Selvbiografier: historie, politik og militær

A gripping exploration of the intense psychology and character of Benedict Arnold, arguing that he was essential to victory before he was a traitorBenedict Arnold committed treason- for more than two centuries, that's all that most Americans have known about him.Yet Arnold was much more than a turncoat-his achievements during the early years of the Revolutionary War defined him as the most successful soldier of the era. GOD SAVE BENEDICT ARNOLD tells the gripping story of Arnold's rush of audacious feats-his capture of Fort Ticonderoga, his Maine mountain expedition to attack Quebec, the famous artillery brawl at Valcour Island, the turning-point battle at Saratoga-that laid the groundwork for our independence.Arnold was a superb leader, a brilliant tactician, a supremely courageous military officer. He was also imperfect, disloyal, villainous. One of the most paradoxical characters in American history, and one of the most interesting. GOD SAVE BENEDICT ARNOLD does not exonerate him for his treason-the stain on his character is permanent. But Kelly's insightful exploration of Arnold's career as a warrior shines a new light on this gutsy, fearless, and enigmatic figure. In the process, the book offers a fresh perspective on the reasons for Arnold's momentous change of heart.

LEARN HOW TO LEAD FROM THE BOTTOM!How do you lead your organization with the most important people in mind? In Foundational Leadership, Robert Griggs highlights his journey from being a young entrepreneur to becoming the founder and president of Trinity Products.After the loss of his mother at an early age, Robert began work for a farmer when he was fifteen. Through this experience, he grew to understand what it meant to have a strong work ethic and be an effective leader. After graduating high school, Robert took a door-to-door sales job that did not earn him much of an income but awakened his passion for sales and gave him a glimpse of what he might one day accomplish.Several years later, after being on the receiving end of a deceptive boss who cheated him out of a $5,000 paycheck, Robert launched his own company with the desire to do business the right way. And since its establishment in 1979, Robert has taken Trinity Products from a struggling start-up to a thriving company with over 150 employee owners that serve customers across the United States.As Robert outlines, the secret to his success is no secret at all. Instead, it's focusing on the basics of hard work, doing business the right way, and empowering others to step up and lead with the heart of a servant.

Som jægersoldat lærte Lars Møller at samarbejde i teams under stort pres i forbindelse operationer på Balkan og i Afghanistan og Irak. Nu giver han sine erfaringer og sin viden videre til alle, der gerne vil lære samarbejde og ledelse af en elitesoldat.I ULTIMATIV LEDELSE giver Lars Møller således et indblik, hvordan et hold fungerer, og hvad der er spil, når man som leder skal skabe det bedste team til opgaven. Med udgangspunkt i konkrete oplevelser fra sin tid som jæger lærer han derfor læseren at sammensætte et hold og skabe de optimale betingelser for samarbejde og ledelse.Lars Møller har ingen akademisk uddannelse, men har sin viden og erfaring fra et liv på kanten af det menneskeligt mulige - og det er de tillærte metoder og tanker, han nu giver videre. Bogen er en selvstændig opfølger til TÆNK SOM EN KRIGER, er udkom i 2018 og satte fokus på mental robusthed og selvledelse.

Som jægersoldat lærte Lars Møller at håndtere stort mentalt pres og vanskelige udfordringer under operationer på Balkan og i Afghanistan og Irak. Nu giver han sine erfaringer og sin viden videre til alle, der gerne vil lære at tænke som en elitesoldat.I TÆNK SOM EN KRIGER giver Lars Møller således et indblik i mentalt arbejde og fokusering, og hvordan man kan arbejde med det. Med udgangspunkt i konkrete oplevelser fra sin tid som jæger lærer han læseren at kigge ind i sig selv og tage ansvaret for ens egen trivsel, så man opnår en øget mental robusthed og en stærkere selvbevidsthed.Lars Møller har ingen akademisk uddannelse, men har sin viden og erfaring fra et liv på kanten af det menneskeligt mulige - og det er de tillærte metoder og tanker, han nu giver videre. Bogen indeholder både tankevækkende historier og oplevelser samt opgaver, værktøjer og små redskaber, der skal hjælpe læseren til at arbejde med målsætninger, prioriteringer og problemløsninger. Bogen skal gøre læseren mere selvbevidst, afklaret og handlekraftig.Lars Møller udgav i 2012 bestselleren "Jæger 200 - med hjertet som indsats" .

