In the early morning of Wednesday, August 19th, 1942, a 200 vessel convoy containing 5,000 Canadian troops approached the French port of Dieppe. In the next few hours the Canadian force would be destroyed. The bodies of more than 900 Canadian men would be scattered along the water front and their vessels and equipment left burning and smouldering on the blood-stained beaches.
The Dieppe Raid is one of the most bitter and controversial episodes in Canadian history. That it is Canada's worst military disaster is beyond doubt. But what makes the sacrifice more painful is the lingering question - was it worth it? Were the "lessons" learned from the failure of the Dieppe Raid critical to the Allied victories later in the war or were the important "lessons" strictly a cover-up by the Generals of a poorly planned and poorly executed operation?
To understand the Dieppe Raid it is necessary to see the world as it was in 1942. The Second World War had been raging for three years and it appeared that Germany and its Axis allies would win. Since 1939 Hitler's armies had conquered all of Europe and inflicted major defeats on the soldiers of the British Empire in France, Norway, Greece, Crete and North Africa. German submarines were sinking Allied shipping seemingly at will. In 1941 Russia was forced into the war on Britain's side, but the seemingly invincible German Army smashed Joseph Stalin's huge but inefficient Soviet Red Army. Within six months the Nazis were at the gates of Moscow. The Soviets had suffered terribly, and were desperate for assistance. They needed the British (and at the end of 1941, also the United States) to relieve some of the overpowering German pressure and start a Second Front by invading Europe.

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Access to history 5 - N. M Christie - The Suicide Raid, the Canadians at Dieppe, August 19th, 1942 ( 2001).pdf

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After the Battle 15 - Winston G. Ramsay - Tarawa a nd Operation Galvanic (1977).jpg

The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.

It was also the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance. The 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps.

American casualties on the beach were so severe that over a hundred corpses were never repatriated. Staff Sgt Norman T. Hatch, a combat cameraman who filmed the bodies on the beach, produced images that were so disturbing that he had to obtain permission from President Franklin Roosevelt before they could be shown to the public.[3] The footage was included in the 1944 short documentary With the Marines at Tarawa, and was the only film to contain gruesome scenes of American dead up to that date.

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After the Battle 15 - Winston G. Ramsay - Tarawa a nd Operation Galvanic (1977).pdf

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After The Battle 36 - John Reed - Walcheren (1982).jpg

The Battle For Walcharen Island which had begun on the 1st of November 1944.
Hitler has declared this island a bastion, which means that his men were forbidden to surrender, and would fight to the last man, the island was used for launching V1 rockets, and was of stratigic importance.
General Patton was quoted a saying that the capture of Walcharan Island would considrably shorten the war.
The Germans surrendered on the 8th of November 1944 and the British and Canadian casualties numbered 8.000.

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After The Battle 60 - Jean Paul Pallud - The Magin ot Line (1991).jpeg

THE MAGINOT LINE - Jean Paul Pallud tells the detailed story of and visits the remains from the pre-war French fortifications constructed by Monsieur André Maginot. Chapters include A Failure?, Fortifications, Maginot at War, La Ferté, Fermont, Immerhof, Zeiterholz, Hackenberg, Bambesch, Simserhof, Schoenenbourg, Esch Casemate, Marckolsheim South Casemate, The Marckolsheim Memorial. It Happened Here - The Fate of a Whitley - The end of T4145 GE-'P for Peter' of No. 58 Squadron on April 7, 1941 in the Netherlands as told by J. C. Maarschalkerweerd. 50 Years Ago - Hitler Visits Italy - The Führer's visit to Italy in April 1938. Wreck Recovery - The Exhumation of a Humber - Wartime relic recovered from a farm in Lancashire. Readers' Investigations - Return to the Berghof - Judge Jim R. Osborne investigates the subterranean remains at Hitler's mountain retreat.

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After the Battle 148 - Tony Colvin - Wilhelmshaven (2010).jpg

WILHELMSHAVEN - Tony Colvin tells the story of this German port city on the North Sea which was greatly extended during the Nazi era to become the largest state-owned naval dockyard in the world, with Hitler labelling it the 'Kriegshafen des Grossdeutschen Reiches' (War Port of the Greater German Reich). The Liverpool Blitz - Although many of the iconic images of the Blitz were taken in London, numerous other cities outside the capital suffered heavy damage and loss of life. As a major port with extensive docks, Liverpool was an obvious target for the Luftwaffe, which began its first operations against the city in August 1940. Neil Holmes describes the devastating effect this had. Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - Nikolai Bodrikhin and Tony Le Tissier recount the tale of how Stalin gave a speech on November 6, 1944, in which he said 'The Red Army is now coming up to its last conclusive mission; together with the armies of our allies, we have to complete the defeat of the German Army, kill the fascist beast in its own lair and raise the banner of victory over Berlin.' For the Red Army soldier 'the lair of the fascist beast' meant only one thing; the Reichstag building in Berlin.

