George MacDonald Fraser beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels offers an actionpacked memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the wars final year, and he offers a firsthand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of VJDay in 1995, adds poignancy to a volume that eminent military historian John Keegan described as one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War.
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns with Tom Hanks, Philip Bosco, and more
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Random House Audio
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$ 18.00
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In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a horseless buggy...
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Tony Kahn, Ron Leibman, Stockard Channing, Carrol O'Connor
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Tony Kahn Productions
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Episode Six: In 1960, a thaw comes to the Cold War. Blacklisted writers in Hollywood and New York begin to work again under their own names...
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In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe FernandezArmesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole....
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Using the same blend of narrative and rhetorical brilliance that made his critically acclaimed debut history so successful, Andro Linklater shows how our borders shaped our national identity....
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Pearl Taylor left her conventional home and life in Toledo, Ohio, to take up gambling on the Mississippi. She ultimately became an outlaw....
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Thousands of years, way before Christopher Columbus set sail, wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America....
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Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights....
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Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of one of the Civil War battlefields every American should visit. He captures the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict....
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No institution in American society generates as much curiosity, fear, and intrigue as the FBI. No institution can obtain so much information and penetrate so deeply into our private lives....
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In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions....
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Written near the end of his second term as president, Washington's Farewell Address is more than the empty jargon of a politician....
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When the leaders of the Santa Fe Railway followed the path of least resistance across the great American desert they encountered a world like no other....
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