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" Je pourrais buter cet enfoiré d’ici les yeux fermés ", propose l’attaché militaire britannique à Berlin qui détaille son plan d’action à sa hiérarchie en 1939. Sur les 42 tentatives d’assassinat recensées pour tuer Hitler , une majorité est due à la résistance allemande qui, très tôt, comprend l’appétence guerrière d’Hitler. De simples citoyens, des ouvriers, des étudiants, des conjurations de généraux échafauderont des attentats et presque tous connaîtront le même sort : décapités, pendus à un croc de boucher ou fusillés.

Charles de Gaulle stands among the greatest statesmen in history. Even after the official French government collapsed under the weight of Nazi Germany, de Gaulle refused to accept defeat. He and his followers were pushed into exile, but still they fought on, never losing sight of an eventual victory over their oppressors. This book delves into Charles de Gaulle’s extraordinary journey—from leading the Free French forces during World War II to playing a key role in the rebuilding of postwar France.

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.

Василий Николаевич Лопатин, интендант второго ранга, военный корреспондент «Красной звезды» успел побывать на нескольких фронтах, стать свидетелем боевых действий в Крыму и под Одессой. После краткого возвращения в московскую редакцию он отправляется на Крайний Север. И везде куда бы не забросила его судьба, он пишет статьи и очерки о людях каждый день самоотверженно защищающих свою Родину. Все они, проявляя невероятное мужество, несгибаемость и силу духа буквально на его глазах становятся частью героической летописи великого подвига советского народа в борьбе с фашистскими оккупантами.

In 1940, Private Raymond Bailey, a 21-year-old Vauxhall motors apprentice, was captured in northern France, becoming a Nazi prisoner of war. But he wouldn't remain one for long... The Longest Walk Home is the incredible account of his daring 2,000 mile escape across Europe and over the Pyrenees, to the safety of British Gibraltar, and home in time for Christmas. Along the way Ray has nerve-shredding encounters with German soldiers and the Spanish Civil Guard. Often he is exhausted and starving.

Vera Atkins is one of the many unsung heroes and heroines of World War II. She carried out her life with great care and due diligence, quietly becoming the perfect spy when no one was watching. Beneath her polished exterior was a mind built for strategy, secrecy, and survival. But Vera wasn’t just a spy—she was a Spymistress. That’s what her operatives in Britain’s military intelligence unit, the Special Operations Executive, called her.

War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of United States Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II, these dispatches and private letters provide insight into the grind of war and ordinary men and women who carried out their duty. Thoughtfully edited and contextualized by a preface and prologue by his daughter, Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima, War Is Not Just for Heroes combines documentary and biography to provide the human dimensions of those in combat and those who reported out.

Der achtjährige Siegfried Kaesse, Jahrgang 1936, lebt in Tannenwalde, einem Vorort von Königsberg, der Hauptstadt Ostpreußens. Eine glückliche, behütete, sorglose Kindheit mit seinen Eltern und seinem Pflegebruder Jürgen, drei Jahre alt. Jürgen kam durch die "Kinderlandverschickung", damit er sicher ist vor den Angriffen auf Berlin... Denn in Ostpreußen, da kennt man den Krieg mehr aus dem Volksempfänger als in der Wirklichkeit... Doch Ende August 1944 legt der Bombenhagel der Alliierten die idyllische Stadt am Pregel in Schutt und Asche - und damit auch Siegfrieds Kindheit.

Die Erinnerungen von Christa Schroeder, die Hitler zwölf Jahre als Sekretärin diente, zeigen den Diktator als Privatmann: seinen Umgang mit Mitarbeitern, seine Haltung gegenüber Frauen, sein Urteil über Kunst und Musik. Auch von seinen Gesundheitsproblemen und seinem Umgang damit entsteht ein anschauliches Bild, man erfährt seine Meinung über Politiker und Staatenlenker seiner Zeit, ebenso lernt man andere, weniger bekannte Facetten Hitlers kennen.

Heroína para unos, Asesina para otros. Una novela sobre los días de Hannie Schaft en la resistencia holandesa contra el Tercer Reich. Países Bajos, 1939. Un aire triste se respira en vísperas de Navidad. Las noticias alertan sobre la invasión de Hitler a Polonia y el miedo habita agazapado entre la gente.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965) was born in Oxfordshire, England, of mixed English and American parentage. He would become a statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. "We Shall Fight On The Beaches" was a speech delivered by Churchill as the Prime Minister to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 4th 1940.

Masters and Commanders has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

George Smith Patton (1885-1945) est le général américain le plus célèbre et le plus controversé de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Personnalité haute en couleur, doté d'un sens inné du commandement et d'un génie tactique incontestable, il est devenu un véritable mythe. Patriote convaincu, cet homme d'honneur et meneur audacieux suscitait autant de détestation que d'admiration auprès de ses soldats et supérieurs.

Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt when the desert war began. Here, he used his unique skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets.

Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas. There is suffering and squalor: Criminal gangs are on the rise, along with typhus and black market commerce, and the female population is forced into part-time prostitution. But there is farce and humor, too, witnessed in the Roman uncle paid handsomely simply to appear at funerals.

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.

Engineering Hitler's Downfall features numerous inventions such as the decoding machines developed at Bletchley Park; the hand-held mine detectors that cleared pathways through enemy minefields, firstly at the Battle of el Alamein but also in most subsequent actions; the newly-located factories and tanks that enabled the Russians to repulse the German invasion; the escort carriers and long range aircraft that enabled U-boats to be attacked in the mid-Atlantic; and the 4000 plus Bailey bridges that allowed narrow ravines and rivers as wide as the Rhine to be crossed.

Der beste Freund Joseph Ratzingers erzählt, wie der Theologe wirklich war. Ein Soldat flieht vor den Russen bei Leningrad und überlebt in einem Granattrichter drei Tage bei minus 50 Grad Celsius. Otto springt in voller Montur ins eiskalte Wasser der Thaya und erreicht als Nichtschwimmer das andere Ufer. Ein Truppenarzt muss in Stalingrad mit einer militärisch und medizinisch verzweifelten Lage fertigwerden. Max überlebt die Schlacht bei den Seelower Höhen, gerät aber in russische Kriegsgefangenschaft.

Grasshopper Pilot gives long-overdue attention and credit to the crucial role these courageous men played in combat and adds valuable information to an understudied dimension of the war.