Published by W&N, 2007
ISBN 10: 0753821877 ISBN 13: 9780753821879
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. New Ed. The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white collar job. Then he went to a lecture by a Wall Street Journal reporter who had just published a book on the US Marines. It brought forth a latent desire to break free of the 'seat belt and safety goggle, safety-first' culture: to be a warrior. He passed the gruelling selection course and joined the Marine Corps on graduation. Posted to a Marine Regiment in the wake of 9/11, he took part in the invasion of Afghanistan, then led a platoon of their elite Recon Battalion during the invasion of Iraq.This is not a book about the Iraq invasion as such: it is an articulate and deeply thoughtful young man's account of what it means to fight in the frontline, to risk not just death or injury, but psychological harm. He reveals some of the awful dilemmas war can bring, horrible problems to which there is no 'right' answer, but a decision had to be made quickly -- by him alone. In combat you are just one bullet away from death -- or promotion. But this doesn't focus the mind: it makes it freeze up -- unless your training is so thorough that you overcome exhaustion and terror.'Nate' took 65 men to war and came home with all 65. He proved himself an excellent officer and won promotion, but resigned in 2003 to write this book and attend Harvard Business School.
Published by W&N, 2024
ISBN 10: 0753818434 ISBN 13: 9780753818435
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This dryly humorous historical mystery was a bestseller in Russia. Lord Littleby and nine members of his Parisian household were brutally murdered and Littleby's gold image of Shiva stolen. The killer's trail leads over the water to the posh British liner Leviathan. Commissioner Gustave Gauche and the Russian diplomat Erast.
Published by W&N, 2024
ISBN 10: 0304366617 ISBN 13: 9780304366613
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. The doctors and nurses who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained, dedicated, and pushed to the brink. And they were young - too young to be doing what they had to do. As Richard Hooker writes in the Foreword, 'A few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees.' Meet the true-life heroes and lunatics who fought in the Korean War, and experience the martini-laced mornings, marathon high jinks, sexual escapades, and that perfectly corrupt football game that every fan of the movie will remember. It's also a story of hard work and skill in the face of enormous pressure and odds. Here is where it all began - the novel that made M*A*S*H a legend.
Published by W&N, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474608140 ISBN 13: 9781474608145
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 01. The Sunday Times bestselling new book by the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and author of EAST WEST STREET - a historical detective story that sets out to uncover the truth behind what happened to leading Nazi Otto von Wchter.<br><br>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER <br>FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE <br><br>'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' <br>JOHN LE CARRÉ <br>'Remarkable' <br>THE SUNDAY TIMES <br>'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' <br>ELIF SHAFAK <br>'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller' <br>OBSERVER <br>'A triumph of research and brilliant storytelling' <br>ANTONY BEEVOR <br>'Extraordinary' <br>EVENING STANDARD <br><br>In this riveting real-life thriller, Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of senior Nazi SS Brigadefhrer Otto Freiherr von Wchter and his wife, Charlotte. Drawing on a remarkable archive of family letters and diaries, he unveils a fascinating insight into life before and during the war, as a fugitive on the run in the Alps and then in Rome, and into the Cold War. Eventually the door is unlocked to a mystery that haunts Wchter's youngest son, who continues to believe his father was a good man - what happened to Otto Wchter while he was preparing to travel to Argentina on the 'ratline', assisted by a Vatican bishop, and what was the explanation for his sudden and unexpected death?.
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Published by W&N, 2013
ISBN 10: 1780220839 ISBN 13: 9781780220833
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. UK ed. Maximilian Ponder shut himself away for 30 years in an attempt to record every memory he ever had. Now he's dead, surrounded by 'The Catalogue' - a set of notebooks he hopes will form the map of one human mind. But before his friend Adam can call the police, one rather gruesome task remains in order for Max's project to be complete!.
Published by W&N, 2020
ISBN 10: 1474619444 ISBN 13: 9781474619448
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success.H R F Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, brought together a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery. Some analyse the art itself; some explain the reasons for her success, not just the books, but also in film and theatre.The approaches are penetrating, affectionate, enthusiastic, analytical, funny - even critical. Together, they give an almost unique insight into the life and work of the First Lady of Crime.
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Published by W&N, 2003
ISBN 10: 1842127403 ISBN 13: 9781842127407
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Both born in 1769, Napoleon and Wellington were as different in background and temperament as the countries for which they fought. This study follows their rivalry through the campaigns leading up to the Battle of Waterloo, when they met for the first time, and in its aftermath. It assesses their contrasting military techniques, and includes maps of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign.
Published by W&N, 2024
ISBN 10: 0753821583 ISBN 13: 9780753821589
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman ever to have lived. Charismatic leader of men, serial seducer of women, he was also both a brilliant politician and a military genius capable of some of the most spectacular victories in history.<br /><br />In this definitive biography, Adrian Goldsworthy places Caesar within the broad canvas of the Mediterranean world in which he lived, describing the rich but turbulent society that produced him - the politician, the general and the man.
Published by W&N, 2024
ISBN 10: 075382051X ISBN 13: 9780753820513
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives. In The Singing Neanderthal, Steven Mithen redresses the balance, drawing on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence. The result is a fascinating and provocative work, and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless and unimportant evolutionary byproduct.
Published by W&N, 2007
ISBN 10: 0753821540 ISBN 13: 9780753821541
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. The last survivor of Hitler's bunker speaks for the first timeThe last survivor of the end days of Hitler's bunker tells his story publicly for the first time. Von Loringhoven was aide-de-camp to Hitler's last two chiefs of staff, Guderian and Krebs, and the link between the armies at the fronts and Hitler in his Berlin bunker. For the last nine months of the Third Reich he was present at the daily military briefings between Hitler and Marshals Keital and Goring, General Jodl and Admiral Donitz, along with Goebbels, Bormann, Ribbentrop, Himmler and Fegelein.Von Lorninghoven was witness to the ever-growing gap between the reality of reports outside the bunker and Hitler's misunderstanding of the calamity that was encircling the regime. As the Third Reich spiralled downwards, he watched and recorded Hitler's catastrophic strategic mistakes and the paralysis in which he held his generals. Hitler's reason was twisted by his need for vengeance after the assissination attempt; he was searching for an impossible theatrical victory from an empire in total ruin. The final week of the regime saw Loringhoven living wholly in the bunker, watching the deteriorating relations among the inmates, military and civilian, as the atmosphere poisoned to an inevitable end. When radio-telephone communications finally broke down on 29 April he escaped the bunker - amazingly with Hitler's blessing - crossed the Russian lines and was picked up and taken prisoner by the Americans. He was released in January 1948.
Published by W&N, 2014
ISBN 10: 0297869086 ISBN 13: 9780297869085
Seller: TraperíaDeKlaus, Logroño, Spain
Condition: Bueno. W&N, 2014. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta. Textos en inglés. Contiene ligeras anotaciones a bolígrafo en escasas hojas.
Published by Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, N.S.W., 1990
ISBN 10: 1875143041 ISBN 13: 9781875143047
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Pemulwuy Dilemma: 24 pages. Illustrated. Lightly stained on last page.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company 2001-11-28, New York, N.Y. |London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0393974065 ISBN 13: 9780393974065
Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Condition: good. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
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