History
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Tratkiewicz, Zygmunt [Tratkiewicz, Zygmunt]

11 Guttenberg The Nazis needed to replace the labour on their farms and agricultural facilities that was being lost by the conscription of German men into the war machine. They ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Retso, Jan;

( Category: Middle East History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Zaloga, Steven [Zaloga, Steven]

The WN60 defense nest on the extreme eastern side of Omaha Beach was located on top of the cliffs of the Plateau du Calvados. During the D-Day landings, the 3/16th ...
( Category: World War II History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Neitzel, Sönke [Neitzel, Sönke]

BROICH: We shot women as if they had been cattle. I was at ZHITOMIR the day after it happened, while moving forward when the second offensive was about to start. ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Greble, Emily

Political Transition: A Return to Autonomy and Pluralism Whereas the refugees offered a negative rallying point for the town, the crisis itself served as a positive catalyst in reviving the ...
( Category: World History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Mcnab, Chris [Mcnab, Chris]

The Messerschmitt Me 262, when it entered Luftwaffe service in late 1944, offered levels of performance unobtainable by traditional prop-driven aircraft. It had a maximum speed of 870km/h and was ...
( Category: European History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Timothy W. Ryback [Ryback, Timothy W.]

PART III GUILTY 13 Presidential Powers A PLEASANT WEEK at the end of May with summerlike temperatures brought Dachau residents the cheering news that their town was considered the “most ...
( Category: European History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Ganor, Solly [Ganor, Solly]

11 Winter 1941 The morning of December 7, 1941, a Japanese armada of thirty warships, including two battleships, two heavy cruisers, and six aircraft carriers mounting 423 aircraft, cruised toward ...
( Category: Memoirs November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Gannon, Michael [Gannon, Michael]

In Hardegen’s shooting report the diagram depicting the relative courses of the two vessels, U-boat and target, shows that the torpedo hit on the target’s port side. The accompanying narrative ...
( Category: Military Aviation History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Kershaw, Ian [Kershaw, Ian]

8 Implosion We’re issuing orders in Berlin that practically don’t even arrive, let alone can be carried out. I see in this the danger of an extraordinary diminution of authority. ...
( Category: European History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Jeff Rutherford [Rutherford, Jeff]

I. “The replacement situation is unfortunately proving to be catastrophic”: the state of the infantry At the most fundamental level, Army Group North simply did not possess enough men and ...
( Category: European History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Haffner, Sebastian [Haffner, Sebastian]

~ Chapter Six ~ The Opposition Let us, first of all, exclude every possibility of terminological misunderstanding. Under the term ‘Opposition’ we do not include every emotional distaste and hostility, ...
( Category: German History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:EVANS, RICHARD J.

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Maria Kula & Joseph Kula [Kula, Maria]

CHAPTER 9 Post-War Italy: Our New Refuge No one knew for certain what our ultimate destination would be; even the Burgermeister of St. Margarethen couldn’t tell us. Without our French ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 13,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A resident of the Cholon neighborhood watches helplessly as fire creeps toward her home during the fierce fighting that engulfed parts of Saigon during “Mini-Tet” in May 1968. Some thirty ...
( Category: Military History November 13,2020 )