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Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939424280
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Stalag-X written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place of publication taken from publisher's website.
Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526757257
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Stalag 383 Bavaria written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalag 383 was somewhat unique as a Second World War prisoner of war camp. Located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills in Hofenfels, Bavaria, it began life in 1938 as a training ground for the German Army. At the outbreak of war it was commandeered by the German authorities for use as a prisoner of war camp for Allied non-commissioned officers, and given the name Oflag lllC. It was renamed Stalag 383 in November 1942. For most of its existence it comprised of some 400 huts, 30 feet long and 14 feet wide, with each typically being home to 14 men. Many of the British service men who found themselves incarcerated at the camp had been captured during the evacuations at Dunkirk, or when the Greek island of Crete fell to the Germans on 1 June 1941. Stalag 383 had somewhat of a holiday camp feel to it for many who found themselves prisoners there. There were numerous clubs formed by different regiments, or men from the same town or county. These clubs catered for interests such as education, sports, theatrical productions and debates, to name but a few. This book examines life in the camp, the escapes that were undertaken from there, and includes a selection of never before published photographs of the camp and the men who lived there, many for more than five years.
Author : Betty Cowley
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878569837
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Stalag Wisconsin written by Betty Cowley and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.
Author : Arthur A. Durand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807124437
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Stalag Luft III written by Arthur A. Durand and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalag Luft III is the camp most commonly associated with the Allied prisoner of war experience in World War II Germany. Housing mainly British and American flyers, it was the historical setting for the movie The Great Escape. As with most Hollywood treatments, however, the film blurred the line between fact and fiction. In Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story, Arthur A. Durand offers the first comprehensive historical examination of what camp life was actually like, from the mundane drudgery of the prisoners' daily lives to their harrowing struggle for survival against an enemy responsible for the deaths of millions. Relying on coded records kept by appointed camp historians, as well as personal interviews, letters, logs, diaries, and recently declassified government documents, Durand expertly combines impressive scholarship with dramatic narrative.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Special Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526754479
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Stalag XXA Torun Enforced March from Poland written by Stephen Wynn and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Based largely on a POW diary, this book sheds fresh light on the conditions facing POWs in Poland as the Nazi State collapsed . . . Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. This book examines in detail what life was like in the camp for those held there, which over the course of the war numbered more than 60,000 men, including Polish, French, Belgians, British, Yugoslavians, Russians, Americans, Italians and Norwegians. The bulk of the book is based on a diary kept by Leonard Parker, a POW at Stalag XXA who was forced to undertake a march from the camp, commencing on January 19 1945, taking himself and his comrades to the Russian port of Odessa. It was a difficult march undertaken in harsh wintery conditions, where lack of food, the cold, and the fear of death were their constant companions. The final leg of their liberation saw the men of Stalag XXA board the Duchess of Richmond at Odessa, before arriving at Greenock, Scotland, on April 17 1945, and finally finding their freedom. “Under the format of a diary this book tells the story of Leonard Parker, his life and daily struggle of living in a prison camp . . . a great read . . . I would recommend this book to all. 5 stars.” —UK Historian
Author : Yorai Linenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198892780
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity written by Yorai Linenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other. The radicalisation of Germany's anti-Semitic policies entered its last phase in June 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union; during the following four years, nearly six million Jews were murdered. In parallel, Germany's POW policies had gone through a radicalisation process of their own, resulting in the murder of millions of Soviet POWs, of Allied commando soldiers, and of POW escapees, with Adolf Hitler eventually transferring in July 1944 the responsibility for POWs from the Wehrmacht to Heinrich Himmler, in his role as head of the Replacement Army. And yet, despite all this, Jewish POWs from western countries were usually not discriminated against and were treated, in most cases, according to the 1929 Geneva Convention. Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity combines memoirs, letters, and oral histories with Red Cross camp visit reports and other archival material to challenge the accepted view of the Holocaust as an indiscriminate murder of all Jews in Europe and will help to reshape our understanding of the Holocaust and of Nazi Germany.