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Osprey - Raid 09 - Robert Forczyk - Rescuing Musso lini, Gran Sasso 1943 (2010).jpg

The successful rescue of imprisoned Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from atop the Gran Sasso plateau was one of the most dramatic special forces operations in military history. Arrested by his own officers in July 1943, Mussolini had been whisked away to an isolated and heavily guarded mountaintop resort, the Hotel Campo Imperatore which could only be reached by a heavily guarded cable car station. The Germans, led by SS Haupsturmführer Otto Skorzeny, launched a daring Glider-borne assault, which surprised the Italian guards and secured Mussolini without a shot being fired. However, when the original escape plan had to be scrapped, the Germans organize a desperate, last minute airborne extraction to escape before the Italians could launch a counter attack.

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Franz Frisch, Wilbur D. Jr. Jones - Condemned to L ive, A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War (2000).jpg

I read this fascinating memoir from a unique perspective. Franz Frisch and I were both nineteen years old when we entered the army, Franz in the German Heer in 1938; I in the U.S. Army in 1942. Both of us "not long out of Gymnasium." Both artillerymen sworn to serve our country. Only fate and geography kept us from fighting each other. Franz served in Europe; I in the North Pacific. We met, became professional associates and friends at the Defense Systems Management College in 1987, and remain so to this day.
This book reflects the goodness, sensitivity, honesty, dedication and intellect I quickly learned to admire and respect in my friend and comrade. It was a poignant and touching read for me. He provides incredible insight of the life and culture of the German common soldier of World War II. He bares his soul when he describes the conditions, miseries, personal interactions, fears and dreams he experienced during his service. I found that to be startlingly-disturbingly-similar to my own thoughts as an American soldier in a different part of the world, but engaged in the same war.
As a soldier of thirty-five years and an amateur historian, I have nowhere seen anything to rival the candid photographs of the German soldier at the front or in camp. It is a marvelous and long-lasting contribution to the study of World War II. The insights of life on the Russian front in the winter of 1941 are unparalleled and unforgettable.
Edward Hirsch

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Schiffer Military History 68 - Reinhard Frank - Fo rd at war, LKW. Maultiere. PKW (2004).jpg

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Schiffer Military History 68 - Reinhard Frank - Fo rd at war, LKW. Maultiere. PKW (2004).pdf

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Isabel Denny - The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City, The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945 (2007).jpg

“This book is well presented and extremely readable. Denny did an excellent job casting a totally non-military perspective on the fortress of Konigsberg, unlike most WW2 books that focus more so from a military strategy point of view. She presented Konigsberg and its rich history as the cultural gem of East Prussia, and beyond the broken families and the lives lost, a piece of human history was destroyed when the Russian conquerors practically razed the city. Even in the post-war years, Russian authorities deliberately refused to maintain or outright demolish buildings of historical value in order to wipe out Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, from German memory … This book is a wonderful source for those looking for the human side of war. Glorious battles and duels of ideologies aside, it is the civilians who truly suffer, and Denny did a great job illustrating it with first-hand accounts.”

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Isabel Denny - The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City, The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945 (2007).pdf

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Osprey - Command 02 - Robert Forczyk - Erich von M anstein (2010).jpg

Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perhaps his greatest triumph was his ingenious operational plan that led to the rapid defeat of France in May 1940. Manstein also showed great skill under adversity by commanding a furious rebuff to the Soviet armies in 1943, whilst Germany were retreating. However, his skill could not reverse Germany's declining fortunes and Manstein's frequent disagreement's with Hitler over military strategy led to his dismissal. Robert Forczyk tells the story of one of Germany's most valuable military talents, from his early years to his post-war conviction and his later career.

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Osprey - Raid 11 - Will Fowler - Pegasus Bridge, B enouville D-Day 1944 (2010).jpg

The night before D-Day, light infantry and a detachment of Royal Engineers landed by gliders at Pegasus Bridge, which spanned the Caen Canal. Quickly overwhelming the guards, they managed to hold the bridge and help prevent German reinforcements from reaching the British landing beaches. Will Fowler provides a detailed blow-by-blow account of this classic wartime raid.

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David Irving - Apocalypsem, The Destruction of Dre sden (2005).jpg

