Henry Carter Hull

L'histoire poignante de ces pilotes japonais sacrifiés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale A l'heure actuelle, il existe encore des hommes et des femmes qui apprennent, jour après jour, les moindres détails de leur mission suicide, et qui se préparent psychologiquement à sacrifier leur vie à un idéal dont on les a persuadés, à force de manipulations, qu'il était grand et noble. Tels ont été les pilotes kamikazes qu'en un geste désespéré...

When WWII ends, Bruce Duncan, a battlefront surgeon, returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania with plans of opening a general practice, fly fishing in his spare time, and forgetting the past. But the ravages of his war aren't over. Haunted by images of soldiers he tried to save, his own near-death experiences, and the love he lost, Bruce has little respite before new battles grip him. His brother, a decorated fighter pilot, is sinking fast and...

This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The USA Today bestseller Keep her secret. Keep her safe. On the 14th November 1940, Hitler's bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved... As the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of...

During the Second World War daring and highly unusual missions were mounted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—formed on Churchill's orders 'to set Europe ablaze'—and its American counterpart, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In sixteen separate chapters the author describes how the fearless individuals in these clandestine organisations were recruited, trained and armed, and examines some of their guerrilla operations in Europe,...

Nearly a century of Japanese Imperial rule, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the end of WWII, is explored in this sweeping history. Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan established itself as a world power through rapid industrialization and militarization. Aligned with the Entente Powers during the First World War, Japan made a proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference-only to be overruled by American President Woodrow...

""An epic thriller about a secret Nazi submarine and its mission . . . a tasty combination of Ken Follett and Clive Cussler" from the award-winning author ( The Novel Pursuit ). Cruising from the sub pens of Trondheim under the cover of darkness-undetected by the sonar scans of Allied enemies-Kapitaenleutnant Erich Heinz Bruckner leads the experimental submarine U-5001 in a last-ditch effort for Nazi victory. But their sinister 1945 voyage ends mysteriously:...

It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to secure 'peace in our time', the inevitable has befallen...

A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet spy and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union's...

In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists,...

Józef Stalin był sekretarzem generalnym Komunistycznej Partii Związku Radzieckiego od 1922 roku i przywódcą ZSRR od 1924 do 1953 roku. Stalin był najbardziej znany ze swoich rządów terroru nad ZSRR. Rządził Rosją żelazną ręką, doprowadził kraj do szybkiego uprzemysłowienia poprzez niesławne plany pięcioletnie, wprowadził obozy pracy przymusowej znane jako gułagi i popełnił szereg brutalnych zbrodni i okrucieństw. W ciągu zaledwie...