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From the NYT bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War IIIn April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China.  Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THU...

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Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition. A new, updated edition of the account of one of history's greatest epics of survival.

Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the rationale of the war they fought as fiercely as did Homers hero Achilles. Today, the Iliad is celebrated as one of the greatest works in literature, the epic of all epics, many have forgotten that the subject of this ancient poem was war not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but War, in all its enduring devastation. Using the legend of the Troja...

Im August 1914 stechen Sir Ernest Shackleton und seine Mannschaft in See. Die Mission ihrer Expedition: Als erste Menschen die Antarktis zu durchqueren. Doch knapp vor dem Ziel wird die »Endurance« vom Packeis eingeschlossen und das Schiff allmählich zerdrückt. Zwei Monate lang verharrt die Besatzung auf einer Eisscholle, bis Sir Shackleton das Unfassbare wagt: Mit fünf seiner Männer legt er in einem offenen Boot die 800 Seemeilen lange Fahrt ...

The carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie..." -- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's "Endurance" When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance" became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of the ordeal. Closely based on the ...

Various empires have admired it as a book that in telling the story of the siege of Troy also extols the warrior ethic, and teaches the young how to die well.Yet the figure at the heart of the epic, the consummate warrior Achilles, is a brooding, controversial hero.

In July 2009 an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast made an astonishing find: 1500 pieces of bejeweled gold and silver almost 1500 years old, buried, lost, then forgotten. The treasure trove promises to shed unprecedented light on the most mysterious period of British history-the so-called "Dark Ages"-when the Saxons, Anglos, Celts, Picts, Jutes, and Vikings battled for control of the British Isles and a "mish mash of peoples evolved into a hom...

Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism.

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Lewis describes and celebrates effective teaching. Her book is part real world discussion of the qualities of effective teachers and part reminder of all the power that comes with the job. A celebration of effective teaching, Just Back Off and LET US TEACH, by author Caroline Alexander Lewis, applauds effective teachers and acknowledges the enormous range of realities that make up a day in their lives. Lewis recognizes the extraordinary effo...

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Examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective. This book elucidates the centrality of these urban transformations to citizens' understandings of their own socio-economic condition.