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"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in...
"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as...
"Turned on to this book by reading obit of Mr. Stadler, died at 103, was " navigator" of group, leading them thru desert , but stars, sun etc. Libyan desert much like ocean.
Great read, a forgotten precursor to OSS & CIA."
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Random House, Inc.The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigueBritain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat...
"A long, but good read of events occurring in November 1942, the war is turning " this is the end of the beginning" to quote Churchill...all this is related by approximately 40 characters, all real, ranging from a German solider at Stalingrad, to a..."
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