E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier
![Omslagsbild för A Footsoldier for Patton](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126761/1126761_202102161332.jpg?height=160)
A Footsoldier for Patton
A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes th ...
![Omslagsbild för Jungvolk](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126763/1126763_202102161333.jpg?height=160)
Jungvolk
This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, the ...
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Half Past Ten in the Afternoon
Much of this book is a record of the time the author spent between 1965 and 1970 as an English teacher in Aneiza – a provincial town in central Saudi Arabia. In an entertaining ser ...
![Omslagsbild för Artillery Scout](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126780/1126780_202102151827.jpg?height=160)
Artillery Scout
The American Doughboys of World War I are often referred to as the “Lost Generation”; however, in this book we are able to gain an intimate look at their experiences after being th ...
![Omslagsbild för You Can't Get Much Closer Than This](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126786/1126786_202102151829.jpg?height=160)
You Can't Get Much Closer Than This
Andrew Z. Adkins, Jr., graduated from The Citadel in May 1943 and immediately attended the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School, where he was commissioned and sent on to the 80th Inf ...
![Omslagsbild för Hollow Heroes](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126788/1126788_202102151827.jpg?height=160)
Hollow Heroes
The book reveals the truths behind the conventional images of three of Great Britain's primary military leaders during and immediately after the Second World War. In each case the ...
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Cushing’s Coup
This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of Japan’s “Plan Z”—the Empire’s fully detailed strategy for pros ...
![Omslagsbild för The Typhoon Truce, 1970](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126792/1126792_202102151831.jpg?height=160)
The Typhoon Truce, 1970
It wasn’t rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides in awe. As an unofficial truce ...
![Omslagsbild för Pathfinder Pioneer](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126796/1126796_202102151834.jpg?height=160)
Pathfinder Pioneer
In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi G ...
![Omslagsbild för In the Shadows of Victory](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126800/1126800_202102151836.jpg?height=160)
In the Shadows of Victory
History plays tricks sometimes. During the course of America’s experience it has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in our collective consciousness as “great,” while ign ...
![Omslagsbild för Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126802/1126802_202102151831.jpg?height=160)
Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine
By the fall of 1944 the Western Allies appeared to be having it all their own way. The summer’s Normandy invasion had finally succeeded and the Germans had been driven out of north ...
![Omslagsbild för General Fox Conner](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126803/1126803_202102151839.jpg?height=160)
General Fox Conner
Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.Fox Conner presents the portrait of the quintessential man behind the scenes in U.S. military history. Jo ...
![Omslagsbild för The Way of the Eagle](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126806/1126806_202102151838.jpg?height=160)
The Way of the Eagle
In The Way of the Eagle, Philadelphia native Charles Biddle’s account of flying in World War I, we have a classic aviation memoir, long out of print, that provides new insights int ...
![Omslagsbild för Lincoln's Bold Lion](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126809/1126809_202102151832.jpg?height=160)
Lincoln's Bold Lion
Runner-Up in the 2017 Florida Book Festival History CategoryThis is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra ...
![Omslagsbild för Vanished Hero](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126810/1126810_202102151838.jpg?height=160)
Vanished Hero
A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II.Arriving late to the ...
![Omslagsbild för The White Sniper](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126813/1126813_202102151843.jpg?height=160)
The White Sniper
Simo Häyhä (1905 – 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 – 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, ...
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My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition
One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertisi ...
![Omslagsbild för Be the Worst You Can Be](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126821/1126821_202102152347.jpg?height=160)
Be the Worst You Can Be
Charles Saatchi is a man with strong opinions on everything from movies to morals, superstition to suicide, and in this book he answers nearly 300 questions from readers and journa ...
![Omslagsbild för Babble](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126822/1126822_202102152347.jpg?height=160)
Babble
A book of essays, accompanied by illustrations, that give a revealing insight into the forthright and often controversial views of Charles Saatchi on a wide-ranging number of topic ...
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Fogg in the Cockpit
Renowned for decades as the world’s foremost railroad artist, Howard Fogg’s career spanned half a century and some twelve hundred paintings. However, while his art has been welcome ...
![Omslagsbild för Sharks of the Air](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126712/1126712_202102151801.jpg?height=160)
Sharks of the Air
In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100 mph faster ...
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Eastern Inferno
This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat e ...
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Letters from Verdun
A beautifully written and fully illustrated experience of the Great War from a participant . . .Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic you ...
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Sky My Kingdom
The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War test pilot - Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979).As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited ...
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Awakening Victory
In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Provi ...