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يسرد هذا الكتاب قصة عمر المختار، إحدى قصص الكفاح العربي الخالد، يظهر فيها الإيمان الصادق، والوفاء للوطن، والإخلاص في العمل، والتضحية في سبيل الحرية.

Guido Knopp enthüllt die vielen Gesichter des Hermann Göring und entwirft das Psychogramm von Hitlers Paladin, der trotz Terror, Machtwahn und ...

“Faced with the political disaster, I had to become France.” This was how Charles de Gaulle answered the call of history. One of the few French battlefield leaders to have distinguished himself in May 1940, he had become the undersecretary of state for national defense. But when the government rejected his calls to fight on and prepared to capitulate to Hitler, he escaped to London. There he instigated a resistance calling on “all the French who want to remain free to listen to me and follow me” in the legendary radio address of June 22.

Naval Academy midshipman Jim Wilson didn't cuss or smoke or chew or go with girls who do. When a friend asked him if he was going to heaven, Jim replied, "If someone like me can't make it, heaven is going to be thinly populated." It was a serious answer, but his friend laughed. Jim was in for a surprise: You have to be bad to go to heaven.

اختُطِفَ "مُعظّم" من منزله في باكستان، حيث كان قد التقى عائلته مجدداً إبان الأسابيع العصيبة التي أعقبت هجمات الحادي عشر من أيلول/ سبتمبر والغليان الذي اجتاح العالم بعدها، ليروي لنا قصته المثيرة في هذا الكتاب ناقلاً إيانا خلف الأسلاك الشائكة للمرة الأولى، كاشفاً خبايا العالم المظلم.. الغامض..المحكوم بالخوف..المليء بالإحباط، الذي ألقى "مُعظّم" في غياهب سجونه بينما كان يناضل وصحبه لوضع حد لاعتقالهم الذي أراده الأمريكيون أبدياً، متهمين إياهم بمعاداة الولايات المتحدة.

Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and women who were prepared to put their lives on the line in support of the free world during the Cold War, and he enjoyed the life of adventure he had been seeking since childhood. This book brings together tales from his career as a CIA case officer during the Cold War.

Former US Navy SEAL David Brown was the unlikeliest of candidates for the world's most grueling military selection process. Standing just 5' 3" and weighing 110 pounds, he was unlike any of the others around him who aspired to be SEALs. But through dogged determination and an iron will, he overcame every obstacle that life put in front of him to achieve his dream of becoming a SEAL.