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Charles Whiting

    Een productieve Britse auteur, bekend om zijn uitgebreide militaire geschiedenissen en fictie, Whiting putte diep uit zijn eigen ervaringen als sergeant in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zijn schrijven biedt een authentieke en levendige weergave van het conflict, waarbij de realiteit van oorlogvoering en de psychologische tol nauwgezet worden gedetailleerd. Of hij nu inging op feitelijke verslagen of spannende verhalen creëerde, Whiting bezat een uniek vermogen om lezers onder te dompelen in de geladen sfeer van de strijd. Zijn nalatenschap ligt in zijn meeslepende verkenning van het militaire leven en de geschiedenis.

    Charles Whiting
    44 In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes
    Death´s head
    The Criminal Mind
    Claws of steel
    The Devil's Shield
    Forced March
    • "SS Assault Regiment Wotan was training and recuperating after its grueling struggle in Russia. None of those men straining up the glassy slope under the eyes of their commander, Colonel Horst Geier, guessed that already they had been singled out for a new mission ... German High Command knew that the British would launch an attack on Dieppe, and had realised that there was only one regiment that could be trusted to halt them in time and defend the vital coastal battery: the soldiers of Wotan." -- Back cover

      Forced March
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    • In the grey September of 1944, colonel von Dodenburg's SS battle group Wotan became the Fuhrer's Fire Brigade, the crack unit of the German Wehrmacht, to be thrown into any battle as a last desperate measure to redress the balance. As the Allied armies closed in on Germany's holy city of Aachen, even the most optimistic said that Hitler's war was lost. Only Colonel von Dodenburg's black uniformed troopers, with their dreaded silver death's head badge, were convinced that they could still save the day.

      The Devil's Shield
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    • The Criminal Mind

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      The harrowing memoir of forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan HardingAs a forensic psychiatrist, Duncan Harding has worked on some of the most harrowing cases one can imagine. spending time in the prison service, the Old Bailey and at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. His is a life spent working with serial killers, psychopaths, children who kill their family and friends. From notorious cases of gang violence and repeated domestic abuse, to a twelve year old boy who set fire to his classmate's face, Harding reckons daily with humankind's unspeakable capacity for sadistic violence.Yet it is the humanity of these perpetrators that is the most shocking - how, with the wrong push at the wrong time, so many people are mere inches away from similar brutality. The people Harding has met and the stories they tell paint a chilling picture of modern Britain, and the paths our society leads people down towards the most horrific of acts.

      The Criminal Mind
      4,3
    • Hitler's Lair

      • 218bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      This omnibus includes 'Hitler's Lair' and 'The Screaming Eagles' - two novels set during the World War II.

      Hitler's Lair
      4,0
    • Sonety je básnická sbírka 154 sonetů, kterou napsal William Shakespeare. Jejich tématy jsou láska, krása, politika a pomíjivost života a citů. Souběžný anglický text. 22-098-76

      William Shakespeare Sonety
      4,2
    • The Home Front. Germany

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      The Germans toughened themselves for Nazism, but then suffered greatly in the bombed-out ruins of their cities

      The Home Front. Germany
      3,8