Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939 1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. "Wartime Writings" recounts some of his aviation exploits.

Download or read book Paris at War written by David Drake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris at War chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when France went to war with Nazi Germany to liberation in August 1944. Readers will relive the fearful exodus from the city as the German army neared the capital, the relief and disgust felt when the armistice was signed, and the hardships and deprivations under Occupation. David Drake contrasts the plight of working-class Parisians with the comparative comfort of the rich, exposes the activities of collaborationists, and traces the growth of the Resistance from producing leaflets to gunning down German soldiers. He details the intrigues and brutality of the occupying forces, and life in the notorious transit camp at nearby Drancy, along with three other less well known Jewish work camps within the city. The book gains its vitality from the diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these tumultuous years. Drake’s cast of characters comes from all walks of life and represents a diversity of political views and social attitudes. We hear from a retired schoolteacher, a celebrated economist, a Catholic teenager who wears a yellow star in solidarity with Parisian Jews, as well as Resistance fighters, collaborators, and many other witnesses. Drake enriches his account with details from police records, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and newsreels. From his chronology emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city. Above all, he explores the contingent lives of the people of Paris, who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end.

Download or read book Weaving the Iron Curtain the Allies and the Baltic States 1939 1944 written by Eero Medijainen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how public opinion in the Baltic states hindered the peoples' attempts to establish governments in exile during the upheavals of 1939-1944"--

Download or read book Occupation in the East written by Stephan Lehnstaedt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population—including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents—united in its self-conception as a “master race.” Even as they acclimated to the daily routines and tedium of life in the East, many Germans engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder.

Download or read book Showa 1953 1989 written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tegneserie - graphic novel. A autobiographical and historical account of Showa-era Japan

Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939 1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and published by . This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939 1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the aviator's letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations.

Download or read book Finland And World War II 1939 1944 written by Prof. John H. Wuorinen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917 during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, and ever since the communist leaders cast envious eyes toward their former domain; only waiting for a chance to invade. With the rise of Hitler’s Germany the face of Europe changed, agreements were reached between the Soviets and the Nazis in brutally dividing up a nigh-defenceless and the detente culminated in the Non-Aggression Pact of 1939. This gave Stalin and his cohorts a chance to expand their borders, whilst Hitler looked west at France and Britain, by launching an attack directed to recapture their former Grand Duchy. Thus started Finland’s participation in the Second World War. This book eloquently recounts the stubborn resistance of the Finns against the Soviet attack during the Winter War, the horrific siege of Leningrad and the Finns brave bid to retain its independence from Soviet dominance. The manuscript for the book was smuggled out of Soviet controlled Finland in late 1945, it was passed to Professor Wuorinen who skilfully edited and annotated the work into its present form. A fascinating sidelight on a little known corner of the brutal Second World War.

Download or read book No Simple Victory written by Norman Davies and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing out lesser-known ones, No Simple Victory asks readers to reconsider what they know about the war, and how that knowledge might be biased or incorrect. Norman Davies poses simple questions that have unexpected answers: Can you name the five biggest battles of the war? What were the main political ideologies that were contending for supremacy? The answers to these questions will surprise even those who feel that they are experts on the subject. Davies has established himself as a preeminent scholar of World War II. No Simple Victory is an invaluable contribution to twentieth-century history and an illuminating portrait of a conflict that continues to provoke debate.

Download or read book Forgotten Holocaust written by Richard C. Lukas and published by Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The King Ranch 1939 1944 written by Toni Frissell and published by Morgan & Morgan, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zloczow Memoir written by Samuel L. Tennenbaum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Lipa Tennenbaum, a lawyer and businessman living in Zloczow, Poland, managed to preserve notes, a diary, documents, and photographs throughout World War II. In 1975 at the prompting of his daughter Lynn, he began to assemble these into a chronicle, the Zloczów Memoir. The memoir relates the story of Mr. Tennenbaum’s family against the panorama of political events in Europe. The author has a strong sense of history, and the personal and anecdotal are presented with insight and with in the context of broader world events. His is a moving story of ordinary people trying to deal with extraordinary times.

Download or read book Battle for Warsaw 1939 1944 written by Michael Alfred Peszke and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Forgotten Holocaust written by Richard C. Lukas and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition includes a short history of ZEGOTA, the underground government organisation working to save the Jews, and an annotated listing of many Poles executed by the Germans for trying to shelter and save Jews.

Download or read book The World at War 1939 1944 written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: