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On this battlefield, there are no victors...only survivors. In the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia, the dogged Marshall Tito and his Partisans are on the run, pursued by their most feared enemy: the lethal SS Division Handschar—a fanatical band of Muslim warriors fighting alongside the Nazis. Soon the entire region will be in German hands. To turn the tide, the Allies send a commando team, led by Major Walter Merritt, to destroy a nearly inaccessible high-altitude bridge in the mountains, a key link in the Handschar supply chain. Blowing up the bridge will be difficult—but getting there may be impossible. After parachuting into Yugoslavia, the team must fight a running battle alongside Tito’s forces in a life-or-death struggle against a foe who would rather die than give up the fight….
This work evolved out of a love for my ancestors, one being John Whitelaw, the Covenanter Monkland Martyr, who was executed for his religious beliefs in Edinburgh, 1683. While searching for his records I came across reference to thousands of other Scottish Covenanters. This Index lists those Covenanters found in some books written about the period between 1630 and 1712.There are many, many more Covenanters, whose names need to be added to this work, and, God willing, I will do it. The Covenanters were steadfast in their Presbyterian beliefs and refused to take an oath unto the King stating that he was the head of the church. They believed that Christ was the Head of the Church and their loya...
The first major study since 1963 to examine the historic Australian military campaign of 1944-1945 at Bougainville in the South Pacific.
In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.