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"Hailed by many as the greatest war novel of all time and publicly burned by the Nazis for being “degenerate,” Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, is an elegant statement on a generation of men destroyed by war. Caught up by a romantic sense of patriotism and encouraged to enlist by authority figures who would not risk their lives to do the same, Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. He is soon...
"Stalingrad. From August 1942 to February 1943 this model industrial city, bathed by the waters of the Volga, was home to the bloodiest battle of World War II. Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga offers a fast-paced depiction of this titanic struggle: explicit, crude, and without concessions—just as the war and the memory of all those involved demands. The battle rendered devastating results. Almost two million human beings were marked forever in its crosshairs, a frightening figure...
"Men at Sea is an opus of eight spectacularly drawn dark, poetic stories adapted by Riff Reb’s. This collection offers: “A Smile of Fortune,” from Joseph Conrad “The Sea Horses” and “The Shamraken Homeward Bound,” from William Hope Hodgson “The Galley Slaves” and “The Far South,” from Pierre Mac Orlan “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” from Edgar Allan Poe “The Three Customs Officers,” from Marcel Schwob “The Shipwreck,” from Robert Louis Stevenson These eight tales, themselves interspersed by...
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler is one of the most decorated Marines of all time and is a legend among the Corps. Coming from a background of privilege, Butler became a Marine to prove his worth. Through confl icts like the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Banana Wars, and the War to End All Wars, he helped defi ne what the Marine Corps is today. Smedley begins in the summer of 1932. Butler is retired from the Marines and has lost his bid to be a Pennsylvania senator. When he is...