Author : Henri-Paul Enjames
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636242049
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The G.I. Collector's Guide: U.S. Army Service Forces Catalog, European Theater of Operations written by Henri-Paul Enjames and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II, the U.S. Army not only supplied its soldiers with the most modern equipment and uniforms, suitable for any combat situation, but went as far as providing them with their favorite drinks or candy bars, and seemingly anything else they might require. This comprehensive reference book brings together all the equipment issued to American soldiers in the European Theater of Operations, 1943–45. Each item is presented with its catalog numbers, described in detail and fully depicted in photographs, including close-ups of the labels to aid identification of items. Graphics and diagrams offer additional information and context. This second volume of the G.I. Collector's Guide is fully revised with the addition of sections including personal equipment, trophies and souvenirs, the wartime draft and Stateside training, and the life of POWs in German camps. More than one thousand new artifacts with detailed captions are featured in this completely revised new work. Expert Henri-Paul Enjames describes all variations of uniform, insignia, badges, weapons, and equipment in detail. As a complete catalog with high-quality photographs, this book is invaluable to both family historians researching grandpa's kit found in the attic and to collectors in their quest to find authentic items among the reproductions that flood the modern market.
Author : V. Vourkoutiotis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598307
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Prisoners of War and German High Command written by V. Vourkoutiotis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on archival research in Germany, Great Britain, the USA and Canada, this study provides the first complete examination of the relationship between the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command), and Anglo-American prisoners of war. German military policy is compared with reports of almost one thousand visits by Red Cross and Protecting Power inspectors to the camps, allowing the reader to judge how well the policies were actually put into practice, and what their impact was on the lives of the captured soldiers, sailors and airmen.
Author : Tony Vercoe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613796
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Survival at Stalag IVB written by Tony Vercoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB. Throughout the more than five years of its existence, Stalag IVB supported numerous satellite camps, eventually housing thousands of prisoners of many nationalities. Here Poles, French, Belgians, British, Americans, Dutch and Russians fought to survive in a place where life's most basic needs were barely fulfilled. Interned in the camp for several months from late 1943, Tony Vercoe engaged in a struggle for life, sanity and escape. This historical chronicle evokes the heartbreaking reality of day-to-day life in Stalag IVB. Rich with firsthand accounts by the author and other veterans of the camp, it provides particulars regarding rations, prisoner-of-war registration, camp hygiene, inmate activities and prisoner morale. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the International Red Cross in prisoner survival and the multinational "melting pot" characteristics of the camp itself. Possibilities of flight and the events that motivated prisoners' daring escape attempts are discussed, along with the consequences of their frequent failures. Closing chapters detail the camp's final months and the prisoners' long awaited deliverance.
Author : Michael R. Waters
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445536
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Stalag written by Michael R. Waters and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Between 1943 and 1945 nearly fifty thousand German Prisoners of war, mostly from the German Afrika Korps, lives and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of rural Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest German prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Waters and his research teams tell the story of the five thousand German soldiers held there during World War II. The book reveals the shadow world of Nazism that existed in the camp, adding darkness to a story that is otherwise optimistic and in places humorous.
Author : Terry C Treadwell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752475363
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Freedom Trails written by Terry C Treadwell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most prisoners of war in the Second World War, life behind bars was nothing like the films. The tales of brave escape attempts told in accounts such as the iconic film The Great Escape are exciting enough, but how much of the detail is true? In Great Escapes ex-RAF officer and researcher for the RAF Escaping Society Terry Treadwell tells the incredible tales of some of the lesser known attempts to escape POW camps. All the amazing details are from real-life escape attempts, but as this book reveals, fact is often more extraordinary than fiction. Using personal accounts, authentic reports from German guards and debrief documents in the National Archives, Terry Treadwell traces the astounding stories of these heroic escapees. Some were successful, others not, but in each case the inspired methods devised and executed by the prisoners show bravery and ingenuity on a greater scale than any film. With incredible stories such as the Wooden Horse, the French Tunnel and the Colditz Ghost, this ground-breaking new book tells the stories of some of the bravest, and most reckless, men in history.
