They were among the most powerful men in Germany from 1933 to
1945 and answered only to Adolf Hitler. Remarkably, even in Germany,
no comprehensive biographical study of the NSDAP’s regional leaders,
the Gauleiters, has ever been published. Drawing on a wealth of
documents, many from original personnel files in the Bundesarchiv in
Berlin, the authors present highly detailed and fascinating
biographies of these men who governed Germany. The text is
complemented by numerous photos, many unpublished, plus examples of
autographs. A lengthy section provides information on all of the 43
Gaue (regions) of Nazi Germany.
In early August
1974, after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to
salvage the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129, sunk in
March 1968, from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean. The
audacious effort was undertaken with the cover of an undersea
mining operation sponsored by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.
“Azorian”, incorrectly identified as Project Jennifer by the
press, was the most ambitious ocean engineering endeavor
attempted. U.S. intelligence had determined the precise location
and developed the Hughes Glomar Explorer to raise the submarine
from a depth of 16,400 feet. The remarkable effort was conducted
with Soviet naval ships a few hundred yards from the lift ship.
New in card cover - 264pp, illustrations
U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2012
ISBN 9781591146681
Soviet Counterintelligence against the
Nazis, 1941–1945. While Russian armies fought furiously to
defeat the Wehrmacht, Stalin’s security services waged a
ruthless secret war against Hitler’s spies, as well as against
the Soviet population, involving the capture, torture,
deportation, execution, and “doubling” of tens of thousands of
agents. Robert Stephan combines declassified U.S. intelligence
documents, captured German records, and Russian sources to
reveal the magnitude and scope of the brutal but sophisticated
Soviet counterintelligence war against Nazi Germany.
New in card cover - 250pp,
34 photos, map
University Pres of Kansas, 2011
ISBN 9780700618248
This is the first
English translation of Rolf Michaelis's book on this obscure World
War II SS unit. In July 1939, SS-Heimwehr Danzig was formed from
members of the III./4. SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Ostmark," as well
as from Danzig citizen volunteers to reinforce other existing
Danzig units for the impending invasion of Poland. This book not
only describes the political background that led to their
deployment in September 1939, but also contains the combat
recollections of former members and 100 photographs, and
documents.
HEALING IN HELL: THE MEMOIRS OF A
FAR EASTERN POW MEDIC
by Ken Adams
Ken Adams was sent to the Far East during the
Second World War and saw action on the Malay Peninsula before being
captured at Singapore. As a trained medic he was initially assigned
to work at Changi Hospital, where conditions were bad enough, but
this was only the start of the three-year ordeal and many moves and
far worse camps in Thailand followed. In this harrowing book Ken
describes the terrible conditions endured at the hands of the
Japanese and Korean guards and, worst of all, the Kempetai secret
police. An exceptional memoir that demands reading.
