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A collection of anecdotes and accounts of remarkable people and events in history.

This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author's part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War. It's speciality focus makes for a truly unique compendium of visceral First World War accounts of the incredible, bloody, aerial battles flown by the RFC, German, American, British and Commonwealth pilots shot down over the Western Front, also including stories of their escapes and lives in PoW camps. Whilst the predominant focus is on the airmen who saw action during the Great War, the author also provides startling tales of female heroism. There is a full chapter dedicated to the life and death of Norfolk heroine, Edith Cavell, a Norwich-born nurse who saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers from both sides during the conflict, and perished in the endeavour. Amongst the famous pilots covered are; VCs Billy Bishop and Freddie West; Dice-with-Death Dallas; Mannock - The King of the Fighter Aces and Frank Luke the Balloon Buster. This book contains vivid accounts of some of the most heroic actions in the history of aerial warfare, all taking place within the brutal four year stretch of the Great War.
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• Introduction.Part One-Shock Waves Hit America."On the Ground, by God!"Dispute in the President's Office.Calls for Retreat to Rockies.Submarines Off West Coast .Roosevelt Rallies the Nation.Eavesdropper in the German Embassy.A Television Pioneer.Instant Psychologists.Strange Doings across the Land.A Stop-and-Go Railroad Trip."San Francisco Is Being Bombed!"Watching for Enemy Paratroopers.A Covert Raid into Mexico.Fear for Roosevelt's Life.FBI Joins in Sinking Submarine.Rounding Up Subversive Suspects.A Feud over Wiretapping.Mission: Halt Ambassador's Hara-Kiri.A Field Marshal Is Shocked.Nazi U-Boat in New York Harbor.A Journalist Prowls the Normandie.The Salesman's Luck Runs Out.Part Two-America under Siege.Joe Louis Contributes Huge Purse.A Grieving Father Joins Navy.Self-Appointed Do-Gooders.A Hollywood Victory Committee.Actress Dies for Her Country.Dismantling a Nazi Spy Network.A Debacle in Manhattan.The Battle of Los Angeles."We Poison Rats and Japs".Goal: Coalition of Africa and Japan.Mysterious Malady on Ships.The FBI and the OSS Feud.Hijinks on a Hospital Roof.Suspicions Run Rampant."German Officers" Stalk Harbor.Commercial Radio's First War.U-Boats "Ruining" Tourist Season.Helping a German POW Escape.Strange Scenario in San Francisco.Silencing a Priest Rabble-Rouser.Nazi Agents in Key Industry Posts.Blasts Rock Defense Facilities.Eastern America Set Ablaze.The Mysterious Shangri-la.Comic Strip Puzzles Tokyo Warlords.Disaster Impacts Two U.S. Towns."A Date with Destiny".A Tumultuous Homecoming.Lord Haw-Haw and His Spies.Part Three-A Sleeping Giant Awakens.Invasion Target: California.Washington: Chaotic Capital.A Young Reporter Is Awed."Doll Woman" an Enemy Agent.Panic Erupts at Concert.Standard Oil Aids the Nazis.A Guidebook for Nazi Spies.They Came to Blow Up America.Artillery Confrontation in Oregon.German-American Bund Demolished.First Lady Rattles Some Cages."I'm Proud of You, Mom!"Horse Racing FlourishesPsychological Saboteurs at Work.Hollywood Superstars Sign Up to Fight.War Hero Meets Joe Kennedy.Wants to Spotlight U.S. Spies.Government Censors Movies.Navajo Code-Talkers.Popular Orchestra Disbanded.Gone with the Wind in Chicago.Nasty Bartenders and Redneck Cops.Plane Bombs Pacific Northwest.Part Four-A Nation in Total War.Covert Project on Constitution Avenue.Patton Calls on the President.Weapons Mysteriously Vanish.A Huge Bounty on Hitler's Head.A Tempest in a Teapot.Press Conference for "Women Only".Secret Plan to Draft Females.Women in Combat Experiment.Jailbreak for a Boyfriend.Megabucks for Jack Benny's Violin."Mom, Keep Your Chin Up!".Firm Gets Big Payoff.A