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Book Wwi Memories of General Von Eberhardt

Download or read book Wwi Memories of General Von Eberhardt written by George von Wurmb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Biography and Expiriences duting WWI.And the Battles that he led.

Book Codes  Ciphers and Spies

Download or read book Codes Ciphers and Spies written by John F. Dooley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch. This book relates the personal experiences of one such character, providing a uniquely American perspective on the Great War. It is a story of spies, coded letters, plots to blow up ships and munitions plants, secret inks, arms smuggling, treason, and desperate battlefield messages. Yet it all begins with a college English professor and Chaucer scholar named John Mathews Manly. In 1927, John Manly wrote a series of articles on his service in the Code and Cipher Section (MI-8) of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) during World War I. Published here for the first time, enhanced with references and annotations for additional context, these articles form the basis of an exciting exploration of American military intelligence and counter-espionage in 1917-1918. Illustrating the thoughts of prisoners of war, draftees, German spies, and ordinary Americans with secrets to hide, the messages deciphered by Manly provide a fascinating insight into the state of mind of a nation at war.

Book The Outlaws

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernst Von Salomon
  • Publisher : Arktos
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1907166491
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Outlaws written by Ernst Von Salomon and published by Arktos. This book was released on 2013 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is November 1918. Germany has just surrendered after four years of the most savage warfare in history. It is teetering on the brink of total social and economic collapse, and the German people now lie at the mercy of new, liberal politicians who despise everything Germany once stood for. The Communists are rioting in the streets, threatening to topple the new government in Weimar and bring about their own revolution. The frontline soldiers are returning from the hell of the war to find an unrecognizable land, the principles and traditions they had sacrificed so much to defend now the stuff of mockery. The narrator of The Outlaws, a 16-year-old military cadet, is too young to have served in the trenches, but feels the sting of this betrayal no less than they. Since Germany's armies have been all but disbanded, he joins the paramilitary Freikorps - groups of veterans who refuse to lay down their arms, and who have pledged to stop the Communists - and begins fighting, first in the streets of Germany's cities, and then in the Baltic states, defending Germany's eastern frontiers from Communist subversion while ignoring the calls to disengage by the meek politicians at home. After months of intense fighting abroad, the Freikorps soldiers return to settle scores with their enemies in Germany, dreaming of a nationalist counter-revolution, and, their trigger fingers still itchy, fix their sights on bringing down the hated new government once and for all... The Outlaws is a chronicle of the experiences of the men who fought in the Freikorps, but it is also an adventure and a war story about an entire generation of soldiers who loved their homeland more than peace and comfort, and who refused to accept defeat at any price. "What we wanted we did not know; but what we knew we did not want. To force a way through the prisoning wall of the world, to march over burning fields, to stamp over ruins and scattered ashes, to dash recklessly through wild forests, over blasted heaths, to push, conquer, eat our way through towards the East, to the white, hot, dark, cold land that stretched between ourselves and Asia - was that what we wanted? I do not know whether that was our desire, but that was what we did. And the search for reasons why was lost in the tumult of continuous fighting." - p. 65 Ernst von Salomon (1902-1972) was one of the writers of the German Conservative Revolution of the 1920s. Like the narrator of The Outlaws, he was a military cadet at the end of the First World War, and joined the Freikorps, participating in many of the events described in the book, including the assassination of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, for which he was imprisoned. He went on to write many books and film scripts.

Book The Second World War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antony Beevor
  • Publisher : Back Bay Books
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 0316084077
  • Pages : 829 pages

Download or read book The Second World War written by Antony Beevor and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.

Book The Evolution of the Cruise Missile

Download or read book The Evolution of the Cruise Missile written by Kenneth P. Werrell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Export Empire

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  • Author : Stephen G. Gross
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1107112257
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Export Empire written by Stephen G. Gross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.

Book Racine County in the World War

Download or read book Racine County in the World War written by Walter L. Haight and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter

Download or read book Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter written by Yelena Rzhevskaya and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse" - Elena Rzhevskaya"A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. They also found key documents: Bormann's notes, the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda Goebbels.Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of the Hitlers death: his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier. The teeth were given to Rzhevskaya because they believed male agents were more likely to get drunk on Victory Day, blurt out the secret and lose the evidence. She interrogated Hitler's dentist's assistant who confirmed the teeth were his.Elenas role as an interpreter allowed her to forge a link between the Soviet troops and the Germans. She also witnessed the civilian tragedy perpetrated by the Soviets. The book includes her diary material and later additions, including conversations with Zhukov, letters of pathologist Shkaravsky, who led the autopsy, and a new Preface written by Rzhevskaya for the English language edition.Rzhevskaya writes about the key historical events and everyday life in her own inimitable style. She talks in depth of human suffering, of bittersweet victory, of an author's responsibility, of strange laws of memory and unresolved feeling of guilt.

Book Stasi

    Book Details:
  • Author : John O. Koehler
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-08-05
  • ISBN : 0786724412
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book Stasi written by John O. Koehler and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.

Book Camp Travis and Its Part in the World War

Download or read book Camp Travis and Its Part in the World War written by Edward Bradford Johns and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Camp Travis and its part in the action of World War 1. Contains photographs of the various Companies that passed through the Camp.

