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Hitler's Boy Soldiers: The Hitler Jugend Story by Hans Seidler
epub |eng | | Author:Hans Seidler

A youthful soldier sits in the passenger seat of a Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicle during summer operations in 1944. In the distance stationary in a field is a reworked Panther Ausf.D ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians by Michael Sharpe
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Michael Sharpe

Table 5.1: Poor Law and Asylum Sources in Quarter Sessions Records Notes: The references shown are for the catalogue of the relevant county archive: SSA for Staffordshire; WCRO for Warwickshire; ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
The Argentine Fight for the Falklands by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2013-02-14 | Author:Martin Middlebrook

The last personal account of this day’s action comes from First Lieutenant Luna, the Dagger pilot whose friends thought he had flown into a hill. But Luna had been shot ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
Norwich Blitz by Martin W. Bowman
epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

26/27 June 1942 The ‘Alert’ sounded at 2.05am on a brilliantly moonlit Saturday morning. With 12 mile visibility and only sporadic AA fire and searchlights, thirty raiders made a determined ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
Blood and Iron by Hugh Montagu Butterworth
epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Hugh Montagu Butterworth

These men of RIR 248 were under attack from 9/RB’s left column – caught in a pincer between Douglas Carmichael’s platoon of C Company, sprinting across no-man’s-land, intent on making ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
The Sloop of War by Ian
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Ian

Fig 10-11. In his great work Architectura Navalis Mercatoria of 1768 the Swedish naval architect F H Chapman includes this plan of a small frigate, the lines of which bear ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Manchester Pals by Michael Stedman
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Stedman

Trones Wood One thousand yards east of Montauban lay Bernafay Wood. North east of Bernafay Wood lay Trones Wood, its northern tip pointing towards the higher ground of Delville Wood ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Final Days of the Reich by Ian Baxter
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Ian Baxter [Baxter, Ian]

A soldier changing his clothing in the snow. He wears the reversible white camouflage trousers. The soldiers found their winter clothing extremely warm and comfortable, and provided the wearer with ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Deborah Cadbury

The week Coventry was bombed, telegrams were flying across the Atlantic about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. There was an emergency concerning the duchess’s teeth. Wallis needed medical treatment ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509: Ships, Men and Warfare by Susan Rose
epub |eng | 2013-10-06 | Author:Susan Rose

Anchoring Other aspects of good maritime practice, as it were, are touched on in the Laws of Oléron. Articles 15 and 16 deal with the problems that easily arise if ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary by Douglas Hurd
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Douglas Hurd [Hurd, Douglas]

That was the heart of the matter. Grey was not easy in talking in public about the balance of power, which meant different things to different people. But in private ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire: The Archaeology and Architecture of a Cathedral, Monastery and Parish Church by Rodwell Warwick
epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:Rodwell, Warwick

35 Doggett, 2005, fig. 35. 36 Britton, 1835, 5, pl. 63. 37 Skelton, 1823, pl. 5. 38 Addington, 1845, 12 (his italics). CHAPTER 9 Dorchester Abbey Restored, 1844–2007 VICTORIAN RESTORATION, ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Grays (Thurrock) in the Great War by Ken Porter Stephen Wynn
epub |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Ken Porter, Stephen Wynn

CHAPTER 25 The 1918 ’Flu Epidemic The influenza pandemic that spread across the world between 1918 and 1919 is estimated to have claimed the lives of between 50 to 100 ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Weimar Culture by Peter Gay
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Gay

V / THE REVOLT OF THE SON: Expressionist Years I Next to the Bauhaus, probably the most celebrated artifact of the Weimar Republic was a film released in Berlin in ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Five Nights in Paris by John Baxter
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:John Baxter

The Marais churns. It always has. Though shops with signs in Hebrew bolstered its image as the Jewish quarter of Paris, that was fading fast. Gay culture has displaced many ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 11,2018 )

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