epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Downing [Downing, David]

VI During the next few days, as 90th Motorised reconnaissance units moved east along the coastal road in the wake of the retreating British, the defenders and population of the ...

epub |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Gunter Grass & Breon Mitchell [Grass, Gunter & Mitchell, Breon]

Bebra’s Theater at the Front In mid-June of forty-two, my son Kurt turned one year old. Oskar, his father, took it in stride, thought to himself: Just two short years ...

epub | | 2005-01-25 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

To many readers of the newspapers that reported Hitler’s appointment, the jubilation of the brownshirts must have appeared exaggerated. The key feature of the new government, symbolized by the participation ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Giles MacDonogh [MacDonogh, Giles]

French Zone The French Zone, which covered the Vorarlberg and most of the Tyrol, was originally run from French HQ in Lindau on Lake Constance in Württemberg. Despite the fraternising ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Janet Gleeson [GLEESON, JANET]

Chapter Two The Porcelain Palace No handycraft can with our art compare For pots are made of what we potters are. Potter's motto, anonymous, 18th century The fireworks that carved ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edwin Black

Although five Germans now sat on the Dehomag board, few of them could appear in Berlin for the rush meeting Heidinger planned for September 19—not even Heidinger himself. Heidinger lived ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:William Lubbeck [Lubbeck, William]

BATTLING IN A SWAMP: April June 1942 When the spring thaw arrived in early April, it swiftly turned the whole Volkhov battlefield into a muddy bog. The warmer weather was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Meyer, Kurt [Meyer, Kurt]

I had already been told at the outset of the invasion that the Allies did not take the Geneva Convention very seriously and the divisions that had already landed had ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Antony Beevor

On the Fourth Panzer Army’s front to the south of Stalingrad, German regiments heard the artillery barrages on the morning of 19 November well over sixty miles to their north-west. ...

mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Neil Short & Peter Dennis

The Raid When Esebeck arrived, he read the messages and agreed with Kodré that they should be followed, but just to double-check Kodré rang Stauffenberg, his counterpart in Berlin, who ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-06-06 | Author:Clay Blair

GERMAN NAVAL OPERATIONS In Berlin at the start of the third year of the war, Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, dominated all else. Hitler personally directed the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dennis Showalter

II ON APRIL 5, 1942, Hitler issued Directive 41, outlining the operational plan for the summer of 1942. Its focus would be in the south: a major drive toward the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Richard J. Evans

‘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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Richard J. Evans

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...

mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Zuckerman, Larry [Zuckerman, Larry]

The chancellor had said more than he perhaps knew. To invoke the Somme while waving away Belgium’s “difficulties” was to endorse the policy of thrusting German costs, with interest, onto ...