Résultats pour "Ring" dans Seconde Guerre mondiale

Traveling 40,000 miles and inspiring love and despair in equal measure, Lt. Minter Dial's lost Annapolis ring altered the lives of many. The spellbinding account of one man's obsession with a family mystery - and the product of decades of research and inquiries - The Last Ring Home explores author Minter Dial's pursuit of the true story of his namesake, his late grandfather Lt. Minter Dial, USN, a celebrated war hero whose suffering and trauma nearly buried his memory forever.

The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson. As a tough...

On the day that Roswell K. Doughty graduated from Boston University, he also received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army of the United States of America. It was not until 1942 that he was called to active duty—to face some of the toughest fighting of the Second World War. He subsequently saw action in North Africa, then at the disastrous Salerno landings in Italy - where the Allied divisions involved suffered 4,000 casualties—about which the author reveals that suspected intelligence breaches led to the Allies' plans becoming known to the Germans.

Erwin Rommel, soprannominato "La volpe del deserto", è senza dubbio uno dei più celebri generali della Germania di Hitler durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Il saggio storico ripercorre la carriera del comandante tedesco, dagli inizi come soldato sul fronte occidentale nella Prima guerra mondiale, al suo ruolo determinante nella campagna italiana a Caporetto, fino alla campagna d'Africa. Con una carriera così eccellente, quali sono state le cause che lo hanno spinto a provocare la sua stessa morte?