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For fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and helps exonerate the ship's captain 50 years later. Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just 11 years old. This was 50 years after the ship had sunk, throwing more than 1,000 men into shark-infested waters - a long 50 years in which justice still had not been served.

Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans. In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated - Operation Mincemeat.

Viet Nam may be the only war we ever fought, or perhaps that was ever fought, in which the heroism of the American soldier was accompanied by humanitarianism unmatched in the annals of warfare. And the humanitarianism took place during the heat of the battle. The GI fixed as he fought, he cured and educated and built in the middle of the battle. He truly cared for, and about, those people. What other Army has ever done that? Humanitarianism was America's great victory in Viet Nam.

"We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years, Steve Utah was a Bandidos insider. He arranged the security of their clubhouses. He 'cooked' ecstasy and ice for them. He was at meetings where interstate and overseas drug and weapons smuggling was planned. He saw stolen military weapons being sold. He witnessed vicious beatings, helped dump corpses.It all became too much and, in an attempt to regain control of his life, Utah resorted to the unthinkable....

During HeatingHelp.com’s Dead Men Tales podcast, industry expert and master storyteller Dan Holohan shares the stories behind the work and fun facts you may not know about heating history.

Dead Man WalkingHosted By: Bugsy SiegalGuest: Ryan Michael MarshallProduced By: Dolly LaneCover Art : C. White The TruthBeat: Remorse By: CobraDead Man Walking is the title of this Interview Based on the fact that Ryan Michael Marshall was sentenced to Death. Remorse into action is a way of life and Ryan Michael Marshall found his path to Redemption on California's Death Row. Living Amends is the best effort a remorseful person can take towards restorative justice in hopes to create a path of healing.

Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the US Marines arrive to take over. Best-selling author Toby Harnden describes how men from the coal mining valleys and slate quarry villages of Wales found themselves in the most intense combat faced by British troops for a generation.

ABOUT BRAD TAYLORBrad Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), is a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces, including eight years with the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta, popularly known as Delta Force. Taylor retired in 2010 after serving more than two decades and participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, as well as classified operations around the globe. His final military post was as assistant professor of military science at The Citadel. Brad has written seventeen New York Times bestsellers and is a security consultant on ...

 Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the 19th century. Focusing on nearly 300 military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic.  

Join our journey as we investigate the original and definitive Wild West gunfighter. Hickok's actual life defied the stereotypes of his legend as much as it lived up to them. We will be examining Hickok through a lens of scrutiny as we attempt to separate fact from fiction. We will also be viewing him through the eyes of a man who has been impacted personally by Wild Bill's life: my dad, Jerry Allan, who has portrayed Hickok on stage and written and sung songs about him for the past 35 years.Subscribe to our newsletter to qualify for free perks, and the follow the progress of our multimedia ...

In 1931 On a night cold enough to freeze your bones, a larger than life prospector, in search of a legendary lost gold mine in the wilderness of British Columbia, disappears without a trace. Known for his solid gold teeth and team of black stallions, he was a force of nature. So was he murdered? Did he fake his own death? Or was he the latest victim of a curse? 40 years earlier Slumach was accused of murder and from the gallows it is said that set a curse on anyone who searched for his hidden gold mine just before he was hanged. Since then many have sought his fortune and have met their ...

Dead Man Talking, led Alex on an investigation into the crimes and confessions of The Railroad Killer, Angel Resendiz.

This book describes how kids are able to look beyond those labels imposed by people higher in the social order and see the characters that exist in all walks of life. It also offers sketches of life on a farm in the rural Snoqualmie Valley.

In 1931, a larger than life prospector, in search of Slumach’s legendary lost gold mine goes missing in the wilderness of British Columbia. In this episode, we retrace the epic search and rescue efforts that went into looking for the missing prospector as well potential clues left behind at his campsite, that point to an even bigger mystery of what happened to Volcanic Brown? Host: Kru Williams Guest: Adam Palmer Facebook - @HISTORYCanada Instagram - @deadmanscurse Instagram - @Historyca Instagram - @kru_williams Twitter - @HistoryTVCanada Curiouscast website: https://curiouscast.ca...

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Hello and welcome everybody to "Dead Men Do Tell Tales" with Nikita, a history podcast where i talk about individuals and incidents from our past that seem too bizarre to be true. I will be posting new episodes here weekly so do stay tuned and support me by following and sharing this podcast with your friends and family. Thank you for listening and until next time, just like my boy Magellan used to say, "Catch you on the other tide!".

Pre-release pricing for a limited time! Regularly $7.99 DEAD MAN RIDING In this Eastwoodish western, no one in that troubled part of Texas had ever heard of anyone named Fanton, but that was the name prodigal brother Hawk Spradlin whispered just before he pulled his gun on a quiet, grim stranger and got himself killed. It happened one evening just before dark in Hoot Spradlin’s dugout store and saloon. The skinflint rancher was saving his coal oil until full darkness forced him to light a lamp, and he could not see the stranger clearly. But he got the drop on the tall man from behind with...

On Sale for a Limited Time!! Normally $7.99. A FEW DEAD MEN Wearing a badge and a Colt .45, Ben Cobbett had tamed some of the wildest towns in the West. When he stopped in the isolated desert town of Rockville to give himself and his tired horse a little rest, he wasn’t looking for another wild town to tame. But an old rancher wanted him to clean out a gang of vicious outlaws and rustlers who had ruined the old man’s daughter and run off most of his stock. What were a few dead men to a gunslinging town tamer like Ben Cobbett? The bad ones weren’t afraid of Cobbett. They thought it ...

On Sale for a Limited Time! Regularly $7.99. DEAD MAN'S TRAIL Four hired gunmen killed Tom Bannon's brother and disappeared without a trace, leaving no trail that he could follow. So he decided to follow the back trail of his dead brother, hoping it would lead him to the killers and the man who had hired them. The trail led him all over the Southwest and up into Wyoming, to places where his dead brother had a lot of enemies and a friend he never should have trusted. None of them would feel safe until Tom Bannon was as dead as his brother. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt:...

This historical, true crime podcast hosted by Kru Williams from History Television's hit original series Deadman’s Curse: The Legend of the Lost Gold investigates the curse and legend surrounding the lost gold mine of Pitt Lake. On their quest they're joined by members of the Stó:lō and Katzie First Nations, historians and cultural experts of diverse backgrounds, as they sort fact from fiction and give Slumach a voice from the other side of the veil. You'll hear about how an Indigenous prospector, accused of murder set a curse on anyone who searched for his hidden gold just before he was ...