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Her singular story of patriotism, barrier breaking, and fearless sacrifice is told for the first time in full for readers of The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck, A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell, The Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown and all Asian American, women''s and WWII history books. In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend''s flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humour, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot s license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn''t easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China''s field of male-dominated aviation s

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Joseph Weldon Brown confessed to more than a dozen murders across seven states. He was convicted and sentenced for killing a woman whose body he dismembered and scattered across three Indiana counties. In prison, he hogtied and strangled his cellmate, then asked the judge to lock him up for life because if he was released, he would continue killing. Police detective Rick Reed was on the scene when Brown led authorities to the scattered remains of Ginger Gasaway in 2000. After Brown''s arrest, he confessed to a shocking number of other heinous crimes - the torture and murders of drifters and sex workers, the cold case of a naked woman''s body found in a roadside ditch, even the murder of his own mother. Detective Reed was the one man Brown opened up to - and the only one to cut through the deceptions and lies and learn the terrible truth... In this newly updated edition, now-retired detective Reed reveals his personal theories and insights into one of the darkest minds he has ever encou

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Ben Kuroki was a twenty-four-year-old Japanese American farm boy whose heritage was never a problem in remote Nebraska - until Pearl Harbor. Among the millions of Americans who flocked to military stations to enlist, Ben wanted to avenge the attack, reclaim his family honour, and prove his patriotism. But as anti-Japanese sentiment soared, Ben had to fight to be allowed to fight for America. And fight he did. As a gunner on Army Air Corps bombers, Ben flew fifty-eight missions spanning three combat theaters: Europe, North America, and the Pacific, including the climactic B-29 firebombing campaign against Japan that culminated with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He flew some of the war''s boldest and bloodiest air missions and lived to tell about it. In between his tours in Europe and the Pacific, he challenged FDR''s shameful incarceration of more than one hundred thousand people of Japanese ancestry in America, and he would be credited by some with setting in motion the

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John ''Sonny'' Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. A ''made man'' for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home, specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades - and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business. Through it all, Franzese refused to break the Mafia''s code of silence. Authorities believe he may have murdered, or ordered the murders of, forty to fifty people. Yet he earned a grudging respect from law enforcement and an absolute reverence from his fellow gangsters. Eventually he managed to outlive them all - until his death in 2020 of natural causes, a rare event in the Mafia. Thanks to a series of exclusive first hand interviews, the astonishing life story of John ''Sonny'' Franzese can be told in all its bold, bruta

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