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Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Copyright 1969. 590 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine and front cover. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask. Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway. These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next. Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway. If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask. Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway. These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next. Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway. If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask. Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway. These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next. Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway. If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask.Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway.These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next.Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway.If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask.Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway.These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next.Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway.If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire, hold, or run forward into a kill zone, with no one left above him to ask.Orders from Nowhere tells twelve true stories, spanning six wars and more than a century, of enlisted soldiers who found themselves standing in exactly that silence. A corporal in the Argonne Forest, once a conscientious objector, alone against a hillside of German machine guns after every sergeant above him fell. A sergeant at Guadalcanal who crossed open, burning ground again and again to keep a single gun firing through the night. A helicopter crew who turned their own weapons on American soldiers to stop a massacre. A submarine officer who refused, alone against two of his own superiors, to fire a nuclear torpedo during the most dangerous week of the Cold War. A Marine corporal who was denied permission four times, and drove into the ambush anyway.These are not stories about disobedience for its own sake. They are stories about the exact moment an order runs out, and what an ordinary person does with the seconds that follow. Some of these decisions saved hundreds of lives. One of them, made correctly, was ignored, and a war began anyway. Together they ask a question military history rarely sits with for long: when the chain of command breaks, who actually decides what happens next.Built from official citations, sworn testimony, and the accounts of the men themselves, this is narrative history written the way these moments actually felt, close, fast, and uncertain, rather than the way they read decades later in a museum plaque. No invented dialogue. No sanitized endings. Just the true, largely unrecorded story of the soldiers who were never asked, and answered anyway.If you have ever wondered what one person, with no authority and no instructions, is actually capable of deciding in the space of a single breath, this book will not let you look away until the last page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Orders from Nowhere | Battlefield Decisions That Changed History Without a General's Consent | Marcus J. Holloway | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Expedition Publishers | EAN 9798235832787 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…