Glamorous Nazi Agent.Marine Commander's Dilemma.A Patriotic Heroine's Long Ordeal.A Platinum Smuggler's Demise."Get Going! Time Is Short!"Women Flock to War Plants.Recruiting the Blind and the Deaf.Offer to a Striptease Artist.The FBI Arrests "Good Old Ernie".America's Least-Known Boomtown."Hello, America! Berlin Calling!".A Picture Stuns the Nation.A Tragedy in St. Louis."Legal Kidnapping" by Soviet Thugs.Spy Nabbed a Second Time.Scoundrels in the War Effort."Bomb Japan Out of Existence".War Hero Bounced from Air Corps.An Overseer of GI Morals.Top-Secret Projects Opened to Women.Roosevelt: Chloroform Drew Pearson.An Ace German Operative.Part Five-On the Road to Victory.Hoodwinking Hitler from New York.A Spy in Allied Headquarters?Two Broadcast Rivals Called Up.Tributes to a Fallen Female Pilot.Cheers for a Lady.D Day Anxieties and Prayers.A Virginia Town Is Jolted.Calamity at Port Chicago.Secret Project in a Movie Studio.WASPs Test New B-29.The Fable of Fala.Roosevelt's Foe Keeps a Secret.A Father-and-Daughter Spy Team.Stumbling into a World Series.A Riot Erupts in New York City.Dark Intruders Sneak Ashore.Robot Bombs Threaten East Coast.The Fuhrer Staggers America.Back Home for Christmas.Episode on a Florida Bus.A GI Changes His Mind.Part Six-The Lights Go On Again.A Blaze of Glory.A "Byrne-out" Hits the Nation."It Was His Duty".A Battered Warrior Limps Home.Visit by a Navy Chaplain."Will I Be Able to See?"."Franklin Died Like a Soldier".Mama Truman Visits the White House.GIs' Best Friend Dies in Battle.Restrained Joy Breaks Out.Two Old Friends Meet.Poll: Hang Hirohito."Your Son Is Close to Death".A Rain of Explosive Balloons.Paratroopers in Operation Firefly.A Purple Heart Parade.Plane Crashes into Skyscraper.An Invasion of German Scientists.Curious Happenings in Utah.A Haunting Prediction.Proposed Use of Disabling Gas."I Was Thinking about Our Boys"."Let's Take a Second Day Off!".A Nation Goes Wild.A GI Refugee Returns."Experts" Visualize Crime Wave.Notes and Sources.Index.
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Military actions, espionage, and skullduggery in World War II - William Breuer, popular raconteur of fresh and surprising stories from World War II, returns with over fifty little-known tales from the homefront. Based on Breuer's extensive collection of information from personal interviews, official archives, declassified documents, books, articles, and magazines, this fascinating book shares brief stories of military action and espionage on the homefront during World War II - stories that are vivid, fast-paced, and incredibly dramatic. William B. Breuer (Cleveland, TN) is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-six military history books, including "Unexplained Mysteries of World War II" (0-471-17559-5), "Undercover Tales of World War II" (0-471-31862-0), and "Top Secret Tales of World War II" (0-471-35382-5), all from Wiley.Ten of his books have been Main Selections of the Military Book Club, including "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan", which Miramax is filming to premiere in early 2003.
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"My Dear People is made up of three different alternating ingredients, each by a different author: a historical account of surrounding military events by Christopher McManus, Constance Crawford's commentary on her father's letters, and the letters themselves by Ned Crawford. These writings are interwoven chronologically here to make Private Ned Crawford's story comprehensible, entertaining, and moving. The letters Ned wrote to his best friend while serving as a soldier in World War I offer an intimate, quirky, and intelligent account of what it was like for a thirty-one-year-old man who abhorred war and any official interference with individual freedom to submit to a wartime draft and to perform his part in the enormous human drama that was the American Expeditionary Force."--Provided by publisher.

