Blood in the Forest

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Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1912866935
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood in the Forest by : Vincent Hunt

Download or read book Blood in the Forest written by Vincent Hunt and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were trapped with their backs to the Baltic. Forced into uniform by Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Latvian fought Latvian – sometimes brother against brother. Hundreds of thousands of men died for little territorial gain in unimaginable slaughter. When the Germans capitulated, thousands of Latvians continued a war against Soviet rule from the forests for years afterwards. An award-winning documentary journalist, Vincent Hunt travels through the modern landscape gathering eye-witness accounts, piecing together the stories of those who survived. He meets veterans who fought in the Latvian Legion, former partisans and a refugee who fled the Soviet advance to later become President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga. A survivor of the little-known concentration camp at Popervale details his escape from a death march and subsequent survival in the forests with a Soviet partisan group - and a German deserter. With detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries translated from Latvian, German and Russian, Hunt assembles a ghastly picture of death and desperation in a nation both gripped by war and at war with itself.

The Burning Forest

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Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228009
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis The Burning Forest by : Nandini Sundar

Download or read book The Burning Forest written by Nandini Sundar and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Government has repeatedly described Maoist guerrillas as 'the biggest security threat to the countryÕ and Bastar as their headquarters. This book chronicles how the armed conflict between the government and the Maoists has devastated the lives of some of India's poorest citizens.

Into the Forest

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125026765X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Forest by : Rebecca Frankel

Download or read book Into the Forest written by Rebecca Frankel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.

The Great War in the Argonne Forest

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Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526773295
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great War in the Argonne Forest by : Richard Merry

Download or read book The Great War in the Argonne Forest written by Richard Merry and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood the German assaults. All sides suffered horrendous casualties, as each sought to break through the lines. The epic four-year campaign is the subject of Richard Merry’s vividly written account. His great-uncle arrived there in September 1914 and started corresponding with his family. Richard traces the stories of some of the men – and women – who became embroiled in the epic forest struggle which culminated in the cold, gas-filled autumnal mist of 1918 when the New Yorkers of the 77th ‘Liberty’ Division fought there. One of their number, Charles Whittlesey, and his 'Lost Battalion’ held out against insurmountable odds. Sergeant Alvin York, the Tennessee backwoodsman and pacifist, overcame his religious convictions and wrote himself into American military history. The story does not end there; the author describes the aftermath of war in the area – the lethal outbreak of Spanish flu, the reburial of the dead, the rebuilding of the villages and the replanting of the forest before the Germans invaded again in 1940.

The Battle of Hurtgen Forest

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Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (739 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Hurtgen Forest by : Charles Whiting

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The Battle of the Huertgen Forest

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218312
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of the Huertgen Forest by : Charles B. MacDonald

Download or read book The Battle of the Huertgen Forest written by Charles B. MacDonald and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the first setback suffered by the Allies following the invasion of Europe.

Hell in Hürtgen Forest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Hell in Hürtgen Forest by : Robert S. Rush

Download or read book Hell in Hürtgen Forest written by Robert S. Rush and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hurtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle between the American 22d Infantry Regiment and elements of the German LXXIV Korps around Grosshau, Rush chronicles small-unit combat at its most extreme and shows why, despite enormous losses, the Americans persevered in the Hurtgenwald "meat grinder".On 16 November 1944, the 22d Infantry entered the Hurtgen Forest as part of the U.S. Army's drive to cross the Roer River. During the next eighteen days, the 22d suffered more than 2,800 casualties -- or about 86 percent of its normal strength of about 3,250 officers and men. After three days of fighting, the regiment had lost all three battalion commanders. After seven days, rifle company strengths stood at 50 percent and by battle's end each had suffered nearly 140 percent casualties.Despite these horrendous losses, the 22d Regiment survived and fought on, due in part to army personnel policies that ensured that unit strengths remained high even during extreme combat. Previously wounded soldiers returned to their units and new replacements, green to battle, arrived to follow the remaining battle-hardened cadre.The German units in the Hurtgenwald suffered the same horrendous attrition, with one telling difference. German replacement policy detracted from rather than enhanced German combat effectiveness. Organizations had high paper strength but low manpower, and commanders consolidated decimated units time after time until these ever-dwindling bands of soldiers disappeared forever: killed, wounded, captured, or surrendered. The performance of American and German forces during thisharrowing eighteen days of combat was largely a product of their respective backgrounds, training, and organization.Rush's work underscores both the horrors of combat and the resiliency of American organizations. While honori

War in the Forest

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142694876X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis War in the Forest by : Kiboi Muriithi

Download or read book War in the Forest written by Kiboi Muriithi and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAR IN THE FOREST I scrambled on my knees through the grass. Escape was the one thought in my mind. In front was the edge of the forest and sanctuary. Behind, ambush, the bodies of my comrades, capture. I reached the trees as bullets sucked across the clearing. These pulsating words open what is undoubtedly the most exciting and readable book yet to come out of Kenyas forest war of liberation. Kiboi Muriithi was a prominent leader of the Mount Kenya Mau Mau forces and his story, brilliantly recorded memorably evokes the David and Goliath actions of that incredible struggle. Here it all isthe extraordinary hardship, the ingenious improvisation and the shrewd guerilla tactics of the small, poorly armed, hastily trained groups of intrepid men who vowed before God, their land and their people to bring the British colonial government and its much vaunted army of occupation to its knees.

