Being there . . . . figuratively, next to Colonel Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, acourageous officer of 37 who lost his right arm, right eye and two fingers of his left handfighting with Rommel’s Afrika Korps in Tunisia, when he sets the fuse to a powerful bomb inHitler’s Polish “Wolf’s Lair” military conference room …
Being there . . . . for the final month of fighting in World War II – August 1945,8/6 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima8 USSR declares war on Japan9 Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki . . . Red Army invades Manchuria10-15 Heavy American air attacks on Tokyo14 Petain sentenced to death, later commuted …
Being there . . . . amid a dozen or more of Hitler’s innermost loyal friends constantly gatheringto surround then flatter, celebrate, entertain, and intrigue him during the happier years ofGermany in World War II. With his steady stream of military successes, and the fact that byJanuary of 1942 he ruled some 250,000,000 people under …
Being there . . . . to disinter one of the most controversial, deceptive, intrinsically illusionaryquestions of World War II, “Was Adolf Alois Hitler, the arch murderer responsible for more than60 million deaths, the ultimate personification of pure evil?” Ten new books (nine fromCasemate Publishers, the other from Harper Collins Publishing) will help you clarify …
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Being there . . . . to help parent German progeny born as late as 1926, and, in 1943, “formed”,nay drafted, as “Hitlerjugend” for attachment to the 1 SS Panzer Corps and trained as anemergency response force for the coast of France to repel the Allied invasion certain to comeacross the English Channel. Then, as …
Being there . . . . on June 22, 1944, the third anniversary, to the very day and almost the samehour, when Hitler launched “Operation Barbarossa” against Russia, that “Uncle Joe” Stalin, withoverwhelming superiority, launched his own offensive, “Operation Bagration”, that finallyswept the Germans out of Russia. Despite brave German resistance, the operation resulted inthe …
Being there . . . . May 26, 1940, at the bottom of a ditch alongside British Field Marshal ViscountAlanbrooke and his aide overlooking the beaches of Gravelines, Dunkirk, La Panne, and Ostendas German fighters and bombers fly low altitudes strafing and bombing attacks on thethousands upon thousands of B.E.F. British Expeditionary Forces, French and …
Being there . . . . to read with empathy, then treasure as literary heirlooms for familygenerations to come, two unforgettable, elegantly written masterpieces, one (to be read first),a sweeping chronicle capturing the essence of blackness on the staggering, wonderful stage ofcinema; the other, a wholly demanding biographical study of a rarely acknowledged Americanactress’s struggle …
Being there . . . . as a welcomed, nay, marvelous, pause from the darkness and destruction ofWorld War II to meet and greet a new friend, then gaze upon her with wonder and awe – – notonly at the depths and heights of her incredible natural beauty, but also, and, moreimportantly, the miracle of …
Being there . . . . as dawn was breaking on a partially cloudy 4 June 1942 morning in the mid-Pacific when virtually all of Commander-in-Chief Isokoru Yamamoto’s Japanese Combined Fleetcarrier pilots were poising their bombers and fighters for a southwest launch to pounce andpommel the American atoll of Midway. Well within the 700-mile attack …
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