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Alexander McKee

    25 luglio 1918 – 22 luglio 1992

    Alexander McKee non fu un uomo accondiscendente; osò criticare numerose icone militari, politiche, economiche, mediatiche e accademiche, mantenendo sempre una mente aperta. Era un fanatico della precisione nelle sue opere, smascherando senza sosta resoconti inaccurati, di parte o superficiali e agende nascoste. Come autodidatta, si dilettava particolarmente nell'evidenziare le mancanze di integrità e nel criticare gli accademici privi di esperienza pratica. McKee li esortò a cercare conoscenza tra la gente comune e nel mondo reale, testando così empiricamente le loro teorie. Esaminò meticolosamente testimonianze oculari e materiali d'archivio, portando alla luce verità dietro caricature consolidate e 'castelli in aria' accademici.

    Alexander McKee
    Der Untergang der Heeresgruppe Rommel
    De Spaanse Armada
    Strike From the Sky. The Battle of Britain Story
    Black Saturday
    Wreck of the Medusa
    Caen, Anvil of Victory
    • Caen, Anvil of Victory

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      The D-Day landings of June 6th 1944 did not bring immediate victory, that first foothold on French soil was won at enormous cost and for the next two months a fierce battle raged for control of the key town of Caen. Using the eye-witness accounts of those who took part in the fighting, both Allied and German, and of the French civilians caught up in the conflict Alexander McKee reconstructs the struggle to secure the Allied position in Europe. With fearful losses on both sides (and among the civilians) the Battle of Caen ranks as one of the most terrible episodes of World War Two.

      Caen, Anvil of Victory
    • Wreck of the Medusa

      The Tragic Story of the Death Raft

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      In July, 1816, a French frigate ran aground on a sandbar forty miles off the coast of Africa. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After twelve days of riots, mutiny, murder, and, ultimately, cannibalism, only fifteen were alive.

      Wreck of the Medusa
    • Black Saturday

      • 182pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      In the early hours of Saturday, October 14th, 1939, just after the outbreak of the War, the Royal Navy suffered a stunning loss. The battleship Royal Oak, stationed inside the main base of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, was shaken by a number of explosions. She became a furnace, rolled over and within minutes, had gone to the bottom, with nearly 800 men trapped inside. This daring feat of arms was eagerly seized upon by the Nazi propaganda service and they acclaimed Lieutenant Prien of U-47 as their first hero of the War. Hero because he had penetrated the defenses of ‘Impregnable Scapa’, where every previous attempt had failed.

      Black Saturday
    • Am 6. Juni 1944 setzten die alliierten Streitkräfte zur Invasion in der Normandie an. Dieser Klassiker des Motorbuch Verlages beschäftigt sich mit den Kämpfen nach der Landung in Frankreich. Einen Schwerpunkt der spannend geschilderten Ereignisse bilden die schweren Gefechte zwischen britisch-kanadischen und deutschen Verbänden der Heeresgruppe Rommel um die Stadt Caen, der eine Schlüsselstellung zukam. Der Autor, selbst Teilnehmer der Kämpfe auf britischer Seite, wertete für diesen Titel zahlreiche Zeugenaussagen und Verbandschroniken aus. Der Sunday Express schrieb zum Erscheinen dieses Buches: »Eine glänzend geschriebene und tief bewegende Darstellung des Infernos. Ein Bericht über Tapferkeit und über die Schrecken des Krieges«.

      Der Untergang der Heeresgruppe Rommel
    • Na zadním přebalu této knihy se uvádí: Tato kniha představuje závěrečný účet bojů o rozhodující mosty na Rýně a základní četbu pro každého, kdo se snaží porozumět obratům ve vývoji druhé světové války...... ale především se jedná o výpovědi jednotlivých účastníků těchto bojů.

      Boje o mosty na Rýnu 1940, 1944, 1945