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This volume is the 1960 follow-up to the 1959 publication "Famous Bombers of the Second World War: Volume One." William Green here covers a further extensive number of aircraft focusing on the fighters used by the Axis and Allies during the Second World War. As before the types in approximate order of introduction to operational service and providing a brief developmental and operational history of each type. Includes ME Komet, Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine...
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Explore the rise of Adolf Hitler. Was Hitler, as Ian Kershaw asked, a natural consequence of German history, or an aberration? Not that Hitler had been in hiding, waiting to attack. The Führer had actually been following an aggressive and savage foreign policy for almost 10 years, and been named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1938. This is not an audiobook about World War II, but about the man, Adolf Hitler, one of the faces and names that still...
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The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected, entangling nations in a vast web of violence. It was fought on land, sea, and air, touching every inhabited continent. Over 55 million people died, some of them combatants, some civilians caught up in the violence, and some murdered by their own governments. It was the war that unleashed the Holocaust and the atomic bomb...
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Explora el alzamiento de Adolf Hitler¿Fue Hitler, tal y como preguntó Ian Kershaw, una consecuencia natural de la historia alemana o una aberración? No es que Hitler hubiera estado escondido, esperando para atacar. El Führer realmente había estado siguiendo una política exterior agresiva y salvaje durante casi diez años, y fue nombrado Hombre del Año por la revista Time en 1938. Este no es un libro sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino sobre...
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"A London crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, suspected for the murder of her former lover. Lamartine - who years ago escaped from the Gestapo - is set to meet her end at the gallows. One final opportunity remains: solicitor Nap Rumbold is called to replace the defence counsel, granting an eight-day reprieve. Without any time to spare, Rumbold crosses the Channel to trace the roots of the crime back into the war-torn past. Expertly combining...
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The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far beyond the shoreline, as the arms and armies carried across the oceans were ultimately destined to wage war ashore. Populations and industries depended on the raw materials and supplies in a war that increasingly became a contest of national...
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"On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the portrait of his characterful sitter, bedecked in Cardinal's robes at the other end of the room. In the kitchen, the artist's sister is hosting the charlady of the miser next door. When the brutal murder of said...
30) D-Day
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Nº 16 D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy. Liberation of Paris.
32) The Desert Fox
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Nº 6 The Desert Fox North-African battles between the Axis and the Allied armies. Enters Rommel and his Afrika Korps. Greece. Crete and Malta.
34) Hitler
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Nº 1 Hitler, The Wolf A survey of Hitler's early years. Nazism. His appointment as Chancellor and the men in his Government.
40) Stalingrad
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Nº 10 Stalingrad The struggle for the city of Stalingrad went into history as the most sanguinary battle of all times and it meant the beginning of the end for the Third Reich's armies.
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