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"From the closing days of World War II through three years of postwar captivity, this memoir details the experiences of Hans Thiel. Beginning with agrarian life during World War II, it describes Thiel's conscription, his combat experiences, and his life as a postwar prisoner, held first by the Bolsheviks and then transferred to camps under Polish control"--Provided by publisher.
3443) Nazi hunters
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The experience of six men who were part of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, fighting against the Nazis. The men describe their experience of tank warfare.
3446) El pequeño hoplita
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Descubrirás la historia de la famosa batalla de los Termópilas, con un niño como testigo de los acontecimientos y una importante misión que cumplir.
A boy soldier is with the three hundred Spartan hoplites, or ancient Greek spearmen, as they prepare to die in battle against the invading Persians at the pass of Themopylae, until he is given a special mission.
3447) Watching over Yellowstone: The US Army's experience in America's first national park, 1886-1918
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Since the earliest days of the nation, U.S. citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction. As demand for manpower grew during the war, government officials and military leaders realized that the war could not be won without black support. To generate African American enthusiasm, the federal...
3452) Shades of green: Irish regiments, American soldiers, and local communities in the Civil War era
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"Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the relationships between soldiers and the home front. Research on the impact of the Civil War on Irish Americans has traditionally fallen into one of two tracks, arguing that the Civil War either further alienated Irish immigrants from American society...
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"Roger Lincoln Shinn is an esteemed professor of social ethics at a prestigious New York institution. Known only to his wife, he had faced the unspeakable as a combat infantryman in the Second World War. But two decades later during the Vietnam War, Shinn reveals to stunned students his astounding story as a soldier and prisoner of war and those of a defiant captain in his outfit who ruptures the boundaries of conventional warfare. On a converted...
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"T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia," began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped the Arabs gain their freedom after five hundred years of domination by the Ottoman Turks, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest...
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"'Like the Polish flag, composed of two contrasting colors, red and white, my memoirs are cast in red and white. 'Red' treats largely my wartime life in Europe, life full of blood and death. My success in that part of my life was survival. 'White' represents my successful migration and peaceful life in America'--from the Preface; Born after World War I into an educated and progressive Polish family, Peter F. Dembowski was a teenager during the joint...
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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which continued long after the hostilities had ended. Discussion in recent years of the rape of German women committed...
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