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  • The Red Knight Of Germany - The Story Of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird [Illustrated Edition]

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    [16 Illustrations, portraits of the author, author's unit and plane.]In the small city of Wiesbaden in southwest Germany, a small headstone proclaims that the incumbent of its grave is Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. Small fanfare and panoply for the far-famed and feared Red Baron; a hunter even during his childhood, he took to the skies above France and Flanders in 1915 following ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during the First World War. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming one of the first ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight of Germany

    The Story of Baron Von Richthofen

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Officially credited with 80 air combat victories, Manfred von Richthofen was considered the Ace of Aces of WWI.Richthofen transferred into the Imperial German Flying Corps in 1915. Just a year later, in November 1916, he claimed his greatest victory: that of the British Ace Lanoe Hawker. Afterwards, Hawker’s machine-gun rested above Richthofen’s bedroom door.While a distinguished fighter pilot, ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight of Germany

    Enriched edition. The Legendary Red Baron: A Tale of WWI Aviation and Heroism

    by Floyd Gibbons, Alicia Hammond ...
    Floyd Gibbons' "The Red Knight of Germany" presents a vivid and gripping account of the life and exploits of Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary German fighter pilot of World War I. Through a blend of firsthand narrative and detailed anecdotal evidence, Gibbons employs a prose style that is both engaging and evocative, capturing the thrill of aerial dogfights and the harsh realities of war. The ... Read more

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  • Blood and Ink

    An Italo-Ethiopian War Diary

    by W. W. Chaplin ...
    In the history books, the Italo-Ethiopian War will doubtless be entered as one of the strangest wars ever waged. History will record the spectacle of a primitive people—haphazardly armed and lacking in modern military technique—seeking to resist Mussolini's modern war machine by tribal cunning on the battlefield and up-to-date intrigue in the diplomatic councils of Europe.But what the history ... Read more

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  • "And they thought we wouldn't fight"

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Series series The World At War
    Marshal Foch, the commander of eleven million bayonets, has written that no man is more qualified than Gibbons to tell the true story of the Western Front. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, has said that it was Gibbons' great opportunity to give the people in America a life-like picture of the work of the American soldier in France. The key to the book is ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

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    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the fifth volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany. Taken from the original court transcript this volume covers the proceedings from 21st January to 1st February 1946 and represents an essential primary source for scholars and general readers alike. The transcripts ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 3: The Policy to Exterminate the Jews

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the third volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany. Taken from the original court transcript this volume covers the proceedings from 17th December 1945 to 4th January 1946 and represents an essential primary source for scholars and general readers alike. The ... Read more

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  • Berlin Diary

    by William L. Shirer ...
    The author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII.By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness.More than two decades prior to the publication of his ... Read more

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  • I Knew Hitler

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    A first hand account of life with Hitler by a survivor of The Night of the Long Knives this important and often overlooked volume was originally published as" I Knew Hitler" by Kurt Ludecke in 1938. The book was out of print for 75 years prior to the appearance of this new Illustrated Edition .Edited and introduced by Emmy Award Winning writer Bob Carruthers " I Knew Hitler" the illustrated ... Read more

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