Stackpole books nov 2026 (3 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - They were a platoon of misfitsand proud of it. Soldiers like Rodney Orange, Myron Wadsworth Folsom, Tex Whaley, Vic Svagdis, Ace Meyer, and Bruiser Neerman, rebellious young men who bristled at military authority, who had a chip on their shoulder and something to prove. Among them were a Chicago cop, a Los Angeles milkman, a Pennsylvania coal minerand a budding reporter, John Justin Smith, who joined them in a handpicked U.S. Army Intelligence & Reconnaissance Platoon that acted as their regiment's eyes and ears in the jungles of New Guinea in World War II. They didn't always get along, but they got the job done.In this vivid, punchy memoir, Smith remembers the campaign for New Guineaone of World War II's longest and most brutalas experienced by this unit of free spirits and malcontents who rejected army discipline and just wanted to have a go at the Japanese. Recruited for their unmilitary demeanor and trained in commando-style warfare, Smith and his brothers-in-arms were infantry scouts tasked with conducting patrolsisolated and aloneout in front of the main body of American forces. In the unforgiving jungles of New Guinea, they lived in slime and squalor and often lacked food, proper clothing, and medical care. They endured torrential downpours, smothering humidity, filthy mud, and debilitating malaria. Over the course of 100 missions, they met a tenacious Japanese enemy prepared to fight to the last man with snipers, ambushes, boobytraps, and suicidal tactics.John Justin Smith's narrativea rare new World War II memoirtakes readers deep into the New Guinea jungle alongside an unorthodox band of brothers who fought the Japanese their own way. It is an unforgettable journey into the heart of the jungle, the heart of combat, and the heart of brotherhood.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award has been the most widely recognized international award for fly fishing stories in the English language for thirty years. The annual Traver Award is jointly administered by the John D. Voelker Foundation of Marquette, Michigan and the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. As an anthology of twenty honored stories from 2008 to 2025, this volume includes many of the best voices in fly fishing over the past twenty years. Foreword is by Seth Norman and Afterword by Nick Lyons. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In May 1944, American forces stood on the doorstep of Rome, tantalizingly close to the Eternal City after an eight-month grind up the boot of Italyyet still so far away. Would German resistance south of the city break at last Would Allied strategy and politics divert the Americans from the great prize Would the city fall before D-Day shifted the world's attentionas well as vital men and materielfrom Italy to France Capturing all the drama and uncertainty of this pivotal moment of World War II, All Roads Lead to Rome narrates the battlesat the front line and inside headquartersthat led to the liberation of Rome.After amphibious landings in September 1943, the Allies clawed their way up the Italian peninsula. The terrain was unforgiving, the German resistance stubborn, but by May, the Americans and British were poised to crack the last major German line south of Rome and simultaneously break out of their beachhead at Anzio. But an argument was brewing at Allied headquarters. The British, who commanded the Mediterranean theater, wanted to block and capture German troops as they retreated while U.S. commander Mark Clark had his eyes on Rome. Clark thought the British might insist on sharing the glory or shut out the Americans entirely and knew the Allies would invade Normandy within days, thus turning Italy into a backwater. The clock was ticking.As Allied forces blasted through the German defenses, Clark ordered his army to turn toward Rome. Clark's Fifth Army converged on the ancient city, and gritty American GI's fought scores of small-unit battles each daysquads fighting for road crossings, companies for hills and ridges, platoons for bridges (seventeen across the Tiber alone). On June 4, 1944, U.S. forces entered the city. The Germans had abandoned it, and a large portion of their army escaped north to fight another day. Clark gained his triumph, but at the cost of another eleven months of hard fighting. D-Day began two days later, forever eclipsing his army's accomplishment.All Roads Lead to Rome is vital military history chronicling a signature American victory and a fraught moment for the Anglo-American alliance during World War II.…