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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the 1945 Yalta conference, Berlin was divided into three zones of occupation to be controlled by the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. However, the border of Soviet-controlled East Germany was drawn 110 miles west of Berlin, which meant that the American and British sectors of the city would be surrounded by the Red Army. The Allies hoped that any difficulties could be overcome by diplomacy, but problems arose from the beginning. Soviet...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An epic battle that involved 156,000 Allied men, 7,000 ships, and 20,000 armored vehicles fighting against the might of the German war machine, D-Day was, above all, a tale of individual heroics--of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defenses were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story--Allied, French, German--has never been fully told. Giles Milton's bold new history narrates the events of June...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The biography of Wolfram Aichele, the author's father-in-law, which tells of his childhood in Germany as Hitler came to power, and his experiences in Hitler's army on the Russian front and on the beaches of Normandy through the fall of Hitler's regime.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the top-secret guerilla campaign founded in London to orchestrate spectacular acts of sabotage against Hitler's war machine, profiling the six remarkable men behind the campaign and how they changed the course of World War II.
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