Adam Makos

Larry Alexander

Tells the true story of two World War II airmen, one American and one German, who put aside the conflict and helped each other to safety in the wake of a damaged aircraft and describes their meeting again 47 years later. 35,000 first printing.

An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II

A Higher Call

A tribute complemented by the insights of family, friends, and fellow veterans chronicles the war-time accomplishments of Major Richard D. Winters, the skillful leader of the Band of Brothers, the legendary fighting unit of World War II.

The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers

Biggest Brother

A Novel of Tarawa

76 Hours

Part travelogue, part historical perspective, this work is an inspiring walk through World War II history from the national bestselling author of "Biggest Brother."

A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers

From New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander comes a gritty historical novel of World War II, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the firing line. Tarawa was hell but Saipan is worse. For Sergeant Pete "Hardball" Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island towards an invasion of the Japanese homeland. But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man. In vivid, startling detail, Shattered Jade explores the strategy and horror of battle in one of World War II's most brutal conflicts and illuminates the extraordinary courage of ordinary young men.

A Novel of Saipan

Shattered Jade

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Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings. Some of the essays deal with the relationship between morality and criminalization. Others deal with criminalization in the context of specific crimes such as fraud, blackmail, and revenge pornography. The contributors also address questions of responsible agency such as the effects of addiction or insanity, and some deal with punishment, its mode and severity, and the justness of the state’s imposition of it. These chapters are authored by some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of applied ethics, criminal law, and jurisprudence.

The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law

Emily Sherwin

This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.

Problems and Puzzles

Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Al miljoenen lezers volgden de heldendaden van het 101st Airborne, de Easy Company die bij het grote publiek bekendstaat als Band of Brothers. Nu, ruim vijfenzestig jaar later, reist de gelouterde journalist Larry Alexander naar de slagvelden van toen, naar alle plekken die een legende maakten van Easy Company. Samen met sergeant Forrest Guth, een veteraan uit Easy Company, treedt hij in de voetsporen van de Band of Brothers en onderzoekt waarom de levens van die mannen zelfs vandaag de dag nog zoveel indruk maken op de mensen die over hen lezen.Van Aldbourne tot Brecourt Manor in Normandië; van de mislukking van Operatie Market Garden tot de slagvelden van Bastogne in Frankrijk elke door Easy Company geleverde strijd was een bewijs van hun ijzeren discipline en hun vastberadenheid de Europese volken te bevrijden.In de voetsporen van Band of Brothers is het reisdagboek van een van de mijlpalen in de Europese geschiedenis en een onvergetelijk gedenkteken voor de soldaten die niet terugkeerden.

In de voetsporen van Band of Brothers

A sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right.

Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?

Marlin Groft

By a veteran of Lt. Col. Merritt A. Edson's battalion, and author of the Dick Winters biography Biggest Brother and coauthor of A Higher Call On the killing ground that was the island of Guadalcanal, a 2,000-yard-long ridge rose from the jungle canopy. Behind it lay the all-important air base of Henderson Field. And if Henderson Field fell, it would mean the almost certain death or capture of all 12,500 marines on the island . . . But the marines positioned on the ridge were no normal fighters. They were tough, hard-fighting men of the Edson’s Raiders; an elite fighting unit within an already elite U.S. Marine Corps. Handpicked for their toughness, and submitted to a rigorous training program to weed out those less fit, they were the Marine Corps’s best of the best. For two hellish nights in September 1942, about 840 United States Marines—commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Merritt Austin “Red Mike” Edson—fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II in the Pacific, clinging desperately to their position on what would soon be known as Bloody Ridge. Wave after wave of attacking Japanese soldiers were repelled by the Raiders, who knew that defeat and retreat were simply not possible options. But in the end, the defenders had prevailed against the odds. Bloody Ridge and Beyond is the story of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, which showed courage and valor in the face of overwhelming numbers, as told by Marlin Groft, a man who was a member of this incredible fighting force.

A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific

Bloody Ridge and Beyond

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ought not follow them when we believe they produce the wrong result in a particular case. In The Rule of Rules Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin examine this dilemma. Once the importance of this moral and practical conflict is acknowledged, the authors argue, authoritative rules become the central problems of jurisprudence. The inevitable gap between rules and background morality cannot be bridged, they claim, although many contemporary jurisprudential schools of thought are misguided attempts to do so. Alexander and Sherwin work through this dilemma, which lies at the heart of such ongoing jurisprudential controversies as how judges should reason in deciding cases, what effect should be given to legal precedent, and what status, if any, should be accorded to “legal principles.” In the end, their rigorous discussion sheds light on such topics as the nature of interpretation, the ancient dispute among legal theorists over natural law versus positivism, the obligation to obey law, constitutionalism, and the relation between law and coercion. Those interested in jurisprudence, legal theory, and political philosophy will benefit from the edifying discussion in The Rule of Rules.

Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law

The Rule of Rules

Drawing on personal interviews with and recollections by veterans, the author of Biggest Brother chronicles the exploits of the Alamo Scouts, members of an elite Army reconnaissance unit during World War II, a group that spent weeks behind enemy lines to gather much needed intelligence for Allied forces in the Pacific.

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