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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Harry Combs started his love affair with aviation at the age of 13 with a $2.50 ride in the cockpit of a mail plane. By his mid-teens, Combs was building his own flight-worthy aircraft. His education led him to try investment banking, a path that he would later modify to successfully run Combs Aircraft. It seems Harry Combs has done it all, from working with President Kennedy on the increasing demand for air travel to rebuilding the struggling Gates...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Produced by the U.S. Army, this excellently written documentary for the Big Picture series explores Army leadership since the creation of the National Security Act in 1947. Focusing on the lives of the four men who have held down the role of "top soldier"-the very demanding job of Army Chief of Staff-this film showcases these heroic men and their contributions to the Army. With footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Identity: Unknown (2000) : Navy SEAL Mitchell Shaw woke up one morning with no clue as to who he was. The items hidden in his possession were no help: an address and a .22 caliber sidearm. But the address led him to the Lazy 8 Ranch--and its beautiful manager, Becca Keyes, who made him believe he might have a future. Even if he wasn't sure about his past.--P. [4] of cover.
The admiral's bride (1999) : When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
To understand the essence of history, we must begin our journey from its root. Through this program, viewers will begin to build a deep and nuanced understanding of Chiang Kai-shek by studying the life of Charlie Soong-missionary, entrepreneur, pivotal political figure, and close friend of Sun Yat-sen-and the early years of three of his daughters: Soong Ai-ling, who would marry H. H. Kung; Soong Ching-ling, who would marry Sun Yat-sen; and Mei-ling...
Author
Series
Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of World War I, a horrific crime behind the lines sends Lieutenant Gregor Reinhardt on a search for a killer in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Man from Berlin. It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2006
Language
English
Description
They are the unsung heroes of the United States Army, the generals of the Union Army of the Potomac. They bravely fought Robert E. Lee in the summer of 1863 and won the most crucial battle of the American Civil War. This is the story of the Union officers at Gettysburg.
12) Genghis Khan
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This film offers a narrative and dramatic reenactment of Genghis Khan's life,presenting his rise and unification of Mongolia and his subsequent career as world conqueror. It presents him as a complex character rather than an embodiment of evil, presenting him as both a nationalist devoted to his people, acting out of understandable motives in a harsh world, and as a bloodthirsty man driven by divine mission to conquer the world.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Hitler’s Army marched into Czechoslovakia, a young Czech army captain joined the Resistance. But he had a secret no one knew...until now. In March 1939, Hitler’s army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Bodon, a young captain in the Czech Army—who also happened to be blond-haired, blue-eyed and fluent in German—was “asked” to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead, and was selected to...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This true story begins with two nurses, Renee LeMaire and Augusta Chiwy, as they treat patients in the Bastogne aid station. Renee was killed on Christmas Eve and became famous as "The Angel of Bastogne." Augusta's story was lost to history for65 years. Augusta Chiwy's story is one of great courage and heroism in the face of racial discrimination.
15) Heinrich Himmler
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler turned a small gang of thugs into a monstrous pseudo-religious order and widely feared instrument of terror—the SS. As a compliant servant to his Führer, Himmler controlled an economic empire in which hundreds of thousands of slave workers...
16) Grant
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary showcases Grant—the man, rather than the legend. Within ten years, Grant’s life takes a stunning turn from a father struggling to make a living to the general who won the Civil War. Grant would later become the 18th president of the United States. It was his early years that defined Grant. He was a man with no money and no prospects. In 1859, at age 37, Grant made a choice to free his only slave rather than sell him for...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lord Horatio Nelson, one of Britain’s greatest war heroes is best known as the man on top of a huge column in London’s Trafalgar Square. One of history’s most celebrated characters, his achievements are well known; the Battle of Trafalgar and the Nile campaign, as well as his extraordinary record as a commander and a leader of men. But what about Nelson the man? Polite English society was shocked when a batch of letters from Nelson to his mistress,...
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