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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: Zacharias Topelius
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Category : Swedish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Frank Joseph
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313395918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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This comprehensive volume tells the rarely recounted stories of the numerous foreign air forces that supported the German Luftwaffe as part of the Axis' quest to dominate the European and Pacific theaters—a highly compelling and often overlooked chapter of World War II history. The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe presents an untold history of that global conflict's little-known combatants, who nonetheless contributed significantly to the war's outcome. While most other books only attempt to address this subject in passing, author Frank Joseph provides not only an extremely comprehensive account of the "unsung heroes" of the Axis fliers, but also describes the efforts of Axis air forces such as those of the Iraqi, Manchurian, Thai or Chinese—specific groups of wartime aviators that have never been discussed before at length. This book examines the distinct but allied Axis air forces of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. An extensive introduction provides coverage of Luftwaffe volunteers from Greece, Lithuania, Holland, Denmark, Norway and even the United States. Detailed descriptions of the personnel themselves and the aircraft they operated are portrayed against the broader scope of combat missions, field operations, and military campaigns, supplying invaluable historical perspective on the importance of their sorties.

Author: Hudson Strode
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Category : Finland
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Maĭskiĭ
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300180675
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary, never before published in English, grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Churchill's rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front. Maisky was distinguished by his great sociability and access to the key players in British public life. Among his range of regular contacts were politicians (including Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, and Halifax), press barons (Beaverbrook), ambassadors (Joseph Kennedy), intellectuals (Keynes, Sidney and Beatrice Webb), writers (George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells), and indeed royalty. His diary further reveals the role personal rivalries within the Kremlin played in the formulation of Soviet policy at the time. Scrupulously edited and checked against a vast range of Russian and Western archival evidence, this extraordinary narrative diary offers a fascinating revision of the events surrounding the Second World War.

Author: K. P. Silberg
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Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Anthony F. Upton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Zacharias Topelius
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Zacharias Topelius
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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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