Download or read book Sitting Duck Division written by John W. Morse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one boy-soldier and his fellow GIs from draft to disaster and back during WW II. From basic blunders to bitter battle and prisoner of war persevering, a small town kid learns about life and death...love, laughter, and more.
Download or read book Loss and Redemption at St Vith written by Gregory Fontenot and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge give short-shrift to the interval during which the German forward progress stopped and the American counterattack began. This narrative centers on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division and accounting for the reconstitution of the Division while in combat.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 2508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplemental Defense Appropiations for 1958 written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighthouse of Stalingrad written by Iain MacGregor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, vivid, and “compelling” (Wall Street Journal) account of the epic siege during one of World War II’s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II were sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets’ hard-won victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the Volga River. To Russians, it is a pivotal landmark of their nation’s losses, with more than two million civilians and combatants either killed, wounded, or captured during the bitter fighting from September 1942 to February 1943. Both sides endured terrible conditions in brutal, relentless house-to-house fighting. Within this life-and-death struggle, Soviet war correspondents lauded the fight for a key strategic building in the heart of the city, “Pavlov’s House,” which was situated on the frontline and codenamed “The Lighthouse.” The legend grew of a small garrison of Russian soldiers from the 13th Guards Rifle Division holding out against the Germans of the Sixth Army, which had battled its way to the very center of Stalingrad. A report about the battle in a local Red Army newspaper would soon grow and be repeated on Moscow radio and in countless national newspapers. By the end of the war, the legend would gather further momentum and inspire Russians to rebuild their destroyed towns and cities. This story has become a pillar of the Stalingrad legend and one that can now be told accurately. Written with “impressive skill and relish” (Sunday Times), The Lighthouse of Stalingrad sheds new light on this iconic battle through the prism of the two units who fought for the very heart of the city itself. Iain MacGregor traveled to both German and Russian archives to unearth previously unpublished testimonies by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. His “utterly riveting” (Alex Kershaw) narrative lays to rest the questions as to the identity of the real heroes of this epic battle for one of the city’s most famous buildings and provides authoritative answers as to how the battle finally ended and influenced the conclusion of the siege of Stalingrad.
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1959 written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barbarossa Derailed The Battle for Smolensk 10 July 10 September 1941 written by David Glantz and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong. At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the Soviet capital. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht’s massive invasion of the Soviet Union, code-named Operation Barbarossa, which sought to defeat the Soviet Red Army, conquer the country, and unseat its Communist ruler, Josef Stalin. Between 22 June and 10 July, the Wehrmacht advanced up to 500 kilometers into Soviet territory, killed or captured up to one million Red Army soldiers, and reached the western banks of the Western Dvina and Dnepr Rivers, by doing so satisfying the premier assumption of Plan Barbarossa that the Third Reich would emerge victorious if it could defeat and destroy the bulk of the Red Army before it withdrew to safely behind those two rivers. With the Red Army now shattered, Hitler and most Germans expected total victory in a matter of weeks. The ensuing battles in the Smolensk region frustrated German hopes for quick victory. Once across the Dvina and Dnepr Rivers, a surprised Wehrmacht encountered five fresh Soviet armies. Quick victory eluded the Germans. Instead, Soviet forces encircled in Mogilev and Smolensk stubbornly refused to surrender, and while they fought on, during July, August, and into early September, first five and then a total of seven newly mobilized Soviet armies struck back viciously at the advancing Germans, conducting multiple counterattacks and counterstrokes, capped by two major counteroffensives that sapped German strength and will. Despite immense losses in men and materiel, these desperate Soviet actions derailed Operation Barbarossa. Smarting from countless wounds inflicted on his vaunted Wehrmacht, even before the fighting ended in the Smolensk region, Hitler postponed his march on Moscow and instead turned his forces southward to engage “softer targets” in the Kiev region. The “derailment” of the Wehrmacht at Smolensk ultimately became the crucial turning point in Operation Barbarossa. This groundbreaking study, now significantly expanded, exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, and armies and of the Soviet Stavka, the Red Army General Staff, the Western Main Direction Command, the Western, Central, Reserve, and Briansk Fronts, and their subordinate armies to present a detailed mosaic and definitive account of what took place, why, and how during the prolonged and complex battles in the Smolensk region from 10 July through 10 September 1941. The structure of the study is designed specifically to appeal to both general readers and specialists by a detailed two-volume chronological narrative of the course of operations, accompanied by a third volume and a fourth, containing archival maps and an extensive collection of specific orders and reports translated verbatim from Russian. The maps, archival and archival-based, detail every stage of the battle.
Download or read book Sitting Duck written by Bryce Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1959 Overall Policy Statements written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laurentian Divide written by Sarah Stonich and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what’s missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The town’s residents gather at the local diner and, amid talk of spring weather, the latest gossip, roadkill, and the daily special, take bets on when Rauri will appear—or imagine what happened to him during the long and brutal winter. Retired union miner and widower Alpo Lahti is about to wed the diner’s charming and lively waitress, Sissy Pavola, but, with Rauri still unaccounted for, celebration seems premature. Alpo’s son Pete struggles to find his straight and narrow, then struggles to stay on it, and even Sissy might be having second thoughts. Weaving in and out of each other’s reach, trying hard to do their best (all the while wondering what that might be), the residents of this remote town in all their sweetness and sorrow remind us once more of the inescapable lurches of the heart and unexpected turns of our human comedy.
