epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Burleigh, Michael [Burleigh, Michael]

Revealed Realities On 14 October Eden met with Albert Gazier, the acting French Foreign Minister, and General Maurice Challe, Chief of the French General Staff. Challe outlined a bold plan: ...

epub |eng | 1980-07-02 | Author:James L. Stokesbury [Stokesbury, James L.]

The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a limited engagement for the Germans; they wanted to buy time and shake up their enemies. There was not a great deal more than ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Ben Macintyre [Macintyre, Ben]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Spanish Trails ADOLF CLAUSS had much to occupy his mind. His attempts to obtain the briefcase had so far failed. The Spanish naval authorities were proving vigorously uncooperative. ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Susan Heuck Allen [Allen, Susan Heuck]

Fig. 21. “From Galaxidi to Athens,” Pericles mission. (Photo by Costas Cou- varas. Copyright held by Department of Special Collections and University Archives, The Library, California State University, Sacramento.) monitored ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1954-11-29 | Author:David Howarth & Stephen E. Ambrose [Howarth, David & Ambrose, Stephen E.]

9. THE DESERTED FARM WHAT JAN came to know as the Savoy Hotel, Revdal, was not very commodious, but the first two days he spent there were the happiest and ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Chris McNab

German troops advance behind an StuG III through the devastated landscape of Stalingrad in 1942. The destruction of Stalingrad was so complete that during the severe winter of 1942/43 the ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Roger Moorhouse

* * * The Gestapo, or Geheime Staatspolizei – Secret State Police – stood at the very heart of the Nazi regime. Synonymous – along with the SS – with ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Charles Glass [Glass, Charles]

Although a Gestapo officer, he planned to return to Yonkers as soon as the war ended. After the suitcases had been cleared, Senegalese men, probably prisoners of war, carried them ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A WEARY WAY TO GO… Kono kuso ame! While the Japanese language has no real equivalent to the western notion of swearing, this phrase loosely translates to ‘this ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:Tim Harper

5 1943: Valleys of the Shadow of Death As the New Year of 1943 dawned, the British and the Americans looked to the future with restored confidence. In Britain the ...

epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen E.]

12 Breakout and Pursuit FROM THE HIGH COMMAND down to the lowliest private, the Americans in Normandy applied everything they had learned to the mounting of Operation Cobra, including a ...

epub |eng | 2008-06-26 | Author:Stephen Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen]

12 - Breakout and Pursuit FROM THE HIGH COMMAND down to the lowliest private, the Americans in Normandy applied everything they had learned to the mounting of Operation Cobra, including ...

epub |eng | 1947-12-31 | Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower [Eisenhower, Dwight D.]

Chapter 14 D-DAY AND LODGMENT THE FIRST REPORT CAME FROM THE AIRBORNE units I had visited only a few hours earlier and was most encouraging in tone. As the morning ...

epub |eng | 2005-07-26 | Author:Ken Hechler [Hechler, Ken]

XIII. The Capture of Remagen Late in the forenoon of March 7, a gray, drizzly day, a little group of American soldiers on the Birresdorf road near the abandoned R.A.D. ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cornelius Ryan

THE PROSPEROUS VILLAGE OF OOSTERBEEK seemed infused with a strange mixture of gaiety and uneasiness. Like an island in the middle of the battle, the village was assaulted by the ...