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By Cmdr Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
DUEL AT SEAFrom the moment the radar indicated a German sub the captain of the destroyer Hecate knew he…
would achieve his life s ambition a duel to the death in deserted waters between his ship and an enemy submarine Below the choppy sea sped the U-121 commanded by Kapit n von Stolberg an efficient brutal sailor who also welcomed a fight to the finish but for a different reason His submarine was entrusted with a mission that could prove catastrophic to the Allied war effort Nothing least of all a British destroyer must stand in his way Plotting his strategy like a deadly game of chess the destroyer captain doggedly tailed the elusive sub Depth charge answered torpedo cannon matched gun and finally man faced man in a climactic battle for supremacy at sea THE ENEMY BELOW was also made into the Academy Award winning 1957 movie starring Robert Mitchum and Curt J rgens and produced and directed by Dick Powell THE ENEMY BELOW Simply terrific Christian HeraldTHE ENEMY BELOW Commander Rayner has spun a grand yarn The battle he has described is a thriller a cross between a game of chess and a hunt to the death He tells it well with mounting suspense much clever manipulation of the possibilities of naval action and with a slam-bang climax which ought to be terrific in the forthcoming movie The New York TimesTHE ENEMY BELOW A thumping good narrative of primordial war at sea told from an unusual point of view The New York Times Book ReviewBy Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
This rousing World War II tale is set in February 1943. H.M.S. destroyer ‘Hecate’ is pulled out of convoy escort…
duty to tow the crippled (and abandoned) Greek tanker ‘Antioch’ 500 miles across the North Atlantic from the spot where she had been attacked by a German wolfpack to the safety of a British port. The ‘Antioch’, at 15,000 tons, had been the largest ship in her convoy and her cargo of four million gallons of high-octane petroleum (enough to send 2,000 Wellington bombers to Berlin and back) is of vital importance to Britain’s wartime economy.Initially angered by their rather inglorious assignment, the warship’s officers and crew slowly begin to take pride in their towing assignment as they try and fend off a German U-boat and a succession of Luftwaffe warplanes after the ‘Antioch’ and ‘Hecate’ are spotted by a German reconnaissance airplane....By Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
THEY KNEW THEY WOULD NOT RETURN…Having outrun their supply lines, they now await the enemy’s counterattack…In order to determine the…
enemy’s intention the brigade commander is compelled to expose one company to certain destruction. At the height of the battle, the commander of the ‘suicide’ company appeals for assistance to an armoured unit. Its young troop officer hesitates.Dare he disobey order to prevent a massacre?“It is a gem: the day-long battle is vastly exciting, words are not wasted. Effects are as sure as the characters. Commander Rayner has great writing talent.”—DAILY EXPRESS“In a tense series of battle scenes an unexpected and entirely unplanned victory is won. An exciting engagement which also provokes speculation about men in action and morale.”—BOOKS OF THE MONTHBy Heinrich Hoffmann, Lt. 2014
Heinrich Hoffmann was the photographer to kings princes and the glitterati of the first half of the 20th…
Century His archive of images ran into the millions and he grew to be rich and moderately famous An assistant in London to Emil Otto Hopp the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe at the time Hoffmann returned to Germany progressed through the tumult of WWI into the chaos of the Weimar and there he came into contact with an idealist with a growing following Adolf Hitler As official court photographer Heinrich Hoffmann played a critical role in the painstaking cultivation of Hitler s public image and the glorification of the Third Reich However his influence stretched far beyond the realm of propaganda not only was he present during many of the key moments in the history of the Third Reich he was also a close personal friend of the F hrer with exclusive and intimate access to Hitler s inner circle and to the man himself It was Hoffmann who introduced Hitler to Eva Braun his studio assistant It was also Hoffmann with whom Hitler was on a trip from Munich to Hamburg when the F hrer received word that his beloved niece Geli Raubal had committed suicide Hoffmann took over two million photographs of Hitler and published several books including The Hitler Nobody Knows 1933 At the end of the war Hoffmann was arrested by the U S military who seized his photographic archive and was sentenced to imprisonment for Nazi profiteering These memoirs were first published in English in 1955 four years after his release from prison and represent a crucial eyewitness source for the historian and general reader alikeBy John Leeming. 2018
In November 1940 an R A F aeroplane crashed near Catania Sicily On board were Air…
Marshal O T Boyd on his way to Cairo as Air Officer Commanding Middle East and John Leeming a member of his staff who before the war was a well-known private pilot and the author of several amusing books Air Marshal Boyd and Mr Leeming were taken prisoner by the Italians and six months later they were joined by a bevy of generals and other senior British officers including Major-General Neame V C Lieutenant-General O Connor Major-General Carton de Wiart V C and Major-General Gambier-Perry Always To-morrow which was first published in 1951 is an account of the life as prisoners of war in Italy of this group of high ranking officers beginning with the aircraft crash in Sicily which wrecked the career of Air Marshal Boyd Widely regarded as one of the most amusing books written about World War II the hopes and disappointments of the several attempts at escape are told in a most entertaining way and the lack of emphasis on the less amusing aspects of life as a prisoner of war only serves to underline the unfailing courage enterprise and patience of these senior officers The funniest war story of all Leeming s adventures as a prisoner of the Italians are told with a rare humour and a keen eye for the absurd There is drama too in his story but Mr Leeming is irrepressible Sunday GraphicBy Herbert Dirksen. 2018
