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Chargement... Kasserine: First bloodpar Charles Whiting
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I read this book because my uncle (Army Air Corps) was decorated for his actions in this battle. It didn't say much about the air corps, though, so I didn't get the information I wanted. It is a good, readable, helpful book. Insightful as an overview but… Short on details but very good. No descriptions of unit or even divisional tactics…Good build up to the events with good background to the mental state and motivations of the main players. Also gets across some sense of the reality for the soldiers and tank men. .. The Americans had arrived with brass bands and crisp uniforms to seize North Africa from the Nazis. Then on Valentine's Day 1943, 30,000 inexperienced young troops faced an attack by Erwin Rommel, Hitler's Desert Fox, and his battle-hardened Africa Korps. In the slaughter that ensued, Rommell left behind a shaken, confused, and deeply shamed American army and a nearly collapsed Allied front. This is the full story of that massacre of youthful innocents, sacrificed by military incompetence. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Hailed as "the John Grisham of Wall Street" by the "New York Times," Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero yet: forensic accountant Adam Chapel--and paints a frightening scenario where terrorism is big business and money is the ultimate weapon of war... The explosion that shatters the smart Parisian apartment reverberates around the globe. In an instant, a suspected terrorist is dead and half a million dollars has vanished. Within days, the CIA is certain it has found a connection between the dead man and a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Determined to avert another 9/11, they have assembled an elite counterterrorist task force, code name: Blood Money. Its mission: to follow the money trail. Its secret weapon: forensic accountant Adam Chapel. A man who trusts numbers more than people, Chapel has his own reasons for wanting to get the job done-- four of his colleagues were killed in the Paris blast. Now Chapel is thrust back into the line of fire when he teams up with British intelligence agent Sarah Churchill. The two are assigned to hunt down a shadowy mastermind who is moving vast sums of money from country to country, from bank to bank, leaving no tracks--as he prepares for an Armaggedon of his own devising. As Chapel follows a disappearing money trail from Paris to Munich to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Sarah uses her elite training to stalk the "shadow" and his elusive network. Meanwhile, their quarry is auditing their every move, laying a twisting trail of false clues and shocking surprises. With the clock ticking down, soon Chapel and Sarah have only days, hours, minutes to avert disaster as a master terrorist plots to unleash the first strike in a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy--with an almost unimaginable goal. Hurtling us from the winding alleys of Pakistan to the elite banking houses of Europe, The Devil's Banker creates an adrenaline-fueled world where following the money has never been more dangerous, and evil has never been harder to unmask. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Christopher Reich's "The Prince of Risk." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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