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Although there were more than 40 plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, none came closer to success than the July Plot of 1944. The attempt was masterminded by Count von Stauffenberg, a member of the German General Staff, who had been rushed back from Africa after losing his left eye and right hand. For his injuries, he had been decorated as a war hero. Never a supporter of Nazi ideology, he was increasingly attracted by the approaches of the German resistance...
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In Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Professor Angelo M. Codevilla reveals how the true history of the Swiss in World War II has been buried beneath a modern campaign of moral blackmail that has accused Switzerland of secretly supporting Nazi Germany and sharing culpability for the Holocaust.
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This book provides a day-by-day account of the forty-two days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-L. Follow Lt. Allsup from the beaches at Hill 108 (the 'bloody hill'), where he was injured, and Lt. Jones, who was among the first to enter Saint-L; a town destroyed by bombs, which was to become the graveyard of hundreds of Normans.
On the opposing side, discover the fate of the fearsome 'green devil' paratroopers of General Schimpf and follow in...
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“Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: High on the bridge of the USS West Virginia Sfc. Lee Ebner was looking forward to the end of his watch and a relaxed Sunday morning breakfast. But the two low-flying planes painted with rising sun insignia and bearing down on the ship had other plans for him and his fellow seamen. Ten hours later, at Clark Field in the Philippines, Pfc. Jack Reed felt the brunt of another Japanese air attack and within weeks found...
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.On the eve of WWII, three former freedom fighters arrive in Germany to do the unthinkable: kill an SS officer. American idealists Billy Lachance and Lum Del Luca join forces with German socialist Josef Weiss and plunge deep into the greater Reich. With single-minded determination, they search for Rolf von Huber to repay him for violating the laws of war during the Spanish Civil War. Escaping the killing fields of Spain, the three make their way across...
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" USS Houston -The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast"In the shadow of World War II's swelling storm, "The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast" by Sidney St. James plunges into the heart of naval warfare. This gripping historical novel recounts the harrowing tale of the USS Houston and her gallant crew in the face of insurmountable odds.February 1942: As the tides of war draw ever closer, the USS Houston, alongside her ally, the Australian light cruiser...
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Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps, the communist guerrillas or, indeed, in opposing the Japanese. This book adds considerable insights into the significance of guerrilla warfare as it relates to modern warfare in general.
9) Destitution
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Destitution by Jim Jackal The war is over and Hitler is dead, leaving behind a country that has been totally devastated. There is no organisation in place to provide the basic necessities of food and shelter and the Allies are struggling to cope with the chaotic circumstances.Dieter Barth, a young German officer, is captured by the British and survives the detention camp but is accused of being ex-Gestapo and is taken to Bad Nenndorf, the British...
10) Aura of War
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The story of Arthur DeVendt, born in 1927, proves that even though war, political and economic turmoil adversely impacted his future, by maintaining his honor, dogged persistence, and ability to adjust to changing conditions he manages to succeed. Seventeen-year-old Arthur, the son of a Hungarian army officer, of French extraction finds himself orphaned in a refugee camp of postwar Germany.
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At the end of World War II, the Americans and their allies divided Berlin, the capital of Germany, into four sectors, with the Russians taking one of the sectors. The problem was that the Western (American) sector of Berlin was surrounded by the Russian sector of Germany, which was also divided.
In June of 1948, Joseph Stalin stopped all road and rail traffic coming into and out of the Allied Sector of Berlin. He simultaneously cut off all electricity...
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The remarkable story of one of WWII's greatest spies.
Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer.
After watching Hitler roll over Poland and France, she enlisted to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where, if captured, imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Gestapo...
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This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it, including new insights into the invasion's many tactical successes, as well as its ultimate failure.
This objective is massive in scope, because Operation Barbarossa was massive in scale, arguably the largest military operation of all time. The campaign also...
14) Secret Channel to Berlin: The Masson-Schellenberg Connection and Swiss Intelligence in World War II
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In July 1944, the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet warplane. More than one hundred mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies, the Me 262 gained scores of victories over Allied fighters and bombers, and by the end of the war, many of the Luftwaffe's greatest aces had clamored to be in their cockpits.
Sharks of the Air tells the story of Willy Messerschmitt's life and shows how...
15) Battle for Crete
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"After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book tells of confused negotiations between the British and Greek governments; the misunderstandings between Winston Churchill's War Cabinet and commanders in the field; the near capture of the King of Greece;...
16) Addiction
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Addiction is a pilot's story that proves that flying is an addiction; worse than tobacco, alcohol, and drugs rolled into one.
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El círculo clandestino que combatió a Hitler desde el corazón del Berlín nazi.
Mildred Fish, una joven recién graduada, se casa con el brillante economista alemán Arvid Harnack, al que acompaña a su país natal, donde un prometedor futuro los está aguardando. Los recién casados se crean una nueva y enriquecedora vida llena de amor, amigos y trabajo dentro del floreciente ambiente cultural e intelectual del Berlín de 1930. Pero el imparable...
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Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of US and Commonwealth forces, no D-Day landings, and no victory in western Europe. Furthermore, the battle raged from the first day of the war until the final German surrender, making it...
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This is a rarely detailed, "you are there" account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research-drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield-The Day of the Panzer transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht.
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The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best.
When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners,...
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