In Part One Powdrill describes his experiences in France during ‘the Phoney War and then their baptism by fire in May 1940, culminating in the evacuation from Dunkirk having left their disabled guns behind.
En el apogeo del esfuerzo bélico estadounidense, la aviación norteamericana encargó a John Steinbeck que escribiera Bombs Away, un informe esencial en tiempo de guerra y un relato verídico de sus experiencias con las tripulaciones de bombarderos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
This book was written basically to demonstratethe procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in tryingto get refugees safely out of Burma and away fromthe Japanese during World War II.
"Enigmas y misterios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial" es una apasionante recopilación de sucesos inexplicados, misteriosas desapariciones, enigmáticos espías, y otros hechos desconocidos de la mayor contienda de la historia de la humanidad tratados con rigor histórico y amenidad.
The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis.
Hans Deichelmann arbeitete als Arzt in Königsberg und blieb auch nach der Einkesselung der Stadt durch die Rote Armee im Frühjahr 1945 in der alten Hauptstadt der Provinz Ostpreußen.
En enero de 1930, tres años antes de que Hitler llegara al poder, los nazis ganaron elecciones locales en Turingia y, bajo ese manto de legalidad, iniciaron una purga en el ámbito cultural: prohibieron el teatro expresionista, la música atonal y el jazz, la asistencia a cabarets; retiraron de los museos obras vanguardistas, como las de Klee y Kandinski; censuraron películas que tenían un toque de erotismo.
Even in as bloody and bluntly violent a war as Americans encountered in the Pacific, Iwo Jima, the ultimate expression of death and mayhem, stands out.
An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one of the greatest historians of France.
'The things I saw completely defy description': when British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world.
Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.
'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga is a triumph' Allan Massie, ScotsmanDivided by loyalties, brought together by warSeptember, 1943.
When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armored reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the defence of the West.
This follow-up to Tonight We Die As Men continues the story of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as they dropped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden.
Eine wunderbare, 1944 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Hommage an die amerikanischen Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg ist dieser Bericht über den Feldzug der Soldaten in Nordafrika.
From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present sea borne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground.
Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus .
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.
General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.
The American mid-1944 campaign in the Mariana Islands was an important strategic step that placed Tokyo and the rest of Japan’s industrial heartland within range of the new U.
A masterly work of military history, Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory is also a tribute to the soldiers whose courage and self belief sustained them through their darkest hours.
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told.
Rick Beyer, the author of the acclaimed History Channel(R) series The Greatest Stories Never Told, returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing war storiesSearch the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire; the World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game could be played; the scientist who invented a pigeon-guided missile in 1943; and don't forget the elderly pig whose death triggered an international crisis between the United States and Great Britain.
