Alex: 4765 books
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion
Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A soldier’s true story of danger and adventure as a modern-day legionnaire in Kuwait, Bosnia, and beyond.
With no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection process that followed. When he was accepted,...
Escape from the Deep
A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface, while the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges. As the air ran out,...
The Envoy
The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann...
The Longest Winter
The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions
On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached...
The Few
The American ""Knights of the Air"" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940-over a year before America entered the...
An Enemy We Created
The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
To this day, the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined, and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. In An Enemy We Created, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn debunk this myth and...
The Long List Anthology Volume 4
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the...
by Alex Rooth
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Offered a position in a garment factory in a small town in southern China the author had no idea what to expect. Would it be the start of a brilliant career in the Chinese fashion industry? Would he become a key negotiator for the company in mega-deals with the Chinese government? Would he ever have...
The Feud
Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.
In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States....
The World That Never Was
A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders...
by Alex Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
In June 1944, the Allies, in the largest amphibious military invasion in history, landed on the beaches of Normandy. The Germans knew they were coming. They knew exactly when, and some suspected where, and if their total defence forces had been prepared, the outcome might have been different.But they...
American Crucifixion
The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.
At thirty-nine years old,...
by Alex Zbooker
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
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by Alex Roland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, describing the inventions that changed the direction of warfare throughout history: from fortified walls,...