Years to VictoryMcKay, 1973 - 507 Seiten "Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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... looked militarily smart , despite having had to drive more than a hundred miles on short notice and with very little sleep . Hitler , in contrast , looked tired , worn , nervous . He held a handful of colored pencils which he toyed with ...
... looked militarily smart , despite having had to drive more than a hundred miles on short notice and with very little sleep . Hitler , in contrast , looked tired , worn , nervous . He held a handful of colored pencils which he toyed with ...
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... looked over the typed draft , making sure , quick emendations here and there . He came to the last sentence : " The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today . " He didn't like that very well . It seemed weak ...
... looked over the typed draft , making sure , quick emendations here and there . He came to the last sentence : " The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today . " He didn't like that very well . It seemed weak ...
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... looked as though the San Francisco Conference had failed . At this juncture the emaciated figure of a familiar friend emerges from the wings . Harry Hopkins had left the hospital at Rochester , Minnesota , against his doctors ' orders ...
... looked as though the San Francisco Conference had failed . At this juncture the emaciated figure of a familiar friend emerges from the wings . Harry Hopkins had left the hospital at Rochester , Minnesota , against his doctors ' orders ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
Urheberrecht | |
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