Author : Rocky R. Miracle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440295
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son written by Rocky R. Miracle and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of D.C. Caughran Jr., Mrs. Cordie’s son, could be that of almost any soldier in World War II. He left the comfort of home and family to become part of one of the defining conflicts of modern times. The letters he wrote home tell his story from the day he received his draft notice in the summer of 1942 through battle, capture, wounding, imprisonment, and his eventual return home for recuperation and discharge. Author Rocky R. Miracle, the son-in-law of D.C. Caughran, tells not only Caughran’s story, but at the same time the story of “the home folks” who anxiously watched for letters from their “soldier boy” and wrote faithfully of their love and prayers for his safety. This home-front narrative also stands as an important and deeply personal record of life in wartime. Taken prisoner during the German breakout of December 1944 that led to the Battle of the Bulge, D.C. was force-marched past corpses lining the road into Germany, loaded with other American prisoners into boxcars, and held in a prison camp during the coldest European winter of the century. He suffered starvation rations and hepatitis and was hospitalized after his liberation, though doctors were doubtful that he would recover. However, with time and care, he returned to health, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, and lived a long, productive life. This intimate portrait of an American family—at home and at war—during a time of world upheaval is at once heartwarming, sobering, and entertaining. Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son is highly recommended for readers interested in World War II, the POW experience, and home-front literature.
Author : A. W. Ishee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418426880
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Stalag IV-B written by A. W. Ishee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely Original, and Completely Perfect. PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS is the Complete and Original Bible Bible Songs sung. PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS contain the highest spiritual Biblical Exhorting and Edifying Songs Recorded. PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS Song Book contain Extremely high and Soul Satisfying Wisdom and Knowledge "INSPIRATIONAL" and " PERFECT PREFER" A sample from The Perfect Bible Dictionary INFORMER- PERFECT PREFER : Yes, Free From Error.
Author : Mitch Engel
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977274285
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Looking Back on Tomorrow written by Mitch Engel and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the months leading up to World War I, a young Austrian officer from an aristocratic family, falls deeply in love with a beautiful young woman from Serbia. It is a match fraught with political peril due to mounting hostilities between the two countries. Can their love survive the indignities of two world wars, prison camps, family tragedies and the separation of an iron curtain? The answer is yes, but not in the manner one might think. Relive the sagas of two families separated by an ocean whose roots trace back to that star-crossed love affair, and relive a century of history from two highly unusual perspectives.
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434940683
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Mud, Wings, and Wire: A Memoir by Harry X. Ford written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Feindel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773598162
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Wounded Brain Healed written by William Feindel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934 Wilder Penfield's vision of an establishment dedicated to the relief of sickness and pain and the study of neurology led to the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Setting the standard for neurological research and care for patients disabled by neurological illnesses, Penfield's institute became a beacon of light in a largely unexplored field of medicine. The Wounded Brain Healed describes the pioneering research that took place during the MNI's first fifty years. During the institute's golden age, Penfield and his colleagues designed the EEG test for the study of epileptic patients, discovered some of the causes of epilepsy, and developed new treatments that have since been adopted worldwide. Additionally, they delineated the sensory and motor representation in the cerebral cortex and localized the major areas of the brain related to speech. The institute also boasts the discoveries of two types of memory - one serving immediate recall, the other long term - as well as the discovery of the localization of short-term memory to the inner structures of the temporal lobe. Physicians and scientists who trained at the MNI went on to establish renowned neurology and neurosurgery departments throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Recounting the story of one of Canada’s greatest contributions to international medical science through archival research, personal interviews, photographs, illustrations, and paintings, The Wounded Brain Healed provides fascinating insight into the institution that had a global and lasting impact.
