Fighter Pilot's Heaven presents the dramatic inside story of the American military's transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotes about fellow pilots as well as precise technical...
“Flowers from Greece” requires a warning preface: humor will not be used as camouflage in any line of this book. Not a word. Instead of the masterful device invented by Jane Austen and used wisely by women in autobiographies and fictions that...
This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the...
Kipling was reported missing, believed killed, in his first battle on the Western Front. From this time he was constantly in pain from a gastric ulcer. He published some (censored) articles of war journalism in 1915, collected as The New Army in...
Frédéric Dard, le romancier français le plus lu de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, demeure un créateur mal connu de ses contemporains. La faute en incombe sans nul doute à San-Antonio, son double littéraire au succès phénoménal.
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Unflinching and unforgiving, Free Fall is a gripping account of a young soldier's experiences in a brutal and bloody war.
Nicolai Lilin, author of the international bestseller Siberian Education, was conscripted and trained as a sniper in an...