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Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
"An author's quest to discover what really happened to his uncle
in World War II"
To all appearances, Anthony "Tony" Korkuc was just another
casualty of World War II. A gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress,
Korkuc was lost on a bombing mission over Germany, and his family
believed that his body had never been recovered. But when they
learned in 1995 that Tony was actually buried at Arlington National
Cemetery, his nephew Bob Korkuc set out on a seven-year quest to
learn the true fate of an uncle he never knew.
"Finding a Fallen Hero" is a compelling story that blends a
wartime drama with a primer on specialized research. Author Bob
Korkuc initially set out to learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest
at Arlington. In the process, he also unraveled the mystery of what
occurred over the skies of Germany half a century ago.
Korkuc dug up military documents and private letters and
interviewed people in both the United States and Germany. He
tracked down surviving crewmembers and even found the brother of
the Luftwaffe pilot who downed the B-17. Dozens of photographs help
readers envision both Tony Korkuc's fateful flight and his nephew's
dogged search for the truth.
A gripping chronicle of exhaustive research, "Finding a Fallen
Hero" will strike a chord with any reader who has lost a family
member to war. And it will inspire others to satisfy their own
unanswered questions.
As the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and,
along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels is
a seminal 19th-century figure; the co-founder of Marxism, he left
an indelible impression as a philosopher, political theorist,
economist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The Life, Work
and Legacy of Friedrich Engels is nevertheless the first book to
comprehensively explore Engels' contributions in all of these
spheres. The book sees 13 experts from a range of scholarly
backgrounds examine Engels and his writing in relation to topics
including the United States and the future of capitalism, European
social democracy and the nature of the political economy, with
technology, capital, and labor acting as fundamental cross-cutting
themes throughout. The volume analyses the intriguing relationship
between Engels and Karl Marx, the towering historical figure whose
long shadow has obscured the achievements of Engels for so long,
and reassesses Engels' significance in this context. There are 66
images to be found throughout the text, 30 of these in colour, as
well as a conclusion which successfully views Engels in the context
of the age. As a journalist, author and communist figurehead,
Engels dealt succinctly - and with strong opinions - with the core
questions of the developments changing the globe in the 19th
century and The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels finally
shines a light on this in a compelling call for revisionism.
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Elizabeth Ellen Ostring
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The Black Suitcase
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John E. Morrison; Contributions by Thomas Wall, Universary of Limerick
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From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique,
intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the late
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. For almost thirty years,
Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and controversial
Justice on the United States Supreme Court. His dynamic and witty
writing devoted to the Constitution has influenced an entire
generation of judges. Based on his reputation for using scathing
language to criticize liberal court decisions, many people presumed
Scalia to be gruff and irascible. But to those who knew him as
"Nino," he was characterized by his warmth, charm, devotion, fierce
intelligence, and loyalty. Bryan Garner's friendship with Justice
Scalia was instigated by celebrated writer David Foster Wallace and
strengthened over their shared love of language. Despite their
differing viewpoints on everything from gun control to the use of
contractions, their literary and personal relationship flourished.
Justice Scalia even officiated at Garner's wedding. In this
humorous, touching, and surprisingly action-packed memoir, Garner
gives a firsthand insight into the mind, habits, and faith of one
of the most famous and misunderstood judges in the world.
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