Resultados para "3" en Guerras y conflictos

Hará todo para proteger a su familia, incluso si eso implica ignorar el horror Berlín, 1930. Cuando el partido nazi se encumbra en el poder, el esposo de Sofie, Jürgen Rhodes, se ve beneficiado por el nuevo gobierno. Aunque ellos no comparten la ideología de Hitler, la nueva posición de...

Международная команда историков на протяжении нескольких лет выясняла, что стоит за мифом о «Салоне Китти»–центре международного шпионажа, созданном нацистскими главарями на базе берлинского борделя средней руки. Кем была пресловутая Китти Шмидт–и почему ее «салон» продолжал работать и после войны? На что рассчитывали–и чего добились–Гейндрих и Шелленберг? Как островок «Веймарского Берлина» сохранился в гитлеровской Германии–и какие метаморфозы ему пришлось пережить?

"Considerad si esta es una mujer | quien no tiene cabellos ni nombre | ni fuerzas para recordarlo | vacía la mirada y frío el regazo | como una rana en invierno". Con estos descarnados versos Primo Levi, en el célebre comienzo de Si esto es un hombre, se dirige a los lectores evocando la imagen de una mujer despojada de su identidad, expoliada de su propio cuerpo, de su regazo en cuanto lugar donde se origina la relación con el otro.

Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24-25, 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in Eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the Second World War. Seventy-nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire - but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo.

The final installment of Adolfo Ovies’s groundbreaking The Boy Generals trilogy races from the Shenandoah Valley to Appomattox with the rapidity of a headlong cavalry charge. The turbulent events of the closing months of the Civil War serve as a backdrop for the increasingly dysfunctional—and bitter—relationship between George Armstrong Custer and Wesley Merritt.

Catkiller 3-2 provides unique insights into the role of the tactical air controller, airborne (TACA) in I Corps as seen through the eyes of one of the pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft in support of marine ground units during the Vietnam War. When Gen. William Westmoreland changed the marines' role in I Corps into a combat one, the Marines found themselves in need of more fixed wing aircraft to handle the TACA missions. 

What if the most shocking chapters of modern history were the ones governments never wanted you to read? This gripping audiobook opens the files on declassified intelligence operations, secret military experiments, nuclear disasters, espionage networks, hidden surveillance programs, political cover-ups, and buried historical truths.

Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war. Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006, the elite 3...

Эта аудиокнига будет интересна слушателям с любым уровнем знаний о "чуме XX века" - нацистском Третьем рейхе, стремившемся к мировому господству. Просуществовав всего двенадцать лет - с 1933 по 1945 годы - Третий рейх, тем не менее, оставил после себя множество великих тайн и трудноразрешимых загадок, большинство из которых не разгаданы до сих пор.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. THE TESTAMENT OF MATCHING'S EASY: All over England now, where the livery of mourning had been a rare thing to see, women and children went about in the October sunshine in new black clothes. Everywhere one met these fresh griefs, mothers who had lost their sons, women who had lost their men, lives shattered and hopes destroyed.

Carmen empaca el último de sus abrigos mientras su esposo, Manuel, se acomoda indiferente la corbata frente al espejo. En Veracruz la espera el barco que los llevará hacia Europa en un último intento de darle color a una vida y un matrimonio insatisfactorios. Es 1914 y Carmen arde en deseos...

America's first intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was forged in the fires of WWII. OSS agents carried out daring and covert operations across the world, yet their critical contributions and brave work have remained shrouded in secrecy—until now. Discover the stunning true story of Steven Bizic and the men of SPIKE team as they descend into darkness, landing amidst the turmoil of a nation torn apart by civil war and years of Nazi occupation.

Nel terzo volume della serie “Breve Storia di Napoleone Bonaparte” si ripercor-rono le tappe fondamentali che portarono Napoleone a diventare sovrano asso-luto dell’Europa continentale. Dopo il colpo di stato del 18 Brumaio, il generale pone le basi per consolidare il suo dominio e il suo potere: si fa nominare Primo Console, redige il Codice napoleonico e porta a termine vittoriosamente nume-rose battaglie contro gli Austriaci e gli Inglesi.

We Went to War pulls you right into the war and drops you in the middle of a Combat Outpost. Follow Chaplain Latham as he makes his rounds, his Battle Field Circulation, visiting the troops and spreading the Word. See first hand the highs and lows of the last deployment of the Global War on Terror of the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Parachute Infantry. Part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from Vicenza, Italy. Follow Chaplain Latham as he ministers to troops during firefights and a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device. A story of courage and strength in the face of mounting odds.

Gen. Robert E. Lee began moving part of his Army of Northern Virginia from the Old Dominion toward Pennsylvania on June 3, 1863. Lee believed his army needed to win a major victory on Northern soil if the South was to have a chance at winning the war. Transferring the fighting out of war-torn Virginia would allow the state time to heal while he supplied his army from untapped farms and stores in Maryland and the Keystone State. Lee had also convinced Pres. Jefferson Davis that his offensive would interfere with the Union effort to take Vicksburg in Mississippi. 

Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison.

The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan's military and merchant navies to shadows of the former selves.

In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare - the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French, and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war and divert German troops from the Western Front, easing the pressure on Russia's allies. 

As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its full military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. Admiral Hart sends his US Asiatic Fleet south, to the safety of Allied waters. When remnants of PBY Patrol Wing 10 depart with the fleet, Charles Beckner, corpsman for Squadron 102, is left behind with no apparent avenue for escape.

Undaunted Valor, Lam Son 719 is a novel based on an accurate account of the bravery and dedication of helicopter crews, consisting of mostly teenagers and young officers flying under the most intense combat conditions since WWII. US Army and Marine Corps helicopters flew South Vietnamese ground forces fifty miles into Laos to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in hopes of providing time for the South Vietnamese to take over the fight and allow American forces to come home.