European Theater

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command.

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues...

From the first landings at Casablanca straight through to the crossing of the Elbe River and V-E Day, this book tells the gripping story of the European theater of operations battles of World War II that American soldiers, sailors, and airmen took part in and of the strategy behind them. The book's core is its account of such famous and dramatic episodes as the landings in North Africa, Kasserine Pass, Salerno and Anzio; D-day; the liberation of Paris; the Battle of the Bulge; the crossing of the Rhine; and the race across Germany.

In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches...

Get as close as you’ll get to a World War II–era P-51 Mustang without flying one yourself with this spellbinding collection of tales from the men who actually flew the planes into war. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang first started appearing in real numbers in 1943, at the climax of...

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues...

A star collapses mid-performance, and Paris’s most dazzling cabaret turns deadly. Food critic and amateur sleuth Darcy Finnegan arrives in Paris to savor haute cuisine—not stumble into murder at the legendary Moulin Rouge. But when the star performer drops dead center stage, Darcy, her best friend Lizzie, and clue-sniffing Schnoodle Mozart are swept into a glittering world of secrets, sabotage, and backstage betrayal. As whispers swirl beneath the velvet curtains, Darcy uncovers a cast of suspicious characters: a jealous understudy, a jaded choreographer, and a powerful patron with more...

From America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books...

For fans of The Reader and inspired by historical events in 1940s Italy, a poignant and hopeful novel in which a young, illiterate herdsman learns to read with the help of his two friends— rewriting his destiny in the process September 1942. Young Davide is no stranger to hunger or cruelty...

“Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority…A riveting read” (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied...

A Call to Duty The greatest conflict in human history started brothers Ray F. and John B. Lewis on a journey that they never imagined as farm boys picking cotton in the dusty fields of West Texas during the Great Depression. World War II took them across the Atlantic to places they had only read about in books or seen on movie screens when they could afford theater tickets. By the time they returned to the States, they had lost their country-boy naivete. In To War and Back: The World War II Journey of Two West Texas Farm Boys, award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Preston Lewis ...

Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction...

The Greatest Generation is dwindling to nothing at a rapid pace. Many of them are already gone. In many cases, all we have left of them are photographs, old letters, and the dim memories of what we were told by them when we were very young. Often they preferred not to talk about their difficult times and so we have nothing of those years when they came of age. Orville K. Fleetwood was one of those who said little to his family after he returned home from serving in World War II. What we do have are his letters home from Europe written at the end of the war. Three of his brothers also served...

Die schönsten Märchen - ein Hörspielklassiker nach den Gebrüdern Grimm. In dieser Folge hört ihr Brüderchen und Schwesterchen.

Die Sehnsucht des immer wieder verzweifelten, innerlich zerrissenen Kleist nach Harmonie, Grazie und Schönheit ist Inhalt der in den Berliner Abendblättern erschienenen Abhandlung "Über das Marionettentheater". Noch bestimmt von dem Einfluss romantisch geprägter Ästhetik haben wir nach Kleist mit der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies zwar die Fähigkeit zu reflektierendem Bewusstsein erworben, aber zugleich das Gefühl für Anmut und Grazie verloren...

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