AT 10.10 P.M. ON THE NIGHT of February 13-14, 1945 the R.A.F. Master Bomber broadcast the cryptic order: 'Controller to Plate-Rack Force: Come in and bomb glow of red T.I.s as planned.' The ill-famed attack on Dresden had begun. The target city was among Germany's largest, but it alone had developed no single major war industry. The German authorities had made it a centre for the evacuation of wounded servicemen, and by February 1945 most schools, restaurants, and public buildings had been converted into military hospitals. In selecting Dresden for this purpose, the German government probably hoped that this, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, often compared with Florence for its graceful Baroque architectural style, would be spared the attentions of the allied bombers. By 1945, the legend was deeply entrenched in the population's mind that Dresden was a city that would never be bombed. It was not to be. In February 1945, with the Soviet armies making striking advances in their invasion of Silesia and East Prussia, and when the war's political and military directors were meeting at Yalta, Mr Winston Churchill was urgently in need of some display both of his offensive strength and of his willingness to assist the Russians in their drive westwards. Dresden, the 'virgin target' just seven miles behind the eastern Front, became the victim of Mr Churchill's desire for a spectacular blow. By a combination of delays and poor weather, the raid, the climax of the strategic air offensive against Germany, and the most crushing air-raid of the war, was not delivered until the day that Mr Churchill was departing from Yalta. The city was undefended - it had no guns, and even the German night-fighter force was grounded by Bomber Command's brilliant tactics of deception and trickery. It had no proper air-raid shelters. On the night of the attack, Dresden was housing hundreds of thousands of refugees from Silesia, East Prussia, and from western Germany in addition to its own population of 630,000. Up to 100,000 people, perhaps more, were killed in two to three hours, burned alive, that night. Yet until the author's first book on it appeared in 1963 the raid on Dresden scarcely figured in any official indices of the war. A veil had been drawn across this tragedy. Why was there this official silence about the Dresden tragedy? Certainly little discredit reflected on the officers and men of the bomber forces; equally the two commanders, Sir Arthur Harris and General Carl Spaatz, were not acting out of hand. The directives and orders confronting them were painfully clear. Stung by foreign revulsion at this new St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the British Prime Minister - who had ordered it - penned an angry minute to his Chief of Staff, even before the war ended, rasping that,

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David Irving - Apocalypsem, The Destruction of Dre sden (2005).pdf

"The Destruction of Dresden remains a query against the conduct of Allied Bombing." It is from this remarkably forgetful minute that the subtitle of this documentary account is taken. For the first time, the full story, ommitting nothing, of the historical background to this cruel blow and of its unexpected political consequences, is told. First three, and now forty years' research in England, Germany, and the U.S.A., and the active cooperation of the military authorities in London, Washington, and Moscow, produce a detailed account of this tragedy.

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David Irving - Accident, The Death of General Siko rski (1967).jpg

j. angielski

Tragiczna śmierć generała Sikorskiego w katastrofie lotniczej w 1943 r. wywołała wiele sporów i domysłów. Nieszczęśliwy wypadek czy sabotaż? Jeśli sabotaż, to kto go dokonał: wywiad niemiecki, sowiecki, czy angielski? W swoim klasycznym dziele wybitny historyk brytyjski David Irving rekonstruuje przebieg tragedii oraz opisuje jej pokłosie, nie pomijając najdrobniejszych, niekiedy rewelacyjnych, szczegółów.

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William L. O'Neill - World War II, A Student Compa nion (1999).jpg

Grade 9 Up-A readable, concise, and informative book. Organized alphabetically with brief articles ranging in length from a single paragraph to over four pages, the book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and reproductions. The text will answer readers' questions and probably inspire further research. Almost every article is cross-referenced and contains a bibliography. Minor problems include occasional moments of editorializing and some quirkiness in the discussion of "Motion Pictures." Although the information presented is pretty standard and much of it might be found in a good encyclopedia, students will find it helpful to have everything in one easy-to-use volume.

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Kagero - Topshots 34 - Dodge WC51 (2007).jpg

A photograph history of the Dodg WC51 Weapons Carrier, with 139 colour and black and white photographs, English text, and a 1:35 decal sheet absolutely free.

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Brian Poling - MG-42 SA. Belt-Fed Semi-Automatic R ifle (2004).jpg

The MG-42 SA is a highly complex and sophisticated system that requires knowledgeable operators. Full and complete adherence to the following instructions is an absolute necessity for safe and responsible use of the MG-42 SA.

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Osprey - Automotive - G. N. Georgano - World War T wo Military Vehicles (1994).jpg

Osprey Automotive UK 1994. Hard cover dust wrapper 208pp b&w and colour photos. Very good+. Covers military vehicles pre war in all the major countries involved in the conflict, and covers the great variety of soft-skinned vehicles used during WWII by Great Britain and her commonwealth, US, Germany, Italy, France, Soviet Union and Japan.

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Waffen-Arsenal 105 - Bernard Wiersch - VW-Kubelwag en und VW-Schwimmwagen (1987).jpg

Based on the concepts of designer Hannes Tripple, and his Type 2SG 6 amphibious pioneer vehicle, in 1940 Professor Ferdinand Porsche began the development of an amphibian his own. His first vehicle was basically a sealed body Kübelwagen, with a propeller shaft added to the rear and the addition of all wheel drive. This prototype was designated Type 128/1. By the time the 128/5 appeared, what we come to recognize as a schwimmwagen was born. The production version of the 128 retained Kübelwagen style seats and all weather side curtains. By the end of 1941 30 Type 128 vehicles had been delivered to army pioneer units. In 1941 further development on the type 128 was requested by the SS-Führungshauptamt to replace their reconnaissance motorcycles /sidecars. This refinement of the design resulted in the type 166. A total of 14,276 type 166s were produced by wars end, the first 125 by Porsche, the remainder by Volkswagen (Drivers Wanted!).

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