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Final salute: a story of unfinished lives
By Jim Sheeler. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sheeler recounts the two years he spent shadowing marine major Steve Beck, an officer whose job is…
to notify the families of fallen soldiers. Sheeler portrays the lives of the deceased, Beck's efforts to comfort the grieving relatives, and the toll on surviving kin. 2008London's Armed Police: Up Close and Personal
By Stephen Smith. 2019
An insider&’s account of an elite unit fighting crime and terror on the streets of London—includes hundreds of photos. …
In this book, veteran firearms officer Stephen Smith goes behind the scenes of the Metropolitan Police&’s Specialist Firearms Unit, CO19—covering a wide range of events in recent history, from the controversial shootings of Azelle Rodney in 2005 and Mark Duggan in 2011 to the terrorist attacks on Westminster, London Bridge and Borough Market, as well as stories from decades past. Through his unique access to CO19, Smith has managed to put together hundreds of detailed photographs, both historical and contemporary, along with text that goes a long way to explain why it is necessary to have such an elite firearms unit on standby 24/7 in London. This comprehensive volume will bring you up-to date with the training, operations, equipment, and mindset of these courageous individuals who put their lives on the line on a daily basis to keep London safe.The Dark Side of East London
By David Charnick. 2016
Just hearing the phrase the East End summons up images of slums and dark alleyways, with Jack the Ripper appearing…
from the mist, or housing estates and pubs where you might find the Kray twins. It is a place of poverty and menace, yet these images can prevent us from seeing the reality of life east of the City of London, and of its dark history. This study features stories of crimes and misdeeds that show what life was like in this area before the 'East End' existed. They also reflect the changes caused as the settlements of the Tower Hamlets became absorbed by the new metropolis of London.As there is nothing new under the sun, so these stories find their modern counterparts in our times. However, they also take us into unfamiliar territory as they bring to light the often forgotten past that underlies the present-day streets and lurks behind the faades of some of the areas older buildings. Many of the stories will be unfamiliar and indeed strange, but yet they show how the character and notoriety of the Citys famous shadow has been formed. Paying scrupulous attention to place, this volume features a wealth of specially-commissioned photographs, allowing the reader to locate these stories in the present-day London Borough of Tower Hamlets.How the South could have won the Civil War: the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat
By Bevin Alexander. 2007
Military historian posits that the South would have been victorious had Confederate president Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee…
followed General Stonewall Jackson's advice and attacked factories, railroads, and farms in the North rather than engaging in frontal assaults. Details crucial battles that support this theory. 2007Mutiny: the true events that inspired The hunt for Red October
By David Hagberg, Boris Gindin. 2008
Former Soviet naval officer Boris Gindin, now an American citizen, provides an eyewitness account of the mutiny that occurred on…
the submarine Storozhevoy in November 1975. Those events were the basis for Tom Clancy's 1984 thriller The Hunt for Red October (DB 21513, BR 7205). 2008Avec Dieu au goulag: témoignage d'un jésuite interné vingt-trois ans en Sibérie
By Walter Joseph Ciszek. 2010
" Capturé par l'armée russe durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, accusé d'être un espion du Vatican, Walter J. Ciszek, prêtre…
jésuite américain, a passé vingt-trois ans dans les prisons soviétiques et les camps de travail de Sibérie entre 1940 et 1963. Son livre présente un intérêt historique certain car très peu de témoignages ont été édités sur le ministère des prêtres catholiques dans les camps soviétiques durant cette période. Mais il est avant tout le récit d'un itinéraire spirituel impressionnant que le père Ciszek a accepté de rédiger parce qu'après son retour aux États-Unis, on lui demandait comment il avait pu surmonter pareilles épreuves. Avec beaucoup de simplicité, il relate les événements auxquels il a été confronté - les cinq ans d'emprisonnement à la Loubianka, le travail dans les mines de sel en Sibérie, etc. - et qui l'ont conduit à un long dépouillement, mais aussi à un abandon de plus en plus confiant à la Providence, à une sérénité intérieure grâce à laquelle il a pu se préserver de l'arrogance du mal qui l'entourait... " -- 4e de couvThe drillmaster of Valley Forge: the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army
