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“brian walter”

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  • The Longest Campaign

    Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939–1945

    by Brian Walter ...
    The award-winning historian's acclaimed account of British sea power throughout WWII: "a must-read for anyone interested in Naval warfare" ( PowerShips magazine).For four centuries the British realm depended on sea power to defend itself against a myriad of threats. The Royal Navy established itself as the "Sovereign of the Seas," helping transform a small island nation into the center of a global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Danish Soldier

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    by Brian Walters ...
    Winter of 1945. Aksel Foss, a Dane forced at gunpoint to fight in the German Army, flees Soviet tanks across the snow-bound fields of East Prussia. His goal: return to Denmark, and escape both the Russians and the dreaded SS who seek him for killing concentration camp guards. Retreating through burning towns and cities, he engages in near-daily combat as he tries to save himself and his lover, a ... Read more

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  • The Art of Life Is the Avoiding of Pain

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    by Brian Walters ...
    The Art of Life Is the Avoiding of Pain is Brian Walters' fourth collection of stories and poetry. As with all of Walters' poetry you'll find this book accessible and moving, but this is without a doubt his most powerful book to date. As a physical therapist Walters is welcomed into the homes of a vast cross-section of society, and he opens a window on the quiet desperation that so many of our ... Read more

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  • The Guestroom Novelist

    A Donald Harington Miscellany

    by Donald Harington ...
    Donald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews.The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansawyer novelist Donald Harington that reveals how a life of devastating losses and disappointments inspired what the Boston Globe called the “quirkiest, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Deaths of the Republic

    Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome

    by Brian Walters ...
    That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches, letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his peers ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Double Toil and Trouble

    A New Novel and Short Stories by Donald Harington

    by Donald Harington ...
    Double Toil and Trouble is the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935–2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds several new chapters to the saga of Stay More, the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen other ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Wade Hampton

    by Walter Brian Cisco ...
    On the eve of the American Civil War, Wade Hampton, one of the wealthiest men in the South and indeed the United States, remained loyal to his native South Carolina as it seceded from the Union. Raising his namesake Hampton Legion of soldiers, he eventually became a lieutenant general of Confederate cavalry after the death of the legendary J. E. B. Stuart. HamptonÆs highly capable, but largely ... Read more

    $21.95 USD

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    How to Give an Elevator Speech

    So People Actually Want You to Keep Talking

    by Brian Walter ...
    Narrated by Brian Walter ...

    Unabridged

    38 min

    Few people doubt the importance of that rare thing…a truly compelling elevator speech that immediately increases interest in a person, business or product. However, it’s also true that few people know who to trust for the strategy for creating and delivering that compelling elevator speech.Communications advisor Brian Walter has developed a proven system for powerfully and memorably communicating ... Read more

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  • House of Tudor

    A Grisly History

    by Mickey Mayhew ...
    Forty-five gruesome but not gratuitous accounts from the Tudor reign, including the death of Richard III and the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots.This decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers a whole host of horrors from the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors despatched their various villains and lawbreakers, ... Read more

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  • Brothers in Arms

    One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to V-E Day

    by James Holland ...
    The renowned historian and author of Normandy '44 recounts the operations and personal experiences of the legendary Sherwood Rangers during WWII.One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a "mechanized cavalry" of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and ... Read more

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  • Special Operations in WWII

    The SOE and OSS

    by James Stejskal ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    A brief history of secret British and American World War II organizations, their training, tools, successes, and their legacy.Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to "Set Europe ablaze!" Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, ... Read more

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  • The Far Shore

    by Edward Ellsberg ...
    June 6, 1944, D-Day: Allied forces took the beaches at Normandy—and the naval engineering genius of Edward Ellsberg would play a crucial part.Before World War II, Edward Ellsberg had already established himself as a true innovator and master naval engineer, revolutionizing the salvage and rescue of sunken vessels like no one before. Then, having served his country for over a decade, he retired to ... Read more

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