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Befriaren : 500 dagars kamp i andra världskrigets Europa

AvAlex Kershaw

Pocket, Svenska, 2018

(13)

99 kr

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»Viktig och läsvärd krigsbiografi.« Corren

Den bästsäljande historikern Alex Kershaw har skrivit en enastående skildring av soldaten Felix Sparks ofattbara öde.

Den amerikanske officeren Felix Sparks livsöde är exceptionellt. Under 500 dagar stred han sig genom Europa. Han kämpade mot tyskarna på Sicilien, deltog i de blodiga striderna i Italien samt i invasionen av Frankrike och vid Ardenneroffensiven.

Men kampen tog inte slut där. På väg mot München, nazismens födelsestad, fick Sparks och hans förband order om att bege sig till koncentrationslägret Dachau. Han blev en av de första som upptäckte den mänskliga tragedin bakom lägrets grindar.

Den bästsäljande historikern Alex Kershaw har skrivit en enastående skildring av soldaten Felix Sparks ofattbara öde. Hans 500 dagar i strid sammanfaller med den tid det tog att befria Europa från nazismen.

Pressröster om boken:

»Det har blivit en fascinerande och gripande skildring av en fattig ung mans uppväxt och hans liv i armén.« Dast Magazine

»De målande beskrivningarna är realistiska, och som läsare känner man sig nästan närvarande på Siciliens stränder och längs vägen upp till koncentrationslägret Dachau. Militärhistoriskt intresserade har här en välskriven och fascinerande läsning, och det gäller även de som gillar biografier!« Bibliotekstjänst

»Boken är mycket läsvärd och ger kunskap och perspektiv på historiens hittills största konflikt.« Hemmets vän

Jack London

A Life

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

166 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer. ‘We cannot help but read on’: TLS. ‘The energy, dynamism and sheer bursting life-force of Jack London bowls you over’: Scotsman. Jack London’s life story (1876–1916) is as dramatic as any of the fiction he wrote. Born illegitimate in San Francisco, he was (in his teens) an oyster pirate, seal-hunter, hobo, Klondike goldminer – and spectacular drinker.On publication of The Call of the Wild in 1903, he became the most highly publicised writer in the world. Subsequent books, including Martin Eden, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, John Barleycorn, The Sea Wolf, continue in print as world classics in many languages.Apart from writing 50 books, he lectured for the Socialist Party in America; was a war correspondent in Korea and Mexico; introduced surfing to the West Coast; sailed the seven seas in his yacht, the Snark…

Liberator

One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

(1)

150 kr

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_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.The US Army 157th regiment, known as the Thunderbirds, drew many of its men from more than fifty different Native American tribes, mixed in with Mexican-Americans and men more used to herding cattle in the American southwest. Felix Sparks, tasked with leading the diverse regiment regarded by generals as one of the US's finest fighting forces, was a maverick officer, and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end.Here, his remarkable true story is told for the first time, along with those of the men who bravely fought alongside him._______________________'Exceptional....The Liberator balances evocative prose with attention to detail and is a worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers' Wall Street Journal'A revealing portrait of a man who led by example and suffered a deep emotional wound with the loss of each soldier under his command ... The Liberator is a worthwhile and fast-paced examination of a dedicated officer navigating - and somehow surviving - World War II.' Washington Post'A history of the American war experience in miniature, from the hard-charging enthusiasm of the initial landings to the clear-eyed horror of the liberation of the concentration camps.' The Daily Beast'Kershaw has ensured that individuals and entire battles that might have been lost to history, or overshadowed by more 'important' people and events, have their own place in the vast, protean tale of World War II ... Where Kershaw succeeds, and where The Liberator is at its most riveting and satisfying, is in its delineation of Felix Sparks as a good man that other men would follow into Hell - and in its unblinking, matter-of-fact description, in battle after battle, of just how gruesome, terrifying and dehumanizing that Hell could be.' Time

Bedford Boys

One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

270 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia- population just 3,000 in 1944- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost- it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. The Bedford Boys is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II- the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.

Blood And Champagne

The Life And Times Of Robert Capa

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

219 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam. Always close to the action, he created some of the most enduring images ever made with a camera- perhaps none more memorable than the gritty photos taken on the morning of D-Day.But the drama of Capa's life wasn't limited to one side of the lens. Born in Budapest as Andre Freidman, Capa fled political repression and anti-Semitism as a teenager by escaping to Berlin, where he first picked up a Leica camera. He founded Magnum, which today remains the most prestigious photographic agency of its kind. He was a gambler and seducer of several of his era's most alluring icons, including Ingrid Bergman, and his friends included Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and John Huston.From Budapest in the twenties to Paris in the thirties, from postwar Hollywood to Stalin's Russia, from New York to Indochina, Blood and Champagne is a wonderfully evocative account of Capa's life and times.

