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Haym Salomon (also Solomon; April 7, 1740 – January 6, 1785) was a Polish-born American merchant best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he was the prime financier to the Continental Congress.
It was largely due to Turgenev's efforts that the novel started to gain popularity with the European readership. The first French edition of the War and Peace (1879) paved the way for the worldwide success of Leo Tolstoy and his works. [21] Since then many world-famous authors have praised War and Peace as a masterpiece of world literature.
The Corps is a series of war novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the United States Marine Corps before and during the years of World War II and the Korean War.The story features a tightly knit cast of characters in various positions within the Marine Corps, Navy, and upper levels of the United States Government.
What this book brings home is that the modern soldier or, at least the modern American soldier, buttressed by overwhelming aerial firepower, is essentially a marginal figure. In the aftermath of a war he never really got to fight, Swofford suggests that 'sometimes you wish you'd killed an Iraqi'.
Book Designer: Peter Holm Printed in Canada on recycled paper. First printing, July 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolf, Naomi. The end of America : a letter of warning to a young patriot / Naomi Wolf. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-933392-79-0 1. Civil rights—United States. 2.
Heroes is a 1998 novel written by Robert Cormier. The novel is centred on the character Francis Cassavant, a disfigured young man who has just returned to his childhood home of Frenchtown, Massachusetts , from serving in the Second World War in order to take revenge on a man who sexually assaulted his childhood sweetheart.
According to the books, von Greiffenberg is one of the few German officers who had participated in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler whose involvement remained undiscovered. After the war, he becomes the second-in-command of the West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). He is a close friend of Sandy Felter and regards Craig Lowell as a son ...
Fortunes of War is the name given to a series of six novels by Olivia Manning that describe the experiences of a young married couple early in World War II.The series is made up of two trilogies: the books The Great Fortune (1960), The Spoilt City (1962), and Friends and Heroes (1965) comprise The Balkan Trilogy, while The Danger Tree (1977), The Battle Lost and Won (1978), and The Sum of ...