The Fifth Field

The Fifth Field PDF Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764345777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an obscure, secret plot at an American military cemetery in France"--Author's website.

The Fifth Field

The Fifth Field PDF Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764345777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an obscure, secret plot at an American military cemetery in France"--Author's website.

The Fifth Field

The Fifth Field PDF Author: Kenneth A. Maciver
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
ISBN: 9781601453341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Maciver tells a powerful tale of love and freedom--beautiful, heartbreaking, and historic--of a poet and a perfidious woman, an aristocrat and a great woman, a people and freedom.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook PDF Author: Peter M. Senge
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0804153167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.

The Cruel Hunters

The Cruel Hunters PDF Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This is a brutal story - but, from the safety of fifty years distance in time - it is an extremely compelling one. It is also an enduring lesson that a military unit, formed under an evil ideology, led by a social outcast and composed of vicious criminals, will sink to its lowest common denominator - hate. The Dirlewanger Battalion, also known as "Sonderkommando (special commando) Dirlewanger" was perhaps the least understood, but at the same time the most notorious German SS anti-partisan unit in World War II. German propaganda correspondents and wartime photographers did not follow them in action. And for good reason. Wherever the Dirlewanger unit - named for and led by Oskar Dirlewanger - operated, corruption and rape formed an every-day part of life and indiscriminate slaughter, beatings and looting were rife. Formed as a battalion of convicted poachers in 1940, the unit operated in Poland until 1942, guarding Jews in forced labor camps and making life miserable for Poles in Lublin and Cracow. From there Dirlewanger spent two years combating partisans in central Russia, giving no quarter and expecting none in return, during vicious fighting against an elusive foe in the midst of inhospitable swamps and dismal forests. In 1944 Dirlewanger savaged Warsaw during the Polish Uprising, before moving to Slovakia to crush another rebellion there. The end of the war saw the unit, which was now a division in size, fighting for its life south of Berlin against the Soviet Army. Medieval in their outlook on war and certainly not indicative of many German military formations, this unit none-the-less remains a reflection of a segment of mankind gone mad in the inferno of World War II on the eastern front. Size: 6" x 9" over 50 b/w photographs, maps, fully annotated

Paths of Armor

Paths of Armor PDF Author: Vic Hillery
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839741295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Paths of Armor, first published in 1950, is the account of the historic 5th Armored Division from the time of its formation in October 1941, until the end of the World War II in May 1945. Included in this kindle edition are more than 100 pages of photographs and maps. Because of the secrecy of its missions and the speed at which it moved, the Division was also known as "Patton's Ghosts" (the division was part of Patton's Third Army), and because of its many successes, as the "Victory Division." Following training in the U.S., the Division transferred to England, and landed on Utah Beach in Normandy on July 24, 1944. Then followed months of combat as the Division moved across northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and into Germany. In December 1944, the Division took part in the fierce fighting in the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge.

Quiet Flows the Rhine

Quiet Flows the Rhine PDF Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Fifth Army at the Winter Line

Fifth Army at the Winter Line PDF Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The Fifth Book of Peace

The Fifth Book of Peace PDF Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307428575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

The Field Men

The Field Men PDF Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Two thousand nine hundred forty-five men lined up in four motorized columns immediately behind the German Army on June 22, 1941 as it prepared to launch Operation Barbarossa - the German attack on the Soviet Union - an attack designed to win the war. Their mission - for the glory of Greater Germany - was to butcher as many human beings as they could get their hands on - men, women and children who were at that very moment peacefully sleeping in their warm beds in dozens of large cities and scores of small hamlets from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea, and from the border with old Poland to the outskirts of Moscow. The field men of the Einsatzkommandos, the men of Bach and Beethoven, Grimm and Gutenberg - and now Hitler and Heydrich - were very thorough at what they did. Over the course of the next two years, by means of machine-guns, carbines, gas vans, explosives, rifle butts or ax handles, the field men would slaughter 1,300,000 people. The Field Men, a companion volume to MacLean's The Camp Men: the SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System, covers the entire gamut, from the organization of the units, to the SS officers who served in this scourge on the Eastern Front. Some 380 SS officers are described in full detail and extensively analyzed. The photographic section of the book contains over 175 photographs, while detailed maps show the locations for each unit throughout the campaign.

The Ardennes

The Ardennes PDF Author: Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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