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Paperback:
9781784785161 | Verso Books, March 22, 2016, cover price $16.95
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9781511392310 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, April 12, 2016), cover price $9.99
âPowerful and often startlingâ¦The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.â --The Boston GlobeA groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glassârenowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupationâdelves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history.Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glassâs arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers.With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandyâyet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combatâand who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his fatherâa disillusioned First World War veteranâto sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders.Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reportedâto the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
Hardcover:
9781594204289 | Penguin Pr, June 13, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: âPowerful and often startlingâ¦The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.
Paperback:
9780143125488 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 27, 2014), cover price $18.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781620649251 | Blackstone Audio Inc, June 18, 2013, cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9780007345922 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 28, 2013, cover price $42.25
Paperback:
9780704372221, titled "Time for Outrage!" | Pmplt edition (Quartet Books Ltd, August 1, 2011), cover price $7.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441766267 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2010), cover price $123.00
Product Description: Acclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season, from the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of expatriates and their struggles in Nazi Paris...read more
Hardcover:
9781594202421 | Penguin Pr, January 7, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441766274 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2010), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation.
Paperback:
9780007131631 | New edition (Perennial, March 12, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey -- once violently interrupted and here resumed -- through one of the most compelling regions on earth.
Hardcover:
9780007228539 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 19, 2009, cover price $33.35
Paperback:
9780863567704 | Al Saqi, December 4, 2006, cover price $16.95
Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1997. Authors: Clive Innes & Charles Glass.. Over 1200 varieties all illustrated in full color. An ideal practical identification handbook and working reference resource for amateur and professional enthusiasts everywhere. All the information needed to identify individual plants and then to select varieties that will look and grow best in specific climates and locations. Many of the new inter-genetic hybrids which are currently arousing tremendous interest among fans, are represented. Additionally contains items such as soil types, sun or shade, maintenance and pests. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780785813583 | Book Sales, April 1, 2001, cover price $17.99
9781577150176 | Reprint edition (Knickerbocker Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1997.
Hardcover:
9780785803737 | Book Sales, June 1, 1998, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Book by Glass, Charles
Paperback:
9780871134578 | Reprint edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $12.95
Product Description: Charles Glass resigned his position as Chief Middle East Correspondent of ABC News in February of 1987 to begin work on a book chronicling the land, people, and culture of the Levant. On June 18, 1987, he was kidnapped by pro-Iranian terrorists in a Shiite Moslem suburb of Beirut and held for 62 days...read more
Hardcover:
9780871132673 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Charles Glass resigned his position as Chief Middle East Correspondent of ABC News in February of 1987 to begin work on a book chronicling the land, people, and culture of the Levant.
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