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21) Stealth
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1944. American bomber pilot, Jack Swaggart, has led his squadron countless times into hostile German territory, hit the assigned target, and returned to base none the worse for wear.
Eventually, Jack's luck runs out. With his B-26 Marauder heavily damaged by flak, Jack is forced to ditch his crippled airplane in the German countryside.
Separated from his crew, Jack trusts an unlikely ally, Hilde Augsburg, a plucky young woman, a decision with icy...
22) Panzer Leader
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Heinz Guderian, master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare, commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. Personally leading the devastating attack, which traversed the Ardennes Forest and broke through French lines, he was at the forefront of the race to the Channel coast. Only Hitler's personal command to halt prevented Guderian's tanks and troops turning Dunkirk into an Allied bloodbath. Later commanding...
23) Saving the Front
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When Lieutenant Dorothea Oliver signed up to serve her country during WWII, she had no clue of the terror she would face while providing frontline medical care as a member of the Army Nurse Corps.
Ollie and her fellow nurses, who called themselves the Fort Riley Five, braved unexpected enemy attacks as they travelled to the battlefield. They fought back terror as they disembarked from a military transport ship timed in between giant swells down a...
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This is a story of family, selflessness, music, dancing, dreams, horses, dresses, determination, overcoming, and above all love and faith. It's the story of a middle Tennessee couple, who with integrity and charity made their community and family better. From Crossville to Fairfield Glade to The Dorchester Riding Stables to Europe and beyond, this is a moving story that begs to be told
... so listen While You Can.
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p>The House of Izeiuis a novel inspired by the life and experiences of Sabine Zlatin who, as a Jew using a fake identity, managed to find families to care for Jewish children who were in French refugee camps. She created a safe home for a number of other children called "The House of Izeiu" which is now a museum. Unfortunately, she was not able to save the 44 children in her care. After one wonderful year of freedom in that house they were discovered,...
26) S.O.S
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This is a fine World War 2-era historical novel (based on Allan Cole's family experiences) set in Florida, on the "Home Front". Nazi submarine attacks off the coast are but the start of the problems for local residents. But human will to overcome obstacles in the face of adversity will surely save the day...won't it?
The author writes: "Between February and May of 1942, German U-boats operated with impunity off the Florida coast, sinking nearly two...
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During World War 2, Ireland remained neutral. It might have been very different if those opposed to the government, including the IRA, had succeeded with a plan for the Republic to support Adolf Hitler's invasion of Britain. In other words, there was a real possibility that Britain's hard-pressed military forces would face engagements on two fronts. Several top Nazi leaders including Himmler had expressed a keen interest in what became, known as 'Plan...
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This fascinating and groundbreaking historical novel, based on documented facts, intense research, and the author's deep personal knowledge and experience, is a never-before-told account of the infamous relationship between the notorious British spy, Harold "Kim" Philby, and disgraced CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter Intelligence James Jesus Angleton. Commander Anthony Wells employs his considerable inside knowledge of the Five...
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Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.
'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic... we had to find and sink her.'
May 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's Bismarck, breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, the Bismarck will seek to deliver a killer blow to Britain's war effort.
The British...
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Illustrated with more than 20 maps plans and photos. When this handbook was written in 1943, the Japanese soldier was seen by British Empire troops as a jungle fighting superman, who had largely blitzed and defeated them at every turn. As part of an effort to dispel this myth, the Intelligence Section of General Headquarters in India set about distilling the tactics that the Japanese had used and to formulate counter-measures. As the staff point out...
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From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought 'outside of the box', a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat. His reputation had been gained early in the Second World War, whilst commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France, and as the...
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The final year of World War II witnessed the decline of the piston-engine fighter and the beginning of the jet age. Taking to the skies were tried-and-true fighters, improved versions of old aircraft, and newly developed jets, including prototypes that flew for the first time just before the war ended.
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A classic story of the 47,000 Spaniards who fought for the Third Reich in World War II.
• Vivid chronicle of the division of Spanish volunteers who battled the Soviets on the Eastern Front
• Centerpiece of their service was the Siege of Leningrad, which is covered in depth here
• Details on how Spanish dictator Francisco Franco negotiated his countrymen's participation
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The rigging of period ship models is the most complex task, which any modeller has to take on, for an eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile on mile of rigging, more than 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce this in scale, and yet retain an accurate representation, is an awesome undertaking. This now classic work untangles the complex web, and, using some 400 drawings, the author shows clearly how each separate item of rigging is fitted...
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"Good focused context" pinpoints the historical significance of the single bloodiest episode in the Second Boer War-from a Zulu warfare expert (FGS Forum).
Spion Kop, just northeast of Ladysmith, South Africa, was the largest hill in the region, being over 1,400 feet high, and it lay almost exactly at the center of the Boer line. If the British could capture this position and bring artillery to the hill they would then command the flanks of the...
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Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of the German capital, reduced the city and drove westward to link up with the Western allies in central Germany. This is another in a series of studies compiled by the Soviet Army General Staff, which during...
39) Mailed Fist
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In April 1943, newly commissioned John Foley is posted to command Five Troop and their trusty Churchill tanks Avenger, Alert, and Angler – thus begins his initiation into the Royal Armoured Corps. Covering the trials of training, embarkation to France and battle experience through Normandy, the Netherlands, the Ardennes campaign and into Germany, Foley's intimate and detailed account follows the fate of this group of men in the latter stages of...
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By 1939, Josef Goebbels had won the struggle for control of the propaganda process in Nazi Germany. In contrast, it took the arrival of Sefton Delmer in 1941, for anyone in Britain to understand how to use propaganda to subvert the German war effort. Through the shadowy Political Warfare Executive, the 'black' radio stations Delmer created lured German listeners with jazz and pornography (both banned), mixed with subversive rumors. Millions of 'black'...
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