World War II
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Gitta Sereny [Sereny, Gitta]

* The Lazarett was nothing but a shell of a small building – about twelve metres by twelve, with a Red Cross painted on the front. There was no roof. ...
( Category: Fascism October 17,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Woollcombe, Robert

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE GREAT SWAN SONG WITHIN a week, with “Bonne Chance” in our ears from the family in our villa, we were off. … It is an old story ...
( Category: World War II October 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Cindy Hval

SOLIDAYS CLOWNING AROUND ON THEIR HONEYMOON, FLA, 1955. Because it was a weekend, they had difficulty getting their blood tests and obtaining a marriage license. Once they accomplished these tasks, ...
( Category: World War II October 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-12 | Author:Ryan Jenkins [Jenkins, Ryan]

This roof is fitted with three traps which can be hermitically closed from the outside. A track leads from the gas chamber to the furnace room. The gassing takes place ...
( Category: Holocaust October 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-16 | Author:Nik Cornish

The wording is interesting as it offers no alternative to draft dodgers but death. Furthermore, as well as raising recruits it was also an attempt to reassert Soviet authority. Nor ...
( Category: History October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-18 | Author:Theodore P. Savas

U-505 was running submerged on electric motors a little after midday (German summer time) on June 4 when a faint propeller wash was picked up on the hydrophones and passed ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]

More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Macintyre

A vexing problem for the Allied high command was whether their burgeoning Atlantic operations would be more efficiently conducted if made a unified command. While wasteful duplication could obviously be ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:David Wragg

Notes 1 Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet Lord, A Sailor’s Odyssey, Hutchinson, London, 1951. 2 Ibid. 3 Kilbracken, op. cit. 1. Intended to be the forerunner of the escort carrier, ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Whitlock, Flint [Whitlock, Flint]

THE YEAR 1944 ended with the prisoner population of Buchenwald and its sub-camps growing to 87,000, with 50,000 of them atop the Ettersberg, crowning it the bloated king of the ...
( Category: Holocaust October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Granin, Daniil Alexandrovich [Granin, Daniil Alexandrovich]

12 I Dream of Bread Yura’s diary continues: 21 October 1941. I was on duty at school from eight in the morning until six in the evening. Still, I did ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Richard Overy

( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Godfrey Freeman [Freeman, Godfrey]

CHAPTER 7 The First Attempt The tonsillitis grew worse as the day wore on and I dallied with the idea of using it as an excuse to ‘duck out’ of ...
( Category: Veterans October 11,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Hermann, Hauptmann [Hermann, Hauptmann]

Hitler and Göring definitely wanted an independent air force that would win the war speedily and without disrupting the economic life. They also wanted this for political reasons. They wanted ...
( Category: Aviation October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donny Gluckstein

The partisans Partisans in occupied Soviet territory, like their counterparts elsewhere in Axis-occupied Europe, acquired a powerful reputation for anti-fascist activity. Yet their path to struggle was fraught. In the ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )