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Battleships of the Bismarck Class by Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

The following damage to the Tirpitz resulted from 16 hits or near-misses: a near miss to the starboard boiler room aft; a hit on ‘B’ turret; a hit on the ...
( Category: Ships May 2,2016 )
Freuds' War by Fry Helen
epub | | 2011-11-18 | Author:Fry, Helen

Would you like to return to Hitler, who may think again whether it would not after all be possible to put to some use what is vermin in his eyes, ...
( Category: World War II May 2,2016 )
Germany's Last Mission to Japan by Joseph Mark Scalia
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
Countdown To Valkyrie by Nigel Jones
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Nigel Jones [Jones, Nigel]

General Hellmuth Stieff. Hitler at the presentation of new field uniforms, with Stieff in the middle, early summer 1944. Tresckow instantly recognised, on meeting the maimed young colonel, that Stauffenberg ...
( Category: World War II April 30,2016 )
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
The Pity of War by Miranda Seymour
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour

PART TWO From Versailles to the Verge of War (1919–40) 18 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1919–23) The challenge facing the modest and quietly spoken Friedrich Ebert as the first president ...
( Category: European April 29,2016 )
Berlin on the Brink by Daniel F. F. Harrington
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Daniel F. F. Harrington

CHAPTER 10 “Lieber Pomm als ‘Frau komm!’ ” In addition to being a diplomatic struggle between East and West, the Berlin blockade was a political competition conducted in the streets ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
Thunder at Prokhorovka: A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943 by Schranck David
epub |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Schranck, David

15 July 10th on the Northern Salient See Map 6 The Germans were stopped far short of cutting the Orel-Kursk railroad line but Model did not have reserves to make ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
Stalingrad and Leningrad: The Deadliest Battles of World War II by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Chapter 7: Preparing for the Battle of Stalingrad “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war.” – Adolf Hitler By the ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
World War II: Air War by Sears Stephen W
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Sears, Stephen W.

The savage mauling of the Ploesti raiders was not an isolated incident. Barely two weeks later, the Luftwaffe delivered a second staggering blow at the AAF. Thus began the autumn ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
Victory in Italy by Doherty Richard
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Doherty, Richard

Notes 1. Belogi & Guglielmi, op. cit., p.142; Jackson, op. cit., pp.267–8; Blaxland, op. cit., pp.259–60. 2. NA, WO170/5059, war diary 2/5 Queen’s. 3. Blaxland, p.259. 4. NA, WO170/5060, war ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
Warfare and the Third Reich by Chant Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:Chant, Christopher

COLONEL-GENERAL HEINRICH VON VIETINGHOFF When the Allies entered Rome on 4 June 1944, the German 10th and 14th Armies were still conducting so chaotic a retreat that there seemed every ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 by Jonathan Trigg
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jonathan Trigg [Trigg, Jonathan]

Air accident On the same day as this last entry, István Horthy, eldest son of Hungary’s Regent Miklos Horthy, died at the Alexeyevka airbase when his Hejja crashed due to ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West by Johnson Ian
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Johnson, Ian [Johnson, Ian]

Sultan had been honing his covert propaganda skills for Amcomlib back in the United States. A typical operation was a talk he gave at Philadelphia's venerable International House, a nonprofit ...
( Category: European April 21,2016 )
The Ohio and Malta: The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die by Michael Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Michael Pearson

*Designed to raise a curtain of water ahead of low flying torpedo bombers to break up their attacks. Two-column formation intended but never actually achieved for passage through The Narrows. ...
( Category: State & Local April 21,2016 )

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