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With 18 maps & 24 Illustrations. A DELEGATION OF GERMAN OFFICERS arrived at American Headquarters south of Ferryville at 0926 on 9 May 1943. Their mission was to surrender the remnants of a once proud unit of the Wehrmacht, the formidable Fifth Panzer Army...Marshal Giovanni Messe, commanding the Italian First Army, surrendered unconditionally to the British Eighth Army on 13 May. The long battle for North Africa was ended. Troops of the II Corps,...
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Urban terrain presents significant tactical challenges to attacking armies, limiting weapons effects and mobility while disrupting formations and command and control. The human terrain in cities creates a tactical dilemma, placing large civilian populations in close proximity to the fighting. The issue of restraint in urban warfare has been described as a modern phenomenon, with urban warfare in World War II characterized as unlimited. In April 1945,...
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Avec son dernier roman, l'écrivain espagnol Francisco Angulo signe une œuvre magistrale mêlant thriller psychologique et fantastique dans la pure tradition du gothique. Porté par une galerie de personnages hauts en couleur évoluant dans le microcosme d'un cirque itinérant, "Freak - Le Cirque des Horreurs" est un livre difficile à lâcher qui saura ravir tous les amateurs d'histoires mystérieuses.Dès les premières pages, Angulo plonge le...
3244) Tales of My Time
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Raymond Baxter, WW2 fighter pilot, postwar radio and TV commentator at major events from motor races to great State occasions, was later the famous presenter of television's Tomorrow's World. Here he tells his action-packed life story with a wry and amusing eye.
From such disparate experiences as hair-raising escapes at the controls of a Spitfire over Sicily and occupied Holland to speaking to the nation while suspended in a box near the roof of...
3245) The Bielski Brothers
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This book explores the lives and legacy of the Bielski Brothers during World War Two, and their efforts to save nearly 1,200 Jews from Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe.
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The Allied leaders decided to conduct the cross-channel invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe in the first half of 1944 during the Tehran Conference held in November 1943. To support this invasion they also decided to implement a comprehensive deception campaign given the cover name BODYGUARD. The goal of BODYGUARD was to deceive Hitler and his senior military commanders about the location and timing of Allied offensive actions. Under the BODYGUARD...
3247) Rear Gunner
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The life and death of a 19-year-old Lancaster tail gunner in 1944-5 drawn from his log book and personal family history.
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Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century and Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (both Princeton). He lives in Chapel Hill and Berlin.
An ordinary German soldier's letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II
Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the...
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Illustrated with 28 maps and 35 Illustrations. THE WINTER LINE operations, lasting from 15 November 1943 to 15 January 1944, continued the Allied campaign to drive the Germans out of southern Italy. The underlying plan was to keep pressure on the enemy and, if possible, to break through toward Rome. Both the terrain and the season reduced the chances for effecting a breakthrough. By maintaining pressure, however, the Allies would prevent the Germans...
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On 8 September 1944 the first of over 1,000 V2 missiles aimed at southern England exploded in west London. It had been launched from a wooded street corner in Den Haag in the Netherlands. Fighter Command was responsible for defending Britain from air attack and thus Air Marshal Roderic Hill countered the threat by using six squadrons of Spitfires from 12 Group bases in Norfolk to discover and then dive-bomb the mobile V2 launch sites scattered throughout...
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Alex, as he was known whether by Prime Ministers or the rank-and-file, was a legendary figure. A hero from the Great War he saw active service in Russia in 1919 20 and against the Pathans on the North West Frontier in 1935. By 1940 he was a divisional commander with the B.E.F. in France. His conduct during the withdrawal through Dunkirk where he took over the British 1st Corps in the crisis confirmed his outstanding ability.
In the dark days of 1942...
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[Includes 33 maps and 97 illustrations]. The campaign in the summer of 1944 related in this volume included some of the most spectacular ground action of the U.S. Army during World War II. It began with the slow and costly hedgerow fighting against determined German efforts to contain the Normandy beachhead; it entered its decisive stage when the breach of German defenses permitted full exploitation of the power and mobility of U.S. Army ground troops;...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Holocausto, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Conocer en profundidad el contexto que conduce al Holocausto, tras la derrota de Alemania en la Primera Guerra Mundial y el auge de los nacionalismos en la Europa de la posguerra y del pangermanismo en Alemania, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Entender...
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After D-Day, 6 June 1944, Hitler found his worst nightmare coming true. He was fighting on two fronts, with the Russians advancing from one side and the western powers from the other. This book shows how the Allies built on their successes after the titanic struggle in the east, culminating in the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and emerged victorious from the Second World War.
3255) The Able Queen
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THE ABLE QUEEN is a historical memoir that follows little Bob Binzer, an eight-year old who climbs trees to watch airplanes take off from Meigs Field and dreams of flying, through the beginning of World War II, his enlistment in the Army Air Corps and the attack on Pearl Harbor, when he finally gets his chance to learn to fly.
What he does not know is that his mission will be in China, flying dangerous cargo over one of the most dangerous air routes...
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The United States Military, the ultimate Instrument of national resolve, is centered on servicemen and women. Without effective leadership, these men and women are ill equipped to succeed in combat and are unjustly put in harm's way. The commander at the operational level is the link between national policy and action. His actions, character and decisions are of historical importance. While this paper will not cover the full spectrum of operational...
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Anne Glyn-Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls' boarding school with romantic ideas about joining the navy as a Wren, Anne had no idea that she would be working for the mysterious 'Station X', which we now know to be Bletchley Park. Round the clock shifts, bed bugs, rats and poor diet took its toll, as well as the ongoing lack of recognition from the Navy hierarchy....
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Deuxième titre de la collection développée en partenariat avec la première chaîne de télévision belge RTBF, Sur les traces de Patton suit le parcours en Belgique du général américain, militaire énergique au langage fleuri et respecté de ses hommes. Décembre 1944, les troupes américaines sont encerclées à Bastogne par l'armée allemande. Patton réussit alors l'impossible : rassembler en un temps record les soldats nécessaires et mettre...
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[Includes 26 maps and 92 illustrations] The American armies that absorbed the shock of the German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace in the winter of 1944-45 were the most powerful and professional that the United States had yet put in the field. That this was the case was abundantly demonstrated as the final campaign to reduce Nazi Germany to total defeat unfolded. The campaign was remarkably varied. As it gathered momentum in the snows...
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Includes, 21 maps/diagrams and 17 Illustrations/photos. The Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world, having gained its spurs over the trenches of Flanders in the First World War it was officially established in 1918. However it was during the Second World War that it would achieve its greatest successes yet, from an inauspicious start following post war budget cuts it would rise to become a decisive factor in the campaign...
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