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Free Download Peter Duus, "Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd"
English | 2006 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0824831403, 0824810813 | PDF | 10,9 mb
Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Not trusted to fight in the Pacific, these sons of Japanese immigrants were sent instead to the European theater. In the eyes of their own government and the Europeans they liberated, they were an unlikely group of fighting men. They nevertheless engaged the enemy with astonishing heroism, winning battle after battle at Anzio, Salerno, Cassino, and in the Vosges Mountains. At the end of the war, the 100th and the 442nd emerged as America’s most decorated units. They provided ample evidence of their patriotism to a country that had questioned their loyalty.

Free Download I Married a Robot: A Tale of Unlikely Love by Prof. Stephen W. Bradeley BSc (Hons)
English | July 24, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CCSP5HJG | 41 pages | EPUB | 0.81 Mb
"I Married a Robot" is a riveting science-fiction novel that explores the boundaries of love and technology. The author skillfully presents a compelling story set in a not-so-distant future, where the lines between humans and robots are blurred.

Free Download The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton by Marc Leepson
English | December 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0811772926 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 2.9 MB
"What a strange, fascinating, and ultimately powerful account of one man’s endurance of life as a POW during the American war in Vietnam. . . . This book, I believe, will stand the test of time as one of the finest nonfiction narratives to emerge from the Vietnam War."

Free Download Hugh Nibley, "Sergeant Nibley, Ph.D.: Memories of an Unlikely Screaming Eagle"
English | ISBN: 1573458457 | 2006 | 366 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Few people knew more about the history of human conflict than Professor Hugh Nibley. But on June 6, 1944, at Utah Beach, he learned more about war than he had gleaned from all the books he’d read combined. General Maxwell Taylor assigned Sergeant Nibley to educate the officers of the 101st Airborne about warfare. But it was the professor himself that received an education while fighting as a member of the most legendary unit of the United States Army. Most war memoirs come either from the bird’s-eye view of the general or from the visceral but limited scope of the common soldier. Because of Nibley’s unique situation, this book blends both perspectives. From the narrow view of a sergeant in a foxhole to the broader perspective of an intelligence specialist, his experience offers an intimate, realistic and articulate view of World War II.

Free Download David K. Randall, Adam Verner (Narrator), "Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World"
English | ASIN: B0CR6RXV6Y | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:00:00 | 303 MB
"David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was." – Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours
"Thrilling reading…an account filled with unexpected layers of intrigue. Recommend Into Unknown Skies to Erik Larson fans." -Booklist

Free Download Carla Power, "If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran"
English | ISBN: 0805098194 | 2015 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1193 KB
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Named A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Denver Post * Praised by Fareed Zakaria as "intelligent, compassionate, and revealing," a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.

Free Download Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II by Larry J. Hughes
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0811773892 | 601 pages | True PDF | 9.57 MB
Edwin Land had barely settled into his seat on the plane when the flash went off. An idea for an innovative WWII technology that might help eradicate the fascist cancer devouring the free world. It was Polaroid’s Optical Ring Sight, which magically projected a bullseye of brilliantly colored rings onto the sky-like rings of fire-to aim American antiaircraft guns that previously "couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn."

Free Download Scott Jurek, "Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness"
English | ISBN: 0547569653 | 2012 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force€”and darling€”in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. He won that race seven years in a row, setting a course record along the way. Twice he won the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile €œjaunt€ through Death Valley. He triumphed in the 153-mile Spartathlon in Greece three times. And he was one of the elite runners who traveled to Mexico to run with the Tarahumara Indians, as profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run. His accomplishments are nothing short of extraordinary, but that he has achieved all of this on a plant-based diet makes his story all the more so.In Eat and Run, Scott Jurek opens up about his life and career€”as an elite athlete and a vegan€”and inspires runners at every level. From

Free Download Michael Korda, "Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero"
English | 2009 | pages: 161 | ISBN: 0060755210, 0062279777 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
"Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself: unambiguous, decisive, clear. The book is a joy to read." -Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofLonesome Dove

Free Download Sam McManis, "Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1493041525, 1493057804 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 9.4 mb
The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They’re from low income families, many of whom are migrant workers. With little time to devote to their passion, they give everything they have to their quest for the Washington State High School Cross Country Championship.