No Escape From Berlin

By: Rudi London

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No Escape From Berlin

By: Rudi London

P-51 Pilot Alex Highland was the only Norwegian in the famous 332nd Fighter Group… but that was all right with him. Now, the truth must be told… he wasn't really born in Norway, but his grandmother was… and that should count for something. If you are a romantic history buff, you'll love Alex's challenging journey to purpose. We previously met Alex-from Philippi, West Virginia-in Rudi London's first book, "The Operator Is Calling," and now we're telling his story: We learn how he grew up to fall in love with Tamlyn; which was not an easy task-Tamlyn had a mind of her own, but so did Alex. It was complicated; on their wedding day, suddenly one of them was missing? We also meet Charlie… a man of mystery… and a vision of The Truth. Many other members of the United States Army Air Forces had issues with Pilot Highland and his unit flying over Berlin that night in early June of 1944-a B-24 bomb raid, spearheaded by Major James Maitland Stewart. We don't know for sure what specific night it was because all records of that raid were immediately destroyed afterwards… and Adolf Hitler took the secret with him to his grave… or did he really go to the grave…? When Alex discovered Das Wassernass, Der Führer's plan to annihilate the American Homeland, he knew immediate action would be required…. And then this… "Unity… with The British…?" Alex had overheard Hitler mumbling about in his bedroom…? What really happened down there in Adolf's bunker when Alex and Adriana were hiding in Hitler's own "secret closet?" And what would Tamlyn have said if she knew anything of it? She had no clue Adriana even existed… and where was Tamlyn during all this? Was she still alive?

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Oxford Sights: a travel guide to the top 20 attractions in Oxford, England (Mobi Sights)

By: MobileReference

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Oxford Sights: a travel guide to the top 20 attractions in Oxford, England (Mobi Sights)

By: MobileReference

This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included.

Please search for "Travel Oxford & Cambridge", part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining and accommodations.

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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

By: Bill Bryson

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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

By: Bill Bryson

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.

As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for “a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth,” he proceeded to write that book–his first, inaugurating his stellar career.

Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and–because it is written by Bill Bryson–often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip

By: Harry Leslie Smith

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Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip

By: Harry Leslie Smith

Twenty-two years old and ready for peace

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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

By: Pope Benedict XVI

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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

By: Pope Benedict XVI

New York Times Bestseller! The momentous third and final volume in the Pope’s international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus’ infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago.

In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order “to make known the figure and message of Jesus.” Now, the Pope focuses exclusively on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life as a child. The root of these stories is the experience of hope found in the birth of Jesus and the affirmations of surrender and service embodied in his parents, Joseph and Mary. This is a story of longing and seeking, as demonstrated by the Magi searching for the redemption offered by the birth of a new king. It is a story of sacrifice and trusting completely in the wisdom of God as seen in the faith of Simeon, the just and devout man of Jerusalem, when he is in the presence of the Christ child. Ultimately, Jesus’ life and message is a story for today, one that speaks to the restlessness of the human heart searching for the sole truth which alone leads to profound joy.

From the Hardcover edition.

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The Boy

By: Dan Porat

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The Boy

By: Dan Porat

A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals—both Jews and Nazis—associated with it.

The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. One of the Nazis managed to stay at large for twenty-two years. One of the survivors lived long enough to lose a son in the Yom Kippur War. Nearly sixty photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives. And, in keeping with the emotional immediacy of those photographs, Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events.

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