First published in English in 1951 these are the fascinating memoirs of a high level German diplomat detailing…
his many years of work within German Embassies at Moscow Tokyo London and elsewhere The book provides extensive information on the formulation of foreign policy international negotiations and treaties during the Nazi era as well as the interwar period The aim of this book is to give an account of a political career spent almost exclusively in Eastern European and Far Eastern countries The task assigned to me by Hitler in London was that of a letter-carrier My efforts to break the shackles imposed on me and to oppose a policy which was bound to lead to the catastrophe of the Second World War proved futile Herbert von DirksenBy U S Army. 2018
First published just a year after the end of the war this is the story of the Second Infantry…
Division in World War II It is the story of innumerable acts of fortitude and courage of individual sacrifice and devotion to duty under fire by a fighting division which has served with honor in two world wars Closely following actual combat operations brief editions of our participation in World War II were published With the passage of time the need for a more authentic and comprehensive history of this period has become evident This book is designed to meet that need This history shows that from D 1 to V-E Day our Division in the face of repeated fanatical enemy action was employed constantly as a spearhead shock division and that in this role it maintained unblemished its proud record of never having failed to take its objective nor of having relinquished ground so gained During operations we were concerned with our immediate task Now in the light of subsequent events and broader perspective the importance to the nation and to our army of our successes becomes increasingly evident W M Robertson Major-General U S ArmyBy David Martin, Dame West. 2018
David Martin a distinguished journalist political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee first published…
his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946 Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich Martin s book asks the crucial questions 1 Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942 2 What was Tito s past And where was the radio station located that heralded his appearance in Yugoslavia 3 What decision was reached at Teheran with respect to Tito and Mihailovich 4 How was the ALLIED military intelligence about Yugoslavia falsified 5 Why did Churchill say of Yugoslavia I was deceived and badly informed David Martin was born in Ontario Canada in 1914 Before World War II he wrote on Canadian affairs for Current History The Nation The New Republic the New Leader and other journals He joined the Canadian Air Force in October 1942 became a pilot and flew on the Burmese frontier He was honorably discharged in 1946 With a Foreword by Dame Rebecca West one of Mihailovich s most avid supporters Solid reading Kirkus ReviewBy Margaret Bourke. 2018
THIS IS the story of the search for Faceless Fritz the most…
difficult and frightening camera-hunt ever undertaken by ace photographer-reporter Margaret Bourke-White Fearless Fritz was cable shorthand for one of several LIFE assignments that brought Miss Bourke-White and her camera to Germany some months before its fall She was to pin down the private German citizens to find out what kind of human being it was who multiplied by millions made up the Nazi terror Was he cruel Was he a villain Or was he a jolly gemutlich beer-drinking music-loving sentimentalist so many of us remembered who had really been helpless in the power of a small gang of madmen By the time Margaret Bourke-White arrived in Germany on this mission she had seen much death and danger She had been in Moscow during its fiercest bombings In Italy she had come closer to the enemy lines than any American woman before her But it was in Germany that cold horror overtook her The Germany that Miss Bourke-White saw and recorded in this book puts to shame Dali s most grotesque nightmares It is a physical and spiritual chamber of horrors a cuckoo-cloud land whose inhabitants live in a lost dream They are the people whose faces are as usual and recognizable as neighbors but whose reactions do not seem to make sense Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly which was first published in 1946 takes its title from the words of the anthem Die Wacht am Rhein to which German soldiers have marched three times in the memory of many now living It brings new light to bear on the German people in the hope that through a more immediate understanding of them a fourth march may be averted Richly illustrated throughout with 128 of her photographs with detailed captions forming an integral part of Margaret Bourke-White s important report on conquered GermanyBy J T MacCurdy. 2014
During World War I when Captain J T MacCurdy a Canadian psychiatrist and Cornell University lecturer…
