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Download or read book Storming the Beast s Lair written by Bruce E. Empric and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 75 years have passed since thousands of artillery rounds rained down on the western bank of the Oder River shattering the pre-dawn silence on April 16, 1945, the date the Soviet Red Army commenced its Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation. In the decades following that momentous day, many historical accounts have been published on what would more commonly come to be known as the Battle of Berlin. Cornelius Ryan, John Erickson and Antony Beevor are among the authors whose books are considered the standards on the subject. This work complements those efforts by offering an entirely new and unique perspective on the battle that would result in German leader Adolf Hitler's death and the near total destruction of Berlin - Nazi Germany's Reichshauptstadt. For the very first time, the Battle of Berlin unfolds via the individual combat exploits of the Soviet military personnel who fought in it. Drawing upon primary source material in the archival holdings of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the battle is chronicled employing the descriptive narratives recorded in the original award recommendations of those Red Army personnel who were bestowed the title Hero of the Soviet Union (HSU) for their heroism during the fighting to capture the city. As the former Soviet Union's highest decoration for combat valor, the HSU is broadly analogous to the American Medal of Honor, the British Victoria Cross and wartime Germany's Knights Cross. For Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the city of Berlin was the "beast's lair" - логово зверя (logovo zverya) in the Russian language. No symbol within that lair held more significance for him than the German Reichstag building. While some may argue that Berlin's Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) or Hitler's Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) would have been more appropriate symbols, Stalin was fixated on the Reichstag alone. Although largely abandoned after it burned in 1933, the Reichstag's capture was nonetheless of immense symbolic meaning for him. In Stalin's mind, only when a red Soviet banner was unfurled and rippled in the wind over the Reichstag, would victory in the beast's lair and Germany's total defeat be secured. These are the stories of the Red Army soldiers whose valor in the Battle of Berlin made Stalin's order a reality.
Download or read book The Inner World written by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thurlow was a man ahead of his time, his theories might have seemed outrageous but later were proved to be true, could this strange tale about a mysterious inner world be true as well?ExcerptRecently I have received a most remarkable, I might even say astounding, communication. A communication so amazing and incredible that did I not possess the tangible and unquestionable evidence of its authenticity I would not dare to make it public. But as it is, with concrete proofs of the origin of the communication where anyone may see and examine them, I feel that the communication is of such great and universal interest and importance that it should be given to the world.This astonishing document came to me by the most matter-of-fact and ordinary means-the United States Mail. It was posted at St, Thomas in the Virgin Islands and was accompanied by an explanatory letter which read as follows: Dear Sir: I am mailing you under separate cover by parcel post an object which belongs to you and which I have been directed to send to your address.A day or two ago, while bathing at Throm Bay, my attention was attracted to a floating object which resembled a small mooring-buoy. It was conspicuously colored with red and white stripes and was of globular form.Upon securing it I discovered it was not a buoy, for there was no ring at the lower side, and upon lifting it I heard something move or rattle within.Curiosity now being aroused, I examined the strange object and discovered that it was formed of two sections, and after a little time I managed to separate the two halves which were fastened with a cleverly-designed interrupted screw much like that on the breech-block of a modern gun. At the time I was astonished to note that, although the container was constructed of some metal and was nearly half an inch in thickness, yet its weight was less than that of a similar sized sphere of thin aluminum.Within this spherical shell was a metal cylinder with a screw cap, and within this was a second cylinder and a sheet of some parchment-like material bearing writing in English, French, German, Italian. Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, and several other languages which I could not identify, as well as in Chinese, Hebraic and other characters. As the English, French and others with which I am more or less familiar, were practically identical in meaning I assume that all the others carried the same message, which was a request that whoever might find the object would at once forward it to you at the address I have given and that the finder would not disturb the contents of the smaller cylinder.I have therefore replaced the sheet of parchment and the larger cylinder and am sending you everything exactly as it was when I found it."
