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Inferno
Author: Keith Lowe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0743269004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws on previously unseen official documents and eyewitness testimonies to document the bombing of Hamburg by U.S. and British forces during World War II, an event that cost 45,000 lives, set hurricane-force fires that lasted for a month, and rendered one million people homeless. 35,000 first printing.
Death in Hamburg
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-10-25
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 014303636X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." - Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the “cholera years” is, in Richard Evans’s hands, tragically revealing of the age’s social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world’s public-health landscape today, including the current coronavirus crisis.
Fire and Fury
Author: Randall Hansen
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307372383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Bombing to Win
Author: Robert A. Pape
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014-04-11
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0801471516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe. Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
Out of the Night
Author: Jan Valtin
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 1199
ISBN-13: 1839742356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: “...full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy...It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been.” The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920’s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade’s attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties.
The Man Outside
Author: Wolfgang Borchert
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780811200110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of short stories and a one-act play.
The Battle of Hamburg
Author: Martin Middlebrook
Publisher: Penguin Uk
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780140238518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bestselling Martin Middlebrook's classic account of the battle for Hamburg: a description of a text book campaign, where the British Bomber Command got everything right.
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A Most Wanted Man
Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-08-04
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1416594892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A half-starved young Russian is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he?