The varied and rewarding life of a Welsh Guardsman

The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman began with the year 1846 (when the Mexican War began) and ended with a chapter about the military lessons of the Civil War.

In the tradition of Tim O’Brien and Phil Klay, a memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost.

Journalist Stephen Singular, a New York Times bestselling author, has written books about some of the most high-profile crimes in recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case, the JonBenet Ramsey case, and the saga of the BTK serial killer. Until now, he's probed human violence from the outside, documenting other people's stories. In The Heart of Violence, he turns the lens inward, combining true crime with a personal spiritual journey that examines the roots of violence from a radically different perspective. He explores the long-term effects of the war that shaped his father's life (and helped shape his own), while venturing far beyond the boundaries of conventional journalism. Neither he nor the reader could have imagined where this quest would lead him.

"As one of the leading historians of the post-1956 generation and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch's autobiography presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of historians too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood in a chaotic country, to Americanization as a foreign student, and concluding with his mentorship of PhDs as a respected international scholar, he weaves together a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This self-reflexive work explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies, and the development of scholarly organizations and institutions"--

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.

Wenngleich die Alexandreis des Walter von Châtillon unbestritten zu den wichtigsten lateinischen Epen des Mittelalters gehört, fristet sie ungeachtet einiger hervorragender Einzelbeiträge ein bedauerliches Schattendasein in der lateinischen Philologie. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt mit einer textnahen Prosaübersetzung und einem ausführlichen Kommentar den Versuch, die Alexandreis in ihrer Gesamtheit zu interpretieren und sie neben Fachwissenschaftler/-innen und Studierenden der lateinischen Philologie auch einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Insbesondere soll gezeigt werden, dass das Verständnis der Alexandreis insgesamt neben ihrer außerordentlichen Vielschichtigkeit untrennbar mit der Einsicht in die mehrfach spiegelbildlich angeordnete Rahmenstruktur des Epos verbunden ist. Damit lassen sich, ausgehend von der am Ende des fünften Buchs implementierten zentralen Forderung Walters, einen alexanderhaften Anführer für den Kampf gegen die muslimischen Feinde zu finden, auch in der Forschung bisher umstrittene Fragen wie beispielsweise zur moralischen Bewertung Alexanders des Großen durch den christlichen Autor oder zur Bedeutung der Aristoteles-Rede für das Gesamtwerk einer befriedigenden Klärung zuführen.

First Published in 1961 A Philosopher's Pilgrimage is a plain-spoken autobiography of Alban G. Widgery. This is the record of the life of a philosopher who never allowed concern with ideas to distract him from the richness of experiences.

*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION**Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMESYou know how he died. This is how he lived.Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life.In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in search of a better life in a society determined to write him off based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size of his body and the colour of his skin.Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.

One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil.At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated from their family and herded to the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp. Forced to carry out hard labour in brutal conditions, and to live under the constant threat of extreme violence and sudden death, before the war was over Josef would witness the unique horrors of six of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee.From salt mines to forced marches, summary executions to Amstetten, where prisoners were used as human shields in Allied bombing, Josef lived under the spectre of death for many years. When he was liberated from Ebensee at the end of the war, conditions were amongst the worst witnessed by allied forces.With his freedom, Josef returned home to find that he was the only one left alive in an extended family of 150. Compelled by the need to do something to avenge that loss, he joined the Jewish police while still in a displaced persons' camp, and was recruited as an intelligence officer for the US Army who gave him a team to search for Nazis in hiding.Whilst rounding up SS leaders, he played a critical role in identifying and bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, the Butcher of Plaszow, Amon Göth, played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. He then committed his life to helping the orphaned children of the Holocaust rebuild their lives.The Survivor is Josef's extraordinary testimony.

In Fly Higher, Sarah Furness, a former RAF helicopter pilot, has translated the lessons she learned under fire into military-grade mindfulness strategies for improved self-leadership.