Download or read book Hitler s Final Fortress written by Richard Hargreaves and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1945, the Red Army plunged into the Third Reich from the east, rolling up territory and crushing virtually everything in its path, with one exception: the city of Breslau, which Hitler had declared a fortress-city, to be defended to the death. This book examines in detail the notorious four-month siege of Breslau. • The first full-length English-language account of the bloody siege • Chronicles the bitter struggle as the Red Army encircled Breslau and eventually pillaged the city, taking savage retribution on the survivors • Details the brutal methods used by the city's Nazi leaders to keep German troops fighting and maintain order
Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Body of the Beasts written by Audrée Wilhelmy and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy’s tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in isolation. Their lives are altered when young Osip, peering from the lighthouse gallery sees a woman, Noé, arrive — her dress scant, her skin curiously scarred, and her manner mysterious and wild. Noé bears a child, Mie, to the eldest son on whose hunter-gathering the Borya family depends. She lives in a cabin on her own and covers the walls with drawings that allude to her mysterious life. The family’s entrenchment in nature is enthrallingly conveyed in young Mie’s sensuous ability to borrow at will the body of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Her shape-shifting allows her to know the ways of the natural world, though only to a point. When her own awakening body starts to intrigue her, she asks her uncle Osip to “teach me human sex.” The Body of the Beasts is an imaginative tour de force, a beautifully described portrait of a world that exists outside of words; an uninhibited and erotic novel that, in the singular tradition of Québécois Boreal Gothic, explores our humanity — and animal nature.
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Download or read book The Storm Lord written by Tanith Lee and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. In the land of Dorthar, the Storm Lord reigns as king. According to law, the Storm Lord’s youngest son will be the rightful heir. His queen, the cunning and ambitious Val Mara, intends her young son, Amrek, to be that heir. But fate has other ideas. When the Storm Lord abducts a Lowlander priestess, conceives a child with her, and then dies in mysterious circumstances, the unborn baby of that union suddenly becomes the heir to a vast kingdom—a situation that Val Mara is eager to rectify. When his mother also dies, the infant, Raldnor, must be taken far from the Storm Lord’s stronghold to escape the queen’s murderous wrath, forsaking all knowledge of his royal heritage. Raldnor grows up among the people of the Plains, but he is set apart from his friends and neighbors by the mystery of his past. Meanwhile, Amrek has taken the throne as his mother intended. If Raldnor is to reclaim his destiny and defeat the usurper who has taken his place, he will have to survive trials of strength, political sabotage, and threats against his life, regaining his birthright as the true Storm Lord of Dorthar.
Download or read book Storm Rider Lasniniar Collection written by Jacquelyn Smith and published by WaywardScribe Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the elves arrived in Lasniniar, they thought they left the days of terror and darkness behind them. Thousands of years after their flight from Ralvaniar, the finally begin to realize they never survived the journey alone... The elves’ past comes full circle in this collection featuring Iarion and Barlo from the World of Lasniniar epic fantasy series by award-winning author, Jacquelyn Smith. This collection includes one novel and two shorts: Storm Rider: A Novel of Lasniniar (The World of Lasniniar Book 4) Legends of Lasniniar: Her Rightful Place Legends of Lasniniar: Shipwrecked Storm Rider: A Novel of Lasniniar (The World of Lasniniar Book 4) A sacrifice made. A magic reunited. Iarion paid the ultimate price to fulfill his elven destiny and save Lasniniar from the machinations of the Fallen One. Now his best friend Barlo finds himself visited by a dream. A true dream—despite his dwarf status. One that shakes him from the mundane complacency of his life beneath the mountains. But not even Barlo knows what strange and dark new places the trail of dreams and visions might lead him. Explore uncharted lands, riddled with new dangers that threaten the very heart of the World of Lasniniar in this fourth novel in the epic fantasy series. Legends of Lasniniar: Her Rightful Place (Short Story) Arinmalia holds herself above the rest of her Wild Elf tribemates. With good reason. Few can match her fighting and tracking skills. She needs no friends to watch her back or distract her with their tiresome company. She prefers to walk the forest paths alone, with only her own thoughts as companions. Arinmalia knows in her heart a great destiny awaits her. Something beyond the modest village life of her tribe. She dreams of finding it. She hungers to make her tribemates understand. She needs them to acknowledge her rightful place. A stand-alone story from the sprawling history of the elves in the World of Lasniniar epic fantasy series. Legends of Lasniniar: Shipwrecked (Short Story) Feoandir fights to maintain control of his ship in the midst of a magical maelstrom. The lives of his fellow elf passengers and crew depend on him—a mishmash of the various tribes flung together under dire circumstances. Striking and opinionated, Silvariel suffers no fools. She knows someone must take charge to keep the elves united. Someone willing to listen to her advice and ready to take the blame if things go from bad to worse. Feoandir seems like the perfect choice. ...If she can convince him to take responsibility for more than his battered ship. A stand-alone, meet cute story from the elves’ past, “Legends of Lasniniar: Shipwrecked” explores the origins of the Lost Elves in the World of Lasniniar epic fantasy series.
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