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Redeployed
How Combat Veterans Can Fight the Battle Within and Win the War at Home
2013
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The #1 Best-Selling book on conquering PTSD. For the first time EVER, a Combat-Infantry Sergeant and a Special Operations Force Recon Marine have joined forces to equip and educate other returning combat-veterans and their families on how to FIGHT and WIN the most common battles they face after returning home from war (PTSD, TBI, Depression, Anxiety, Isolation, Suicide, Divorce, etc). Fleming and Robichaux's roles as Resiliency Trainers for the U.S. Military have taken them to bases and in...
The Vatican Pimpernel
The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
2010
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During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly ventured out in disguise to continue his mission, which earned him the nickname 'the Pimpernel of the Vatican'. Kappler, the Gestapo chief in Rome, ordered him captured or killed. When the Allies entered Rome, Monsignor O'Flaherty and his colleagues had saved over 6,500 lives.
The Vatican Pimpernel
The World War II Exploits of the Monsignor Who Saved Over 6,500 Lives
2012
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During the German occupation of Rome from 1942–1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty ran an escape organization for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly ventured out in disguise to continue his mission, which earned him the nickname “the Pimpernel of the Vatican.” When the Allies entered Rome, he and his collaborators— priests, nuns, and laypeople of numerous nationalities and religious beliefs—had saved the lives of over 6,500 people.
The Solution Trap
A Guide to Better Decision-Making for Higher Education Leaders
2026
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New learning models. Structural reforms. AI-powered everything. Higher education is drowning in solutions to the many problems we're trying to solve. Each arrives with urgency, optimism, and bold promises. Yet the same persistent problems persist: declining enrollments, rising costs, political pressures, and eroding public trust.What if the real issue isn't the solutions themselves? Perhaps it's the way we choose them.In The Solution Trap, Dr. Brian Fleming reveals...
The Real Life of Brian
A Journey From Depression To Hope And Cheer
2025
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"They say laughter is the best medicine. Clearly, they've never tried the NHS hospital tea, but I'm here to tell the tale anyway."This isn't your typical "misery memoir." While I've walked through the dark fog of depression and faced a life-changing transplant journey, I did it with a cup of tea in one hand and a healthy dose of Derry humour in the other.In this book, I'm pulling back the curtain on The Real Life of Brian. From being nicknamed "Soupy" to na...
Heroes in the Shadows
Humanitarian Action and Courage in the Second World War
2019
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Heroes in the Shadows focuses on extraordinary examples of heroism during the Second World War away from the battlefield. It specifically considers the actions of individuals in five Allied escape lines set up to help those on the run. The author's research provides the most complete picture of how these routes operated. He also shows the qualities of the people involved, whose courage held out against all kinds of adversity. Diplomats who assisted those on the run, often in defiance of th...
Irish Education and Catholic Emancipation, 1791–1831
The Campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel O’Connell
2017
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The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to membership of Parliament and a few senior judicial positions. The removal of these, while important symbolically, could have direct implications for very few people, given the limited franchise. Yet the campaign for their abolition, ...
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Pontifex Maximus
A Short History of the Popes
2017
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“Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti will object to this outstanding analysis.”Frank...
"Our Crowd"
The Great Jewish Families of New York
2015
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence.They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amass...
Hitler's Children
Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders
2017
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“A mesmerizing, blood-chilling book . . . The contrast between innocent childhood experience, and the awful understanding of that experience that came with time, is enough to make you weep"– Los Angeles TimesGöring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They were the architects of the Third Reich. And they were fathers. Gerald Posner convinced eleven sons and daughters of Hitler’s inner circle to break...
The Gestapo
The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
2017
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A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German citizenry in the Gestapo’s surveillance and reveals the cold-blooded,...
Captains and the Kings
A Novel
2016
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New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power.Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where hi...











