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The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the deadliest in history, with some eight thousand lives claimed, packed winds in the 150-mile-per-hour range; while Andrew, in 1992, the costliest hurricane in history, with $25 billion in damages, was also officially labeled a Category 4, 155-mile-per-hour storm. Given what was coming at them on Labor Day of 1935,
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
In early 1947, he was approached by a Palmach commander named Dov Zayces, who asked him whether he knew anything about torpedoes, self-propelled weapons with explosive warheads. Sharon answered that all he knew about torpedoes was based on what he had seen in movies and read in books. Zayces gave him five pounds sterling and instructed him to trave
... See moreUriel Bachrach • The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
He says everyone remembers the last war, and no one is mad enough to go through that again.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Two days later, on 18 December, Operation Autumn Mist was launched against the weakest sector of Hodges’s First U.S. Army. It achieved absolute tactical and strategic surprise, a breakthrough on a forty-mile-wide front as panic-stricken American troops broke and fled in disarray in the path of the SS panzers; because of thick fog, the Allied air fo
... See moreMax Hastings • Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism (Hirsh 2003).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
