Leningrad

Leningrad

Anna Reid

History / Nonfiction / War

On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Anna Reid's Leningrad is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the twentieth century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists on both sides. They reveal the Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender and Hitler's messianic miscalculation, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the relentless search for food and water; the withering of emotions and family ties; looting, murder, and cannibalism- and at the same time, extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice...
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The Butterfly Box_A SASS Anthology

The Butterfly Box_A SASS Anthology

Anthology

War / Military Fiction / History

Free your imagination as you delve into this eclectic mix of healing tales from eight authors, just as different as their stories. Lift the lid and take a peek inside The Butterfly Box.Authors includeKate Vine Brooke May KM Neuhold Rebecca M. Gibson Tricia Copeland Eleanor Lloyd JonesRiann C. MillerKatie Fox
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Shadows in the Steam

Shadows in the Steam

David Brandon

War / Military Fiction / Nonfiction

Offers a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across Britain's railway network: signals and messages sent from empty boxes; trains that went into tunnels and never left; ghostly passengers and spectral crew; and, the wires whizzing to signal the arrival of trains on lines that have been closed for years.
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The Liberty Incident Revealed

The Liberty Incident Revealed

A. Jay Cristol

History / War / Military Fiction

Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israel's deadly attack on the USS Liberty in June 1967 at the height of the Six Day War, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with a complete, in-depth analysis of all of the sources, including recently released tapes from National Security Agency. When the first edition of The Liberty Incident was published in 2002 there remained many unanswered questions about Israeli Air Force audio tapes intercepted by the NSA. Some alleged they would prove that the Israeli attack was premeditated. Cristol's successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency, while resulting in the release of those tapes, has been greeted by anti-Israel sources insisting that the NSA tapes are fraudulent and are part of a larger conspiracy to deceive the American public!After a quarter of a century of intensive research in Israel and the U.S., researching all relevant archives from...
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Harlan County Horrors

Harlan County Horrors

Anthology

War / Military Fiction / History

Product DescriptionIn the black heart of coal country, malevolent spirits and unearthly creatures slip from the shadows into the minds and hearts of men. Young women, twisted by pain, call for love and revenge by the light of the moon. A dead dog by the side of the road is more than it seems. In Harlan County, Kentucky, the supernatural and the mundane mingle in the depths of the earth, filling the mines with powerful forces that draw people down and corrupt from within.
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