The Liberators Of Pilsen

Author : Bryan J. Dickerson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476671147

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The Liberators of Pilsen by Bryan J. Dickerson Pdf

Formed in July 1943 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, the 16th Armored Division was the last U.S. armored division to be activated in World War II, the last deployed to the European Theater and the last to see combat. As the war in Europe was coming to an end, General George S. Patton chose the division to spearhead a daring advance into Czechoslovakia. In its first and only combat operation, the 16th liberated the city of Pilsen, forever endearing itself to the Czech people. Poised to continue to the capital city of Prague, the division was halted not by German resistance but by political rivalries between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. Official U.S. Army records and veteran accounts tell the story of the unit's brief two-year existence and its successful mission.

Author : Bryan J. Dickerson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476629896

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The Liberators of Pilsen by Bryan J. Dickerson Pdf

 Formed in July 1943 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, the 16th Armored Division was the last U.S. armored division to be activated in World War II, the last deployed to the European Theater and the last to see combat. As the war in Europe was coming to an end, General George S. Patton chose the division to spearhead a daring advance into Czechoslovakia. In its first and only combat operation, the 16th liberated the city of Pilsen, forever endearing itself to the Czech people. Poised to continue to the capital city of Prague, the division was halted not by German resistance but by political rivalries between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. Official U.S. Army records and veteran accounts tell the story of the unit’s brief two-year existence and its successful mission.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250822925

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The Day the War Ended by Martin Gilbert Pdf

One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. This is the story of that single day and of the days leading up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, this masterly history recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians, collaborators and resistance fighters, statesmen and war criminals, all recounted in vivid, dramatic detail. But this is more than a moment-by-moment account, for Sir Martin Gilbert uses every event as a point of departure, linking each to its long-term consequences over the following half century. In our attempts to understand the world we inherited in 1945, there is no better starting point than The Day the War Ended.

Author : Kryštof Kozák,György Tóth,Paul Bauer,Allison Wanger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351846158

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Memory in Transatlantic Relations by Kryštof Kozák,György Tóth,Paul Bauer,Allison Wanger Pdf

This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and Central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the present day. Sitting at the intersection of international relations, history, memory studies and various "area" studies, Memory in Transatlantic Relations examines the role of memory in an international context, including the ways in which policy and decision makers utilize memory; the relationship between trauma, memory and international politics; the multiplicity of actors who shape memory; and the role of memory in the conflicts in post-Cold War Europe. Thematically organized and presenting studies centered on the U.S., Hungary, France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the authors explore the built environment (memorials) and performances of memory (commemorations), shedding light on the ways in which memories are mobilized to frame relations between the U.S. and nations in Western and Central Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and historians with interests in memory studies, foreign policy and international relations.

Author : Richard C. Anderson Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811773829

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American Thunder by Richard C. Anderson Jr. Pdf

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II. The tank was introduced in World War I in an effort to end the stalemate of the machine gun versus barbed-wire trenches, and by World War II, the tank’s mobility and firepower became a rolling, thundering difference-maker on the battlefield. In this detailed, deeply researched, and heavily illustrated book, tank expert Richard Anderson tells the story of how the United States developed its armored force, turning it into a war-winning weapon in World War II that powered American ground forces and supplied armies around the world, including the British and Soviets. For decades, American tanks of World War II have been undervalued in comparisons with German and Soviet tanks—and it’s true that the best of American armor tended to underperform the best of German and Soviet armor during the war. That’s because the U.S. had a different goal: not only to create battleworthy tanks like the Sherman, and to develop other tanks, but also to supply American allies with serviceable, combat-ready tanks. The United States did all this, but until now the complete story of American tanks in World War II has yet to be told. Anderson’s book is deeper and more thorough a chronicle of American tanks in World War II than has ever been done. This book is colorful, vivid, and thought-provokingly insightful on how the U.S. produced a tank force capable of conducting its own battlefield efforts and sustaining key allies around the world. This will be the go-to volume on American tanks for years to come.

Author : Carl Otto Thieme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Europe
ISBN : WISC:89101371730

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A Metallurgist Views Europe from the Beaches to Berlin, September 11, 1945 to October 26, 1945 by Carl Otto Thieme Pdf

Author : Catherine Andreyev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521389607

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Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement by Catherine Andreyev Pdf

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement deals with the attempt by Soviet citizens to create a Russian anti-Stalinist liberation movement during the Second World War. These Soviet citizens were mainly prisoners-of-war, forced labourers or part of the population of the occupied territories of the USSR. The Liberation Movement was encouraged by German officers who disagreed with Nazi policy towards the USSR, as their experience showed that treating the population as 'subhumans' (Untermensch) merely increased resistance to Nazi occupation. Throughout the development of the Liberation Movement there existed a divergence of aims between the Russian members who wished to form an army and a political movement which would effect change within the USSR, and its German supporters who merely wished to alter the type of propaganda directed towards the population of the USSR. Catherine Andreyev provides an account of the evolution of the Russian Liberation Movement and examines the motivation of the titular leader of the movement, Lieutenant-General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov. The main focus of the book is the ideology of the Liberation Movement, the importance of which lies in the fact that it represented the first grass-roots opposition movement within the Soviet Union since the end of the Civil War in 1922. The programme of the Movement reflects issues which would have been raised by citizens in the 1930s had they been free to do so. Catherine Andreyev examines influences on the programme, and the ideas expressed are placed within the context of the pre-war Soviet and Russian émigré society.