Book The Development of Medical Liability in Germany  1800 1945

Download or read book The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800 1945 written by Colm Peter McGrath and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of medical liability in Germany during its intense formative period from 1800-1945. It focuses on how the fault requirement in civil law was conceptualised and applied to liability for errors in the diagnosis and treatment of a patient. By focusing on the development of the law, and how it related and responded to changes in the nature of medicine, medical practitioners and healthcare over this period, it uncovers a rich interaction between the legal and medical narratives concerning fault. It offers an account of legal development where the law and lawyers were deeply embedded in, and influenced by, the broader social context, identifying a gradual shift towards asserting courts' independence from the medical narrative medical technological advances.

Book The Avenues of Salt Lake City

Download or read book The Avenues of Salt Lake City written by Karl T. Haglund and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with both the history and architecture of the Avenues Historic District -- primarily a residential district -- of Salt Lake City.

Book A New Europe  1918 1923

Download or read book A New Europe 1918 1923 written by Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk and published by Routledge is. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of essays introduces readers to new historical research on the creation of the new order in East-Central Europe in the period immediately following 1918. The book offers insights into the political, diplomatic, military, economic and cultural conditions out of which the New Europe was born. Experts from various countries take into account three perspectives. They give equal attention to both the Western and Eastern fronts; they recognise that on 11 November 1918, the War ended only on the Western front and violence continued in multiple forms over the next five years; and they show how state-building after 1918 in Central and Eastern Europe was marked by a mixture of innovation and instability. Thus, the volume focuses on three kinds of narratives: those related to conflicts and violence, those related to the recasting of civil life in new structures and institutions, and those related to remembrance and representations of these years in the public sphere. Taking a step towards writing a fully European history of the Great War and its aftermath, the volume offers an original approach to this decisive period in 20th century European history.

Book The Great Thirst Land

Download or read book The Great Thirst Land written by Parker Gillmore and published by London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin. This book was released on 1878 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Siegrunen 81

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Landwehr
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2012-05-25
  • ISBN : 9781477530344
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Siegrunen 81 written by Richard Landwehr and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegrunen 80. Second Edition (May 2012). When this issue was first published in 2009, it was Siegrunen's 33rd year of publication. This is Siegrunen's third book-length issue. This new format for Siegrunen provides more content, including some revised reprints from long out-of-print back issues. Siegrunen grew out of editor Richard Landwehr's inability to locate any adequate amount of published, accurate material on the Waffen-SS and, in particular, the non-German volunteer units in the 1960s, so he took a chance that by publishing a journal he might attract more sources of "good" information-and it worked. He also strongly felt that the "volunteers" were being given the shaft by the mainstream media, if they were ever mentioned at all. The "establishment" defamation was, and remains, staggering. It did not take him very long to discover that these were not criminals, but for the most part, were above-average individuals, highly motivated, skilled and courageous who happened to belong to an elite military organization (the Waffen-SS), that was so far ahead of its time that we still have not yet caught up to it. Contents: Waffen-Hauptsturmführer der SS Boris Jankaus and the Latvian Commando Troops of the Waffen-SS; Waffen-Hauptsturmführer der SS Peteris Cevers; Waffen-Obersturmführer der SS Teodors Kalnajs; Flemish Waffen-SS Officers and Volunteers; The Convalescent Company of the SS-Freiwilligenlegion "Flandern"; Flemish Guardsmen to Waffen-SS Soldiers; Dutch Waffen-SS Miscellany; Waffen-SS Miscellany; Norwegian Officers of the Waffen-SS; Icelandic Volunteers of the Waffen-SS; An Ethnic German Winner of the Knight's Cross: SS-Oberscharführer Stefan Strapatin; Caught Behind the Lines; Notes on the 32nd SS Grenadier Division "30 Januar"; SS Division "Nord" at Salla: The Anatomy of a Disaster; Waffen-SS Flak (Air Defense) Troops: An Overview; SS Flak Detachment 13 and SS Corps Flak Detachment 509, IX. SS Mountain Corps; Led by a Traitor!; An Unknown Waffen-SS Knight's Cross Holder: SS-Obersturmführer Adolf Obschil; Waffen-SS Personalities; International Waffen-SS Volunteers: A Photo Portfolio; Waffen-SS Insignia; 111 photos.

Book Migration and Human Capital

Download or read book Migration and Human Capital written by Jacques Poot and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes. Migration and Human Capital also looks at many current policy issues regarding migration, such as the creative class in metropolitan areas, the brain drain, regional diversity, population ageing, illegal immigration, ethnic networks and immigrant assimilation. With specific reference to Europe and North America, the book reviews and applies models of internal migration; analyses the spatial concentration of human capital; considers migration in a family context; and addresses the political economy of international migration. This book will be invaluable for researchers and policy makers in the fields of internal and international migration. It provides up-to-date readings for advanced courses that focus on migration and population change in a global context.

Book The Interrogator

Download or read book The Interrogator written by Raymond F. Toliver and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografi over den tyske Luftwaffe-afhøringsekspert Hanns Joachim Scharff, der blev kendt af mange allierede flybesætninger, mens de var POW i Tyskland under 2. verdenskrig.