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 Remagen Bridge: 9th Armoured Infantry Division
Remagen Bridge: 9th Armoured Infantry Division
Author: Andrew Rawson
Remagen Bridge: 9th Armoured Infantry Division
Pen and Sword
Battleground Europe
ISBN: 1844150364
2004
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 9 Mb
Language: English

In Spring 1945 one final hurdle faced the American and British Armies under Ike's supreme command - the Rhine. This mighty river was literally the last ditch for the defence of Hitler's Germany. Crossing it would be a major military undertaking. The race was on to find intact crossings that could save many lives and precious time.

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 The Howard Hughes Flying Boat
The Howard Hughes Flying Boat
Author: Milton L Schwartz
The Howard Hughes Flying Boat
Wrather Corporation
1983
Format: PDF
Pages: 36
Language: English
Size: 59.3 MB

The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"; registration NX37602) is a prototype heavy transport aircraft designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be of use. The aircraft made only one brief flight on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced. Built from wood because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum and concerns about weight, its critics nicknamed it the "Spruce Goose", despite it being made almost entirely of birch rather than spruce. The Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. It is on display, and remains in good condition at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA.

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 The fall of English France
The fall of English France
Author: D.Nicolle
The fall of English France (campaign 241)
Osprey Publishing Ltd.
2012
Format: Pdf (E-book)
Size: 7 Mb
Language: English

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 Flying to the Limit: Testing World War II Single-engined Fighter Aircraft
Flying to the Limit: Testing World War II Single-engined Fighter Aircraft
Author: Peter Caygill
Flying to the Limit: Testing World War II Single-engined Fighter Aircraft
Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN: 184415226X
2005
Format: EPUB
Pages: 224
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English

During the years preceding and during World War II, the RAF and the Royal Aircraft Establishment were responsible for the selection and procurement of British military aircraft and also to evaluate their capabilities against captured enemy models whenever possible. During the lend-lease agreement with the USA, the RAF and Fleet Air Arm operated several American designs, each of which was tested to evaluate its potential.

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 D-Day: Overlord and The Battle for Normandy
D-Day: Overlord and The Battle for Normandy
Author: Dan Sharpe
D-Day: Overlord and The Battle for Normandy
Mortons Media Group
ISBN: 1909128392
2014
Format: PDF
Pages: 132
Size: 20 Mb
Language: English

Released to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, D-Day: Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy , tells the full story of the invasion, with detailed accounts of each of the five landing zones on June 6, 1944, the airborne assault and the Normandy campaign that followed.

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 Coast Guard - Manned Naval Vessels in World War II
Coast Guard - Manned Naval Vessels in World War II
Author: Robert Erwin Johnson
Coast Guard - Manned Naval Vessels in World War II
Coast Guard Historian's Office
1993
Format: PDF
Pages: 20
Language: English
Size: 18 MB

Under a Joint Chiefs of Staff agreement signed 14 March 1944, the Coast Guard was designated to man certain small Army Transportation Corps vessels (with some already operating in the Southwest Pacific and manned at the time by civilians). The agreement reads: "The Coast Guard, due to decrease in category of defense in the United States, will have some personnel available to man ships and craft for which civilian personnel cannot be obtained."

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 Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II
Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II
Author: Seymour Reit
Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II
Hawthorn Books
1978
Format: PDF
Pages: 296
Language: English
Size: 42.8 MB

The heroes of World War II: They came from every walk of life, they manifested undreamed of bravery, they left home and country to fight and win on foreign shores.

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 Germans Against Hitler
Germans Against Hitler
Author: Terence Prittie
Germans Against Hitler
Little, Brown & Company
1964
Format: PDF
Pages: 312
Language: English
Size: 36.8 MB

Prittie observed the responses of ordinary citizens to Hitler and the Nazis. His coverage of the Protestant and Catholic resisters is especially interesting in view of the on-going accusations that are made to the effect that Christians did nothing. He presents some stirring stories of courage and integrity-of-faith.

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 The Crushing of Poland (Images of War)
The Crushing of Poland (Images of War)
Author: Ian Baxter
The Crushing of Poland (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2009
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 33 Mb
Language: English

Hitler's decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics - the ruthless use of armor, mobile infantry and air support. The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was overwhelmed by this awesome display of military power as well as being taken by surprise. Official German photographers accompanied the triumphant Nazi forces on their victorious advance which first seized the key part of Danzig and then Warsaw, all within one month. The Crushing of Poland captures the drama and raw aggression of the Campaign in photographs and full captions.

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 The 6th Panzer Division 1937-45
The 6th Panzer Division 1937-45
Author: Helmut Ritgen
The 6th Panzer Division 1937-45
Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 0850454530
1982
Format: PDF
Size: 20,2 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 48
Text by Oberst a.D. Helmut Ritgen with original wartime photographs by the author. This well-informed account of the 6th Panzer Division is especially useful because the author fought with the 11th Panzer Regiment. It documents the inception, formation and structure of the division and chronologically follows its progress throughout the war. The text is supported by colour photographs taken by the author during World War II and offers a detailed examination of life in the Panzers whilst simultaneously documenting their relentless progress. Feared by Allied infantrymen and devastating in their swift prosecution of the early war the Panzers were the modern German fighting men; well equipped, superbly motivated and unstoppably successful. Until the Allies were able to consolidate their troops, re-engineer their equipment and redraw their tactics the Panzers dominated Europe with a thunderous conquering power.

