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Karl der Große
Reichsgründer - Herrscher - Politiker
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2014
2014 ist das Karlsjahr. Im Januar 814 verstarb Karl der Große, König der Franken, König der Langobarden und west-römischer Kaiser, in seiner Aachener Pfalz "Aquispalatium", wo er die letzten 20 Jahre fast ununterbrochen verbracht hatte. Sein Herrschaftsgebiet hat Karl der Große indes durch militärische...
by Jeremy Christie
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the Amalfi on the famed Amalfi coast in Italy. Amalfi is a town in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, 35 km southeast of Naples. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto (1,315 meters, 4,314 feet), surrounded...
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by Roger G. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 25 illustrations
A short but detailed biography of the prophet of American military Airpower – Billy Mitchell.
On July 21, 1921, Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell circled high above the rough surface of the Chesapeake Bay, exultant witness to an event he had orchestrated...
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by James P. S. Devereux Colonel U.S.M.C.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes 11 photos and 5 maps/diagrams of the Defence of Wake Island
“It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone...
Adolf Hitler
La locura nazi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la vida de Adolf Hitler, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Profundizar en la biografía de Adolf Hitler y el contexto en el que vivió, además de entender...
Children of Nazis
The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time,...
The German Opposition to Hitler
The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots (1938-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches...
The Fall Of The Dynasties
The Collapse Of The Old Order, 1905-1922 [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Originally published in 1963, The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when the four ruling houses—the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov—crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay and...
Berlin 1945
World War II: Photos of the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
These rare pictures from post-war Berlin have been taken by photographers of the Soviet Army and by Germans in their employ immediately after the surrender and in the months to follow. A city reduced to rubble, and now under martial law, is imposed by the victorious Communists. And now, broken tanks...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Just after 2100 hours, the mission’s leader Wing Commander Guy Gibson gave the signal. The red light went on and the Merlin engines of the thirteen Lancaster bombers roared into life. They had been in intensive training for eight weeks for the most famous bombing raid of World War II. RAF...
The Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable...
The Scourge of the Swastika
A Shot History of Nazi War Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous organisation which so terrorised occupied Europe and murdered at least 12 million civilians. Along with The Knights of Bushido:
A Short History of Japanese War Crimes,...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as many Jews as they could and place them into concentration camps. “A Doctor in Auschwitz” is a harrowing tale of survival. It follows one Jewish doctor who was spared and forced to perform experiments on his...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This is the complete wartime translation by the U.S. Navy of the 1943 edition of the official handbook given to all U-boat commanders. The original handbook was compiled from combat reports and was regularly updated throughout the war. The handbook was an invaluable reference for every operational U-boat...