This book covers the direct ancestors of the Turbit family back to the first to arrive in Australia. It covers 18 convicts and an aboriginal branch that was never spoken of. Interspersed are interesting items on early Australia.
For Amaury Torres, life in Fidel Castro's communist Cuba is all he's ever known, yet he longs for a bigger and bolder life.
Amaury is forced to navigate the unforgiving nature of his mostly-absentee, militaristic father-who fought alongside Fidel Castro himself, the chokehold Castro's Cuba has over his mother, and the growing suspicion that there might be an entire world outside of his reality that he can't quite reach.
After a brief stint in the Cuban Army, Amaury is unfairly targeted by
The book chronicles the onset of the Great Patriotic War in Ukraine, from the first battles in June 1941 near Lviv (Lemberg) to the catastrophic encirclement of the Soviet troops in "the Kiev Cauldron" in September 1941. Using declassified Soviet and German documents and maps, it traces the path of the 48th combat engineer battalion.