Stephen Dando-Collins
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Oflag 64, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp based in Schubin, Poland, was speculated to be one of the only POW camps set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. About 150 American officers lived in the camp in 1943, and by 1945, that number had expanded to 1,500. When the German commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders to march all of his prisoners to west Germany to escape the Russians in January 1945, that number...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a little-known, yet remarkable World War II operation, which had all the hallmarks of a suicide mission.
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland.
It took raw courage to fly...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister Agrippina the Younger, his uncle Claudius and his nephew Nero."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel-;a violent battle of the capitalist versus the idealist, money versus ambition, and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans. This incredible true story-;impeccably researched and never before told in full-;is packed with greed, intrigue, and some of the most hair-raising battle scenes ever written. Stephen Dando-Collins...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a.d. 64, on the night of July 19, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. The fire would spread over the coming days to engulf much of the city of Rome. From this calamity, one of the ancient world's most devastating events, legends grew: that Nero had been responsible for the fire, and fiddled while Rome burned, and that Nero blamed the Christians of Rome, burning them alive in punishment, making them the first...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 64, on the night of July 19, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium that spread to engulf much of Rome. From this calamity, one of the ancient world's most devastating events, legends grew--that Nero was responsible for the fire and fiddled while Rome burned and that he blamed the Christians and burned them alive as punishment, making them the first recorded martyrs of Christianity in Rome. Dando-Collins introduces the fascinating...
