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During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British.

A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American navy, cemented Porter's reputation as a daring and talented commander, and has long been celebrated as one of the greatest maritime adventures in U.S. history. Less well known, however, is the terrible price that the crew of the Essex paid for their captain's outsized ambitions.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings.

«L'agente di pubblica sicurezza Antonio Annarumma muore con la testa fracassata da una sbarra di ferro». Gli anni di piombo si aprono nel 1969 con un morto durante una manifestazione a Milano, e proseguono con le stragi nere di piazza Fontana, di Brescia e dell'Italicus, con lo stillicidio degli agguati delle Brigate rosse e degli altri gruppi terroristici di estrema sinistra fino alla morte di Aldo Moro e degli agenti della sua scorta.

El político y abogado Antonio Ledezma, quien fuera Alcalde Mayor del Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas, narra con extremo rigor cómo fue secuestrado, en dos ocasiones, por los órganos de seguridad del régimen venezolano, y describe las prisiones de las que se sirve la dictadura para reprimir a la oposición, tanto en la era de Hugo Chávez como en la actual, con el ilegítimo presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, al frente del poder.

Nel maggio 1915 l'Italia si prepara a entrare in guerra. Angelo Gatti, ufficiale di Stato maggiore, comincia a scrivere un diario che si rivelerà molto utile per ricostruire le vicende dell'esercito italiano. Questo volume raccoglie le riflessioni e le annotazioni che egli affidò alla carta dal 17 maggio al 5 agosto del 1915. Uomo dalla personalità ricca e dalla vasta cultura, dotato di autonomia di giudizio, capacità critica e lucidità di analisi Gatti scrive le sue impressioni sull'andamento del conflitto e sui capi politici e dell'esercito.

Napoleón. La obsesión por el poder describe la vida de este singular personaje de espíritu guerrero, visionario y hábil en el arte de la guerra, que logró tener a media Europa a sus pies y se autoproclamó emperador de Francia. Hablar de Napoleón Bonaparte es hablar de un hombre ambicioso, poderoso y contradictorio que se ha convertido en una de las figuras más controversiales de la historia.

ソ連では第二次世界大戦で100万人をこえる女性が従軍し、看護婦や軍医としてのみならず兵士として武器を手にして戦った。しかし戦後は世間から白い目で見られ、みずからの戦争体験をひた隠しにしなければならな

Ancien agent à la DGSE, Olivier Mas a dédié trois ans de son existence au service des "légendes", envoyé sous couverture à l'autre bout du monde. À chaque mission il a dû inventer et endosser une nouvelle identité relevant du secret absolu, une personnalité fictive, mais aussi simuler une nouvelle profession, tisser à partir de rien un réseau d'amitiés, se procurer des faux papiers, et plus encore...

This funny, rich, raunchy autobiography re-creates the adventures of a very young soldier in the US Army at the height of the Depression. Charles Willeford was 16 in 1935 when he signed up and was sent to the Philippines. And the Philippines of those days was like a place out of another century. Willeford’s job was to fuel aircraft whose pilots treated him and his buddies almost like slaves. At night, however, he was a lord, fully exploring a great, timeless, and sensual city with a multitude of women available - even on a private’s pay.

Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was - a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore at not only the combatants, but also their families, friends, and the way they lived their lives.

August 1939. Flirrende Hitze in Mitteleuropa. Das Korn wird gemäht. Ferienzeit. Es könnten unbeschwerte Tage sein, aber etwas Verstörendes liegt in der Luft. Die einen sagen, ein neuer Krieg stehe bevor. Die anderen schwören, der Frieden sei sicher. In diesem unruhigen August schaut die Welt auf den Obersalzberg. Hier verbringt Adolf Hitler seinen Sommer. Von hier aus wagt er ein riskantes Spiel. Hauke Friederichs erzählt die Geschichte jenes Sommers, in dem die Welt am 1. September 1939 um 4:45 Uhr ins Chaos gestoßen wurde.

La biografía de Bonaparte que encontramos en Breve Historia de Napoleón pretende combinar las biografías basadas en los detalles más íntimos del emperador francés con aquellas que presentan sus logros públicos, en una obra de carácter divulgativo que recoge su conocida capacidad como legislador y estratega militar, pero también, su menos conocida capacidad como matemático, su sagacidad a la hora de tomar decisiones complejas y demostrar lo visionario y acertado de muchos de sus juicios y sentencias.

Vicente Vallés, gran conocedor del funcionamiento de la política americana, nos da en este audio libro las claves de esta victoria, entre las que no hay que perder de vista que: "Donald Trump es algo más que un tipo histriónico y desafiante. Ha sabido ser lo que muchos americanos estaban buscando: alguien que pusiera boca abajo el sistema político del país, carcomido por décadas de amaneramiento y episodios de abuso."

For Bill Fulton, being a soldier was his identity. He was called to protect and serve. So when the army wanted to send him to Alaska, he went . After an involuntary medical discharge, Fulton was adrift until he started a military surplus store in Anchorage, where he also took on fugitive recovery missions. But when a customer revealed he planned to attack a military recruiting station, Fulton had to make a choice: turn a blind eye and hope for the best or risk his safety, his reputation, and his business by establishing contact with his customers' archnemesis: the FBI.

Traveling 40,000 miles and inspiring love and despair in equal measure, Lt. Minter Dial's lost Annapolis ring altered the lives of many. The spellbinding account of one man's obsession with a family mystery - and the product of decades of research and inquiries - The Last Ring Home explores author Minter Dial's pursuit of the true story of his namesake, his late grandfather Lt. Minter Dial, USN, a celebrated war hero whose suffering and trauma nearly buried his memory forever.

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans.

A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb attack. Garth became Australia's first serious casualty in the war. After recovering from his injuries, Garth returned to Iraq in 2006 as second-in-command of the Australian Army's security detachment in Baghdad.

Bob Kerrey grew up outside Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1950s, and in his trademark style - serious, sometimes wry - he tells of his journey from that heartland to the dangers of Vietnam, to the hospitals where he recovered from his grievous injuries, and finally to the Nixon White House where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Love and War is the unbelievable true story of one man's desperate hunt for Osama bin Laden and the woman who was fatally drawn to his side. From the backwoods of New York State, to the confines of an Afghan prison and a drug-fueled sex den in Mexico, the story charts the wild life of Jonathan "Jack" Keith Idema, a Special Forces Reservist turned bounty hunter, convict, and kingpin.