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  Home Run - Allied Escape and...

  Howard R. Simkin, Lieutenant...

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  Imagine that you are deep behind enemy lines. Your plane was shot down or perhaps you have just escaped from a prisoner of war camp. The enemy is hunting you, seeking to throw you behind barbed wire for the duration of the war. What will you do? Do you have a plan, and the skills, to make it to friendly territory? 
   
   
   
  During World War II, the Germans and Japanese held over 306,000 British and 105,000 U.S. service members as prisoners. The number of successful evaders and escapers, both U.S. and British, exceeded 35,000. Many of these were aircrew, who received intense training because of the high risk that they would have to evade or escape. This book will relate how they fared in enemy hands or managed to remain free. 
   
   
   
  This book provides a complete overview of U.S. and British escape and evasion during World War II. It tells the story of the escape and evasion organizations, the Resistance-operated lines, and the dangers faced by the escapers and the evaders in a logical and compelling narrative. Heroism, betrayal, sacrifice, and cowardice are all elements of this fascinating part of the rich tapestry of World War II.

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  The Tiger from Poznań

  Richard Siegert

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  In the Second World War, Poznan was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated, leaving a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly-armed infantry, to face the rigors of a siege conducted by a massively superior and ruthless enemy anxious to acquire this transport center, which was vital for the advance on Berlin. 
   
   
   
  This is the account of Eastern Front veteran Richard Siegert, the gunner and later commander of the defenders' sole Tiger tank. Since the death of the driver in a futile attempt to escape from a PoW camp in Russia just after the end of the war, Siegert is the only survivor of that crew able to pass its record on to posterity. His account details how the crew fought gallantly against impossible odds, even when the Tiger was immobilized and could only act as a stationary antitank gun post or pillbox during the last heroic days' fighting for the citadel.

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  Why Ordinary People Commit...

  Avielle Brooks

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Explore the disturbing psychology that enables regular people to participate in atrocities, abuse, and crimes they would have considered unimaginable before circumstances aligned to make the unthinkable possible. This challenging audiobook examines how situational factors, authority structures, group dynamics, and incremental escalation transform ordinary individuals into perpetrators of extraordinary harm. Learn from historical analysis, psychological research, and criminal case studies how genocides, torture programs, and mass violence depend on regular people following orders, conforming to groups, or gradually escalating across moral boundaries. The narrator reveals the specific conditions that predict when normal people will commit abnormal acts and why believing yourself immune to such conditions is itself a risk factor. Discover how perpetrators rationalize their actions during and after crimes through psychological mechanisms available to everyone including you. Understand why focusing on individual evil distracts from the systemic factors that reliably produce harmful behavior regardless of who fills available roles. This audiobook draws from Holocaust research, prison studies, and criminal psychology to illuminate the human capacity for cruelty that comfortable circumstances allow us to ignore. Learn what conditions prevented some individuals from participating in collective crimes and what factors strengthened resistance. Essential listening for anyone who wants honest understanding of human nature including its darkest possibilities and how ordinary life can transform into participation in evil.

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  How Reason Can Lead to God - A...

  Joshua Rasmussen

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  Do you seek the truth? 
   
   
   
  Do you value reason, science, and independent thinking? Are you skeptical of beliefs that people maintain merely "on faith," yet you remain interested in the big questions of life? Do you hope there could be a greater purpose to the universe, if only that were realistic? 
   
   
   
  If so, then philosopher Joshua Rasmussen can encourage you in your journey. Beginning with his own story of losing faith and the belief in any ultimate purpose in life, he then builds a bridge to a series of universal truths about ultimate reality. Using only the instruments of reason and common experience, Rasmussen constructs a pathway—step by step, brick by brick—that he argues can lead to meaning and, ultimately, a vision of God.

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  Seal Of Approval - The Search...

  Kirk Hunter, Steve Winchell

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  Come and experience a journey of self-discovery through fabulous 1980s-derived music, an epic original orchestral score, and thrilling dialog and narration! 
   In a complex web of relationships, Adam, a charismatic and independent man haunted by childhood insecurities, believes that he finds solace and strength in his quest to save the Guatemalan rainforest. Unbeknownst to him, his attraction and growing friendship with Josh, a hardworking yet insecure man longing for excitement and love, stems from those same childhood insecurities. Through their adventures, Adam and Josh slowly, find their strengths from within rather than from without. Josh's friendship with Em, his quirky, yet devoted friend and assistant secretly in love with him, offers a glimpse of unconditional care, while Tess, the radiant and flamboyant drag-queen guide, assumes a sage-like role, instilling confidence in their journeys. Meanwhile, Vi, the cunning CEO of DEJ, Inc., becomes entangled in a manipulative game with Lucas, a man relentlessly pursuing her. Amidst it all, Almi, the noble chief of a Guatemalan tribe, collaborates with "Save La Selva" (A charity focused on saving the Guatemalan rainforest and spirited by Adam), provides a bridge between worlds and reinforcing the importance of their cause. Through these intricate relationships, the characters embark on a path of self-discovery, ultimately finding the strength to confront their insecurities and embrace their true selves. Through it all, the epic and yet intimate songs (inspired by the fabulous 1980s) and musical score provide a soaring ride through the plot.

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  Battle of Lützen The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Thirty Years' War was one of the most horrific conflicts in history, and though it is widely viewed as a religious struggle, that was only part of the complicated war. Calvinists and Lutherans did not get along, and both persecuted some of the more radical Anabaptist sects. At the same time, one major motivation behind the war was Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II’s determination to rule all of the empire and not be just a figurehead. There were struggles between rulers and their estates over power, and Catholic France later entered the war on the side of the Protestants in order to counter the Habsburgs’ power.  
  	The Battle of Breitenfeld, fought in September 1631, was the first major Protestant victory and widely considered the crowning achievement of Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus’ military career. Through his establishment of communication and supply lines at strategic points across the Baltic Sea, the securing of Protestant alliances, and his use of combined arms, amongst his other trademark techniques, the Swedish forces, against all odds, defeated their rivals. Such was the devastation inflicted upon their opponents that the Count of Tilly, the chief commander of the Catholic League's armies, had no other choice but to retreat. 6,000 or so Catholic soldiers were captured, many of them later incorporated into the Protestant forces. Whatever remained of the survivors vanished into the dark of the night.   
  	Gustavus’s triumph at Breitenfeld was a great victory that permanently affected the war, and for a time the Swedes were the most powerful military force in Central Europe, but Gustavus’s life ended slightly more than a year after the battle. On November 16, 1632, the king led a Protestant army of Swedes and German allies against Wallenstein’s army near Lützen in Saxony, and during a hard-fought Protestant victory that forced Wallenstein to retreat, Gustavus was killed while leading a cavalry charge.

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