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With Paulus at Stalingrad
By Tony Le Tissier, Wilhelm Adam, Otto Ru¨hle. 2015
Colonel Wilhelm Adam, senior ADC to General Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, wrote a compelling and…
controversial memoir describing the German defeat, his time as a prisoner of war with Paulus, and his conversion to communism. Now, for the first time, his German text has been translated into English.Discovering the Rommel murder: the life and death of the Desert Fox
By Martin Blumenson, Charles F Marshall. 1994
Marshall pieces together valuable information gleaned from Rommel's letters and interviews with his chief of staff, physician, and widow to…
reveal an intimate portrait of the great commander's life and death.Assyrians: the continuous saga
By Frederick A Aprim. 2004
Assyrians have been deprived of their rich heritage in their ancestral homelands in Mesopotamia. From one side, history curriculum taught…
in the Middle East's public schools is manipulated and it focuses predominantly on the region's Islamic era.Assyrians: from Bedr Khan to Saddam Hussein : driving into extinction the last Aramaic speakers
By Frederick A Aprim. 1999
After the establishment of Islam as a state religion in the Fertile Crescent by the 8th century, the ferocious attacks…
by the Timurids, plundering the region as they descended from Central Asia in the 14th century, drove many Christian Aramaic speakers who did not convert to Islam into the mountains of the Taurus, Hakkari, and the Zagros for shelter. Others remained in their ancestral villages on the Mosul (Nineveh) Plain only to face heavy pressure to assimilate into Arab culture. The greatest catastrophe to visit the Assyrians in the modern period was the genocide committed against them, as Christians, during the Great War. From the Assyrian renaissance experienced when, miraculously, they became the objects of Western Christian missionary educational and medical efforts, the Assyrians fell into near oblivion. Shunned by the Allies at the treaties that ended WWI, Assyrians drifted into Diaspora, destructive denominationalism, and fierce assimilation tendencies as exercised by chauvinistic Arab, Persian and Turkish state entities.Hiroshima: why America dropped the atomic bomb
By Ronald T Takaki. 1995
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved.…
At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was unnecessary. All of them believed that Japan had already been beaten and that the war would soon end. Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? Or did it herald the start of the Cold War?Midway inquest: why the Japanese lost the Battle of Midway (Twentieth-century Battles Ser.)
By Dallas Woodbury Isom. 2007
Midway, the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books. However, none satisfactorily…
explain why the Japanese lost that battle, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower.Operation Babylon: the story of the rescue of the Jews of Iraq
By Shlomo Hillel. 1989
Already a bestseller in Israel, and winner of Yitzak Sadeh prize - that country's most prestigious literary award, here is…
the extraordinary true story of the exodus, from 1947 to 1952, of the Jews in Iraq. As a young man, author Shlomo Hillel as an agent of Mossad, the Jewish Secret Service was instrumental in helping 125,000 Iraqi Jews escape to safety. Now, forty years later, he reveals all the drama and intrigue of this, the largest air migration in history - a first-hand account never before told. Played out against the chaos of Middle East politics, and with a compelling cast of Jewish agents, Iraqi Secret Police, British diplomats, and American soldiers of fortune, Operation Babylon has all the power of an international thriller ...a breathtaking story of adventure, daring, tragedy and human triumph.Among the dead cities: was the allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime?
By A. C Grayling. 2006
Among the Dead Cities is both a lucid and revealing work of modern history and an urgent moral investigation. Grayling…
details the industrial nature of the area bombing in Germany, and also of the US bombing of Japan that culminated in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He looks at the stands people took, both for and against, and crucially asks what are the lessons that we can learn for today about how people should behave in a world of tension and moral confusion, of terrorism and bitter rivalries.Kublai Khan: from Xanadu to superpower
By John Man. 2006
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan, a stately pleasure dome decree. Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to…
these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. His personal domain covered sixty-percent of all Asia, and one-fifth of the world's land area. The West first learnt of this great Khan through the reports of Marco Polo. Kublai had not been born to rule, but had clawed his way to leadership, achieving power only in his 40s. He had inherited Genghis Khan's great dream of world domination. But unlike his grandfather he saw China and not Mongolia as the key to controlling power and turned Genghis' unwieldy empire into a federation. Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today.MacArthur's undercover war: spies, saboteurs, guerrillas and secret missions
By William B Breuer. 1995
The covert war General Douglas MacArthur waged against Japanese forces in the Pacific arena was the largest undercover operation ever…
undertaken. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the legendary exploits and heroism of the thousands of courageous individuals who fought as spies, guerrillas, propagandists, and saboteurs behind enemy lines. In an action-packed narrative, MacArthur's Undercover War tells of thrilling feats of valor and derring-do - impossible missions to blow up harbors, kidnap heads of state, undermine currency, and arrange prison escapes, all deep within enemy territory. Firsthand interviews with veterans and information from previously unpublished documents reveal a riveting tale of World War II that has never been fully told.John Monash: a biography
By Geoffrey Serle. 1982
General Sir John Monash was one of Australia's greatest men and probably the greatest of its soldiers. With a huge…
intellect embracing the arts, law and engineering, Monash was a Jew devoted to Jewish scholarship and a prominent public administrator. Melbourne's Monash University is but one of his memorials.The tiger man of Vietnam
By Frank Walker. 2009
In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two…
years before the first official Australian troops arrived. Seconded to the CIA, he was sent to the remote Central Highlands to build an anti-communist guerrilla force among the indigenous Montagnard people.Chickenhawk
By Robert Mason. 1983
This straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam, and a personal story of men under fire.…
Robert Mason, a veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, gives descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death -- the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.Painting the sand: one man's fight against the Taliban bomb-makers of Helmand
By Kim Hughes. 2017
Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George…
Cross in 2009 following a grueling six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he defused 119 improvised explosive devices, survived numerous Taliban ambushes and endured a close encounter with the Secretary of State for Defence. The back drop to Painting the Sand will be the Afghan War, the conflict where the cold courage of the bomb disposal operator rose to national prominence. No other field of warfare offers the chance of a single individual to come so close to his enemy and fight out a battle of wits where losing can means death. This is one of the best memoirs that will come out of a ten-year struggle to defeat a hidden, and enduring, enemy.Travels in American Iraq
By John Martinkus. 2004
SBS journalist John Martinkus provides a riveting portrait of a country on the brink of civil war. When the Coalition…
of the Willing liberated Iraq from the yoke of Saddam in early 2003, George W. Bush announced that the Second Gulf War was over. John Martinkus's account of seven weeks spent travelling independently around Iraq in early 2004 shows just the opposite. He takes us into the key places of the new Iraq - from Abu Gharib prison to the Coalition's sealed-off security zone. He provides an eye-witness account of the March 2004 Karbala bombings, and vivid accounts of meetings with ordinary Iraqis, religious leaders, insurgents and occupying troops - the events that take place beyond the official perspective. Tracing the ever-widening gap between rhetoric and reality, he shows that, amidst a developing guerrilla war and a chaotic reconstruction, the line between liberation and occupation has become thin indeed.Gallipoli correspondent: the frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean
By C. E. W. Bean, Kevin Fewster. 1983
A banker all at sea
By F. S Holt. 1983
Retired banker Fred Holt provides a vivid and human account of his service in the Australian Naval Reserve during World…
War Two, from his time as an ordinary seaman on HMS "Panther" to his promotion to Second Lieutenant in 1954.1421: the year China discovered the world
By John Cullen, Gavin Menzies. 2003
A fictionalised "alternative history" of the discovery of the New World. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world…
had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook.