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Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts - Daniel Siemens - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=dEE4DwAAQBAJ&pg=
The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust Germany’s Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the…
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The Atlantic Wall (1): France - Steven J. Zaloga - Google Books
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Germany's Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. With Germany's gradual loss of the strategic initiative to the Allies, in 1942 Hitler was forced to construct an impenetrable wall of fortifications along the…
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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the ... - Julia Keller - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=KYNYeBwK0wsC
A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destructionDrawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun.…
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The Ten Cents War: Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 - Bruce W. Farcau - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=BsxISMTwsSUC
The Atacama Desert, a coastal area where the borders of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia meet, was a region of little interest in the late nineteenth century until European research on the use of nitrates in fertilizers and explosives rendered the droppings of…
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Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 - Giangreco Giangreco - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=iJWM58tPyWwC&lpg=PA70&dq=japan%20%22february%2028,%201945%22%20divisions&hl=de&pg=PA70#v=onepag
Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the myriad complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and…
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Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War - Davide Rodogno - Google Books
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This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of fascist imperial ambitions. He focuses on the European territories annexed and…
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A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization - Kenneth F. Kiple - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=XWbcrS9SV-sC&redir_esc=y
Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the globalization…
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Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P ... - Jerry D. Thompson - Google Books
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If president Lincoln could have unmade a general, perhaps he would have started with Samuel Peter "Sourdough" Heintzelman, whose early military successes were overshadowed by repeated Union defeats in the Civil War and his own argumentative nature. Perhaps…
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Ruckzüg: The German Retreat from France, 1944 - Joachim Ludewig - Google Books
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In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and…
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The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 - David M. Glantz - Google Books
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The German siege and Soviet defense of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. While innumerable writers have dealt at length with the besieged city…