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The ferocious battles for survival fought by trapped German forces in Russia have become synonymous with that most terrible of all military campaigns. shortly after the war the personal experiences of those who had fought in the battles were collected together as the German report series. These reports include invaluable information from impeccable sources on the pockets formed at Klin, Velikiye Luki, Cherkassy and Kamenets-Podolskiy.Also included...
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In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually pushed Germany's Army Group South back. By October 1943 the Russians had reached the Dnepr in Ukraine, Kiev was liberated, and the scene was set for the events described in this book, written by a high-ranking...
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Esta obra incide en una idea: el golpe de Estado del 23-F fue una compleja operación cívico-militar española cuyo objetivo era convertir al general Armada en presidente de un gobierno de concentración nacional. Roberto Muñoz Bolaños explica cómo se gestó esta operación, quiénes fueron sus planificadores y las diferentes variantes que tuvo hasta su culminación el 23 de febrero de 1981.
El estudio se centra para analizarlo detenidamente...
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"Sammie, a budding naturalist, knows of a secret and wonderful place: Winghaven, an abandoned lot in the middle of the suburbs where wildlife flourishes. She spends hours making notes and drawings in her meticulous field journal. When Bram, a new boy, turns up with his camera, Sammie worries he'll give away her hidden haven-after all, the other boys at school bully her. But Bram is a scientist like Sammie, and together they observe tiny pond creatures,...
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The little-known story of the Battle of Kalinin on the eastern front, and how it shaped the course of WWII-based on archival records from both sides. There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army's forces before Moscow had been smashed or encircled, and no reserves were available to defend the capital. All that stood in Hitler's way were a handful...
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The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz-a fortress town-meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.
Otto Heidkämper was chief of staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk and Smolensk...
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The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz-a fortress town-meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.
Otto Heidkämper was chief of staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk and Smolensk...
9) Soul Bound
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1805-This book continues following Annie Belle's life as she attempts to find her love, Baden. She now has the help of her new family but she finds herself gaining the unwanted attention of many. Jory joins the search for Baden and brings more complications to her life already filled with snatchers and trackers. Everyone's lives become more intertwined than they all first anticipated and as lies encircle them all no one knows where it will lead them....
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The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared a final all-out thrust for Imphal. However, the British 4th Corps struck first and, after three weeks, the Japanese were...
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Sitting silently in a world of noise, I thinkThoughts that tear at one's mind when thought, though they are there, sometimes I try not to noticeSometimes all I do is think thoughts that are cryptic, or romantic, or in between; what's the difference?They're all thoughts I thinkThey engulf me, sometimes surrounding and suffocating, squeezing the air from meThoughts, I think, are terrible things when they are encircling my mind, just thinkingA thought...
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Only one chance remains to save the encircled British forces from being overrun, and that's an armored drive straight down the valley of death to smash through the Chinese lines. Stiles and his crew find themselves leading the charge- and meeting their destiny, in the final installment in the story of the Tankies.
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This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you'll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school...
14) Killing Code
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"Kai Casvelle Seviller, a friend of Kio Luscious, was found dead in his apartment. His tormented body was encircled with white rose petals, which were a unique and horrifying item left at the scene of the crime. His mysterious death plagued Kio Luscious and his friends. Who murdered Kai?
Kio and his friends attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding Kai's mysterious death. However, someone returned and his gory reappearance caused a bloodbath...
15) Rahab's Place
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Every city has a red light district. This has been so since time immemorial. And this is precisely the setting of one of the most memorable dramas on record in Scripture. And what a story it is!"By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish...
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Two thousand years ago…
A former construction worker wanders around the backblocks of a third-rate country in the Roman Empire. For a couple of years, he preaches in obscure parables. He never writes anything down. He has a handful of close disciples - all of whom run away when he is arrested. He dies in ignominious agony, nailed to a cross as a criminal. That should be the end of that sad tale.
Two thousand years later… the posthumous influence...
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Co-authors of Imagine That, Don and Nikki celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2009. Together, through a unique combination of corporate merger, corporate sponsorships and their close relationship with persons of influence, they were placed in a position, which afforded them both the timely, once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a period of rapid growth in the Sport of Auto Racing. Their story covers a broad spectrum of some little known events....
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"Should these manuscripts chance to fall into the hands of any civilised man, it is my earnest wish, though of German extraction myself, that they should be published - if published at all- in the English tongue. Truth shall prevail, and our return to earth shall scatter, like thistle-down before the autumn winds, the scepticism which I mistake not will encircle them, as soon as man may read them. It is my cherished hope to return to my mother world,...
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For 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad-modern-day St. Petersburg-in a military operation that would cripple the former capital and major Soviet industrial center. Palaces were looted and destroyed. Schools and hospitals were bombarded. Famine raged and millions died, soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Against the backdrop of this catastrophe, historian Brian Moynahan tells the story of Dmitri Shostakovich,...
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Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with human life and experience....