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What Really Happened by Robert J. Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Robert J. Hutchinson

CRITICAL MINUTES Witnesses claimed to have seen John Wilkes Booth meet with his secret fiancée, Lucy Hale, both on the morning and late afternoon of April 14. If one or ...
( Category: American Civil War April 15,2020 )
Yamamoto Isoroku by Mark Stille
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Stille

During the battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese inflicted heavy losses on the Pacific Fleet with the carrier Lexington, shown here exploding, being sunk and a second carrier, Yorktown, ...
( Category: World War II April 14,2020 )
Out of the Depths by Edgar Harrell USMC
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Edgar Harrell USMC [Harrell USMC, Edgar]

For reasons I cannot explain, I remember referring to him as “Uncle Edwin”—one of my dad’s brothers and a close friend back in Kentucky. I suppose my borderline delirious condition, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
Japan's Spy at Pearl Harbor by Takeo Yoshikawa
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Takeo Yoshikawa

27 A Special Submarine In the previous chapter, I wrote about the “thunderous explosion” I heard at approximately eight o’clock in the evening. This loud noise, I would later learn, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
War by Unknown
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Unknown

LETTER 17 KEEP IT AND HONOR IT ALWAYS Tom O’Sullivan to his son, Conor 16 September 1996 The Bosnian War began in April 1992, lasted more than three years, and ...
( Category: World War II April 7,2020 )
Primo Levi's Resistance by Sergio Luzzatto
epub |eng | | Author:Sergio Luzzatto

Lions and lambs After several months of indecision, the Aosta Special Court of Assizes prevailed over the courts of Asti and Turin, winning the right to try Cagni there first.8 ...
( Category: World War II April 7,2020 )
A Schoolmaster's War by Jonathan Ree
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Ree

We had another six-hour train journey the next day. We were in the dining car when the Germans came in and examined our identity cards, but the officer who took ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2020 )
Rails of War by Steven James Hantzis
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Steven James Hantzis [Hantzis, Steven James]

The driving was relatively smooth for the next week. The convoy was in Chinese-controlled territory now, and the road was well maintained. The lush green countryside of Burma gave way ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2020 )
Secret Alliances by Tony Insall
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Tony Insall [Insall, Tony]

Telavåg As highlighted in Chapter 3, the incident at Telavåg led to one of the worst atrocities committed in Norway during the war. In April 1942, when the Borghild landed ...
( Category: World War II April 5,2020 )
Our People by Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff

The poet was writing about the Lithuanian partisans fighting the Soviets after the war, not about murdered Jews. It was probably just a coincidence that he mentioned Einstein, a Jew. ...
( Category: World War II April 2,2020 )
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Esther Safran Foer [Foer, Esther Safran]

* * * — The details of mass murder of the Jews in Chetvertnia has been well documented by Yahad-In Unum, an organization founded in 2004 and led by Father ...
( Category: World War II April 2,2020 )
The Devil's Doctor: Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler by John H. Waller
epub |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:John H. Waller

I explained to him [Ramsay] that the German military situation was hopeless and that Germany could hold on at the most another one or two more years. In my opinion ...
( Category: World War II March 28,2020 )
American Nightingale by Bob Welch
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Bob Welch

SOLDIERS FROM “Das Reich,” the division that had massacred the people of Oradour-sur-Glane on the same afternoon the Forty-fifth Field Hospital had come ashore, reached the Normandy front in a ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2020 )
Troop Leader by Bill Bellamy
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Bill Bellamy [Bellamy, Bill]

EIGHT Holland and the Corridor On the evening of 10 September, having been refuelled, we received orders to move up into Belgium, and we crossed the frontier on 11 September ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2020 )
Across the Dark Islands by Floyd W. Radike
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Floyd W. Radike

CHAPTER EIGHT Summing Up August 11, 1984. The writing of a narrative is a linear process, event after event, strung together like beads on a string. This leaves little or ...
( Category: World War II March 24,2020 )

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