Download or read book Divide written by Jamie Campbell and published by Jamie Campbell. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided They Fall. Kidnapped at gunpoint, alien Amery Jones is torn from the arms of her boyfriend and taken to a secret facility where she is held prisoner. With her life and the lives of the entire Project Integrate members at stake, Amery knows she has to escape from the clutches of evil. Teaming up with fellow alien Garrick, the pair must liaise with their home planet in order to recommence the project and save Earth from an interplanetary war. Making a mistake that could cost her everything she loves, Amery must resolve her feelings for Lochie or risk losing him forever. Also in the Project Integrate Series: Ignite (Short Prequel) Unite Divide Conquer Soar Rise Broken (Bonus Story) The Project Integrate Boxed Set (All stories in one place. Save money by buying all in one)
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1961 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Divide written by Frank M. Robinson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hallowed halls of the capital, some who have sworn to preserve our nation's union are secretly plotting its demise ... and they are willing to kill to achieve their goals. The country has been split into two distinct factions over energy - "the haves" (those states that are fuel self-sufficient) and "the have nots". The inept execution of a flawed foreign policy in the Middle East has resulted in an Arab-backed oil embargo of the United States. Now the country is in the grips of the most severe winter in years, and rationing has led to unrest and rioting in the streets and certain politicians and business power brokers are ready to make a move. As masses freeze in Chicago and the northeast, fuel-sufficient sunbelt conspirators seek to separate themselves from the rest of the nation, make their own foreign policy, and govern by their own rules and to do it they will resort to blackmail, bribery, and even murder. The Constitution is only a stumbling block, and it can be amended. The United States will be united no more. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Trans Atlantic Divide written by John J. Metzler and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a needed balance to the debate: are the USA and Europe really at odds after stressful unavoidable diplomatic residue following the Iraq War? The book outlines a clear common ground for both sides, noting that American relations with Europe remain vital for commercial, cultural, and geo-political reasons.
Download or read book The Blood Covenant Mistrust Division Murder written by Kornelia Blackmore and published by Blackmore Publication LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act One: Mistrust Tessa (Red) Parker I looked at my rearview mirror and noticed it was a group of people. However, I couldn't see cuz the smoke from their car and headlights blinded me, so I couldn't identify who they were, but one thing I could make out from their silhouette was what they were carrying; and when I realized what it was, my blood went cold. "Maybe they just wanna talk?" Fox shivered a sob where she sat crouched behind the driver's seat; that's why she was pissed when I slammed the breaks. These people were carrying spears and guns and not the tiny kind either; it was shotguns and AK's, from what I could tell. "Now, can I shoot them?" Nessa asked me, "Wait," I said, glaring down at my hands and noticed they were shaking violently. I let out a shuddering breath to calm myself down. "Wait, who died and made you the fucking leader!" Fox argued with me, and they kept walking towards the car as they almost huddled around it. "Shut up, Fox, for once, please, just stay quiet," "Maybe it's Park Rangers or something, and maybe they can get us the fuck outta here; I need to be around people again. I can't deal with this shit right now," she cried. I noticed Stone hid her gun under her blouse and turned to face me with a stern expression, both of us silently acknowledging between us that Toto, we aren't in Kansas anymore. Then a black kid who looked to be our age stepped beside the driver's seat, and I peeped from the corner of my eye. There were two people on both sides of the doors by the backseat windows, and from the rearview mirror, two more people stood behind us. "Well, that was really rude of you to go and wreck our car like that when we were just trying to have some fun," He claimed with a friendly smile. I chuckled wryly, "Ah right, sorry, listen; we'll find a way to pay for the damages," "Don't worry. You won't get very far, not from us anyway," "What do you want, you fucking psycho!" Fox shouted from the backseat. "Oh, didn't you know? These woods are hunting grounds, and what better target practice than you guys, seeing as you're lost and all," "No, no, we aren't lost, really, just uh, we took a detour to get to the main road back to the city," I lied, but when the guy looked at my hands gripping the steering wheel tight, and my heart was beating so damn loud it rang in my ears, please I hope he can't hear my heart racing like a fucking jackhammer. "Oh yeah?" He said, taking his stance, and aimed the AK at me, and when he did, I held my hands up, I'm gonna die. College students Tessa Parker (Red), Inessa Alexeyev (Nessa/Stone), and Kalina Izumi (Fox) were driving one day after classes to grab some food, but the GPS was acting weird and took them down a deadly detour in the woods where now they are being hunted by other college students. But that's only Act One. After being hunted, and put to the test in Act One, now Tessa finds out she has a strange ability based off of her choices, and joined together with her friends, she KNOWS there's more going on behind the scenes in the school, but would anyone believe her due to her strange abilities? In this psychological thriller novel, based off of the authors nightmare, comes the story of Fear, and how deadly it really is both in the context of this story, and in real life.
Download or read book Bridging the Constitutional Divide written by Russell L. Riley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2003, seven former heads of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs gathered for the first time ever to compare their experiences working for every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. For two days, these congressional liaisons, charged with moving their respective presidents’ legislative agendas through an independent—and sometimes hostile—Congress, shared first-hand views of the intricacies of presidential-congressional relations: how it works, how it doesn’t work, and the fascinating interplay of personalities, events, and politics that happens along the way. Hosted by noted presidential scholar Russell Riley and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, this seminar also featured a number of invited scholars of American politics, including the eminent Richard E. Neustadt, who appeared just before his death a month later. As explained by Riley, “. . . these discussions enlighten in two ways: they provide us a revealing glimpse into the inside, usually hidden, business of Washington, and they afford us the considered reflections of a thoughtful group of political veterans.” What makes these exchanges especially compelling, however, is their bipartisan cast, with Republicans Max L. Friedersdorf, William L. Ball III, and Frederick McClure joining Democrats Frank Moore, Charles M. Brain, John Hilley, and Lawrence Stein in thoughtful and friendly conversation.