Author : Kevin W. Edwards
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781449072650

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Destination~Vienna by Kevin W. Edwards Pdf

World War II was a great conflagration of unimaginable horror and destruction resulting in over seventy million killed, millions more displaced, families broken or destroyed, great cities and even whole countries left in ruins. This book will backdrop, from the end of World War I, or "The War to End All Wars" and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the almost immediate series of events that led to World War II. We will chronicle these events as they relate to the life of one individual and his ultimate entanglement with the dynamics of a world engulfed in war. This book will retrace the mission of one solitary B-24 Liberator bomber crew on a single day in March 1945 when they met their "fate, somewhere among the clouds above." We will see the kindred spirit of complete strangers who were thrust into and subsequently banded together by untenable circumstance, to rise and act to cast off the yoke of evil.

Author : Petr Kral
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781908968272

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In Search of the Essence of Place by Petr Kral Pdf

Armed only with his poetic sensibility, Petr Král sets out to explore our relationship with the places that we inhabit, and with the apparently unremarkable everyday objects which often inform and enrich our lives. Král bears witness to Flaubert's observation that "in order for something to become interesting, we simply have to look at it for a long time". He reveals, not only the inner life-the very essence-of mundane objects and places, but also simple yet profound truths about ourselves.

Author : Douglas C. Dildy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472824530

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“Big Week” 1944 by Douglas C. Dildy Pdf

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed interceptors would inflict on them. Following the failures of 1943's Schweinfurt-Regensburg raids, and with D-Day looming, the Allies urgently needed to crush the Luftwaffe's ability to oppose the landings. In February 1944, the Allies conceived and fought history's first-ever successful offensive counterair (OCA) campaign, Operation Argument or “Big Week.” Attacking German aircraft factories with hundreds of heavy bombers, escorted by the new long-range P-51 Mustang, it aimed both to slash aircraft production and force the Luftwaffe into combat, allowing the new Mustangs to take their toll on the German interceptors. This expertly written, illustration-packed account explains how the Allies finally began to win air superiority over Europe, and how Operation Argument marked the beginning of the Luftwaffe's fall.

Author : Nancy Snow,Philip M. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135926892

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Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy by Nancy Snow,Philip M. Taylor Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors Nancy Snow and Philip Taylor present materials on public diplomacy trends in public opinion and cultural diplomacy as well as topical policy issues. The latest research in public relations, credibility, soft power, advertising, and marketing is included and institutional processes and players are identified and analyzed. While the field is dominated by American and British research and developments, the book also includes international research and comparative perspectives from other countries. Published in association with the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School based at the University of Southern California.

Author : Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Czech Americans
ISBN : IND:30000010069841

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SVU Bulletin by Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences Pdf

Author : Naomi Kramer,Ronald Headland
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776617121

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The Fallacy of Race and the Shoah by Naomi Kramer,Ronald Headland Pdf

Naomi Kramer and Ronald Headland to approach the universal issues that inevitably arise in discussing the Holocaust -- evil, courage, human dignity, moral responsibility and the existential qualities of humankind -- through individual experience. Consisting of two main parts, the book explores one individual's experience during the Shoah and the historical context in which these experiences occurred.

Author : Bryan J. Dickerson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476692463

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Dive Bomber Down by Bryan J. Dickerson Pdf

James A. Nist lived an extraordinary life in his 24 years. Raised on a New Jersey farm, he graduated high school at 16 and earned both a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and a private pilot's license. In 1942, he joined the Navy as an aviation cadet, earning his wings and an officer's commission in the Naval Reserve. He became proficient in three of the Navy's high-performance combat aircraft: the SBD Dauntless dive-bomber, the F6F Hellcat fighter and the F4U Corsair fighter. In 1945, he deployed to the Pacific aboard the carrier USS Bunker Hill and flew combat missions over Japan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Drawing on Nist's letters and personal papers and official Navy documents, historian Bryan J. Dickerson tells the story of his great uncle's life and service during World War II.

Author : Bennett Kovrig
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000601446

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The Myth of Liberation by Bennett Kovrig Pdf