Longest Winter

The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

253 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs." Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing hundreds of German soldiers. Only when they had run out of ammunition did they surrender to the enemy. But their long winter was just beginning. As POWs, the platoon experienced an ordeal far worse than combat-surviving in wretched German POW camps. Yet miraculously the men of the platoon survived-all of them-and returned home after the war. More than thirty years later, when President Carter recognized the platoon's "extraordinary heroism" and the U.S. Army approved combat medals for all eighteen men, they became America's most decorated platoon of World War II. With the same vivid and dramatic prose that made The Bedford Boys a national bestseller, Alex Kershaw brings to life the story of these little-known heroes-an epic tale of courage, duty, and survival in World War II and one of the most inspiring episodes in American history. The Longest Winter is an intensely human story about young men who find themselves in frightening wartime situations, who fight back instinctively, survive stoically, and live heroically.

Few

The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

213 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940-over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few." Now, with the narrative drive and human drama that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter national bestsellers, Alex Kershaw tells their story for the first time.

Escape from the Deep

A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

206 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface, while the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges. As the air ran out, some of the crew made a daring ascent through the escape hatch. In the end, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived. But the survivors were beginning a far greater ordeal. After being picked up by the Japanese, they were sent to an interrogation camp known as the Torture Farm." When they were liberated in 1945, they were close to death, but they had revealed nothing to the Japanese, including the greatest secret of World War II. With the same heart-pounding narrative drive that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter national bestsellers, Alex Kershaw brings to life this incredible story of survival and endurance.

Envoy

The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

213 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save tens of thousands of Jews, defying mass murderer Adolf Eichmann and crazed Hungarian fascists while enduring one of the bloodiest sieges of World War II. Tragically, when Budapest was finally liberated, the Holocaust's greatest hero had disappeared into the Soviet gulag to this day, his exact fate is unknown.

The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

260 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Jack London: A Life

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

296 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

The First Wave

The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

301 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The first to fight when the stakes were highest and the odds longest, these men would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler's fortress Europe-and the very history of the twentieth century. The result is an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw's remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on World War II's longest day.

Against All Odds

A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War I

AvAlex Kershaw

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

355 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

160 kr

Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar

'History’s greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can' —Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call'An absolute triumph' —James M. Scott, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and national bestselling author of Target Tokyo and Rampage'The unforgettable human drama of history's most consequential invasion' —John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day—The Big Red One at Omaha BeachBeginning in the pre-dawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions. Their actions would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. The ten make a charismatic, unforgettable cast. They include the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the only British soldier that day to earn a Victoria's Cross; the Canadian brothers who led their decimated troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; the colonel who faced the powerful 150mm guns of the Merville Battery; as well as a French commando who helped destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach. The book will give authentic voice to the invaders' enemies, the German enlisted men and officers tasked with destroying the Allies as they hit the beaches.The result is an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven drama, an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw's remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on the Second World War's longest day.Praise for Alex Kershaw:‘From the opening pages, when Kershaw...drops us into the invasion of Paris, we know that we are in good hands. This is classic narrative nonfiction, constructed and written like a thriller.’ Chicago Tribune‘Exceptional.... balances evocative prose with attention to detail and is a worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers.’ Wall Street Journal‘Kershaw's writing is seamless. He incorporates information from a vast array of sources, but it works--you get a sense of the different voices coming into the story....A gripping read.’ Minneapolis Star Tribune

First Wave

The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War

AvAlex Kershaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2030

109 kr

Kommande

Forgotten 500

AvGregory A. Freeman,Alex Kershaw

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

303 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

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Alex Kershaw – författare

Befriaren : 500 dagars kamp i andra världskrigets Europa

Jack London

Liberator

Bedford Boys

Blood And Champagne

Longest Winter

Few

Escape from the Deep

Envoy

The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau

Jack London: A Life

The First Wave

Against All Odds

Against All Odds

Patton's Prayer

Patton's Prayer

Against All Odds

Patton's Prayer

First Wave

First Wave

Forgotten 500

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