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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald
epub |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Callum MacDonald

7 Return While Beneš’ agents were still kicking their heels in Britain the military situation changed dramatically. On 5 December the Russians launched a counter-attack in front of Moscow, forcing ...
( Category: World War II June 18,2015 )
Spymistress by William Stevenson
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:William Stevenson

23 “She Has to Believe in What She Is Doing or Go Mad” “Say White Rabbit and Three Blind Mice to Vera and you need say no more,” recalled Leo ...
( Category: World War II June 16,2015 )
The Secret Lives of Codebreakers by Sinclair McKay
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Sinclair McKay [McKay, Sinclair]

Perhaps there were outbreaks of resentment, as opposed to dissent—some service personnel regarded the civilians as being rather spoiled and pampered, with their games of tennis and their picnics, and ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
Red November by W. Craig Reed
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:W. Craig Reed

THE BEGINNING OF THAT END STARTED when Captain Kaye, at McNamara’s bidding, promoted Reed to one of the most prestigious positions in A22: head of field operations. In short, he ...
( Category: Naval June 14,2015 )
Escape From the Deep by Alex Kershaw & Richard Poe
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Alex Kershaw & Richard Poe [Kershaw, Alex & Poe, Richard]

AT 180 FEET BELOW, a last group was gathering at the steps to the escape trunk. It included Doc Larson, the husky six-foot-tall Iowan, and the steward, Howard Walker—O’Kane’s favorite ...
( Category: World War II June 14,2015 )
A Brief History of the Third Reich by Martyn Whittock
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-23 | Author:Martyn Whittock

13 THE NAZI IMPACT ON SOCIETY: THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist; Then they ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
The Longest Day June 6 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
epub |eng | | Author:Cornelius Ryan

* * * The last explosion was very near. Major Werner Pluskat thought the bunker was shaking itself apart. Another shell hit the cliff face at the very base of ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
The Gathering Storm (Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill
epub |eng | 2002-09-04 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

The Gathering Storm 435 It was a pity that this had not been explicitly stated a fortnight earlier. It should be mentioned here that on May 12, the Anglo-Turkish Agreement ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
First Battle by Otto Lehrack
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-18 | Author:Otto Lehrack

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 13,2015 )
Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

Triumph and Tragedy 469 scene, accompanied by the Chiefs of Staff and the Russian admiral commanding the Black Sea Fleet, who had had orders from Moscow to be in attendance ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
A CHILD AL CONFINO by Eric Lamet
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Eric Lamet

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
The Colditz Story by P. R. Reid
epub |eng | | Author:P. R. Reid

The Colditz Story CHAPTER X JUST TOO EASY The summer months were passing—slowly enough for us—yet too fast for all our plans. Whiter, relatively speaking, is the escapers’ ‘close season’, ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
epub |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
epub |eng | 2002-11-19 | Author:Winston S. Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

The Grand Alliance 562 Prime Minister to 4 Sept. 41 Monsieur Stalin I reply at once in the spirit of your message. Although we should shrink from no exertion, there ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-11-15 | Author:Winston Churchill [Churchill, Winston]

Closing the Ring 444 Stalin then put the crucial question, “Who will command ‘Overlord’?” The President replied that this had not yet been decided. Stalin said bluntly that the operation ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )

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