Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. With meticulous detail, Author Ryan (The Longest Day) paints an exciting, often terrifying account of the final death agonies of Berlin and Hitler's Third Reich during World...
...words, he managed in 40 years to publish 45 books on every subject from marionettes to the slave trade, all lucidly worded, all carefully researched. Two novels, Payment Deferred and The African Queen, became film classics, and his cynical 1936 study of the military mind, The General, was reportedly Hitler's favorite novel-dejr Führer took it seriously...
Died. Pierre J. Huss, 63, longtime Hearst byliner who catalogued the Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
This mighty bombardment, never before equaled on the eastern front, began at precisely 4 a.m., Monday, April 16, 1945. History records it as the beginning of the battle for Berlin, the final assault against the capital of Hitler's Reich. As this thoroughly researched and often exciting book makes clear, Berlin was a fortress only in Hitler's fevered imagination. Incredibly, there was no plan to protect Berlin against attack, no defenses worth mentioning, and very few troops...
...free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter. D-Day Dodgers, and that comprehensive speculation on the genitalia of the German High Command which was sung to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March, Hitler Had Only...