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The Last Kilo Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America


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English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0063265532 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 36.98 MB
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.

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Reconciliation Road Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace


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English | ISBN: 1789207002 | 2020 | 246 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Brandt’s Ostpolitik from its inception until the end of the Cold War through the lens of reconciliation. Here, Benedikt Schoenborn gives us a Brandt who passionately insisted on a gradual reduction of Cold War hostility and a lasting European peace, while remaining strategically and intellectually adaptable in a way that exemplified the ‘imaginativeness of history’.

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Sharks of the Air The Story of Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History’s First Operational Jet Fighter


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English | 2011 | ISBN: 1935149466 | ASIN: B004G5Z21W | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.5 mb
In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100 mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies. Although always greatly outnumbered, the Me-262 gained scores of victories over Allied fighters and bombers, and by the end of the war, many of the Luftwaffe’s greatest aces had clamored to be in their cockpits. No wonder military leaders believed that if it had been introduced earlier, this jet could have changed the outcome of the war.

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