The forgotten story of Greece's heroic airmen and their contribution to victory.
John C. Carr Livres
L'écriture de John Carr explore l'histoire militaire, avec un accent particulier sur la région méditerranéenne et la Grèce. Son œuvre se caractérise par un profond intérêt pour des événements historiques spécifiques et des forces militaires, telles que les forces aériennes et navales. Carr examine méticuleusement des périodes de conflit cruciales et leur impact sur les régions qu'il aborde. Son style est informatif et factuel.
Gripping combat narrative, full of telling detail and drawing on first-hand testimonies.
Narrates the spirited but ultimately doomed Greek defence against invasion by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in 1940 and 41 Gives the neglected Greek perspective of these important campaigns of WW2 Thoroughly researched, drawing heavily on contemporary Greek sources and eyewitness accounts.
A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs.
This book examines Prince Philip's family background and his relatively little known Greek family as well as his early life as a Greek prince, much of the time in exile.
In the beginning spears were "high-tech", and the most that one weapon could accomplish at one time was one death. But millennia passed and techniques improved. By the time of the Romans a lucky bolt might impale a file of infantry. By the dreadful 20th century the very existence of the race - we still were earth-bound, then - was at risk. But somehow, even though the weapons grew ever more terrible, that risk was averted and humanity gained first the planets and then the stars. And still the weapons grew, until the very universe has cause to fear the wrath of Man... Contents: Reflex by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Spanish Man's Grave by James Warner Bellah Marius by Poul Anderson The Threat by Advisory Commission Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card A Death in Realtime by R.S. McEnroe Overdose by Spider Robinson Saul's Death by Joe Haldeman High Frontier by Robert A. Heinlein and Lt. General Daniel Graham Two Poems by Jon Post Diasporah by W.R. Yates His Truth Goes Marching On by Jerry Pournelle THOR by Weapons Committee of the Citizens' Advisory Coucil on National Space Policy The Defenders by Philip K. Dick Unlimited Warfare by Hayford Pierce The Battle by Robert Sheckley Military Virtue by Jerry Pournelle Ranks of Bronze by David Drake I Am Nothing by Eric Frank Russell Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Quiet Village by David McDaniel Strategy of Technology by Jerry Pournelle Widow's Party by Rudyard Kipling
Traces the military history of the Knights of St John from its origins in the Crusades to their defeat by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. číst celé
Assesses the contribution of those Emperors whose military leadership determined the survival of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. Concise biographies full of human interest: heroism, tragedy, brutality and an epic struggle for survival.
Half-brother to Harald Hardrada, Olaf was himself a Viking of some repute.
Těhotenství, porod a první tři roky života dítěte. V dnešní době prožívají nastávající otcové těhotenství své partnerky více než před lety a přítomnost otce u porodu se stala téměř samozřejmostí. Kniha přináší odpovědi na otázky, které v souvislosti s těhotenstvím, porodem a péčí o malé dítě muže napadají. Nabízí praktické rady typu, jak vyměnit plenku nebo čím nakrmit malé dítě, ale i zamyšlení nad emoční stránkou procesu vrůstání do otcovské role. Zabývá se i upevňováním vztahu s partnerkou, skloubením práce a rodiny, výchovnými styly, prosazováním disciplíny nebo úlohou hry v jednotlivých stadiích dítěte. John C. Carr je sociální pracovník a psychoterapeut s dvacetiletou praxí. Žije a pracuje v New Yorku. Je ženatý a má tři děti.
