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8 produkter
1941
Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt
Av Marc Wortman
Häftad, 2018
131 kr
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Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and in South America to root out Nazi …
Millionaire's Unit
The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Air Might
Av Marc Wortman
Häftad, 2013
225 kr
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In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, nearly all of them from Yale, decided to try the new sport of motorized flight and formed a campus flying club. The boys had more than fun in mind. Believing that America would soon enter …
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Engineer of Power
Av Marc Wortman
Inbunden, 2022
240 kr
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A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial “Father of the Nuclear Navy” “Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this short, profane spitfire who pulled a reluctant Navy into the atomic era. . . . Wortman opens a window into the life of an intellectual titan disdainful …
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
Av Marc Wortman, Ralph W McElvenny
Inbunden, 2023
327 kr
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The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.-a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and MorganNearly fifty years into IBM's existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when he "bet the farm" on the creation of the IBM …
Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power
Av Marc Wortman
Häftad, 2007
265 kr
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Bonfire
The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
Av Marc Wortman
Häftad, 2010
237 kr
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Atlanta's destruction during the Civil War is an iconic moment in American history. award-winning journalist Marc Wortman depicts its siege and fall in The Bonfire , and reveals an Atlanta of unexpected paradoxes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called it a tale of divided loyalties, political …
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Engineer of Power
Av Marc Wortman
Ljudbok, 2022
298 kr
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A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial “Father of the Nuclear Navy” Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of …
1941: Fighting the Shadow War
A Divided America in a World at War
Av Marc Wortman
Häftad, 2017
165 kr
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