Resultados de "William Hamilton" en Todas las categorias

Descubre el salvaje Oeste narrado por un hombre que lo vivió durante seis décadas. Este libro reúne las memorias de William Thomas Hamilton (1822–1908), uno de los últimos representantes de la generación de tramperos que vivió la frontera norteamericana antes de su transformación definitiva.

A unique collection of eyewitness accounts from some of the greatest diarists and journal writers of the last two centuries.

One month after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when President John F. Kennedy pressed Congress about America’s “urgent national needs”, he named expanding US special operations forces along with putting a man on the moon. Captain William Hamilton was the officer tasked with creating the finest unconventional warriors ever seen. Merging his own experience commanding Navy Underwater Demolition Teams with expertise from Army Special Forces and the CIA, and working with his subordinate, Roy Boehm, he cast the mold for sea-, air-, and land-dispatched night fighters. 

World War II, the Philippines. Johnny Oldfield tells what it’s like to grow up in a Japanese prison camp, his pivotal teenage years filled with danger and defeat, adventure and intrigue, cruelty and betrayal, starvation and death, survival and liberation.

November - the 11th month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, when the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that. For our poets, including Hood, Arnold, Melville, Alford, and Hardy, there is much to write and comment on.