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Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa by Oscar Gilbert
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Gilbert [Oscar Gilbert]

RED BEACH THREE: THE MASSACRE OF THE THIRD PLATOON All four tanks of the third Platoon landed without mishap, and by noon the platoon was functioning as one of the ...
( Category: Conventional January 7,2016 )
Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]

CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
Hans Sturm: A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front by Gordon Williamson
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Gordon Williamson [Williamson, Gordon]

Relaxing at home with family and friends. ‘Then come tomorrow for lunch,’ was the old man’s reply. Because Sturm was reluctant, saying he had to get permission from the senior ...
( Category: World War II January 6,2016 )
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Mitter Rana
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Mitter, Rana [Mitter, Rana]

PART IV THE POISONED ALLIANCE Chapter 13 Destination Burma SINCE THAT TERRIBLE DAY in December 1941, they had been captives. Spring had come to Guangdong province, but the new season ...
( Category: China January 2,2016 )
History and Popular Memory by Cohen Paul A
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust by Michael Hirsh
epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Michael Hirsh [Hirsh, Michael]

Inside the turret of their Sherman tank ten miles from Kaufering, T/5 John Critzas and his four crew members began to smell something they couldn’t readily identify. “We knew the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 25,2015 )
Terror in the Balkans by Ben Shepherd
epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Ben Shepherd [Shepherd, Ben]

IN THE BALKANS German Armies and Partisan Warfare BEN SHEPHERD Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, England 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College ...
( Category: Regional December 23,2015 )
Goering and Goering: Hitler's Henchman and his anti-Nazi Brother by Wyllie James
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Wyllie, James [Wyllie, James]

The run in to the Anschluss began in February 1938 with a meeting between Hitler and Schuschnigg, during which the Führer, flanked by his generals, subjected the Austrian chancellor to ...
( Category: Fascism December 23,2015 )
Blackett's War by Stephen Budiansky
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

Blackett emphasized the need for scientists in this role to steer clear of “technical midwifery” so they could focus on current operational questions. Williams jumped right into the most basic ...
( Category: World War II December 23,2015 )
Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II by Niall Barr
epub, azw |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Niall Barr [Barr, Niall]

While Baytown appeared a relatively straightforward operation, Eisenhower always recognised that not only was Avalanche a more risky venture but that the US Fifth Army was something of an unknown ...
( Category: Treaties December 20,2015 )
Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Churchill; The Unexpected Hero
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Churchill Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )

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