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 At Leningrad's Gates The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North
At Leningrad's Gates The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North
Author: David Hurt
At Leningrad's Gates The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North
Casemate
ISBN: 1932033556
2010
Format: EPUB
Size: 4,3 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 288
This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa. After grueling marches amidst countless Russian bodies, burnt-out vehicles, and a great number of cheering Baltic civilians, Lubbeck’s unit entered the outskirts of Leningrad, making the deepest penetration of any German formation. The Germans suffered hardships the following winter as they fought both Russian counterattacks and the brutal cold. The 58th Division was thrown back and forth across the front of Army Group North, from Novgorod to Demyansk, at one point fighting back Russian attacks on the ice of Lake Ilmen. A soldier who preferred to be close to the action, Lubbeck served as forward observer for his company, dueling with Russian snipers, partisans and full-scale assaults alike. His worries were not confined to his own safety, however, as news arrived of disasters in Germany, including the destruction of Hamburg where his girlfriend served as an Army nurse. In September 1943, Lubbeck earned the Iron Cross and was assigned to officers’ training school in Dresden. By the time he returned to Russia, Army Group North was in full-scale retreat. Now commanding his former heavy weapons company, Lubbeck alternated sharp counterattacks with inexorable withdrawal to Memel on the Baltic. In April 1945 his company was nearly obliterated, but in the last scramble from East Prussia, he was able to evacuate on a newly minted German destroyer. After his release from British captivity, Lubbeck emigrated to the United States where he raised a successful family. With the assistance of David B. Hurt, he has drawn on his wartime notes and letters, Soldatbuch, regimental history and personal memories to recount his frontline experience, including rare firsthand accounts of both triumph and disaster.

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 Kohima 1944 (Battle Story)
Kohima 1944 (Battle Story)
Author: Chris Brown
Kohima 1944 (Battle Story)
Spellmount
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 156
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English

Kohima was the turning point in the Japanese invasion of India, witnessing the end of their attempt to overthrow the British Raj. It was a bitter battle fought in three stages, spanning three months, and ending with the siege of Imphal. Losses on both sides were heavy, with the Japanese suffering their greatest land defeat thus far in the war. Against the odds and an enemy who nearly refused to give in, the British Army resisted the Japanese and their victory paved the way for the reconquest of Burma. This book explores the historical context of this critical point in the war in Asia, the personalities of the opposing armies, and offers a blow-by-blow account of the battle.

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 US Cold War Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise Classes
US Cold War Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise Classes
Author: Brad Elward
US Cold War Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise Classes (Osprey New Vanguard 211)
Osprey Publishing
Osprey New Vanguard 211
ISBN: 1782003800
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 50
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English

The Forrestal class (Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence) was the first completed class of US Navy supercarriers, so-named for their 25 percent size increase over the World War II-era carriers such as the Midway class, and the strength of their air wings (80–100 aircraft, compared to 65–75 for the Midway, and fewer than 50 for the Essex class). Design-wise, the Forrestals were a huge improvement over their predecessors, being more stable and comfortable, while maintaining advancements such as the armored flight decks that had been introduced with the Midway.

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 Das Reich: 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"
Das Reich: 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"
Author: Philip Vickers
Das Reich: 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich": Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Pen and Sword Military
Battleground Europe
ISBN: 085052699X
2003
Format: EPUB
Pages: 189
Size: 11 Mb
Language: English

The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated in the Massacre at Oradour. This book tells the story of those heroic and tragic days from the British, French and German viewpoints.

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 The World at War The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives
The World at War The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives
Author: Richard Holmes
The World at War The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives
Ebury Press
ISBN: 0091917530
2011
Format: EPUB
Size: 6,0 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 672
The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live.
The programme's producers committed hundreds of interview-hours to tape in its creation, but only a fraction of that recorded material made it to the final cut. For more than 30 years the interviews have never been allowed to be published - until now.

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 Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz (Images of War)
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz (Images of War)
Author: Andy Saunders
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2014
Format: EPUB
Pages: 144
Size: 7 Mb

Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images will depict losses across Britain, both RAF and German, during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail. The author will be covering a topic that has rarely been examined in this detail.

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 The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
Author: Gregory P Gilbert
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
Royal Australian Air Force
2013
Format: PDF+EPUB
Pages: 100
Language: English
Size: 32 MB

'The Battle of the Bismarck Sea' details and analyses the planning and preparation of both Allied and Japanese forces leading up to the battle, description of the battle itself and discussion of the aftermath, including stunning photographs taken during the fighting by renowned wartime photographer Damien Parer.

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 The Third Reich at War
The Third Reich at War
Author: Richard J. Evans
The Third Reich at War
Penguin
2010
ISBN: 0143116711
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,9 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 944
Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the wars progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level.
The great battles and events of the conflict are here, but just as telling is Evans's re- creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The final book in Richard J. Evan's three-volume history of Hitler's Germany, hailed "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, The Third Reich at War lays bare the most momentous and tragic years of the Nazi regime.

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 Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’
Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’
Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’
Author: Germar Rudolf
Theses & Dissertations Press
Pages: 618
Format: PDF
Size: 12 mb
Quality: Good
Language: English
2003

2nd, revised edition. Dissecting the Holocaust applies state-of-the-art scientific technique and classic methods of detection to investigate the alleged murder of millions of Jews by Germans during World War II. In 22 contributions of each ca. 30 pages, the 17 authors dissect generally accepted paradigms of the ‘Holocaust’. It reads as exciting as a crime novel. This is the intellectual adventure of the 21st century…

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