Название: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst: A Factual Account From the German Viewpoint
Автор: Fritz Otto Busch
Издательство: Futura Publications Limited
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 196
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life. The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legend. In 1942 she had slipped unscathed through the Channel under the very bows of the British fleet to harry the Arctic convoy routes. The British convoy which sailed for Murmansk on Christmas Eve, 1943, seemed a perfect target for another lightning raid. In fact it was a trap to lure the battleship into the open and then destroy her. This is the story of the Scharnhorst's dramatic sortie from her Norwegian lair, rhe story of a battle fought with Dutstanding courage against impossible odds until the most feared of all Hitler's battleships sank at last off North Cape.

Название: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Автор: Hampton Sides
Издательство: Random House
ISBN: 0385495653
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation.

Название: I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals
Автор: Frank Sisson, Robert L. Wise
Издательство: William Morrow
ISBN: 0063019477
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 25,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a soldier with the American Third Army who served under the legendary warrior and participated in many of the most consequential events of the conflict—including the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau.