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The Wartime Years
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Author : John Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Character-19
Release Date : 2020-06-20
The Wartime Years written by John Stanley and has been published by Character-19 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-20 with History categories.
Why is it that just about every single one of us just loves a good old wallow in nostalgia? It’s probably as simple as when most of us look back we have a tendency to ‘accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative’. Then again as we get older, perhaps, there’s more to look back on, than to look forward to! However, a remembrance of things past is not just confined to old people hoping to recapture their lost youth, many younger people also cherish things from years ago – it might be retro design, fashion or a life that seemed somehow more exciting – in a slower kind of way. The idea of accentuating the good from times past is actually a line from an old Bing Crosby song, so that tells you that nostalgia has been around for a long time, but shows no sign of losing its appeal. There’s no chance that nostalgia is going to go out of fashion any time soon. They say that a picture’s worth a thousand words and so on that basis there’s about 100,000 words in what follows – that’s many more than most average books contain and more than enough to keep you entertained and informed about people, places, sights and history. During the early part of the World War II all places of entertainment were closed, but it soon changed when the government realised that it was important, under such testing circumstances, that everyone somehow tried to keep enjoying themselves. How Britain coped with war through the music, films, dancing and comedy is all here in this superbly illustrated book. It takes us on a journey through the six years of war with fantastic archive photographs that bring to life the faces, places and personalities that made these years so memorable. Global pandemics aside, we had hoped we shall never see such times again but it’s fascinating to see, and hear, what helped Britain to ‘keep smiling through’. This book tells a fascinating story of how the war kept people ‘smiling through’, with the likes of Vera Lynn, Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Dance Bands and many more. Life, especially today, seems to be moving ever faster, while constantly shifting and changing, which is perhaps why our own memories are so special, particularly when combined with a great photograph. Sometimes these thoughts are very intimate; at other times they are more of a shared, collective memory affecting how we view the world or momentous events.
Peiper S War
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Author : Danny S Parker
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2020-04-29
Peiper S War written by Danny S Parker and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘A bad reputation has its commitments.’ So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his battle-hardened command during the Second World War. Peiper’s War is a new serious work of military history by the renowned author Danny S. Parker which presents a unique view off the Second World War as seen from a prominent participant on the dark side of history. The story follows the wartime career of Waffen SS Colonel Jochen Peiper, a handsome Aryan prodigy who was considered a hero in the Third Reich. Peiper had been Heinrich Himmler’s personal adjutant in the early years of the war, and, having procured a field command in Hitler’s namesake fighting force, the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, he become famous for a flamboyant and brutal style of warfare on the Eastern Front. There, in his sphere, few prisoners were taken, and motives of racial genocide were never far from unspoken orders. Transferred to the west, Peiper’s battlegroup incinerated a tiny town in Northern Italy and killed the village mayor and priest. Being well-connected to Himmler and other generals of the period, Peiper finds a place in the narrative as a storied witness to the inner workings of the Nazi elite along with other prominent SS officers such as Kurt Meyer. In this meticulously researched work, we witness the apex and then death spiral of Nazi military intentions as Peiper fights for Germany across every front in the conflict. Peiper’s War provides a telling inside look at Hitler’s war and then how the dark secrets of his security-minded command were improbably unearthed at the end of the conflict by an obscure top-secret surveillance facility in the United States.
The War Years
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Author : Loyd E. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-21
The War Years written by Loyd E. Lee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with History categories.
This book, first published in 1989, combines the broad themes of diplomatic, political and military events with the human dimensions to form a major global analysis of the second world war. It also explains the difficulties encountered by the European powers in mobilising their colonies, and examines the economic and social reorganisation of the belligerents. It shows the impact of the collaboration of occupied peoples with the axis powers, and discusses in detail the resistance movements and the Holocaust. The book also looks at advances in science and technology, the application of social sciences to war, the intelligence services, and the arts.
Wartime Years
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Author : Irene Entwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Wartime Years written by Irene Entwistle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with categories.
Women Recall The War Years
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Author : George L. MacDermott
language : en
Publisher: Professional Press (NC)
Release Date : 1998
Women Recall The War Years written by George L. MacDermott and has been published by Professional Press (NC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Peiper S War
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Author : DANNY S. PARKER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Peiper S War written by DANNY S. PARKER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Miles Aircraft
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Author : Peter Amos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Miles Aircraft written by Peter Amos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Miles airplanes categories.
Tom Kipper
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Author : Peter Sale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Tom Kipper written by Peter Sale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Irish categories.
At the tender age of fourteen, loveable rogue Tom Kipper is thrust from the schoolroom of St Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks into the adult world of work. Armed with advice from his God-fearing Irish mother, he soon finds himself in the heart of Liverpool as an office boy at El Paso Corned Beef Inc. With the Blitz at its height, life in the city is full of adventure, with air raids to watch and money to be made. He even gets his picture in the paper - but what will his Ma say when she sees he's been arrested as a Nazi undercover agent?
The Year Of Peril
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Author : Tracy Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-01
The Year Of Peril written by Tracy Campbell and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with History categories.
A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government†‘aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.
The Wartime Journals
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Author : Hugh Trevor-Roper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Wartime Journals written by Hugh Trevor-Roper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with History categories.
As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor-Roper, a war-time 'backroom boy' who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England - including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service, the Abwehr. He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war interrogated many of Hitler's immediate circle, investigated Hitler's death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler's will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper's secret journals - unknown even to his family and closest confidants - is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. At the same time they offer an engaging - sometimes mischievous - and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime.