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On the morning of April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey saw what seemed to be the entire…
Japanese air force assembled directly above. They were about to become the targets of the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. By the time the unprecedented assault was finished, thirty-two sailors were dead and more than seventy wounded. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived. The gutted American warship limped from Okinawa’s shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and their wartime correspondence, John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this forgotten historic event.
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Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska’s Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned:…
Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane’s remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon’s unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense lonelinessand emerge stronger than before.Diari d'Anna Frank
By Ana Frank. 2014
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Aquesta és l'edició definitiva del cèlebre Diari d'Anne Frank. El seu text amplia en una quarta part les edicions anteriors…
i ofereix una visió completa i fidedigna de la terrible odissea viscuda durant la Segona Guerra Mundial per la família Frank Un testimoni únic sobre l'horror i la barbàrie nazi, i sobretot sobre els sentiments i les experiències viscudes per una nena jueva reclosa amb la seva família per fugir de l'Holocaust Després de la invasió d'Holanda, els Frank, comerciants jueus alemanys emigrats a Amsterdam el 1933, es van amagar de la Gestapo en una mansarda connectada a l'edifici on el pare de l'Anne tenia les seves oficines. Eren vuit persones i van romandre-hi recloses des del juny de 1942 fins a l'agost de 1944. En aquell lloc i en les més precàries condicions, l'Anne, una nena detretze anys, va escriure el seu esgarrifós Diari: un testimoni únic en el seu gènere sobre l'horror i la barbàrie nazis, i sobre els sentiments i les experiències que van viure ella mateixa i els seus acompanyants. L'Anne va morir al camp de Bergen-Belsen al març de 1945. El seu Diari no morirà mai. «D'entre tots els qui, al llarg de la història, han parlat en nom de la dignitat humana en temps de sofriment i mort, no hi ha cap veu amb més pes que la de l'Anne Frank.» John F. KennedyPrinces at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII
By Deborah Cadbury. 2015
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This book tells the story of four sons of King George V during the period that the monarchy faced the…
greatest threats to its survival in the modern era the crisis of the abdication, and the nationwide threat to Britain of the Nazis, inside and out. The threat of world war echoed the war within the royal family. Played out against the cataclysm of the Second World War the princes’ actions for good or ill became all the more significant and magnified on a world stage. The war served to unleash passions at a time when the very function of royalty as head of the empire was under threat. It served as a crucible that made or destroyed each of the princes. One would die in mysterious circumstances forever mired in conspiracy and scandal; another was destroyed in all but name, a third slipped into comfortable obscurity, and the fourth rose to new heights of achievement redefining the monarchy for the modern age. The catalyst for the story is one dangerous American woman: Wallis Simpson. The consequences of her actions drive one prince to an early grave and the other to become a living wreck of a man nursing long held grievances. Recently discovered letters show that Wallis herself was caught in a trap of her own making: a life entombed in a gilded cage with a man she could not respect and whom she tried to leave. Everything she wished for, she destroyed. Famously she is said to have been sent 17 carnations by the Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop, representing their 17 sexual trysts. George VI’s story is also an allegory for a much wider theme. Starting where the film The Kings Speech ends, a revealing transformation in his character takes place. As he steps up with some dread to the role of king that his older brother spurns, his horizons are widened and he falls into the sphere of influence of brilliant leaders such as Winston Churchill. As Hitler stole country after country for the Third Reich, George VI rose to the challenge, to find the very best in himself, and was transformed by the effort. By the end he can stand alone at the helm, without the support of those who helped him on his way Like fables of old, taking on the challenge transforms the quality of the man but it is also killing him.Diari d'Anna Frank
By Anne Frank. 2001
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Aquesta és l'edició definitiva del cèlebre Diari d'Anne Frank. El seu text amplia en una quarta part les edicions anteriors…
i ofereix una visió completa i fidedigna de la terrible odissea viscuda durant la Segona Guerra Mundial per la família Frank Després de la invasió d'Holanda, els Frank, comerciants jueus alemanys emigrats a Amsterdam el 1933, es van amagar de la Gestapo en una mansarda connectada a l'edifici on el pare de l'Anne tenia les seves oficines. Eren vuit persones i van romandre-hi recloses des del juny de 1942 fins a l'agost de 1944.En aquell lloc i en les més precàries condicions, l'Anne, una nena de tretze anys, va escriure el seu esgarrifós Diari: un testimoni únic en el seu gènere sobre l'horror i la barbàrie nazis, i sobre els sentiments i les experiències que van viure ella mateixa i els seus acompanyants. L'Anne va morir al camp de Bergen-Belsen al març de 1945. El seu Diari no morirà mai.Un testimoni únic sobre l'horror i la barbàrie nazi, i sobretot sobre els sentiments i les experiències viscudes per una nena jueva reclosa amb la seva família per fugir de l'Holocaust. John F. Kennedy va dir...«D'entre tots els qui, al llarg de la història, han parlat en nom de la dignitat humana en temps de sofriment i mort, no hi ha cap veu amb més pes que la de l'Anne Frank.»