Author: Peter Haining
Publisher: Anova Books
ISBN: 9781844860531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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What happened to a stolen hoard of treasure known as 'Rommel's Gold' is one of the most elusive and enduring mysteries of World War II. This work examines the theories of its whereabouts, tracking down the route taken by the missing treasure and reviewing the searches that have taken place.
Author: Andrew Baxter
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468902210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Author: Mark Simmons
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752478850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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John Eppler thought himself to be the perfect spy. Born to German parents, he grew up in Egypt, adopted by a wealthy family and was educated in Europe. Fluent in German, English and Arabic, he made the Hadj to Mecca but was more at home in high society or travelling the desert on camelback with his adopted Bedouin tribe. After joining the German Secret Service in 1937, in 1942 he was sent across the desert to Cairo by Field Marshal Rommel. His guide was the explorer and Hungarian aristocrat Laszlo Almasy, a man made famous by the book The English Patient. Eppler’s mission was to infiltrate British Army Headquarters and discover the Eighth Army’s troop movements and battle plans. In The Rebecca Code, Mark Simmons reveals the story of Operation Condor and its comedy of errors and how it was foiled by Major A.W. ‘Sammy’ Sansom of the British Field Security Service. It is a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and the spy who was to send his reports using a code based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca.
Author: Dal Mcguirk
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781840374384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Dal McGuirk has one of the largest collections of Afrikakorps memorabilia in the world and a collection of over 3,000 unpublished photos. He resides in New Zealand and is a teacher at Auckland College. Within this stunning collection of photographs, you will see comprehensive color record of the uniforms and equipment.
Author: Charles F. Marshall
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life. In this intriguing, well-paced tale of a journalistic coup, Marshall, the first to discover the real events behind Rommel's death, tells how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow and delves into the great general's background and death. He arrived at his conclusions based on his intimate knowledge of men on Rommel's staff and his access to Rommel's papers, including letters from the general to his wife. Here, for the first time in paperback, is the exciting story of how the world learned about the way the "Desert Fox" met his death.
Author: Desmond Young
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : Marshals
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The fabulous true story, written by a wartime enemy of the late Field-Marshal, reveals the life and adventures-and strange death-of a man who has become one of the most fascinating legends of this time.
Author: Bernan Associates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789230012557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Richard Rumelt
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Author: Alastair Timpson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0850527147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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This book describes the three fold roles of the LRDG, all of which involved daring, dash and incredible feats of endurance and navigation deep behind enemy lines. They were the eyes and ears of the Eighth Army, road-watching and reporting enemy movement; they destroyed enemy aircraft, supply dumps and vehicles; and transported other special forces and agents to their objectives. Fortunately, Alastair Timpson kept a meticulous record of all his activities with them and this book provides his personal account which epitomises the spirit of a campaign which involved many thousands of young men.
Author: Cornelius Ryan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. This book, first published in 1959, is a must for anyone who loves history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.
