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Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter Koschorrek
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Gunter Koschorrek [Koschorrek, Gunter]

combat engagements. As a replacement for the Rittmeister, an Oberleutnant took command of our Schwadron for a short time. During his command, some of the more enterprising soldiers organised a ...
( Category: World War II July 19,2015 )
The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II by Smith David
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Smith, David [Smith, David]

CHAPTER NINE THE MAKING OF A STAR Early in 1949, Audie Murphy was starting to rebound from the doldrums in which his fledgling career had languished only a short time ...
( Category: World War II July 18,2015 )
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Nikolaus Wachsmann

SATELLITE CAMPS In early April 1944, Oswald Pohl sent a large map of Europe to Heinrich Himmler, pinpointing all main concentration camps and their attached satellites. There were marks all ...
( Category: Holocaust July 18,2015 )
Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin by Tony le Tissier
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Tony le Tissier [Tissier, Tony le]

Marshal A.A. Novikov had been tasked with the coordination of all air activity over the Oder-Neisse theater, that is, for both Zhukov's and Koniev's fronts, from a central headquarters based ...
( Category: World War II July 16,2015 )
With Our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tony Le Tissier [Tissier, Tony Le]

SEVEN Marxdorf ERICH WITTOR Erich Wittor, squadron commander in the Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion ‘Kurmark’, was in divisional reserve at Falkenhagen, so he and his unit were not committed to action ...
( Category: World War II July 16,2015 )
Jeffrey Plowman - War in the Balkans by The Battle for Greece & Crete 1940-1941
epub | | 2015-07-06 | Author:The Battle for Greece & Crete 1940-1941

This A10 from B Squadron, 3 Royal Tanks was abandoned early on in the retreat between Florina and Kozani, possibly as a result of automotive or transmission failure. (Robert Gregory ...
( Category: World War II July 15,2015 )
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

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. ...
( Category: World War II July 11,2015 )
Endkampf by Stephen G. Fritz
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Stephen G. Fritz [Fritz, Stephen G.]

7 STRUGGLE UNTIL FIVE AFTER TWELVE During the Thirty Years War, that disastrous period of chaos and calamity between 1618 and 1648, German peasants grew increasingly weary of having their ...
( Category: World War II June 30,2015 )
Killing Hitler by Moorhouse Roger
epub |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Moorhouse, Roger [Moorhouse, Roger]

His new mission was simple. With his privileged background, Aryan good looks, and fluent German, he was to pose as a defector, make his way to Berlin, and target Hitler ...
( Category: Germany June 21,2015 )
After Hitler by Jones Michael
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Jones, Michael

7 The Dispossessed 6 May 1945 ON 6 MAY MAJOR Hugh McLaren of the 10th British Casualty Clearing Station arrived at Sandbostel concentration camp in northern Germany, 35 miles north-east ...
( Category: World War II June 20,2015 )
Escape or Die by Paul Brickhill
epub |eng | 1970-11-14 | Author:Paul Brickhill [Brickhill, Paul]

* In Switzerland, under British care, Snell had both arms operated on to repair some of the deep-seated damage from his wounds, and after a long convalescence was repatriated to ...
( Category: World War II June 19,2015 )
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Russell Jan Jarboe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Russell, Jan Jarboe [Russell, Jan Jarboe]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: World War II June 19,2015 )
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 )

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