was despatched on a special mission to Britain he undertook one of the earliest studies of war neuroses The new factor was the availability of high explosives following Nobel s discovery of dynamite in 1867 nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth and developments thereof such as trinitrotoluene TNT and picric acid High explosives were a boon to the mining and the civil engineer but inflicted terrible injuries on combatants Shell shock or as we would now call it post-traumatic stress disorder resulted from extreme experiences on the battlefield injury concussion being buried alive or simply the scale of the slaughter This book which was first published in 1943 contains the text of lectures delivered by Dr J T MacCurdy to groups of officers from the army and the auxiliary women s services early in WWII MacCurdy continuing on from his findings during WWI discusses the nature of fear the national factors at play in the creation and sustainability of morale with reference to the Allied and Axis powers and the significance of psychological factors in practice in an organized community This intelligent objective analysis of the nature of the psychological factor in war was intended for the British soldier but its interest and application are universal Foreign AffairsBy Wing-Cmdr. Ira Jones. 2018
From Ypres and Verdun to the Battle of Britain—here in the story of the brave men who destroyed Richthofen’s Flying…
Circus and hurled back Goering’s Luftwaffe to bring England through her darkest hours to shining victory…“An Extraordinary Book.”—Dally Mail“A gripping picture of air combat.”—PunchMEN OF GUTS AND GLORY—the flying, fighting Commanding Officer who bagged 74 enemy aircraft in World War I—the pilot who shot down five enemy aircraft and damaged three others in a single day’s flying—the invincible pilot without legs who engineered an incredibly daring prison escape…This is the story of the courageous men of the R.A.F., led by the Tiger Squadron, the greatest combat fliers in the annals of aviation. Men of indomitable bravery who turned the tides of two world wars.Told by one of its most brilliant members, Wing Commander Ira Jones, it is the authentic account of the men who risked their lives time and again to preserve freedom and destroy tyranny. It is the gripping story of heroic men in the grim battle for their lives and their country miles above the earth where the sky was the limit as they jousted with death and earned the most glorious praise a nation can bestow in Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s tribute: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”By Gorana Ognjenović, Jasna Jozelić. 2016
This volume provides a moredetailed picture which might surprise those who thought they knew everythingabout Yugoslavia, as well as we…
are hoping to inspire others to read more aboutthis historically social experiment that against all odds actually did existand prospered for a while in the midst of the spiders web of the globalpolitical chaos which lasts still today. Contributors cover a range of topics including 'absolute modernity,'film, and the preservation and creation of memory through clothing amongothers.By Ted Humphrey, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Janet Burke. 2014
Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and…
Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World.By Claude Bowers. 2018
Based upon his diary entries personal contacts conversations and dispatches My Mission to Spain chronicles American historian…
and politician Claude G Bowers time in Spain as U S Ambassador This fascinating historical record which was first published in 1954 details Bowers travels throughout the country as well as the hectic politics that foreshadowed the Spanish Civil War For six years during the most dramatic period in Spanish history since the crusade against the Moors I was accredited Ambassador to Spain by President Roosevelt I loved Spain and had admiration and affection for the Spanish people In driving thousands of miles through this magic land I came to love its mountains looming on the horizon everywhere enveloped in their blue or purple haze the quaint old dusty villages soaked with history the old cathedrals with their works of art the romance of the aged cities the laughing happy people Across the stage will pass distinguished non-political figures of international renown Benavente the dramatist Unamuno the philosopher Madariaga the historian and biographer Belmonte the famous matador Zuloaga the painter Margarita Xirgu the actress Argentina the dancer and Ram n del Valle Incl n and P rez de Ayala the novelists The political leaders in the forefront behind whom the totalitarian conspiracy was hatching are all here as I knew them Aza a Lerroux Gil Robles Count Romanones Martinez Barrio Juan Negrin Prieto and all the others I have tried to paint their portraits with fidelity to the truth Claude G BowersBy Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
A LONG, DESPERATELY FOUGHT BATTLE BETWEEN THE BRITISH FRIGATE “SAN FIORENZO” AND THE FRENCH FRIGATE “PIEMONTAISE” IN THE INDIAN OCEAN…
IN 1808…In the path of the three India merchantmen setting out on their long voyage home lurked the French raider based on Mauritius, then known—the year in 1808—as the Ile de France. The frigate San Fiorenzo was despatched to escort them past the danger point. The enemy frigate, Piemontaise, sighted the convoy first, but was in turn sighted by the San Fiorenzo before she could close with and board her prizes. Then ensued a three-day running fight of truly epic quality. The San Fiorenzo, an elderly vessel captured from the French in the Mediterranean a generation earlier, was out-gunned and out-manned; many of her crew had had to be put ashore owing to sickness, and she had just weathered a furious storm. On the other hand she had only recently emerged from dry-dock and could outsail the Frenchman, who had been too long at sea. But more important even than speed and armament were the minds of the opposing captains…By John Cournos, Eugene Tarl. 2018
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 is one of the most illustrated political and military figures of the last two millennia…