"My Dear People is made up of three different alternating ingredients, each by a different author: a historical account of surrounding military events by Christopher McManus, Constance Crawford's commentary on her father's letters, and the letters themselves by Ned Crawford. These writings are interwoven chronologically here to make Private Ned Crawford's story comprehensible, entertaining, and moving. The letters Ned wrote to his best friend while serving as a soldier in World War I offer an intimate, quirky, and intelligent account of what it was like for a thirty-one-year-old man who abhorred war and any official interference with individual freedom to submit to a wartime draft and to perform his part in the enormous human drama that was the American Expeditionary Force."--Provided by publisher.

• A pretty personal matter
• The writing Sixty-Ninth
• The youthful dean of American Air-War writers
• Invasion jitters
• Once this war is over.

With hair-raising accounts of bomb raids and glittery tales of elbow-rubbing with the likes of Clark Gable, Andy Rooney, and Ernest Hemingway, Cronkite's War captures what foreword writer Tom Brokaw calls a quintessential American story. The book recounts Walter Cronkite's experience as a United Press correspondent covering the air war in Europe from 1943-45, told through letters to his young wife Besty. Selected by his grandson, Walter Cronkite IV, and historian Maurice Isserman, this captivating correspondence chronicles the excitement and complexity of one of the world's great historical events, seen through the eyes of the reporter who would go on to become the most trusted man in America as anchorman of the CBS Evening News.
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• Acknowledgments. Introduction. Elizabeth I versus Mary. Parliament versus Charles I. Burr versus Hamilton. Hatfields versus McCoys. Stalin versus Trotsky. Amundsen versus Scott. Duchess of Windsor versus Queen Mother. Montgomery versus Patton. Johnson versus Kennedy. Hoover versus King. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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"Everyone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests with skill and flair."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The dramatic stories of ten high-stakes feuds that changed history forever In this spicy follow-up to the successful Great Feuds in Science and Great Feuds in Medicine, author Colin Evans offers blow-by-blow accounts of ten of the nastiest and most consequential feuds in history, from Elizabeth I's lengthy spat with royal pain Mary, Queen of Scots, to Aaron Burr's bloody battle with Alexander Hamilton, to Stalin and Trotsky's ferocious, intercontinental set-to. Detailing the historical context as well as the dramatic human stories behind these struggles, Great Feuds in History presents both famous disputes, such as the storied backwoods war waged by the Hatfields and McCoys, and lesser-known cases, such as the equally monumental feud between Generals Montgomery and Patton. Colin Evans (Pembs, UK) is the author of the Casebook of Forensic Detection (Wiley: 0-471-28369-X), and a forthcoming book on forensic controversies.
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• Introduction: just the way it was
• This is my town
• Coming to Orange
• Children at a unique time
• Teenagers live forever
• The women: very good, very strong
• Being black in Orange
• Top people in shipyard management
• They got the job done: out in the yards
• Buy anything, sell anything: doing business
• Conclusion: like a hybrid
• Epilogue
• Appendices: Orange 1944 ; Seeing, remembering ; Procedure.

Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas's easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern town of 7,500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial city of 60,000. The bayou community on the Sabine became one of the nation's preeminent shipbuilding centers. In "They Called It the War Effort, " Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it. Some residents who lived in the town before the war speak of nostalgia for the time when Orange was a small, close-knit community and regret for the loss of social cohesiveness of former days, while others speak of the exciting new opportunities and interesting new people that came. Interviewees tell how newcomers from rural areas in Louisiana and East Texas tried to adjust to a new life in close living quarters and to new amenities-like indoor toilets. People from all walks of life talk of the economic shift from the cash and job shortages of Depression era to a war era when these things were in abundance, but they also tell of how wartime rationing made items like Coca-Cola treasured luxuries. Fairchild deftly draws on a wide array of secondary sources in psychology and history to tie together and broaden the perspectives offered by World War II Orangeites. The second edition of this justly praised book features more interviews with non-white residents of Orange, as Japanese Americans and especially African Americans speak not only of the challenges of wartime economic dislocations, but also of living in a southern town where Jim Crow still reigned."Publication of this book was supported by a generous grant from the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation".
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