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Book Hans Sturm

    Book Details:
  • Author : GORDON WILLIAMSON
  • Publisher : Fonthill Media
  • Release : 2017-01-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Hans Sturm written by GORDON WILLIAMSON and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many biographies of former soldiers of the German Wehrmacht, many of whom had fascinating stories to tell, and several of whom were highly decorated. Few, however, can match Hans Sturm in his astonishing rise from a mere private in an infantry regiment, thrown into the bloody maelstrom of the Eastern Front, to becoming a glorified war hero whose role brought him into direct regular contact with Prominenten of the Third Reich. This young man s fearless heroism in combat earned him some of Germany s highest military awards, and yet he was pugnaciously outspoken about bullying and injustice. From striking a member of the feared Sicherheitsdienst in defence of a Jewish woman to refusing to wear a decoration he felt was tainted by its encouragement of inhumane treatment of enemy partisans, Sturm repeatedly stuck to his moral values no matter what the risk. But even when the war was finally over, his travails did not end: he was held in a number of Soviet labour camps, before finally being released in 1953. Hans Sturm: A Soldier s Odyssey on the Eastern Front is an engaging reconstruction of events based on exchanges of correspondence and reminiscences between the author and Hans Sturm himself. It vividly portrays not only a German soldier s experience on the Eastern Front, but the intriguing trajectories that success in the battlefield yielded for him at home under the Nazi regime.

Book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

Download or read book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urkundenbuch Der Abtei Sanct Gallen

Download or read book Urkundenbuch Der Abtei Sanct Gallen written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruling Class  Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg 1520 1555

Download or read book Ruling Class Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg 1520 1555 written by Thomas Brady and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nosferatu Story

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  • Author : Rolf Giesen
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2019-03-04
  • ISBN : 1476672989
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Nosferatu Story written by Rolf Giesen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years there was much speculation about the production background, the filmmakers, and their star, the German actor Max Schreck. This book tells the complete story drawing on rare sources. This book tells the complete story, drawing on rare sources. The trail leads to a group of occultists with a plan to establish a leading film company that would produce a momentous series of horror movies. Along the way, the author touches upon other classic German fantasy silents, such as The Golem, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis.

Book Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859 2011

Download or read book Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859 2011 written by Nicholas Saul and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauß to Dietmar Dath.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FIFA World Cup

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : PediaPress
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1521 pages

Download or read book FIFA World Cup written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Goebbels And Der Angriff

Download or read book Goebbels And Der Angriff written by Russel Lemmons and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berlin newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack), founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1927, was a significant instrument for arousing support for Nazi ideas. Berlin was the center of the political life of the Weimar Republic, and Goebbels became an actor upon this frenetic stage in 1926, becoming Gauleiter of Berlin's Nazis. Focusing on the period from 1927 to 1933, a time the Nazis later called "the blood years," Russel Lemmons examines how Der Angriff was used to promote support for Nazism. Some of the most important propaganda motifs of the Third Reich first appeared in the pages of Der Angriff. Horst Wessel, murdered by the German Communist Party in 1930, became the archetypal Nazi hero; much of his legend began on the pages of Der Angriff. Other Nazi propaganda themes -- the "Unknown SA man" and the "myth of resurrection and return" -- made their first appearances in this newspaper. How could the Germans, seemingly among the most cultured people in Europe, hand over their fate to the Nazis? As this book demonstrates, Der Angriff had much to do with the rise of National Socialism in Berlin and the cataclysmic results.

Book Diplomatic List

Download or read book Diplomatic List written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 2222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zhukov at the Oder

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  • Author : Tony Le Tissier
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2009-07-22
  • ISBN : 1461752140
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Zhukov at the Oder written by Tony Le Tissier and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First detailed account of the Soviet advance on Berlin in the closing months of World War II The battles that made Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov famous Numerous maps illustrating how operations unfolded On January 31, 1945, the Red Army stood on a line along the Oder River, about thirty-five miles east of Berlin. They would not reach Berlin for another two months, after battles to cross the river, seize the fortress of Küstrin, and take the Seelow Heights.

Book Chemical Abstracts

Download or read book Chemical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Combat Soldier

Download or read book The Combat Soldier written by Anthony King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this question. Against the common presumption of the virtues of the citizen soldier, this book claims that, in fact, the infantry platoon of the mass twentieth century army typically performed poorly and demonstrated low levels of cohesion in combat. With inadequate time and resources to train their troops for the industrial battlefield, citizen armies typically relied on appeals to masculinity, nationalism and ethnicity to unite their troops and to encourage them to fight. By contrast, cohesion among today's professional soldiers is generated and sustained quite differently. While concepts of masculinity and patriotism are not wholly irrelevant, the combat performance of professional soldiers is based primarily on drills which are inculcated through intense training regimes. Consequently, the infantry platoon has become a highly skilled team capable of collective virtuosity in combat. The increasing importance of training, competence and drills to the professional infantry soldier has not only changed the character of cohesion in the twenty-first century platoon but it has also allowed for a wider social membership of this group. Soldiers are no longer included or excluded into the platoon on the basis of their skin colour, ethnicity, social background, sexuality or even sex (women are increasingly being included in the infantry) but their professional competence alone: can they do the job? In this way, the book traces a profound transformation in the western way of warfare to shed light on wider processes of transformation in civilian society. This book is a project of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Book Hitler s Trojan Horse

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  • Author : Nigel West
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2023-01-30
  • ISBN : 139907606X
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Hitler s Trojan Horse written by Nigel West and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter disputes with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) added to a collapse in morale. Most notably was the increasing opposition within the officer ranks of the Army to Hitler fermented by Canaris and his deputy Generalmajor Hans Oster. The final years of the Abwehr were marked by the Abwehr’s efforts to undermine the regime, which came to a bloody conclusion following the Valkyrie assassination attempt of 20 July 1944. This saw the arrest of many Abwehr officials and the execution of Canaris and Oster. In this penetrating study of the final years of the Abwehr, Nigel West, a world-renowned specialist in the field, pieces together the gradual decline in the organization’s role and importance with Hitler and his acolytes paying little heed to reports that were increasingly cautionary. Among the many previously undisclosed stories are details gleaned from recently opened files which tell of a hitherto unknown spy-swap. This was the exchange of Berthold Shulze-Holthus, a German spy detained in Iran, for Ferdinand Rodriguez, a British radio operator captured in France. This was the only such exchange that took place during the whole of the Second World War – though the fact that the swap took place at all suggests that a previously unsuspected degree of communication existed between the Allies and Nazi Germany. Perhaps most tantalizingly of all, is the new night light thrown upon the role the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, had, in league with the Abwehr, in the Valkyrie bombing which almost killed Hitler.

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: