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Submarine warfare began tentatively during the American Civil War. Robert Whitehead's invention of the torpedo introduced the weapon later used most frequently by submarines. World War I proved the value of submarines, ensuring their widespread employment in the next conflict. Submarine Warfare in World War I: The History and Legacy of the German U-boats and Allied Efforts to Counter Them analyzes the underwater fighting. You will learn about submarine warfare in World War I like never before.

Do you want to travel with ease and elegance, getting what you need, when you need it? This is the solution for your communication problems when you travel to Germany.

Do you want to master German? Do you like urban fantasy novels? Are you tired of reading boring textbooks in order to learn German? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, this is a book you should consider. We introduce a one-of-a-kind learning tool that will enhance your comprehension, improve your German vocabulary and grammar, and let you enjoy an urban fantasy novel.

In 1916, a nondescript freighter left Germany carrying 465 submarine mines, 16 torpedoes, eight cannons, 1,400 shells, a seaplane, and 346 men who believed they were embarking on a suicide mission. That ship became known to Allied forces as the Wolf, and by the time it returned to Germany more than a year later, it was home to more than 800 men, women, and children from 25 different nations, including its own crew.

On 16 July 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lion: his plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion hinged entirely on the destruction of the RAF and the Royal Navy, but even as Hitler's plans swung into action and England, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied her defences, the Battle of Britain began and in just a few months Germany had lost all hope of dominating England's skies and with it, the key to the invasion. On 17 September, 1940, Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion indefinitely and the entire episode faded from memory.

When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue and constant deprivation. Posted to the crack Grosse Deutschland division, with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade, he enters a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down, and all that matters is the brute will to survive.

One traitor. One mission. One final war inside Germany’s intelligence elite For years, Major Sophie Decker has fought to expose a powerful traitor buried deep in the German government. Twice he tried to destroy her. Twice he failed. Now, with a direct order from the Chancellor, Decker leads Department 89, Germany’s most secretive black ops unit, on a final mission to uncover him—and end him. But her enemy has backup: a rogue investigative journalist with one goal—destroy Decker and take the Chancellor down with her. If Decker fails, the traitor wins. And the republic burns. Praise ...

In these linked tales about the Cuban-American experience and the immigrant experience in general, Ana Menendez has instantly established herself as a natural storyteller who "probes with steady humor and astute political insight the dreams versus the realities of her characters" (Elle). From the prizewinning title story - a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak - unfolds a series of family snapshots that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past.

Learn Every Style of European Cooking with 1 Box Set: French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Irish, and English! So are you ready for a delicious European adventure? Preparing delicious European food is so simple you absolutely must learn these recipes. This collection of cookbooks is over 100 delicious European recipes! You will learn everything is there is to know about Authentic European cooking. German Dumplings, Greek Chicken Souvlaki, Beef Wellington, Irish Rustic Stews, French Spices, and Royal Desserts! This is the ultimate collection of European cookbooks. The Easy European Cookbook ...

Are you looking for a fun way to teach your child new words? Then you are in the right place! Perfect for young learners! Bonus — they learn some first-aid too! Suchen Sie nach einer unterhaltsamen Möglichkeit, Ihrem Kind neue Wörter beizubringen? Dann sind Sie bei uns genau richtig. Perfekt für kleine Lerner! Bonus — sie lernen auch etwas über Erste Hilfe! After watching his dad do heart surgery, Maxx goes to play soccer with Arielle and Lucas. While warming up, Lucas gets slammed in the head by a soccer ball causing a bloody nose. Lucas is a mess!

Besuchen Sie das berühmte Gamble House in Kalifornien und erkunden Sie seine Geschichte in Design und Handwerkskunst und begleiten Sie eine Rinderzüchterin in Montana wie sie das Leben mit ihrer Herde, egal ob frühmorgens oder bei widrigem Wetter, bewältigt.

Martin Luther, full of compassion, grief, disappointment, and frustration, turns away from his entreaties to and debates with church leaders and writes instead to the German political leaders. With extreme clarity, Luther explains in this letter the unbalanced nature and habits of the religious institution - certain at this point that the German people could only be set free from this continual and escalating religious destruction through the intervention of their government.

A late-night visitor tells Suzanne that something seems to be wrong with a research program she is involved with. He’s right. The CEO of a Southern California biopharmaceutical company disappears at sea under suspicious circumstances. Shortly afterwards, the Chief Scientific Officer from a competing company is brutally murdered. Both of the victims, and many of the suspects, were engaged in canine agility training. With Roger busy elsewhere, this case falls to Suzanne, who takes over the investigation and the responsibilities of the missing CEO. Fortunately, she has Romeo, a German ...

After 1933, as the terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis tried to keep their heads down and protect their families - they moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbours, and tried to work out what was really happening in the Reich, surrounded as they were by Nazi propaganda and fake news.

The thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat. One of Britain's most remarkable victories of the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of lightning military campaigns. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph of Nazi tyranny. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail.

A Nazi soldier has come to Fort Robinson as a prisoner of war. When he meets the daughter of a local rancher, he falls in love but doubts there can be any future for an American girl and a German POW. Far from home and ostracized by those around him, the soldier comes to know the God who loves unconditionally. Can the woman do so as well?

This is the concluding volume of the history of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, a relatively unknown organization that was born in battle during the last year of the war and fought exclusively on the Eastern Front. After their successful defense of Warsaw and the Vistula Front during the fall of 1944, the corps and its two famous Waffen-SS divisions, the Totenkopf and Wiking, as well as several divisions of the German Army, were sent south to reverse the military situation on the Hungarian Front.

Berlin, 1989. The Wall is cracking. History blares from boomboxes and whispers through cassette hiss. And in the chaotic hours after the border opens, two strangers collide under a flickering streetlight, one waving a sign that reads “HOFF = HOPE”, the other clutching a Walkman and a forbidden song. Lena Müller, an East Berlin dreamer with DJ ambitions and a scarf stitched from rebellion, has spent years recording banned music in secret. Jonas Becker, a West Berlin mechanic-poet with a mullet and a KITT replica in his garage, believes in freedom, Hoff, and the radical power of ...

In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union—where the vast majority of German troops fought—to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman.

“Promise me that you will do what I told you. Take good care of your brother.” An elderly man is found lying unresponsive on the street and rushed to the hospital with obvious trauma to the head. No one knows who he is or what happened to him. A hand-written diary is his only possession. In the ICU, he comes under the care of sympathetic night-shift nurse Marie, who, having grown up in an orphanage, feels a kinship with the nameless comatose patient. Attempts to locate the man’s family persuade Marie to find out more about her own fragmented past, and, with any luck, put an end to her...