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The inspirational story of three international runners attempting to achieve what no one had managed - to break the four-minute mile barrier. It was the ultimate test of endurance, and the human drama that unfolded is told here for the first time....

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This edition does not include illustrations.The inspirational story of three international runners attempting to achieve what no one had managed - to break the four-minute mile barrier. It was the ultimate test of endurance, and the human drama th...

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That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory.  But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gea...

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The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America. ...

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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, a World War II spy adventure set in Norway that draws on top-secret documents and memoirs of the saboteurs.In 1942, the Nazis were racing to complete...

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The first complete narrative of the pursuit & capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, by a New York Times-bestselling author.When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his...

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New York Times-Bestselling Author: An "e;enthralling"e; account of the three world-class athletes who became the first runners to break the four-minute mile (The New York Times Book Review).A San Francisco Chronicle and ESPN Best Book of t...

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The New York Times bestselling author thrillingly recounts how an underdog driving team beat Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows in the 1938 Pau Grand Prix. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international ra...

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"In the years before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. The Nazis poured money into the development of new race cars, and Mercedes-Benz came out with ...

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The dramatic story of Gandhi and India's long march to freedom by award-winning author Neal Bascomb. In 1930, the Indian people, long ruled by their British occupiers, were at a breaking point. No more could many stand the terrible demands of colo...

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In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied...

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In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied...

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It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric...

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It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectr...

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Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to...

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Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to...

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»Neal Bascombs bok¿Operation tungt vatten¿är något så ovanligt som en noggrant efterforskad fackbok som mest liknar en välskriven spänningsroman ? Bascomb lyckas fantastiskt bra. Med hjälp av rapporter, dagböcker och intervjuer skildrar han närgån...

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Hyytävä tositarina maailman pahamaineisimman natsirikollisen metsästyksestä. Vuonna 1945, kun liittoutuneet valtasivat Berliinin, Adolf Eichmann, natsien keskitysleirien operatiivinen johtaja, riisui SS-univormunsa ja katosi. Maailman etsityimmän ...

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Hyytävä tositarina maailman pahamaineisimman natsirikollisen metsästyksestä. Vuonna 1945, kun liittoutuneet valtasivat Berliinin, Adolf Eichmann, natsien keskitysleirien operatiivinen johtaja, riisui SS-univormunsa ja katosi. Maailman etsityimmän ...

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