Andreas Ersson Library

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

The striking untold tale of France’s brave, shrewdpermanent vinters who secure and rescued the country’s so much valuable commodity from German plunder in the course of international warfare II.

"To be a Frenchman capability to struggle to your state and its wine."
–Claude Terrail, proprietor, eating place los angeles travel d’Argent

In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and presently the German military started a crusade of pillaging one of many resources the French carry Most worthy: their wine. Like others within the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, however the story in their amazing efforts has remained principally unknown–until now. this can be the exciting and harrowing tale of the French wine manufacturers who undertook creative, bold measures to save lots of their loved plants and bottles because the Germans closed in on them. Wine and struggle illuminates a compelling, little-known bankruptcy of background, and stands as a tribute to awesome people who waged a conflict that, in a truly possible way, stored the spirit of France.

By Jack Higgins

A bartender and nightclub singer are thrown into the midst of a treacherous Nazi plot in war-torn Lisbon

As the Nazi struggle computer prepares to invade England, Hitler plots to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor whereas they shuttle in Portugal, and set up them as puppet monarchs below the thumb of his fascist regime.

But while an American bartender and a tender Jewish nightclub singer capture wind of the scheme, they got down to derail the Nazi conspiracy. As Hitler’s henchmen shut in, their exciting rescue mission—and the incredible aid it receives—will have the facility to show the tide of the Nazi growth towards eu domination.

By Craig L. Symonds

There are few moments in American heritage within which the process occasions tipped so abruptly and so dramatically as on the conflict of halfway. At sunrise of June four, 1942, a rampaging jap army governed the Pacific. by way of sundown, their vaunted provider strength (the Kido Butai) were sunk and their grip at the Pacific have been loosened ceaselessly.

during this completely riveting account of a key second within the heritage of worldwide warfare II, one in all America's major naval historians, Craig L. Symonds paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, braveness, and sacrifice. Symonds starts with the arriving of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating eastern assault, and describes the main occasions resulting in the climactic conflict, together with either Coral Sea--the first conflict in background opposed to opposing provider forces--and Jimmy Doolittle's bold raid of Tokyo. He focuses all through at the humans concerned, supplying telling photographs of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance and diverse different americans, in addition to the major jap figures, together with the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. certainly, Symonds sheds a lot gentle at the facets of eastern culture--such as their single-minded devotion to strive against, which ended in poorly armored planes and insufficient fire-safety measures on their ships--that contributed to their defeat.

The author's account of the conflict itself is masterful, weaving jointly the various disparate threads of attack--attacks which failed within the early going--that eventually created a five-minute window within which 3 of the 4 eastern providers have been mortally wounded, altering the process the Pacific conflict in an eye-blink.

Symonds is the 1st historian to argue that the victory at halfway used to be now not easily an issue of success, stating that Nimitz had equivalent forces, improved intelligence, and the part of shock. Nimitz had a powerful hand, Symonds concludes, and he rightly anticipated to win.

By Mark Stille

This ebook will hide the fierce evening naval battles fought after Guadalcanal among the U.S. military and the Imperial eastern military in the course of past due 1943 because the Allies complex slowly up the Solomons Islands towards the most important eastern naval base at Rabaul. in this interval, numerous vicious activities have been fought round the American beachheads at the islands of latest Georgia, Kolombangara and Vella Lavella within the vital Solomons. those battles featured the main sleek destroyers of either navies. all through so much of 1942, the Imperial army had held a marked part in night-fighting in the course of the six-month lengthy fight for Guadalcanal. A key component of those eastern successes was once their destroyer strength which mixed better education and strategies with the main able torpedo on this planet, identified to the Allies because the "Long Lance". Even into 1943, on the battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara, combined Allied gentle cruiser/destroyer forces have been approximately dealt with via jap destroyers. After those battles, the american citizens determined to forestall chasing jap destroyers with cruisers so the rest of the battles in 1943 (with one exception) have been vintage destroyer duels. The americans nonetheless loved the technical facet supplied to them by way of radar, and now additional new, extra competitive strategies. After 4 extra destroyer duels in the course of the moment 1/2 1943, the ultimate end result was once the defeat of the Imperial Navy's finely informed destroyer strength and the demonstration that the japanese have been not able to prevent the Allies' develop.