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“I love you more than life itself. But you’re not safe. If you weren’t married to me, you wouldn’t suffer like this, terrorized by the yellow star on my chest. I could never live with myself if something happened to you—because of me.” Berlin, 1939. Edith Falkenstein once lived a fairytale life. Falling in love with Julius introduced her to a world she had only dreamed of. She wore the finest silk dresses to host parties in their historic man...

I volunteered to sneak up and throw a grenade into the bomb crater containing four Red Army soldier's as the rest of the company gave me some covering fire. At about five metres away, I threw in the grenade and it exploded. You can imagine the mess. The lone surviving Red Amy soldier stood up with blood pouring from his mouth, nose and ears. He stood there with rifle in hand - before I had time to shoot - he fired at me and I was hit in the shoulder. The force of the round knocked off my f...

"A vivid & sensitive portrait of a small, tradition-bound community coming to terms with modernity under the most adverse of conditions." — Observer ReviewMany scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed. This work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Ob...

Is it possible to learn German for beginners quick and easy? The answer is: yes! Simply because German and English are not so different from each other. In fact, you know a lot of German already! Both languages share thousands of similar words and have similar sentence structures. This is how anyone who knows English can actually pick up basic German easily - and speak it right away! And the best thing is that you don't need to study a lot of grammar or words. It just needs a teaching meth...

Understanding the The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan can be difficult and confusing at times.Not so with The Pilgrim's Progress Study Guide! This comprehensive Bible study workbook will guide you through Bunyan's masterful use of metaphors helping you better understand key concepts, supporting Bible passages, and the relevance to our world today.The story chronicles the epic adventure of a man named Christian who leaves his home in the City of D...

For more than two centuries, The Pilgrim’s Progress has encouraged believers along the narrow way. Now, in this newly updated edition, Charles H. Spurgeon – who read Bunyan’s classic more than one hundred times – walks with readers through the allegory’s most memorable scenes, illuminating the spiritual truths within “that sweetest of all prose poems.”Originally delivered as Monday evening addresses and published post-posthumously by Spurgeon’s son Thomas, these messages reveal Spu...

"This concise and well-written book will serve as a valuable library addition for anyone interested in the naval activities of the Great War." —Sea ClassicsThe cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on firsthand accounts and original research in German archives, the author here des...

This sixteenth-century German guide to sword fighting and combat training is a crucial source for understanding medieval swordplay techniques.Following his translation of Joachim Meyer's The Art of Combat, Jeffrey L. Forgeng was alerted to an earlier version of Meyer's text, discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden. The manuscript, produced in Strasbourg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty watercolor images and seven ink diagrams. The text cover...

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.Originally written only for his daughter, Armin Schedierbauer's Adventures in My Youth chronicles his time as a solider during World War II. As an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German Army, Schedierbauer saw four years of combat on the Eastern Front.After joining his unit during the winter of 1942, he wa...

"An invaluable eye-witness account of life at the lower levels of the German Army during the First World War."—HistoryOfWar.orgAt once harrowing and lighthearted, Herbert Sulzbach's exceptional diary has been highly praised since its original publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account of trench warfare, it records the pride and exhilaration of what to him was the fight for a just cause. It is one of the very few available records of an ...

The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge, is given detailed treatment, with special emphasis (based on original German intelligence an...

In "German Campaign in Russia: Planning and Operations (1940-1942)", the U.S. Department of Defense provides a detailed and meticulous analysis of the strategic decisions and operational tactics employed by the German military during one of World War II's most critical theaters. The book articulates the complexities of planning, logistics, and execution that characterized the German invasion, incorporating a wealth of maps, diagrams, and firsthand accounts. This work stands out not only fo...