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Название: Secret messages: codebreaking and American diplomacy, 1930-1945
Автор: David Alvarez
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
Год: 2000
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 302
Размер: 8,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartime, however, enemy codemakers make that task much more difficult. If you cannot break their codes and read their messages, you may discover too late the enemy's intentions. That's why codebreakers were considered such a crucial weapon during World War II.

Название: The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi
Автор: Gary Bruce
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195392051
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 264
Размер: 17,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and Perleberg, two East German districts located north of Berlin, Gary Bruce reveals how the Stasi monitored small-town East Germany.

Название: Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu
Автор: Rafe de Crespigny
Издательство: Australian National University
ISBN: 0731509013
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 600
Размер: 16,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The present volume is concerned with one aspect of that great tradition: the development of the state of Wu, under control of the Sun family, in the territory south of the Yangzi. The establishment of this separate state, and its maintenance for the best part of a hundred years, was a critical factor for the centuries that followed.

Название: The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village
Автор: Stephen G. Rabe
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 265
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.2 MB

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom. On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers – predominantly women – provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers' equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers. In this moving book, historian Stephen G. Rabe, son of one of the paratroopers, meticulously documents the forgotten lives of those who participated in this integral part of D-Day history.

Название: Hitler's Henchmen: Nazi Executioners and How They Escaped Justice After WWII
Автор: Helmut Ortner
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 136
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

Helmut Ortner reveals a staggering history of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in Hitler’s Germany. He explores the shocking evidence of a merciless era – and of the shameful omissions of post-war German justice. Johann Reichhart was a state-appointed judicial executioner in Bavaria from 1924 until the end of the war in Europe. During the Nazi era, he executed numerous people who were sentenced to death for resisting National Socialism, including many of those involved in the 20 July 1944 bomb plot on Adolf Hitler. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, the SS organization responsible for administering the concentration and extermination camps, Arnold Strippel served at a number of locations during his rise to the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. These included Natzweiler-Struthof, Buchenwald, Majdanek, Ravensbrück and Neuengamme, where he was responsible for murdering the victims of a series of tuberculosis medical experiments.

Название: Spies Who Changed History: The Greatest Spies and Agents of the 20th Century
Автор: Nigel West
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 261
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 14.9 MB

Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for selection have been the degree to which each can now be seen to have had a very definite influence on a specific course of events, either directly, by passing vital classified material, or indirectly, by organizing or managing a group of spies. Those selected were active in the First World War, the inter-war period, the Second World War, the Cold War and even the post-Cold War era.

Название: Nazi UFOs : The Legends and Myths of Hitler’s Flying Saucers in WW2
Автор: S.D. Tucker
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 218
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 21.3 MB

Nazi UFOs tells the strange tale of how, following the first alleged flying saucer sightings made in the USA in 1947, a series of fantasists and neo-fascists came forward to create a media myth that the Nazis may have invented these incredible craft as a means for winning the Second World War, a plan which was tantalizingly close to completion before the Allies conquered Berlin in 1945. By contrasting the fake military-industrial pseudo-histories of Nazi UFO theorists with details of real-life Nazi aerospace achievements, the author demonstrates both how this modern-day mythology came about and how it cannot possibly be more than fractionally true. For the first time, this fake ‘alternative military history’ is laid out in full.

Название: Lucky: Hitler’s Big Mistakes
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 338
Размер: 76 Mb
Язык: English

Lucky: Hitler’s Big Mistakes

Название: The Royal Gibraltar Regiment: Nulli Expugnabilis Hosti (Osprey General Military)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 34 Mb
Язык: English

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment: Nulli Expugnabilis Hosti

Название: The Brandenburger Commandos: Germany’s Elite Warrior Spies in World War II (The Stackpole Military History Series)
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 384
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English

The Brandenburger Commandos: Germany’s Elite Warrior Spies in World War II