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Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

Der Fotograf Otto Eder ist als Funker in Frankreich stationiert, bevor er mit seiner Division nach Jugoslawien geschickt wird. Als der Befehl kommt, an die Ostfront zu ziehen, verlieren viele seiner Kameraden in schweren und zum Teil sehr verlustreichen Kämpfen das Leben. Die Versorgungswege der Truppe werden immer länger, Verpflegung und Munition gehen zu Ende. Über den Kaukasus geht es weiter zum Kuban-Brückenkopf. Otto wird schwer verletzt und nach seinem Genesungsurlaub in Italien eingesetzt.

David Stirling is the name synonymous with the wartime SAS, but the real brains behind the operation was in fact Bill Stirling, David’s eldest brother. Bill was described in the SAS War Diary as a ‘man from the shadows’; it was an apt description for, unlike his attention seeking brother, Bill shunned the spotlight. Now for the first time the truth – and the triumph – of 2SAS is revealed.

KIEDY BARBIE WCHODZIŁ DO CELI, CZUŁAM, JAKBYM MIAŁA DO CZYNIENIA Z ROZWŚCIECZONYM ZWIERZĘCIEM, A NIE CZŁOWIEKIEM. Klaus Barbie – Rzeźnik z Lyonu. Dowódca Gestapo w Lyonie słynął z niebywałego okrucieństwa: mordów, gwałtów i tortur. Posłał do komór gazowych w Auschwitz 44 żydowskich dzieci i tysiące dorosłych, pojmał i zakatował Jeana Moulina – bohatera, organizatora tajnej armii francuskich bojowników. Po wojnie Klaus Barbie, poszukiwany przez cały świat... zniknął. Nieoczekiwany zwrot akcji nastąpił w roku 1970, gdy ktoś rozpoznał gestapowca w gazecie: nazista ukrywał się w Boliwii pod nazwiskiem Altmann.

This gripping personal account of life as a young World War Two submariner on two famous Royal Navy submarines, Thrasher and Trenchant gives vivid detail of depth charging, gun actions and other operations including sinking the Japanese cruiser Ashigara, the largest enemy warship sunk by a British submarine during the war, sinking the German U-boat U-859 with its secret cargo, towing a midget submarine to attack the German battleship Tirpitz in the Norwegian Fjords, and taking a group of SBS soldiers to carry out a daring raid in Sumatra.

They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the "Bloody Hundredth" a legend. Harry H. Crosby—soon to be portrayed by Anthony Boyle in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last.

Die bewegende Geschichte eines stillen Widerständlers im Nationalsozialismus. Walther Hultsch war ein charismatischer und couragierter Mann, der es sich zur Aufgabe machte, Menschen während der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur zu helfen. Wo er nur konnte, setzte er sich für diejenigen ein, die durch die Nazis zu leiden hatten, verfolgt wurden oder wegen ihrer politischen Vergangenheit geächtet waren. Die spannende Biografie basiert auf Tagebucheinträgen von Walther Hultsch und handelt von seiner Geschichte im Widerstand und seinem Leben als Spionage-Abwehr-Spezialist.

Sailors who served aboard one of many L.S.T.s: This book is to hopefully help the world know just what these truly brave young men went through serving aboard their ship during World War Two, and how their brave contributions contributed to the Allies’ triumphs over both the Japanese and Germans during the war. Listen to the book to become aware of their exciting and unbelievable story.

Hur var det att vara flygare i Hitlers Luftwaffe under andra världskriget? I denna bok ger veteranerna själva svar på detta. Författaren Christer Bergström har i fem decennier genomfört mängder av resor till Tyskland för att besöka och intervjua pilotveteraner. Här återger han vad veteranerna själva berättade – ofta sådant som inte brukar förekomma i vanliga böcker om kriget. Christer Bergström anses vara en av de världsledande experterna på Luftwaffe under andra världskriget. Han har studerat ämnet i flera decennier och utgivit 28 böcker inom det, flertalet på den internationella marknaden.

At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new...

At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. To Besiege a City charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults.

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This, Raban's final work, is a gorgeous...

Through this audiobook, we know the true story of this American hero. Without his determination and leadership, we’d all be speaking German! You’ll adore this uplifting story because it’s lovingly written by his distant relative with the help of the General’s nephew as a lasting tribute to a man who changed the world and helped us win WWII.

Otto Fr. Rossegg verhört in der Slowakei als Dolmetscher für den deutschen Heimatschutz Partisanen, die, von sowjetischen Agenten angestachelt, gegen die slowakische Regierung kämpfen. Zum Wehrdienst verpflichtet, muss Odo (wie Otto auch genannt wird) als Volksdeutscher der Waffen-SS beitreten und wird an der Selbstfahrlafette "Hummel" ausgebildet. Als Offizier rettet er immer wieder sich und seine Kameraden aus brenzligen Situationen. Doch gesundheitlich schwer angeschlagen kommt er in amerikanische Kriegsgefangenschaft.

Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known today for writing the Corps' Rifleman's Creed. Rupertus was one of the outstanding Marines of the twentieth century, but he died in 1945, so his story has never been told. Rupertus "made his bones" in the USMC's "savage wars of peace" before World War II: Haiti for three years after World War I, China in 1929, and again in 1937.

The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment. This regiment made up the core of the 6th Panzer-Division, one of Hitler's top armored formations, which was involved in most of the major campaigns on the Eastern Front; campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Winter Storm.

Lieutenant General James Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII, is one of the best-known figures of the war. Beginning as the commander of the 505th Parachute Combat Team that spearheaded the American assault on Sicily in July 1943, Gavin advanced to division command and finally command of US forces in Berlin. He kept a wartime diary that starts in April 1943, as the unit was preparing to go to northern Africa and continues through to his final entry on September 1, 1945, during the occupation of Berlin.

Koledzy z Polskiej Armii na Zachodzie mówili o nich „PESTKI” (od Pomocniczej Służby Kobiet). Miłości, przyjaźnie, codzienne kłopoty. PESTKI po wojnie wylądowały w różnych zakątkach globu; w Afryce, w Australii, w Szkocji, Kanadzie i na Podkarpaciu. Losy 19 dzielnych kobiet, które wyrwały się ze Związku Sowieckiego i razem z II Korpusem polskim przeszły cały szlak bojowy. „Byłam jedną z pierwszych ochotniczek wcielonych do Pomocniczej Służby Kobiet. Dostałam mundur. Wreszcie czysta, syta i ubrana w coś innego niż łachmany.

Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper. And then there was the special poem in his roll-top desk she sometimes snuck a peek at, written by a member of Dad's regiment. This poem was a premonition of the sergeant's death. "Yes," her dad told her, "He was right—he died on D-Day." But it's not until 2016, after her parents had both passed away, that Susan Gurwell Talley and her husband Jack L. Talley begin to understand the true extent and significance of the wartime artifacts that had been staples of Sue's childhood.

Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander, sinking forty-seven ships. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. After completing his officer training and time on the training ship Niobe, he served aboard the light cruiser Emden. In December 1934, he was transferred to the light cruiser Köln, then in January 1936 made the move to the fledgling U-boat service. D