Blood in the forest
| Titel: | Blood in the forest : the end of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket / Vincent Hunt |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Solihull, West Midlands, England : Helion & Company, 2017 |
| Umfang: | 268 Seiten : Illustrationen (teils farbig), Karten ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 9781911512066 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Plates
- p. vi
- List of Maps
- p. ix
- Preface
- p. x
- Acknowledgements
- p. xii
- Notes on Language
- p. xv
- 1
- Maybe it's Easier to Forget
- p. 17
- 2
- Leaving Riga
- p. 25
- 3
- God, Thy Earth is Aflame
- p. 36
- 4
- A Taste of What's to Come
- p. 46
- 5
- One Man's War Museum
- p. 57
- 6
- Now it's Total War
- p. 62
- 7
- The Men Who Fought for Hitler
- p. 76
- 8
- From Refugee to President
- p. 86
- 9
- Winter Joins the Fight
- p. 92
- 10
- The Christmas Battles
- p. 99
- 11
- A Morning with the Bomb Squad
- p. 107
- 12
- Bunkers in the Snow
- p. 113
- 13
- The Silent Stones of Zlëkas
- p. 124
- 14
- Liepaja and its Troubled History
- p. 134
- 15
- Karosta Prison and the Dunes at ¿kede
- p. 145
- 16
- The Baltic Coast - North to Ventspils
- p. 151
- 17
- The SS State in Dundaga
- p. 167
- 18
- A Beautiful Beach where the Tanks Reached the Sea
- p. 178
- 19
- If These Trees Could Tell Stories
- p. 188
- 20
- The Last Resting Place of a Soldier
- p. 194
- 21
- Even the Dead Were Bombed
- p. 203
- 22
- Capitulation and Defeat
- p. 210
- 23
- Peace, of a Sort
- p. 221
- 24
- Escape from a Death Camp
- p. 234
- 25
- Only the Memory of Victory Remains
- p. 242
- Appendix 1
- The Barcelona of the Baltics
- p. 250
- Bibliography
- p. 255
- Index
- p. 260
