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January 1954, Pinky takes a CIA team to Hanoi, to inspect the French military. The assignment: determine if they will be able to conquer the Viet Minh on the battlefield and end this nine-year-old war. A second, secret meeting is also scheduled – Pinky will be meeting with the enemy leader, Ho Chi Minh. French Ambassador Philippe Reynes becomes infatuated with Pinky and makes no attempt to hide his seduction attempts… even in front of her husband, Roger. Three weeks after returning to the U.S., President Eisenhower sends Pinky back to Hanoi for additional covert meetings with Minh. ...

He was not born to rule. The second son of a minor Corsican noble family, he arrived in France as an outsider, a scholarship boy with a thick accent and a burning ambition. This is the definitive story of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his electrifying ascent from obscurity through the bloody crucible of the French Revolution. His ambition remade a continent. Follow the thread of his genius from the stunning victories in Italy that made him a national hero to the audacious Egyptian campaign that cemented his legend. Witness how he harnessed the chaos of a failed republic, seized power, and ...

He was a man of slight stature and a reedy voice, lacking the charismatic fire of his dictatorial contemporaries. Yet Francisco Franco wielded absolute power over Spain for nearly four decades, outlasting the far more infamous figures he once called allies. This is the story of how an accidental soldier, forged in the brutal colonial wars of North Africa, became the unshakeable Caudillo of a modern European nation. His ascent was a masterclass in patient ruthlessness, culminating in a civil war he defined as a holy crusade. While Europe burned, he engaged in a high-stakes diplomatic tango, ...

For three-quarters of a century, the world has watched North Korea as if observing a menacing and incomprehensible political spectacle. The perfectly synchronized parades, the terrifying missile launches, and the bizarre cult of personality surrounding its leaders have made the nation a caricature of totalitarianism. This book moves beyond the headlines to tell the real story of the Hermit Kingdom, which is not the story of an ideology, but of a single family. From the ashes of the Second World War, a minor Soviet-backed guerrilla fighter named Kim Il Sung forged a kingdom in his own image,...

What if your survival depended on the complete erasure of your own identity? Imagine being ripped from the modern world and dropped into the heart of Nazi Germany, where your every belief, gesture, and even the fillings in your teeth are evidence of an impossible origin. This book meticulously deconstructs the process of becoming a ghost, a step-by-step guide to the harrowing intellectual and psychological transformation required to blend into the most dangerous surveillance state in history. The journey begins not with grand strategy, but with the brutal realities of self-annihilation. You...

He was a revolutionary socialist who became the archetype of the modern dictator, a man of the people who demanded absolute obedience. Benito Mussolini's journey began not in triumph, but in the radical politics of a provincial blacksmith's son, a past he would later seek to erase. This book chronicles the complete and astonishing transformation of a man who mastered the tools of propaganda to first build a movement and then to forge a nation in his own image. The March on Rome was not a conquest but a masterful act of political theater, a bluff that handed a fractured country to a man ...

In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the United States Capitol, defending his family's honor and the rights of slaveholders. In beating Sumner unconscious, Brooks fueled a nationwide clash over slavery that ended in civil war. Southern historian Paul Quigley brings Brooks to life more vividly than ever, revealing how his personal struggles shaped the fateful decision to attack Sumner.

The year is 1950, and you have just arrived in the heart of Stalin's Soviet Union with nothing but the clothes on your back and a 21st-century mind. This is not a journey of adventure, but a meticulous instruction manual for the complete deconstruction of your modern identity. Every reflex, belief, and piece of knowledge you possess has become a liability, a secret that can cost you your life. This work dissects the brutal mechanics of a totalitarian society, from the claustrophobic politics of the communal apartment to the unwritten laws of the queue. It reveals how the state's power was ...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of a robust and deadly special operations force—Task Force Dagger. Alan C. Mack, Callsign Razor 03, led a team of MH-47E helicopters and armed MH-60s. Their two-fold mission–Personnel Recovery (PR) and Unconventional Warfare (UW) involved flying in terrain and weather previously not thought possible. If that wasn’t enough, they pushed the flight envelope of their specially modified Chinooks to the limit and beyond.

In this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America's most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments - as well as the endless hard work of maintaining and operating a combat sub - are vividly recalled in Calvert's candid portrait.

The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously balanced with 15 free states and 15 slave states. Up to this point, states had been admitted in pairs, one free and one slave, to preserve that tenuous balance in the Senate.

Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender—and her wooden leg—kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced across Europe, she put her gift for languages to use with the British Special Operations Executive, a secret espionage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France, where she located drop zones, helped prisoners of war flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents.

The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest A single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen Few"--arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late...

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max...

"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention...

Battle of the Arctic is a wonderfully evocative history and largely unknown saga of World War II. As the Soviet Union played its role in the conflict, Ally convoys from Britain, the United States, and Iceland fought to deliver essential supplies to Russia. In a clash of extreme elements—as well as fierce Axis opposition—the effort demonstrated an unparalleled commitment from Allied nations to supporting the Soviet Union.

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes listeners to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan.

A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World War II a human face for millions of Americans even as he wrestled with his own demons At the height of his fame and influence during World War II, Ernie Pyle’s nationally syndicated dispatches...

John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project” (Publishers...

August 1990: Iraqi forces under the command of Saddam Hussein invade the tiny emirate of Kuwait. Within hours, the Kuwaiti defenses collapse under the onslaught of the Iraqi Army. In response, the US military leads a coalition of 34 nations in what becomes Operation Desert Storm—a violent campaign to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait. At the tip of the spear are the men of Ghost Troop in the US Army’s Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based on hours of interviews and archival research by the author, this is a no-holds-barred account of modern warfare…as told by the men who lived it.