Leo: 1933 books

In Wotan's First Mission, von Dodenburg tackles the inpenetrable Fort Eben Emael. SS Assault Regiment Wotan was preparing for a mission so secret that it was known just by its codename, Zero. Only The Vulture, Major Horst Geier, knew that the objective was the key Belgian fortress guarding...

Frozen Mountain, previously entitled Blood and Ice. On the precipitous, icy slopes of Grey Eagle Mountain a few desperate men fight like wild animals for survival. They are the last of Hitler's deadly elite: the Waffen SS. Assault Regiment Wotan has been mercilessly cut down in the forests...

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

In the spring of 1943, SS Wotan is preparing for an all-out desperate attack against a formiddable foe with a formiddable tank: the Russian T-34. But Germany has a card up its sleeve: the brand new Tiger. Its might will form the centrepiece of Operation Citadel, a mighty push to dislodge the Russians...

“A must!” —Lee Child Black Ops veteran Leo J. Maloney delivers an explosive tale of international intrigue and the menace of a third World War. The clock is ticking… Twelve Hours New York City is under siege. A bomb has exploded in Penn Station. Islamic terrorists have occupied the Waldorf...

On April 19, 1967, Air Force Colonel Leo Thorsness was on a mission over North Vietnam when his wingman was shot down by an enemy MiG, which then lined up for a gunnery pass on the two American pilots who had bailed out. Although his F 105 was not designed for aerial combat, Thorsness engaged the MiG...

In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny. The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the RAF that emerged triumphant, thanks...

A masterfully suspenseful “gem of a novel” in which a man finds himself caught between two realities (San Francisco Chronicle). According to the medical staff, Dr. Georg Amberg has been in the hospital for five weeks, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car. But...

In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future...

Book Two THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE JUST The Holocaust in the Italian occupied zone in southern France during World War II Before an Allied military presence exists on the continent, Roosevelt sends Allen Dulles, the future head of America's CIA, to Berne, Switzerland. Through...

For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances...

The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.

"Three Deaths" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1859. It narrates the deaths of three subjects: a noblewoman, a coachman and a tree.

Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat. For the first time, this long out-of-print...