Fugitives of the Forest

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Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781599214962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Fugitives of the Forest by : Allan Gerald Levine

Download or read book Fugitives of the Forest written by Allan Gerald Levine and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews--entire families in some instances--walked out of the forests of Eastern Europe. Based on numerous interviews with these survivors, "Fugitives of the Forest" tells their harrowing and heroic stories.

The Bloody Forest

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Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307755231
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bloody Forest by : Gerald Astor

Download or read book The Bloody Forest written by Gerald Astor and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of one of World War II’s bloodiest campaigns—the five-month battle between American and German forces in the Huertgen Forest—told through the words of the men who were there. From the preface: “In the course of research and interviews while writing a series of books on World War II, I became increasingly aware of the campaign for the Huertgen Forest. While survivors of other battles sometimes criticized the strategy and the orders they were given, there was a depth of anger about the Huertgen that surpassed anything I had encountered elsewhere. The unhappiness with what occurred and the absence of much objective coverage in the memoirs of those in the top command slots convinced me to produce this history. As I have reiterated in all of my books, which rely heavily on oral or eyewitness reports, there are always the dangers of flawed memory, limited vantage points, and the possibility of self-interest in such accounts. But the almost universal condemnation of their superiors’ critical decisions by individuals who were under fire in that ‘green hell’ offers a cautionary note on the accuracy and the truths of histories that draw from the official documents and the personal papers of the likes of Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney Hodges (who apparently left little in the way of records), J. Lawton Collins and others in similar positions. . . . Each new war differs from that of the past, but to ignore what happened in the Huertgen enhances the possibilities for another bitter victory, if not a defeat.”

The Root of War is Fear

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608336573
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis The Root of War is Fear by : Forest, Jim

Download or read book The Root of War is Fear written by Forest, Jim and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an intimate and timely view of Merton, this book traces the theme of peace and nonviolence in Merton's life and writings, drawing in particular on extensive correspondence with Jim Forest, a Merton biographer.

Surviving The Forest

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ISBN 13 : 9789655750102
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Surviving The Forest by : Geffen Adiva

Download or read book Surviving The Forest written by Geffen Adiva and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate ... She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto where they realized that the Gestapo was taking Jews away on trucks every night, and they were never seen again. The family decided to escape into the deep dark forest. There, surrounded by animals, they knew that this was their only chance to get away from the real beasts. They had no idea what would await them, but they knew that doing nothing was not an option if they wanted to survive.

Alone in the Forest

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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis Alone in the Forest by : Mala Kacenberg

Download or read book Alone in the Forest written by Mala Kacenberg and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flowers of the Forest

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Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901257
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Book Synopsis The Flowers of the Forest by : Trevor Royle

Download or read book The Flowers of the Forest written by Trevor Royle and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'. In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes - the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment.

Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition]

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898468
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition] by : Lt. Paul Boesch

Download or read book Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition] written by Lt. Paul Boesch and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 100 illus. Speak of the Huertgen Forest and you speak of hell. During a seemingly interminable three months, from mid-Sep. to mid-Dec. 1944, six American infantry divisions-the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, 28th, and 83d-and part of the 5th Armored fought at one time or another in the Huertgen Forest. These divisions incurred 28,000 casualties, including 8,000 due to combat exhaustion and rain, mud, sleet, and cold. One division lost more than 6,000, a figure exceeded for a single World War II engagement-if indeed it was exceeded-only by the bloody Marine battle on Tarawa. The name Huertgen Forest is one the American soldier applied to some 1,300 square miles of densely-wooded, roller-coaster real estate along the German-Belgian border south and southeast of Aachen....The forest lay athwart the path which the First U.S. Army had to take to reach the Rhine River, and thus American commanders considered it essential to conquer it. By the time both American and German artillery had done with it, the setting would look like a battlefield designed by the Archfiend himself. The Huertgen was the Argonne of World War II. One day not long ago another personal manuscript, much of it about the Huertgen fighting, crossed my desk. This one, I soon discovered, was different. This was a lengthy narrative written by a former lieutenant, Paul Boesch. It was obviously too long for publication, yet the combat sections of it revealed a genuine, first-hand grasp of what war is like at the shooting level and what it does to the men involved. It was too human a document to be ignored. It too faithfully mirrored the experiences, not of one man alone, but of millions, to go unnoticed. It too sharply underscored the innate faith, humor, devotion, and even the weaknesses of the American soldier to be forgotten. With Paul Boesch’s permission I went to work with him to prepare this combat portion of his manuscript for publication. The result is The Road to Huertgen.

Fighting for the Forest

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1534429336
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Fighting for the Forest by : P. O’Connell Pearson

Download or read book Fighting for the Forest written by P. O’Connell Pearson and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Informative, inspiring.” —Kirkus Reviews In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O’Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps—one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal projects that helped save a generation of Americans. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men was building parks and reclaiming the nation’s forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps—FDR’s favorite program and “miracle of inter-agency cooperation”—resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state and national parks, the restoration of nearly 120 million acre of land, and the planting of some three billion trees—more than half of all the trees ever planted in the United States. Fighting for the Forest tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC’s first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt’s Tree Army.

Green Wars

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295188
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Green Wars by : Megan Ybarra

Download or read book Green Wars written by Megan Ybarra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples -- and the land itself -- in their calls for a material decolonization."--Provided by publisher.