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A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd…
Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews. Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top U.S. commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germans—they needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose. The son of a rabbi, Rose never discussed his Jewish heritage. But his ferocity on the battlefield reflected an inner flame. He led his 3rd Armored Division not from a command post but from the first vehicle in formation, charging headfirst into a fight. He devised innovative tactics, made the most of American weapons, and personally chose the cadre of young officers who drove his division forward. From Normandy to the West Wall, from the Battle of the Bulge to the final charge across Germany, Maurice Rose's deadly division of tanks blasted through enemy lines and pursued the enemy with a remarkable intensity. In The Panzer Killers , Daniel P. Bolger, a retired lieutenant general and Iraq War veteran, offers up a lively, dramatic tale of Rose's heroism. Along the way, Bolger infuses the narrative with fascinating insights that could only come from an author who has commanded tank forces in combat. The result is a unique and masterful story of battlefield leadership, destined to become a classicThe first of a three-volume historical narrative of the four-year struggle. Opening with Jefferson Davis' resignation from the Senate and…
closing with Lincoln's departure from Springfield, the battles and personalities are presented from the point of view of the participantsKilling Patton: the strange death of World War II's most audacious general (Bill O'Reilly's Killing)
By Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard. 2014
Political commentator O'Reilly and historian Dugard, authors of Killing Jesus (DB 77565), examine the last year and the death of…
General George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945); theorize that Patton's death was not due to complications of injuries sustained in a car accident; and detail possible motives for assassination. Bestseller. 2014American commander: serving a country worth fighting for and training the brave soldiers who lead the way
By Scott Mcewen, Ryan Zinke. 2016
Former Congressman, Ryan Zinke, recalls his years growing up in Montana, and his service as a Navy SEAL. Includes broad…
information about his time as acting Commander of Joint Special Forces in Iraq. Some strong language and some violenceThe triumph of Christianity: how a forbidden religion swept the world
By Bart D. Ehrman. 2018
Theologian chronicles the rise of Christianity, from an obscure sect of Judaism to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.…
Discusses the mission of Paul, Roman paganism, the reasons for Christianity's success, incentives for conversion, the growth of the Church, persecution, and Constantine's championing of the faith. Some violence. 2018Vets and pets: wounded warriors and the animals that help them heal
By Dava Guerin, Kevin Ferris. 2018
A collection of essays about the bonds that develop between wounded veterans and the animals that help them heal. Includes…
stories of traditional service companion dogs as well as vets who bond with horses, birds of prey, and even pigs. 2017Eat the apple: a memoir
By Matt Young. 2018
An irreverent account of the author's time in the Marine Corps, which he joined while still a teenager. Discusses his…
training, three deployments to Iraq, and the absurdity of twenty-first-century war. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018John McCain: an American hero
By John Perritano. 2018
Portrays John McCain's life, from his childhood as an admiral's son to his own time at the Naval Academy, his…
service as a pilot, and his experience as a prisoner of war. Explores McCain's years as a senator and his two bids for the U. S. presidency. For grades 5-8. 2018The darkening age: the Christian destruction of the classical world
By Catherine Nixey. 2018
Journalist examines the rise of Christianity in the ancient world and the destruction of Mediterranean literature and cultural artifacts that…
led to the time known as the Dark Ages. Discusses the loss of architecture, intellectual and technological advancements, and art. Analyzes the reasoning behind zealotry and targeted attacks. 2017Can't hurt me: master your mind and defy the odds
By David Goggins. 2018
A retired Navy SEAL who is also an accomplished competitor in marathons and ultramarathons shares his story. Describes overcoming poverty…
and prejudice to go on to great success, and argues that most people only tap into forty percent of their capabilities. Strong language. Bestseller. 2018From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at…
the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination. Christianity has endured for more than two millennia and is practiced by billions worldwide today. Yet that longevity has created difficulties for scholars tracing the religion's roots, distorting much of the historical investigation into the first two centuries of the Jesus movement. But what if Christianity died in the fourth or fifth centuries after it began? How would that change how historians see and understand its first two hundred years? Considering these questions, three Bible scholars from the Westar Institute summarize the work of the Christianity Seminar and its efforts to offer a new way of thinking about Christianity and its roots. Synthesizing the institute's most recent scholarship—bringing together the many archaeological and textual discoveries over the last twenty years—they have found: There were multiple Jesus movements, not a singular one, before the fourth century There was nothing called Christianity until the third century There was much more flexibility and diversity within Jesus's movement before it became centralized in Rome, not only regarding the Bible and religious doctrine, but also understandings of gender, sexuality and morality. Exciting and revolutionary, After Jesus, Before Christianity provides fresh insights into the real history behind how the Jesus movement became ChristianityLightning down: A world war ii story of survival
