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Author: C.S. Forester Publisher: eNet Press ISBN: 1618861123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
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A gripping collection of C.S. Forester's stories about World War II. Since most of the stories were written during the war, their authenticity is compelling. Possibly among the best war stories ever written.
Author: C.S. Forester Publisher: eNet Press ISBN: 1618861123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
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A gripping collection of C.S. Forester's stories about World War II. Since most of the stories were written during the war, their authenticity is compelling. Possibly among the best war stories ever written.
Author: Yannis Tzifopoulos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Burial Languages : en Pages : 373
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A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. Te deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had "earned Paradise."
Author: Philip Nemec Publisher: Chestnut Books Press ISBN: 9781737246800 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 294
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Set on the Greek island of Crete, The Shape of Crete is a thrilling drama and passionate love story between a Bulgarian artist, Steffi, and James, an American historian. Rekindling their romance after a separation, Crete's history of ancient myths and Nazi occupation entwines them in surprise and danger. They meet an Englishman searching for traces of his brother missing since 1943, and a local woman whose father was a partisan war leader; and then, shards of information reveal Steffi's grandfather fought with the Nazis. Danger lurks when a local thug decides Steffi and Jim's relationships with the others concerns gold lost in the war. The final tension-driven scenes unfold in a labyrinth-like cave in the spirit of the mythical battle between Theseus and the Minotaur. The unexpected conclusion questions whether love's best outcome is enlightenment or physical survival.
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421436094 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 515
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Originally published in 1985. Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, in the first volume of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, discuss Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to manage moneys of account and coins. Money merchants of Venice developed a system whereby a premium attached to moneys of account acted as a stabilizing force and allowed merchants to engage in long-term trade. This system, according to the authors, helped establish Venice as a dominant city-state in international trade and exchange. This book outlines the development and success of this system through 1508. At the time it was first published, this book made a significant contribution to the history of money and economics by underscoring the large role that Venice played in the economic history of the West and the ascendance of capitalism as a structuring force of society.
Author: Rick Stroud Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632861941 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War II and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all. There have been other accounts, but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters, and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.
Author: Antony Beevor Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848546351 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best book we have got on Crete' Observer The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive.
Author: C.S. Forester
Author: C.S. Forester
Author: Yannis Tzifopoulos
Author: Cecil Scott Forester
Author: Philip Nemec
Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Author: United States Centennial Commission
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Author: Rick Stroud
Author: Antony Beevor
Author: United States Centennial Commission