Korea the untold story of the war

Korea: the Untold Story of the War

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Untold War at Sea

The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of p

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Korean War

Telling the story of the more than 100,000 British troops who fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, in their own words

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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios

<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...

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Pulp Empire

Uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government used comic books as propaganda tools to help wage World War II and the Cold War.

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War Behind the Wire

The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.

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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Ireland Tom

Anotace: Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, `good` viruses known as phages are infec...

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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Tom Ireland

<p>Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infect...

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International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War

Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish

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Till the Boys Come Home

The untold story of the army of men and women who kept British theatre alive during the First World War, and how the theatre aided the war effort

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Canberra in the Falklands War

This is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams imagin

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Lindell's List

The untold story of Mary Lindell, one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War

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Fierce

Every Goliath has a David - the untold true story of teenager David Whitelaw, who declared war on unspeakable evil

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Cold War Wilderness of Mirrors

The untold story of the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany.

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Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War - Joannes Wyllie of the steamer Ad-Vance

The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War. Features his life of adventure and action;

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Dressed For War

The untold story of how the world's most renowned fashion magazine was brought into the modern world during the cauldron of the Second World War.

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Remember the Ramrods

The Iraq War˘€™s only living Medal of Honor recipient reveals the untold story of the remarkable brotherhood behind one of the war˘€™s legendary acts

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Flame and the Candle

This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. The myth that li

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Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War

The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Giving an unabashedly Christian

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The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

<p>A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with the...

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Island of Extraordinary Captives

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps

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Island of Extraordinary Captives

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps

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The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth - Schindler Meriel

Anotace: Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler`s List fame? Or Hitler`s Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht, the night that Nazis beat Kurt`s ...

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Nazi Billionaires : The Dark History of Germany´s Wealthiest Dynasties - de Jong David

Anotace: A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II - and how the world allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, Gunther Quandt - patriarch of Germany`s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt clai...

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Nazi Billionaires : The Dark History of Germany´s Wealthiest Dynasties - Jong David de

<p>A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II - and how the world allowed them to get away with it. In 1946, Gunther Quandt - patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt c...

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Area 51

The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files.

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No Greater Ally

"No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II".

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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee

<p>A playful, ambitious and action-packed novel that explores the turbulent story of twentieth-century Korea through the life of one remarkable, charismatic - and unreliable - woman</p> <p>SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So wh...

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Disrupt and Deny

The untold story of Britain's covert military and intelligence operations since the end of World War II, and its secret scheming against enemies, as w

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Grandad's Army

This book tells the largely untold story of WWI's Volunteer Training Corps, the forgotten equivalent of World War II's Home Guard. Self-financing and

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We Were Blackwater

This is the untold story of the security industry and its private war in Iraq, recounted by a man who witnessed it first hand. His visceral, no-holds-

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Stalin´s Last Crime - Brent Jonathan

Anotace: A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin`s last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors` Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be call...

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Stalin´s Last Crime - Jonathan Brent

<p>A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be calle...

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Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe. In this raging Secret War across Europe, an untold darkness spreads deep beneath the Earth and throughout the Forest of Fear. The unknown lurks in the shadows and you must claim victo...

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Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics (PC)

Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.In this raging Secret War across Europe, an untold darkness spreads deep beneath the Earth and throughout the Forest of Fear. The unknown lurks in the shadows and you must claim victor...

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Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Experience a story of politics and intrigue, as Suthseg becomes the flashpoint for another Sky War. Customize, upgrade, and pilot over 30 various airships, from graceful sailing vessels to ironclad dreadnoughts. Assemble a crew of officers among 25 distinct personalities, each with their own abilities and personal stories to tell. Explore and trade across a vast archipela...

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Airship: Kingdoms Adrift (PC)

Experience a story of politics and intrigue, as Suthseg becomes the flashpoint for another Sky War.Customize, upgrade, and pilot over 30 various airships, from graceful sailing vessels to ironclad dreadnoughts.Assemble a crew of officers among 25 distinct personalities, each with their own abilities and personal stories to tell.Explore and trade across a vast archipelago ...

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