By Tom Clavin. 2021
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set…
off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressIsland infernos: The us army's pacific war odyssey, 1944
By John C. McManus. 2021
From the author of Fire and Fortitude , the continuation of the US Army's epic crusade in the Pacific War,…
from the battle of Saipan to the occupation of Japan John C. McManus's award-winning Fire and Fortitude enthralled readers with an unforgettable and authoritative account of the US Army's evolution during the Pacific War, from the devastation of Pearl Harbor to the bloody battle for Makin Island in 1943. Now, in this second and final volume, he follows the Army as they land on Saipan, Guam, and Okinawa, climaxing with the American return to the Philippines, one of the largest, most complex operations in American history and one that would eventually account for one-third of all American casualties in the Pacific-Asia theater. Brilliantly researched and written, the narrative moves seamlessly from the highest generals to the lowest foot soldiers and in between, capturing the true essence of this horrible conflict. It is a masterful history by one of our finest historians of World War IIThey called us "lucky": The life and afterlife of the iraq war's hardest hit unit
By Ruben Gallego. 2021
From the Arizona Congressman, a 21st-century Band of Brothers chronicling the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company,…
the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were "Lucky Lima." Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima. Then, in May 2005, Lima's fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben's best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation. They Called Us "Lucky" details Ruben Gallego's journey and includes harrowing accounts of some of the war's most costly battles. It details the struggles and the successes of Ruben—now a member of Congress—and the rest of Lima Company following Iraq, examining the complicated matter of PTSD. And it serves as a tribute to Ruben's fallen comrades, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their countryHow I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
By Doris Gregory. 2015
Still sassy, Doris Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to the time when she broke with tradition, first…
by publicly challenging the University of British Columbia's discrimination against women, and then by joining the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Her memoir allows us to travel with her across the Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infestation and to take refuge in underground shelters while bombs fall on London. Unlike most memoirs of the war that focus on battles, Gregory shows the everyday mundane activities of office life, working under some less-than-brilliant supervisors. Gregory transforms what could have been a dull soldier's life into one of small adventures: cycling along traffic-free roads through southern England, the midlands and Scottish lowlands, hopping on the ferry to Ulster, slipping into neutral, forbidden Eire, and looking into the gun barrel of an angry German sentry. Although at times the war weighs heavily upon her, the author's optimism,enthusiasm and sense of humour permeate this memoir, full of laughter and surprises.Pantheon: a new history of Roman religion
By Jorg Rupke, Jörg Rüpke, David M. B. Richardson. 2018
Religious studies professor presents a history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religions from the late Bronze Age to approximately the…
fourth century AD. Uses literary and archaeological evidence to discuss the interplay of religion with daily life and sociopolitical processes. Translated from the original 2016 German edition. 2018The third volume in a series covering history across the globe, describing the events that happened concurrently in each area.…
Discusses events concerning both larger historical figures and the common people, using literature, letters, firsthand accounts, and more. This volume covers the many transitions occurring globally during the Renaissance period. 2013Mummies exposed!: Creepy and True #1 (Creepy and True)
By Kerrie Logan Hollihan. 2019
Uncovers the mysteries behind unearthed human mummies from around the globe, from mutilated bodies preserved in Irish bogs to sacrificed…
children entombed in an Incan burial site on a mountaintop. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2019Explores the life of Cleopatra, from her interests in literature, mathematics, and science to her role as a mother and…
as Egypt's queen. Includes activities such as mummifying a hot dog and creating an Egyptian-style necklace. For grades 5-8. 2018Searching for black Confederates: the Civil War's most persistent myth (Civil War America)
By Kevin M. Levin. 2019