By Paul Douglas Lockhart. 2008
Biography of Prussian army officer Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794), who trained the ragged U.S. Continental Army to fight the British…
during the Revolutionary War. Focuses on the winter of 1778, when Steuben drilled the demoralized colonial troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in European techniques of war. 2008Soldier from the war returning: the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II
By Thomas Childers. 2009
Documents the hardships experienced by U.S. veterans who returned home from World War II. Discusses problems such as unemployment, homelessness,…
alienation, and physical and psychological wounds. Highlights the lives of a former prisoner of war, an infantryman without legs, and the author's father, who suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress. 2009The buffalo soldiers: a narrative of the Black cavalry in the West
By William H. Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie. 2003
Updated account of the all-African American Ninth and Tenth Cavalry during the post-Civil War Indian campaigns. Recognizes their contributions to…
the conquest of the West. Describes daily life, social issues, and various battles and peacekeeping missions with Native Americans, outlaws, and Mexican revolutionaries. Originally published in 1967. 2003An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
By Jon Sternfeld, Edwin Raymond. 2023
&“With illuminating, vivid, and meticulous prose, Edwin Raymond delivers an extraordinary exposé on policing in America . . . An…
essential, exceptional work.&” —Toluse Olorunnipa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of His Name Is George FloydFrom the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reformOver his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the force and one of the country&’s leading voices against police injustice. Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing, An Inconvenient Cop pulls back the curtain on the many flaws woven into the NYPD&’s training, data, and practices, which have since been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across the country.Gravitating toward law enforcement in the hope of being a positive influence in his community, Raymond quickly learned that the problem with policing is a lot deeper than merely &“a few bad apples&”—the entire mechanism is set up to ensure that racial profiling is rewarded, and there are weighty consequences for cops who don&’t play along. Struggling with the moral dilemma of policing impartially while witnessing his fellow officers go with the flow, Raymond&’s journey takes him to the precipice of personal and professional ruin. Yet, through it all, he remains steadfast in his commitment to justice and his belief in the potential for change.At once revelatory and galvanizing, An Inconvenient Cop courageously bears witness to and exposes institutional violence. It presents a vision of radical hope and makes the case for a world in which the police&’s responsibility is not to arrest numbers but to the people.An artist in treason: the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson
By Andro Linklater. 2009
Historian uses Spanish archives and first-person accounts to portray the life of the Revolutionary War general, first governor of the…
Louisiana territory--and spy for Spain. Details Wilkinson's double-dealing life, which the author asserts four presidents overlooked because of his influence. 2009'' Paris, gare de l'Est, en ce dimanche 2 août 1914, c'est la mobilisation générale. Il y a bientôt cent…
ans, le samedi 1er août, l'Allemagne a déclaré la guerre à la Russie, l'alliée de la France. L'Empire austro-hongrois est, dès le 28 juillet, entré en guerre contre la Serbie. L'engrenage des alliances, des ultimatums, des mobilisations, entraîne les nations dans sa mécanique sanglante. Berlin est solidaire de Vienne. Paris, lié à Londres, soutient Saint-Pétersbourg. En quelques heures, toutes les grandes gares européennes ressemblent à la gare de l'Est. Tous ces hommes qui partent, innocents, inconscients, n'imaginent pas que des centaines de milliers d'entre eux vont mourir ou être blessés avant que l'année 1914 se termine, et que cette guerre, qui devait être brève et locale, deviendra la Première Guerre mondiale. '' -- 4e de couvLa grenade verte: Valcartier 1974 : les oubliés de la compagnie D
By Hugo Fontaine. 2011
" Ils étaient jeunes, enthousiastes et débordants dénergie. Ils venaient de partout dans la province pour passer un été daventure…
