Collins - World War II 1

De grote ontsnapping het verhaal van de grootste - maar minst bekende - ontsnapping uit een krijgsgevangenenkamp tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, begint in de stinkende latrines van Kamp Schubin in P……続きを見る

The battle known as D-Dayー the Allied Armies invasion of France on June 6, 1944ー has been remembered in hundreds of books, articles, and films. D-Day marked the true turning point in the war again……続きを見る

The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then c……続きを見る

Este livro é um dos mais extraordinários relatos sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Um trabalho de reconstituição histórica impecável e empolgante que descreve detalhadamente a atmosfera, a movimentaçã……続きを見る

"A meticulous, judicious, at times searing chronicle" of the Struma disaster. "It will leave no reader unmoved" ( Chicago Tribune) . On the morning of February twenty-four, 1942, on the Black Sea ne……続きを見る

The full story of the legendary US infantry division and their remarkable service in WWII, told through interviews with surviving servicemen. The 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor t……続きを見る

This chronicle of an armored division's bravery during the Battle of the Bulge sheds new light on the legendary Siege of Bastogne in WWII. Before the 101st Airborne Division's famous Siege of Bastog……続きを見る

The story of a highly decorated Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, flying Hawker Typhoons with 245 Squadron, who was killed in action during the battle of Normandy in 1944. 続きを見る

A native of New Orleans who graduated from West Point in 1917, General J. Lawton Collins was a division commander and later a corps commander in World War II, US Army chief of staff during the Korea……続きを見る

This chronicle of the 106th Infantry Division follows the unit into the Battle of the Bulge and recounts the stories of GIs who foughtーeven after capture. On December 16, 1944, as the European conf……続きを見る

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria. Prisoners of war of the Third Reich, they had arrived at Oflag XVIIA, a ……続きを見る

The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky were all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his ……続きを見る

This story is taken from notes Austin Buck Buchanan wrote in notebooks he carried in his pocket all during World War II. Buck is no longer with us. W. L. George Collins edited and compiled Bucks not……続きを見る

The powerful German counteroffensive operation code-named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended……続きを見る