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The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of
the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize
20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and
sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied
Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War
heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when
her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald
concentration camps...Now 88 and living in London, Olga tells with
remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her
across war-torn Europe, to find the man she loved. The greatest
untold true love story of World War Two.
In the opening days of the World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army
fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against
a Japanese invasion. Much of the five-month campaign was waged on
the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. Despite dwindling
supplies and dim prospects for support, the garrison held out as
long as possible and significantly delayed the Japanese timetable
for conquest in the Pacific. In the end, the Japanese forced the
largest capitulation in U.S. military history. The defenders were
hailed as heroes and the legacy of their determined resistance
marks the Philippines today. Drawing on accounts from American and
Filipino participants and archival sources, this book tells the
story of these critical months of the Pacific War, from the first
air strikes to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.
Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare.
Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and
massive industry for their manufacture-yet, strangely, the Third
Reich never used them. At the end of the Second World War, the
Allies were stunned to discover this advanced and extensive
programme. The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms
race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to
the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve
agents' gradual spread across the world, despite international arms
control efforts. They've been deployed in the Iran-Iraq War, by
terrorists in Japan, in the Syrian Civil War, and by assassins in
Malaysia and Salisbury-always with bitter consequences. 'Toxic'
recounts the grisly history of these weapons of mass destruction: a
deadly suite of invisible, odourless killers.
The cup that cheers
The First World War was considered the pinnacle in the development
of warfare following the dawn of the industrial age. For the first
time conflict on a global stage was fought on land, on and under
the sea and in the skies. This war of the machines swept away
swathes of humanity by the use of ruthlessly efficient means of
slaughter. Every human resource was needed because it could not be
waged solely by male armies on the fields of battle. This meant
that the role of women in western society would be changed forever.
Women became the industrial workforce, agricultural workers and the
custodians of transport and logistics. Thousands more, from nurses
to drivers, mechanics to entertainers, volunteered to provide
essential services to support the fighting men on the front line.
Many new and established organisations willingly put all their
resources into the war effort. To the troops of the allied armies
these volunteers-both men and women-were little short of angels,
providing for body and spirit under the most difficult
circumstances and their contribution to the morale of the soldiers
in action cannot be over estimated. The Y. M. C. A was at the
forefront of these activities, providing everything from essentials
to much appreciated little luxuries, from the opportunity for a
bath and shave to that mainstay of English or American life, a
good, hot and much needed 'cuppa' tea or coffee, accompanied by a
kind smile or a supportive word. This special Leonaur edition
contains three accounts of these remarkably brave volunteers on the
Western Front. Theirs was essential but often dangerous work and
many of them made the ultimate sacrifice. This fascinating book
relates an often unsung aspect of the Great War, but one which will
be of enormous interest to those who require a complete
understanding of the conflict and are interested in the changing
role of women in the early years of the 20th century.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of
occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in
Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians,
sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on
those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors
explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept
of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of
your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends,
colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life?
How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of
the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How
is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching
others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light
on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and
multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to
come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance.
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