et de découverte au camp des cadets de Valcartier. Par un jour pluvieux de juillet 1974, 136 cadets de la compagnie D sengouffrent dans un des baraquements pour une leçon théorique sur la sécurité des explosifs. Le capitaine qui donnait le cours faisait circuler des pièces de démonstration dans le groupe. Parmi ces pièces, une grenade verte Laccident fit la une des grands quotidiens, mais fut très vite oublié. Pourtant, il a changé le cours de plusieurs dizaines de vies. Au-delà de lhorreur de lexplosion, il y a un deuxième drame : celui des survivants et de leurs traumatismes. La grenade verte relate lhistoire de ces adolescents aujourdhui adultes, dont la vie a basculé en une fraction de seconde. " -- 4e de couvA troubled peace (Under A War-Torn Sky #2)
By Laura Elliott. 2009
1945. World War II pilot Henry Forester from Under a War-Torn Sky (DB 68311), returns home to Virginia and struggles…
with nightmares. Henry ventures to France to find a boy who saved his life and is shocked at the lingering devastation. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2009Through veterans' eyes: the Iraq and Afghanistan experience
By Larry Minear. 2010
Commentary from post-9/11 veterans collected from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and supplemented by author interviews. Covers reasons…
for enlisting; dealing with combat, local populations, and contractors; and living with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury. Strong language and some violence. 2010The First World War: an illustrated history (Penguin Bks.)
By A. J. P Taylor. 1981
Oxford historian's year-by-year chronicle of World War I, which began with the assassination of Hapsburg archduke Franz Ferdinand and his…
wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Bosnia. Describes battles and behind-the-scenes politics, the use of poison gas and U-boats, and America's entry into the conflict. 1963Révélations d'un espion de la SQ
By Claude Lavallée. 2010
« Au cours de la Révolution tranquille, la Sûreté provinciale du Québec met sur pied une escouade spéciale dont la…
mission sera de lutter contre la corruption et le crime organisé. Claude Lavallée, combattant de la première heure dans cette escouade, nous livre tous les secrets de ses enquêtes et de ses filatures. Tissé d'anecdotes palpitantes, son parcours prend parfois des airs de thriller ou de film d'action. Au fil de son histoire, nous découvrons un autre visage de la Mafia montréalaise et revivons de l'intérieur la tristement célèbre crise d'Octobre qui marque encore le Québec d'aujourd'hui... » -- 4e de couvAuschwitz expliqué à ma fille (Papiers collés)
By Annette Wieviorka. 1999
Sous la forme de questions-réponses, une spécialiste de l'histoire des Juifs du 20e siècle tente d'expliquer à une adolescente d'aujourd'hui…
(sa propre fille), le pourquoi du génocide des Juifs par les nazis lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En termes clairs, directs, sans faux-fuyants ni complaisanceScotland Yard's Murder Squad
By Dick Kirby. 2020
Get a behind-the-scenes look at fourteen historic cases from the Murder Squad of Scotland Yard in this collection perfect for…
true crime fans.In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder inquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled—or indeed, any—detectives.Thus was born the Reserve Squad, or Murder Squad, as it later became known. Despite a reluctance by some forces to call upon The Met, the Murder Squad has proved its effectiveness on countless occasions with its remit extended to British territories overseas. A particularly sensitive case was the murder of a local superintendent on St. Kitts and Nevis.A former Scotland Yard detective, the author uses his contacts and experiences to get the inside track on a gruesome collection of infamous cases. Child murderers, a Peer’s butler, a King’s housekeeper, gangsters, jealous spouses and the notorious mass murderer Dr. Bodkin Adams compete for space in this spine-chilling and gripping book which is testament to the Murder Squad’s skills and ingenuity—and the evil of the perpetrators.Brimming with gruesome killings, this highly readable book proves that there is no substitute for old fashioned footwork and instinct.No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
By Kevin Maurer, Mark Owen. 2012
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a…
Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group ? commonly known as SEAL Team Six ? has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history. In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America’s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe. And look for NO HERO, the follow-up to NO EASY DAY, coming May 2014.