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January 14, 2024

Resistance and Liberation France at War, 1942-1945

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Free Download Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009161148 | 833 Pages | PDF | 19 MB
In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France’s memory of those traumatic years.

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January 11, 2024

El Alamein 1942 Turning Point in the Desert

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Free Download El Alamein 1942: Turning Point in the Desert by Richard Doherty
English | October 11, 2017 | ISBN: 1526700794 | 288 pages | MOBI | 25 Mb
The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel’s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political implications for the Allies. That this never happened is, of course, well known but, as this highly readable yet authoritative work reveals, there were moments of extreme peril and anxiety.

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January 5, 2024

Early Pacific Raids 1942 The American Carriers Strike Back (Campaign)

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Free Download Early Pacific Raids 1942: The American Carriers Strike Back (Campaign) by Brian Lane Herder
English | June 22nd, 2023 | ISBN: 147285487X | 96 pages | True EPUB | 13.30 MB
A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific.

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