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Youth’s view of Hitler’s rise finally has an audience

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The dictator’s paramilitary machine … the Strum Abtellung (brown shirts) return from manoeuvres on a Sunday in Nuremberg. Malcolm Brown November 27, 2010 JOHN RISCHBIETH, then a pupil at St Peters College, Adelaide, was awestruck when, as a 17-year-old in Germany in 1935, he became surrounded by beaming members of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) and the Bund Deutscher Madchen…

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BOOK: Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Retinue to Regiment)

Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Retinue to Regiment) Paperback – October 30, 2019 by Mike Ingram (Author) This is the story of two very different men, Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, and Henry Tudor and how they met in battle on 22 August 1485 at…

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The Imjin War: Japan’s Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley

AMAZON BOOKS Samuel Hawley taught English in East Asia for many years. His books include Speed Duel, about the land speed rivalry in the 1960s between Craig Breedlove and Art Arfons; I Just Ran: Percy Williams, World’s Fastest Human, about one of Canada’s greatest yet least known sports heroes; the…

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Austro-Hungarian Submarines

Austro-Hungarian Submarines in WWI (Maritime Series) Paperback – August 19, 2016 by Jiří Novák The Austro- Hungarian navy was comparatively late in ordering submarines, their first not being launched until 1908. Initially they were known simply by a number in Roman style, and later the U designator was added but…

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Churchill on Malta

Since the days of Nelson, Malta has stood a faithful British sentinel guarding the narrow and vital sea corridor through the Central Mediterranean, its strategic importance was never higher than in this the latest war. The needs of the large armies we were building up in Egypt made the free…

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Book: “Fighting for the French Foreign Legion”

Like the 7th Cavalry, the Waffen SS or the Special Air Service the French Foreign Legion is one of those iconic (be that through fame or infamy) military units that most students of military history know something about. This book by Alex Lochrie (its subtitle – “memoirs of a Scottish…

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BOOK: The Men who fired the V2s against England

The Men who fired the V2s against England Murray R. Barber and Michael Keuer Buy Online ‘We V2 soldiers fulfilled our tasks with the knowledge that every firing meant innocent people lost their lives…’ This substantial book provides an invaluable contribution to the operational history of the A4 (V2) rocket.…

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Austro-Hungarian Submarines

Austro-Hungarian Submarines in WWI (Maritime Series) Paperback – August 19, 2016 by Jiří Novák The…

Book: “Fighting for the French Foreign Legion”

Like the 7th Cavalry, the Waffen SS or the Special Air Service the French Foreign…

BOOK: Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Retinue to Regiment)

Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Retinue to Regiment) Paperback – October 30, 2019…

The Imjin War: Japan’s Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley

AMAZON BOOKS Samuel Hawley taught English in East Asia for many years. His books include…