Author: Claus Neuber
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526704285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler’s Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren’t encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory. This is the story of one of them, Claus Neuber, a young artillery officer who describes in graphic detail his experiences during that great retreat. His gripping account carries the reader through the desperate defensive battles and rearguard actions fought to stem the relentless Soviet advance and to breakout from the cauldrons between Minsk and the Beresina river. After almost seventy days as a fugitive, living in the open, depending on the kindness of villagers, enduring extremes of cold, wet and hunger, and living each day with the ever-present threat of betrayal and imprisonment, he found his way back to the German lines. This unforgettable personal narrative, translated for the first time from the original German, gives a dramatic insight into the impact of the Soviet offensive and the disintegration of an entire German army. It is also compelling reading because it records in day-to-day detail what such a bitter defeat was like and shows how individual soldiers somehow survived through their bravery, ingenuity and endurance – and the companionship of a few loyal comrades.
Author: Claus Neuber
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526704285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler’s Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren’t encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory. This is the story of one of them, Claus Neuber, a young artillery officer who describes in graphic detail his experiences during that great retreat. His gripping account carries the reader through the desperate defensive battles and rearguard actions fought to stem the relentless Soviet advance and to breakout from the cauldrons between Minsk and the Beresina river. After almost seventy days as a fugitive, living in the open, depending on the kindness of villagers, enduring extremes of cold, wet and hunger, and living each day with the ever-present threat of betrayal and imprisonment, he found his way back to the German lines. This unforgettable personal narrative, translated for the first time from the original German, gives a dramatic insight into the impact of the Soviet offensive and the disintegration of an entire German army. It is also compelling reading because it records in day-to-day detail what such a bitter defeat was like and shows how individual soldiers somehow survived through their bravery, ingenuity and endurance – and the companionship of a few loyal comrades.
Author: William Francis Patrick Napier
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: J. P. Linstroth
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498527736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Marching against Gender Practice asks why the majority of people in the Basque town of Hondarribia do not accept women’s broader participation in the Alarde parade which represents locality, regionalism, and nationalism. It is centered on two opposing gender worldviews between the betikoak traditionalists and Women of Mugarrietakoa feminists.
Author: Napier
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Languages : en
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Author: Frank Rauscher
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Category : Band musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8074843742
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Marching Men (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1917. Marching Men is the story of Norman "Beaut" McGregor, a young man discontented with the powerlessness and lack of personal ambition among the miners of his hometown. After moving to Chicago he discovers his purpose is to empower workers by having them march in unison. Major themes of the novel include the organization of laborers, eradication of disorder, and the role of the exceptional man in society. The latter theme led post-World War II critics to compare Anderson's militaristic approach to homosocial order and the fascists of the War's Axis powers. Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry.
Author: Charles George Gordon
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Languages : en
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Author: Charles George Gordon
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Oscar McMurtrie Voorhees
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
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Author: Sheelagh M. Ellwood
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 9780582437531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Francisco Franco is the most important and controversial figure in the emergence of modern Spain How did Franco rise to power and of what use did he make of it? Examines the formative influences on Franco. Traces his vision for Spain and his success or failure at realizing it. Francisco Franco was a military man before all else. His supporters said that his handling of politics was that of a brilliant strategist, his detractors that he ran Spain as if it were a barracks. He remains a deeply divisive figure, and his contribution, for good or ill, to the emergence of modern Spain is still intensely controversial. Franco is an excellent account of the Generalissimo's rise to power and his four decades as autocratic Head of State in Spain. Set in the context of the social, economic and political evolution of twentieth-century Spain, Sheelagh Ellwood assesses his career, through the Civil War and his forty years of supreme power, and reveals the personal characteristics that enabled Franco to take advantage of those circumstances. Franco, in the Profiles in Power series, is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements and failures of Franco's career. Sheelagh Elwood is research analysis for the Iberian Peninsula in the Research and Analysis Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.
