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"Aunque parecía que los Nazi’s estaban dispuestos a erradicar las prácticas astrológicas del suelo alemán, su actitud revelaría una desconcertante paradoja. A pesar de la citada campaña pública de desprestigio, estas prácticas adivinatorias se seguirían llevando a cabo de forma controlada y secreta en las altas esferas del régimen… El régimen se empleó con dureza contra adivinos y videntes en el marco de la Aktion Hess. Pero, sorprendentemente,...
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The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain. In Turning the Tide, Nigel Cawthorne has taken a fresh look at the crucial battles which decided the outcome of the Second World War, beginning...
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El general Vasiliev Ivánovich es un veterano del Ejército Rojo cuya carrera se encuentra en una vía muerta. Al igual que el futuro de la URSS y de su paraíso comunista. A punto de abandonar toda esperanza, su vida da un vuelco al tropezarse con una herencia de la Gran Guerra Patria. De los años olvidados en los que la Wehrmacht conquistaba Europa.
De la mano del general, esta novela nos descubre cómo era la vida para cualquier ciudadano bajo...
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Mindful of the fact that over six hundred World War II veterans are passing away each day, according to recent figures from the Veterans Administration, I set out on a series of road trips across the United States and Canada to photograph, and hear the stories of some of the survivors.
This project began on an impromptu basis. As a retired pilot from a major U.S. airline, I attended some of the final reunions of flying squadrons from the war, beginning...
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La obra describe y analiza la batalla del Golfo de Leyte, que fue la confrontación aeronaval más grande de todos los tiempos, tanto por el número de barcos, aviones y hombres enfrentados como por la gran extensión del escenario de la batalla.
En ella se pone de manifiesto el arrojo de unos marinos que estuvieron dispuestos a jugarse todo, en aras del cumplimiento del deber sin que, desde mi punto de vista, la historia les haya prestado todo el...
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In the summer of 1941, a collective madness overtook Adolf Hitler and his senior generals. They convinced themselves that they could take on and defeat a superpower in the making - the Soviet Union. Foolishly, they thought in a swift campaign they could smash the Red Army and force Stalin to sue for peace, despite dire warnings that Stalin was amassing a reserve army of more than 1 million men on the Volga. The end result would be such carnage that...
49) Sanctioned
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His name was Lonnie Siegel, but he was known by others.
Lonnie was born into an aristocratic German family and orphaned during an allied bombing raid over Dresden. Shuttled from one caretaker to the next, he was ultimately taken in by an elderly first-generation immigrant family-a family that wanted nothing more than to be left alone. But, life in America in the 20th century would not allow it. Resultant tragedy dictated that Lonnie would soon embark...
50) Last Man Out
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The last weekend of May 1944, a saboteur is finalizing his plans to destroy the town of Scarlet Tanager, Kentucky, and its coal industry for the sake of his reputation, the fatherland, and the Fuhrer. The innocent will suffer, the uncommitted will cower, those who care will rally, blood will be spilt, fuses will be lit, and the Earth will shake.
"Sergeant Jones," 82nd Airborne, jumped the 509 in Corbin hoping to make the railway yard at the Scarlet...
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This recent government publication investigates an area often overlooked by historians: the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. A guide for researchers rather than a narrative study, it explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. In addition, it summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted...
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The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces during the war on every front and it has been the inspiration behind the design of light, versatile, rugged military and civilian vehicles ever since. In this, the first volume in Pen & Sword's LandCraft series, Lance Cole traces the design, development and manufacturing history of...
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Through firsthand accounts, as well as archival material, The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City tells the dramatic story of the place and people that bore the brunt of Russia's vengeance against the Nazi regime.
In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany's most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler's ill-fated...
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The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who lived through the occupation of the Netherlands and its colonies in World War II.
Book 6, War in the Indies, covers the occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) by the Japanese and the wholesale incarceration of civilians of European and partial European descent in internment camps, where a cruel regime...
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Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.S. 29th Infantry Division in World War II with the story of the 29ers during the war's final five months. Opening with the division's participation in Operation Grenade, Balkoski follows the 29ers through the crossing of the Roer River, the blitzkrieg-style drive across the Rhineland to the Rhine River, their military-government duties while helping to reduce the Ruhr pocket, and the survivors'...
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Far from home and family, and with the threat of war looming. How can the promise of happiness ever be fulfilled?In 1930s New Zealand, stability and contentment are hard won, especially for a young wife and mother. When Alice Simpson agrees to move to a sheep farm on a windswept peninsula with her husband and children, the lack of a house, electricity, and a decent road weren't quite what she expected.As she struggles to adapt to the hardships and...
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Sweden was neutral during the Second World War, but despite this, thousands of Swedes wanted to participate in the war-the largest group in Finland, where over 10,000 Swedes applied to fight against the Red Army. Another much smaller group, which saw action against the same enemy, was the Swedish SS volunteers. While the Danish and Norwegian SS volunteers are fairly well known today, their Swedish counterparts remain more unknown. Still, they saw...
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In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighboring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan, but the US obliterated the opposition after a horrific all-arms campaign. The sudden silence only indicated it was now Tinian's turn.
By the time the US 2nd and 4th Marine...
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