Описание: The Third Battle of Ypres was officially terminated by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the opening of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. Nevertheless, a comparatively unknown set-piece attack – the only large-scale night operation carried out on the Flanders front during the campaign – was launched twelve days later on 2 December. This volume is a necessary corrective to previously published campaign narratives of what has become popularly known as ‘Passchendaele’. It examines the course of events from the mid-November decision to sanction further offensive activity in the vicinity of Passchendaele village to the barren operational outcome that forced British GHQ to halt the attack within ten hours of Zero. A litany of unfortunate decisions and circumstances contributed to the profitless result. At the tactical level, a novel hybrid set-piece attack scheme was undermined by a fatal combination of snow-covered terrain and bright moonlight. At the operational level, the highly unsatisfactory local situation in the immediate aftermath of Third Ypres’ post-strategic phase (26 October-10 November) appeared to offer no other alternative to attacking from the confines of an extremely vulnerable salient. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the affair occurred at the political and strategic level, where Haig’s earnest advocacy for resumption of the Flanders offensive in spring 1918 was maintained despite obvious signs that the initiative had now passed to the enemy and the crisis of the war was fast approaching. A Moonlight Massacre provides an important contribution and re-interpretation of the discussion surrounding Passchendaele, based firmly on an extensive array of sources, many unpublished, and supported by illustrations and maps.
Автор: Locicero T. V. Название: The Disappearance: The Truth Beauty Trilogy ISBN: 061568145X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615681450 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: ..".an intriguing and cleverly plotted thriller... a complex net of lies, cover-ups and diversions... far from obvious or predictable."-Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the WeissensteinersIn Book 2 of The Truth Beauty Trilogy, the dark, edgy saga continues. The Disappearance is a transatlantic romance riddled with secrets and deception, a tale that travels from Switzerland to Italy, from Holland to the Bahamas. In Geneva, lovely Italian scholar Lina Lentini is caught up in the shadow world of Swiss banking. Schemes of fraud and murder in cold blood begin to surface when her friend Clara, a bank employee, disappears. Betrayed by a trusted superior, Clara is on the run, but when her African American lover Marc joins in a desperate search with Lina, they trace her movements to Italy, yet continue to find only mysteries. Then a suspicious email claims Clara is being held on a quiet island in the Bahamas. There Mark and Lina make shocking discoveries that will soon change the lives of everyone involved...".just as beautifully written as the first. The character's are well developed and believable, the plot is fast-paced and full of unexpected turns, and the ending will leave you impatient for the third installment of this trilogy."-Comic Book Nerd, Amazon ReviewerFor more information: www.tvlocicero.com
Автор: Locicero T. V. Название: The Obsession: The Truth Beauty Trilogy ISBN: 0615681352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615681351 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "...both The Obsession and Gone Girl] are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control."--Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading RoomThe Obsession is a dark and edgy stalker romance filled with desire and deception and sparked by an erotic love triangle that shifts between the American Midwest and several legendary Italian locales. When Stan, an American grad student, falls for Lina, a lovely Italian scholar, his unrequited feelings become a perverse passion. When he stalks her from a mid-Michigan college town to Bologna's ancient streets, they are joined by Lina's American lover John, who is also Stan's mentor. With jealousy and trust issues fueling fear and loathing, lies and lethal rage, these three brilliant academics match wits with their lives at stake as they flee and chase down the storied Italian boot to a shocking conclusion on beautiful slopes of volcanic Mt. Etna."Alfred Hitchcock would have enjoyed directing this thriller about stalker Stan's psychopathy and victim Lina's plunge into fear, depression, and guilt. This is a novel that you either stay up all night to read or, like me, you'll have to walk away as the anxiety escalates, only to be called back by the need to know."--Irene, GoodreadsFor more information: www.tvlocicero.com
Автор: Locicero T. V. Название: Admission of Guilt (the Detroit Im Dyin Trilogy, Book 2) ISBN: 0615823394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615823393 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Locicero T. V. Название: The Car Bomb (the Detroit Im Dyin Trilogy, Book 1) ISBN: 0615811779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615811772 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Locicero III Joseph Название: Legion Surgeon - Beginner`s Luck ISBN: 0615760872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615760872 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2233.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Locicero T. V. Название: Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue ISBN: 0615681972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615681979 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In May, 1972, T.V. LoCicero finished a book-length, non-fiction tale of deceit and criminality involving a major American publisher. It was also a memoir that covered the most intense and frustrating period in LoCicero's life. Soon thereafter, he gave his only copy of the manuscript to a University of Michigan professor who had encouraged him to write it. And when LoCicero eventually lost touch with his friend the professor, the manuscript was lost for more than 30 years. Why give away his last copy of a story so important to him, and why make no concerted effort to recover it for such a long time? The answers are offered in Squelched, which includes LoCicero's original manuscript, plus a new Author's Note and Epilogue. The book tells the story of his experience in researching and writing Murder in the Synagogue, a true crime account of the shocking assassination of Rabbi Morris Adler on Lincoln's Birthday, 1966. It describes the strange publication of Murder by Prentice-Hall, Inc., that guaranteed the book would fail, and it recounts the information the author received from a remarkable young woman who came forward to tell him that a wealthy and powerful businessman, and major supporter of Richard Nixon, had arranged with the publisher to "squelch" his book. Squelched is a fascinating account of a betrayed young writer's sudden plunge into the wiles of publishing and his unexpected lessons in how the world works. The epilogue explains how the original manuscript finally came back to LoCicero after more than three decades and brings the story up to date. Many will note that its look at corporate manipulation and the power and influence of wealth and political connection remains deeply relevant in our world today.
"...reads with the speed of a best-selling fiction novel."-Israel Drazin, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer
"...so absorbing that I could do nothing else until I finished it."-Jack Riemer, "President Clinton's rabbi"
"Misconduct by a major publishing house? A chain of lies and dodgy maneuvers keep the author's first nonfiction work from ever getting off the ground, despite being well-received by almost everyone who (against the odds) manages to read it? And there is nothing unlikely, bizarre or farfetched about any of it. This conspiracy is as pedestrian as pork and beans, and that in itself makes the story utterly believable."-Eileen McHenry, Shelfari
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