He has remained in the memory of the world as a legend that the passage of the years has failed to blur On the contrary Napoleon Bonaparte widely continues to be considered the personification of human genius Originally published in this English translation in 1942 leading Russian historian Evgeny Tarle details Napoleon s military campaign to invade Russia in the early nineteenth century The campaign of 1812 was more frankly imperialistic than any other of Napoleon s wars it was more directly dictated by the interests of the French upper middle class The war of 1796-7 the conquest of Egypt in 1798-9 the second Italian campaign and the recent defeat of the Austrians could still be justified as necessary measures of defence against the interventionists The Napoleonic press called the Austerlitz campaign self-defence against Russia Austria and England The average Frenchman considered even the subjugation of Prussia in 1806-7 no more than a just penalty inflicted on the Prussian court for the arrogant ultimatum sent by Frederick-William III to the peace-loving Napoleon constantly harried by troublesome neighbours Napoleon never ceased to speak of the fourth conquest of Austria in 1809 as a defensive war provoked by Austrian threats Only the invasion of Spain and Portugal was passed over in discreet silence The War of 1812 was a struggle for survival in the full sense of the word a defensive struggle against the onslaughts of the imperialist vulture E V TarleBy Karen Green. 2014
During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of…
monarchy, the re-conceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville and Rousseau. Her exploration ranges across Europe from England through France, Italy, and Germany to Russia, and discusses thinkers including Mary Astell, Emilie Du Châtelet, Luisa Gottsched and Elisabetta Caminer Turra. Her study demonstrates the depth of women's contributions to eighteenth-century political debates, recovering their historical significance and deepening our understanding of this period in intellectual history. It will provide an essential resource for readers in political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and women's studies.By Doreen Carvajal. 2012
The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain.…
Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may actually be connected to conversos in Inquisition-era Spain , Jews who were forced to renounce their faith and convert to Christianity or face torture and death. With vivid childhood memories of Sunday sermons, catechism, and the rosary, Carvajal travels to the south of Spain, to the centuries-old Andalucian town of Arcos de la Frontera, to investigate her lineage and recover her family’s original religious heritage. In Arcos, Carvajal is struck by the white pueblo's ancient beauty and the difficulty she encounters in probing the town's own secret history of the Inquisition. She comes to realize that fear remains a legacy of the Inquisition along with the cryptic messages left by its victims. Back at her childhood home in California, Carvajal uncovers papers documenting a family of Carvajals who were burned at the stake in the 16th-century territory of Mexico. Could the author’s family history be linked to the hidden history of Arcos? And could the unfortunate Carvajals have been her ancestors?As she strives to find proof that her family had been forced to convert to Christianity six-hundred years ago, Carvajal comes to understand that the past flows like a river through time –and that while the truth might be submerged, it is never truly lost. .By John Cournos, Eugene Tarl. 2018
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 is one of the most illustrated political and military figures of the last two millennia…
He has remained in the memory of the world as a legend that the passage of the years has failed to blur On the contrary Napoleon Bonaparte widely continues to be considered the personification of human genius In this memoir which was first published in this English translation in 1937 author and historian Evgeny Tarle vividly presents in detail Napoleon s life and official activity THE man with whose life and personality this book deals presents one of the most extraordinary phenomena in world history It is not surprising that he has been still is and will continue to be the subject of many biographies As recently as 1914 a section of the militant German press sang fervent praises of Napoleon as the creator of the Continental Blockade and as the author of the idea of uniting the European continent against England after the World War the victorious Allies inspired by his example inserted the more ruthless clauses into the Versailles Treaty and the Fascist dictatorship in Italy made the study of Napoleon s personality a compulsory course of history instruction in the schools And before and after the World War the figure of Napoleon loomed constantly before the minds of the ruling classes frightened by approaching revolution and yearning for the strong man and deliverer The grandiose Napoleonic epic has had almost as strong a hold on political philosophers and theoreticians as on historians publicists and poets Beginning with the Hegelians and ending with the revolutionary Marxist writers there has been no single noticeable current of social and philosophic thought which in one fashion or another has not been influenced by Napoleon E V Tarle IntroductionBy Eleanor Herman. 2018
"You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out…
In June 2018"A heady mix of erudite history and delicious gossip." —Aja Raden, author of StonedIn the Washington Post roundup, "What your favorite authors are reading this summer," A.J. Finn says, “I want to read The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman’s history of poisons."Hugely entertaining, a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political—and cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin todayThe story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder.