Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger was determined to return home. In order to do this, though ...
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Eleven Months to Freedom
A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915
Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of German midshipman Erich Killinger. Falsely accused of bombing a railway station after crashing his plane at sea, he was sentenced to life in the Sakhalin coal mines.
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A Different Kind of Victory
A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart
This biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart is important not only because it is the story of a man whose central guiding force in life was the U.S. Navy, but also because it is a study of some fifty-five significant years of American history. This book, based in part on the twenty-one volume Hart diary, investigates the forces and circumstances ...
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The Big E
"The Story of the USS Enterprise, Illustrated Edition"
“Her admirers will be grateful to Commander Stafford for preserving so much of her so well.” -- New York Times
“The unbelievable career of the bravest and most effective warship America ever built, excitingly recorded.” -- Life
“An action-packed drama of living men in a ship with a soul.” -- San Francisco Examiner
“After reading Commander Stafford’s lovingly detailed saga ...
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Holocaust Heroes
Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
Available for sale only in the U.S. and Canada. Exceptions made for USNI Members.
Holocaust Heroes is an inspiring book that examines the incredible—yet tragic—examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the days of the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” The Warsaw Uprising during the spring of 1944 is the most infamous rebellion, but there were other occasions of ...
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