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5541) Appendices & References
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2022 is the 80th Anniversary of the Lidice Shall Live campaign and Lidice Lives, and we thought we would lay things out for you.
In addition to a full bibliography and sources section, the Appendices and References volume of this series contains a wider selection of additional material the reader will find interesting
The full transcript of US Navy Secretary, Frank Knox's speech-given at the United Nations Rally at Boston Gardens on Sunday 14th...
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A detailed history of where German & Italian prisoners of war stayed in Wyoming during WWII, featuring archival photographs. Wyoming's nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp residents reveal details about this little-known part of the state's history. Local agricultural and timber industries utilized POW...
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Anthony Barne started his diary in August 1939 as a young, recently married captain in the Royal Dragoons stationed in Palestine. He wrote an entry for every day of the war, often with great difficulty, sometimes when dog-tired or under fire, sometimes when things looked dark and desperate, but more often in sunshine and optimism-"surrounded by good fellows who kept one cheerful and helped one through the sad and difficult times." His diary ends in...
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L'immigration des Juifs en Belgique pour échapper aux rafles et persécutions religieuses de la Gestapo
À partir des années 1920, des milliers de familles juives s'installent à Bruxelles, à la recherche d'une vie meilleure.Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres suit l'histoire d'une vingtaine d'entre elles avant, pendant et après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, et trace le portrait de ceux qui leur sont venus en aide, comme de leurs ennemis. À...
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In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan-his own Viae Crucis-was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories.
He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau,...
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The shocking story of Nazi Germany's naval assault in American waters, told through the eyes of seafarers who experienced it off the Jersey Shore.
It is January 1942. Six weeks after the United States entered World War II, Imperial Japan is annihilating American forces across the Far East while the Nazis stand triumphant over much of Europe. Adolf Hitler's forces are about to commence an assault along the East Coast of the United States, but this...
5547) The Hinge of Fate
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The British prime minister recounts battles from Midway to Stalingrad, and how the Allies turned the tide of WWII.
The Hinge of Fate is the dramatic account of the Allies' changing fortunes. In the first half of the book, Winston Churchill describes the fearful period in which the Germans threaten to overwhelm the Red Army, Rommel dominates the war in the desert, and Singapore falls to the Japanese. In the span of just a few months, the Allies...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Franklin Roosevelt en moins d'une heure !
Aussi célèbre que George Washington et Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt a présidé les États-Unis durant une dizaine d'années. Arrivé au faîte du pouvoir alors que les effets de la Grande Dépression se font de plus en plus sentir, il met au point toute une série de mesures afin de faire sortir son pays de la crise. C'est ainsi qu'il imagine avec son...
5549) The Secret Notebook
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A page-turning, emotional WW2 novel for fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford, Lucinda Riley and Kathryn Hughes A view to the past...When Izzie Dean's beloved nan, Molly Blackshaw, passes away, Izzie returns to the Blackpool bungalow where she grew up, to say goodbye once and for all. When Izzie's homecoming reunites her with her first love, Justin Swift, every emotion that Izzie has repressed since the day he broke her heart comes rushing to the surface....
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The Path to Lidice is a series of ebooks that look into the relationships between Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and the USA from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s. Roughly, this equates to the accession to supreme power in Germany of Adolf Hitler and ends with the fall of Alexander Dubček, the liberalizing President of Czechoslovakia in 1969. The series examines international efforts to build a new Lidice from two main perspectives: the US-inspired...
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'One hell of a journey…a great curl up and read book' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Outstandingly fabulous' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Had me going to bed early just so that I could listen to it!' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Her code breaking will save lives.But will it save the man she loves…? September 1939. London is in blackout, war has been declared, but Dulcie Treadwell can think only of her heartbreak over American broadcaster, Glenn...
5552) The Grand Alliance
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The British, Soviets, and Americans unite in this chapter of the six-volume WWII history by the legendary prime minister and Nobel Prize recipient.
The Grand Alliance describes the end of an extraordinary period in British military history, in which Britain stood alone against Germany. Two crucial events brought an end to Britain's isolation. First was Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, opening up a battle front in the East and forcing...
5553) Closing the Ring
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The Allies take the fight to the enemy in this vivid historical account by the British prime minister and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In this fifth volume of his magnificent history of World War II, Winston Churchill recounts the story of the Allied forces going on the offensive. Mussolini falls, Hitler is besieged on three sides, and the Japanese find it near impossible to maintain a grip on the territories they had recently overtaken....
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Franklin Roosevelt, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Profundizar en la biografía de Franklin Roosevelt, enmarcada en una época convulsa que ve sucederse dos guerras mundiales y una gran crisis económica, la Gran Depresión
• Examinar la carrera política de Roosevelt y las acciones que lleva a...
5555) Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation
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A look at how the Wisconsin lumber industry and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory contributed to Allied efforts in World War II.
Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber" during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence,...
5556) Triumph and Tragedy
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Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history.
In Triumph and Tragedy, British prime minister Winston Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation.
Beginning with the invasion of Normandy, the heroic landing of the Allied armies...
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In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and...
5558) Airmen of Arnhem
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A history of the airborne portion of Operation Market-Garden during World War II, from the perspective of the airmen fighting the battle.
Martin Bowman presents an unparalleled account of events as they unfolded in the skies above Holland during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. Market-Garden was a heroic failure conducted at great cost; combined losses-both airborne and ground forces-in killed, wounded, and missing amounted to more than...
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The uplifting story of the African American Philadelphians who joined the prestigious WWII unit to serve as fighter pilots, nurses, mechanics, and more.
At the outbreak of World War II, Philadelphians heeded the call, including the valiant airmen and women of Tuskegee. Although trained in Alabama, the prestigious unit comprised dozens of Philadelphia-area natives, second only to Chicago in the country. They served as fighter pilots, bombers, nurses,...
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On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 the world changed for the North State-and the nation.
A national call to arms by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor spurred local residents to action, and the normal rhythm of life immediately and dramatically changed. By Christmas of that year, everyone understood their roles. Those who could enlist served in Army and Navy operations in the Pacific and Europe. The rest gave their...
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