German Military

In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany's most significant pilots, put together from numerous interviews personally conducted by Heaton from the 1980s through the 2000s. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their off-duty lives, their lives after the war, and perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler.

Der Krimkrieg war ein bedeutender Konflikt, der zwischen 1853 und 1856 stattfand und Russland, das Osmanische Reich, Frankreich und das Vereinigte Königreich involvierte. In diesem kompakten Geschichtsbuch tauchen Sie in die Ursachen, Ereignisse und Folgen dieses brutalen Krieges ein.

After 1933, as the terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis tried to keep their heads down and protect their families - they moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbours, and tried to work out what was really happening in the Reich, surrounded as they were by Nazi propaganda and fake news.

Nachdem ihr letzter Einsatz in einer Tragödie endete, soll Scharfschützin Nell Gallows in das Sonderkommando Malum versetzt werden. Die Soldaten dieser Einheit sind bekannt dafür, nur die gefährlichsten Aufträge zu übernehmen – und Neuzugängen das Leben zur Qual zu machen. Doch der Unbekannte, mit dem Nell diese verbringt, ist der, den sie am meisten fürchten sollte: Bradshaw, ihr künftiger Vorgesetzter. Bradshaw ist grausam und gnadenlos – und dennoch ist da etwas, dass die beiden unaufhaltsam zueinander zieht.

Um dem Tod zu entgehen, bleibt Emery Maves nichts anderes übrig, als sich den Dark Forces anzuschließen – nichtsahnend, dass ihr damit ein weitaus schlimmeres Schicksal bevorsteht. Cameron Mortem ist der tödlichste Soldat, den die Dark Forces zu bieten haben. Zur Strafe soll er sich erneut für die Einheit qualifizieren. Dabei wird ihm Emery als Partnerin zur Seite gestellt.

Gertrud, Emilie und Hans, die Kinder von Helene, sowie Paul und Aumoe, die Kinder von Martha, erleben den Krieg auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise und müssen sich neuen Herausforderungen stellen. Die dramatischen Ereignisse des Krieges zwingen die junge Generation, neue Wege zu gehen.

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the military and political history of the conflict ever since.

The Imperial German Army: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Armed Forces During World War I chronicles the German military in the years after the German Empire’s formation and World War I. You will learn about Germany’s army in World War I like never before.

The internment of Japanese Americans in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor is second only to slavery in terms of America's most tragic and regrettable chapters in history. While the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during the Second World War is widely recognized - they have even received apologies and compensation from the US government - what is not as well-known is that between 1941 and 1948, approximately 10,000 Americans of German descent were also forcibly interned at camps scattered across the United States.