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3 days ago · London, Allen Lane, 1999, ISBN: 9780713993721; 688pp.; Price: £17.94. Embracing Defeat is a richly researched, beautifully illustrated and elegantly written account of the period of the US-led occupation of Japan from 1945–52, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, among others. Throughout the book John Dower’s ...
2 days ago · The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother's attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
- United States
- The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
- English
- Jack Nitzsche
5 days ago · Wake Up and Dream by Ian R. MacLeod— This thriller is an alternate history of Hollywood. Hollywood, June 1944. Europe is still at war, with England about to fall to Hitler’s legions. In the United States, FDR readies a run for a third term as the fascist Liberty League gains ground across the land.
5 days ago · The list of all P-51 aces with 10. or more aerial victories in WWII. WWII P-51 Mustang Aces. The above links to lists of aces is in no means a list of only "good" pilots. Many great pilots did not get their "5" aerial kills (victories) to become aces. Depending on where they were stationed, some did not have the opportunity to mixed it up with ...
2 days ago · The Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and its predecessor Timely Comics.In Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), the Red Skull's secret identity was revealed to be George Maxon; It would be retroactively established that he was merely a decoy who was working for the real Red Skull.
- Johann Shmidt, Albert Malik, Sinthea Shmidt, George Maxon
2 days ago · The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...
4 days ago · An Enigma machine is a famous encryption machine used by the Germans during WWII to transmit coded messages. An Enigma machine allows for billions and billions of ways to encode a message, making it incredibly difficult for other nations to crack German codes during the war — for a time the code seemed unbreakable. Alan Turing and other researchers exploited a few weaknesses in the ...
