountered over the years.

Thinking about joining the Air Force, let me share my experiences with you so you know what to expect...

«Sì, la guerra avanza rombando verso Berlino. Ciò che ieri era ancora un brontolio lontano, oggi è un tambureggiare continuo... Viviamo dentro un cerchio di bocche di fuoco che si restringe di ora in ora». L'autrice ha voluto restare anonima da quando il libro vide per la prima volta la luce negli anni Cinquanta e fu accolto, soprattutto in Germania, con un senso di fastidio, anzi, di esplicito rifiuto. Decise allora di vietarne ogni riedizione finché fosse rimasta in vita. Solo dopo la sua morte, avvenuta nel 2001, Hans M. Enzensberger ebbe l'autorizzazione a riproporlo.

During the 19th century, Japan severely limited contact with the rest of the world, although it was not the total isolation sometimes presumed. The government was quite aware of what was happening in the rest of the world. The Japanese also left a window open to Europe, in the form of a small and highly restricted Dutch presence on an artificial island in Nagasaki harbor - a presence that lasted more than 200 years.

Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to...

The battlefield didn't end when he left the war. It followed him home.In this raw and unflinching memoir, a former Army Ranger captain and combat sniper takes you inside two invisible wars: the one he fought overseas and the one still raging inside his mind. From the chaos of Mogadishu to the...

From A DOZEN DAYS TO DIE: One Soldier's Story From World War II: 'Sitting in my foxhole watching for enemy movement, I peered over the dirt, with my hands one on top of the other supporting my chin and head. Suddenly, "ZING!" a rifle bullet struck the dirt about two inches below my eyes. The...

From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the final decades of the British Empire, humanity’s greatest powers rose through ambition, military strength, political skill, technological innovation, and the ability to organize millions of lives.A "Brief History of Empires" takes readers across more...

Based on the moving true story of a World War I war dog, passed down through generations from a war nurse who witnessed events firsthand. In the summer of 1915, seventeen-year-old William "Bill" Higgins leaves his quiet village in Berkshire, brimming with dreams of glory and adventure. Alongside...

The Man I Knew as Grandad is a moving family memoir that uncovers the hidden wartime life of Arthur Hemmings, a quiet mechanic, husband, father, and grandfather who rarely spoke of the suffering he endured during the Second World War.To his family, Arthur was simply Grandad: steady, practical...

Fourteen years after No Easy Day made him a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the federal government’s legal target, Matt Bissonnette is writing again. This time, under his own name. And for the first time, narrating his own story.

Pancho Villa no es un héroe. Página tras página, decenas y decenas de testimonios directos—recopilados a lo largo de años—lo van retratando como el violador serial que fue, el untuoso asesino que eligió ser, el deleitado torturador, el que supo treparse a un tren que destrozó pueblos enteros, pero que a él lo acercaba a la Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres.

Schlesien in den Kriegsjahren: Katharina Elliger wächst zwischen Schule, Kirche und Hitlerjugend auf, der Krieg scheint lange weit entfernt. Als Ende 1944 die Rote Armee näherrückt, flieht die Fünfzehnjährige mit ihrer Mutter in einem Flüchtlingstreck bis in die Tschechei, kehrt jedoch nach dem Zusammenbruch in die Heimat zurück. Es folgen die Monate der russischen Besatzung, die Ankunft der Polen, Hunger, Willkür und das Lager, bis die Familie ein Jahr später unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen endgültig vertrieben wird.

Wer war Claus von Stauffenberg? Die Figur des Obersten, der am Mittag des 20. Juli 1944 die Bombe zündete, die Hitler töten sollte, blieb in der Literatur immer schemenhaft. Wir kennen den langen Weg der Opposition, der schließlich zu dem Anschlag geführt hat, aber bis heute besitzen wir kein überzeugendes Bild von der Persönlichkeit des Attentäters.

A Shadow of Me is a 2025 Bookfest gold medal award winner in the memoir category!A Shadow of Me is a raw, unflinching memoir of trauma, survival, and the long road to healing after one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in American history.In 1995, combat medic Jennifer Mangini was...

One man’s fight against inner demons, ISIS and the Australian justice system. As a young man Jamie Williams went to war. Not on a battlefield but with the French Foreign Legion. And against ISIS. Most of all, within himself. But this is not the story of a victim, nor is it his redemption. This...

"[Keegan is] the best military historian of the world."—Tom Clancy When today’s world leaders require inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often invoke Winston Churchill. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a solider early in life...

The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Now author Paul Roland turns the tables with this brilliant new exposé—a fascinating psychological profile of the leading Nazis and their lesser-known associates.

In 1971 William Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. He had flown armed, fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawks on secret missions deep into enemy territory in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, on his first tour. He returned as a helicopter pilot eager to experience a whole new perspective as a Cobra gunship pilot. Believing that Nixon's Vietnamization would soon end the war, Reeder was anxious to see combat action. To him, it appeared that the Americans had prevailed, beaten the Viet Cong, and were passing everything over to the South Vietnamese Army so Americans could leave.

Pelayo Quintero Atauri fue uno de los padres de la Arqueología española y marroquí, un investigador cuyo trabajo se desarrolló en tiempos de anticuarismo a caballo entre los siglos XIX y XX. Fue contemporáneo de los más prestigiosos arqueólogos europeos y americanos como Petrie, Delattre, Bingham, Carter, Mallowan…, y como ellos llevó a cabo su trabajo en unas condiciones que nos pueden parecer impregnadas del romanticismo naïve de finales del ochocientos y principios del novecientos.