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Panzer Commander Hermann Balck by Stephen Robinson
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Robinson

The officer stood out in the open directing the fire, the crews crouched behind the shields and fed and fired the guns while everything the enemy had was being pelted ...
( Category: World War II July 1,2020 )
Saboteur--The Untold Story of SOE's Youngest Agent at the Heart of the French Resistance by Mark Seaman
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Mark Seaman [Mark Seaman]

While London was understandably anxious to acquire information on the true course of events surrounding the PRUNUS debacle, it is surprising that, amidst the grave uncertainty, they sought to put ...
( Category: World War II June 30,2020 )
Death at Papago Park Pow Camp : A Tragic Murder and America's Last Mass Execution (9781439660867) by Eppinga Jane
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:Eppinga, Jane

CHAPTER 4 CONFESSIONS AND COURT-MARTIAL Murza was recalled again, and Church asked if the men were wearing gloves. Murza said they were and that he was prepared to swear to ...
( Category: World War II June 27,2020 )
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Daniel Lee [Lee, Daniel]

Jutta and Joachim at Hohenheim c. 1939 One of the films showing in Stuttgart that autumn was 13 Stühle (“13 Chairs”), a comedy starring the screen god Heinz Rühmann, in ...
( Category: World War II June 18,2020 )
The S.S. Officer's Armchair by Daniel Lee
epub |eng | 2020-06-16 | Author:Daniel Lee [Lee, Daniel]

Jutta and Joachim at Hohenheim c. 1939 One of the films showing in Stuttgart that autumn was 13 Stühle (“13 Chairs”), a comedy starring the screen god Heinz Rühmann, in ...
( Category: World War II June 16,2020 )
Eastern Front by Joseph Pilyushin
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Pilyushin

The only available wartime portrait of Yosif Pilyushin Disregarding the danger to his life in every battle, under artillery and machine-gun fire, he went into the front line in order ...
( Category: World War II June 6,2020 )
Gods of War: History's Greatest Military Rivals by James Lacey
epub |eng | 2020-05-18 | Author:James Lacey [Lacey, James]

Wellesley sailed on July 12, 1808, and landed in La Coruña, where he began planning active operations. He was not there long when Castlereagh informed him that substantial reinforcements were ...
( Category: World War II May 20,2020 )
FDR on Democracy by Harvey J. Kaye
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Harvey J. Kaye

21. A True Patriotism Urges Us to Build an Even More Substantial America . . . Speech Dedicating a World War Memorial St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, 1936 Speaking at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 16,2020 )
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 )

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