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Mission accomplished
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David Stafford |
In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism and Fascism by the British Eighth and American Fifth Armies. By that time the Italian resistance movement had emerged as one of the strongest in Europe - c… |
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The Wehrmacht Retreats
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Robert M. Citino |
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentie… |
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The man who never was
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Ewen Montagu |
It is the story of a World II deception by the Allies intended to dupe the Third Reich in believing that a sea landing in the Mediterranean would be in Greece instead that in Sicily where in reality … |
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Mission accomplished
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David Stafford |
'Mission Accomplished' provides a complete and authoritative account of Britain's secret war in Italy - the heroic exploits, the larger than life participants and the extraordinary, against-the-odds … |
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Onward We Charge
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H. Paul Jeffers |
Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart, and posthumously promoted to Brigadier General by President Truman, Colonel William Darby was an indisputable hero. His elite battalion o… |
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The Day of Battle
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Rick Atkinson |
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army… |
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Forgotten battles
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Charles T. O'Reilly |
vii, 365 p. : 24 cm |
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A perfect hell
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John Nadler |
"The Germans called them 'the Black Devils.' The Allies ultimately credited them with turning their fortunes around in the toughest year of World War II. They were the men of the First Special Servic… |
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