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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Riviera to the Rhine
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 35 maps and 77 illustrations]
Riviera to the Rhine examines a significant portion of the Allied drive across northern Europe and focuses on the vital role played in that drive by the U.S. 6th Army Group, commanded by General Jacob L. Devers, and its two major components, the American Seventh...
by Dr. Albert Norman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A fascinating in-depth study of the planning for the D-Day landings which set the first Allied troops on the road to Berlin. Dr Norman served with the US 12th Army Group staff during the Second World War under General Omar Bradley, which put him in an expert position to tell the story of the exhaustive...
by Major James A. Huston
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
During World War II, James A Huston served as an operations officer in the 3rd Battalion, 134th Infantry, a unit that helped to liberate or capture dozens of cities across France, Belgium, and Germany. From July 1944 through April 1945, the regiment captured 8,974 prisoners of war and covered over...
by LCDR Richard Carnicky USN
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The German General Staff launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 assuming the eastern campaign would last only three months. However, within six months after the initiation of hostilities the Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht’s attack outside the gates of Moscow, Operation Barbarossa had failed....
by Julius Fucik, Samuel Sillen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
On 24 April 1942, Czechoslovak journalist and active CPC member Julius Fucik was detained in Pankrác Prison in Prague, where he was subsequently interrogated and tortured, before being sent to Germany to stand trial for high treason.
It was during this time that Fucik’s Notes from the Gallows...
Blinded by Doctrine
Lessons Learned from the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This paper will conduct an analysis of the failure of the Luftwaffe (1939-45) and identify practices for the United States Air Force to avoid. The analysis will address lack of vision and institutional inflexibility in crafting airpower doctrine, as well as explore the ensuing systemic mismatch of...
The War in Their Minds
German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers’ experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part...
Sun, Sex and Socialism
Cuba in the German Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Although North Americans may not recognize it, Cuba has long shaped the German imaginary. Sun, Sex, and Socialism picks up this story from the early 1960s, detailing how the newly upstart island in the U.S. backyard inspired citizens on both sides of the Berlin Wall.
By the 1970s, international...
Bertha
Shine like the Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Bertha: Shine Like the Dawn is the true story of Bertha, the author’s great-grandmother, born into relative wealth and comfort in 1860 Germany, orphaned as a baby, and begrudgingly raised by two sets of grandparents.
Violated by her uncle at seventeen, Bertha becomes pregnant and is quickly...
Constructing Imperial Berlin
Photography and the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified...
Tank Rider
Into the Reich with the Red Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A firsthand account of conflict on the Eastern Front of World War II told from the perspective of a Russian soldier.
Honest and irrepressibly frank, this is the dramatic memoir of a Russian officer on the Eastern Front, where he played his part in a clash of titans and witnessed the shuddering...
111 Gründe, Deutschland zu lieben
Eine längst überfällige Liebeserklärung
Language: German
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Die Deutschen bereisen die ganze Welt, denken, shoppen und leben immer globaler. Dabei ist es doch zu Hause immer noch am schönsten! Und auch für erfahrene Deutschlandkenner gibt es noch so viel Neues zu entdecken. Deutschland ist ein aufregendes, beeindruckendes und spannendes Land voller Gegensätze....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a willing accomplice of the devil or suffering from melancholy as a result...
Hitler's Commanders
Officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Despite huge odds against them, Hitler’s commanders—the elite of the Wehrmacht—almost succeeded in conquering Europe. Now in an expanded edition that includes biographies of the generals of Stalingrad and a new chapter on the panzer commanders, this book offers rare insight into the men who...