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Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army by Hans Wijers
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Compilation of first-person German accounts from the battle of Stalingrad
Depicts life for soldiers trapped in the city by Soviet forces
Vivid accounts of brutal hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of Stalingrad
Germans confronted not only enemy troops but also hunger and frigid weather
Includes rare photos
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Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force's Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943 by Ivo De Jong
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Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland
Mission came just days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid
The Americans expected an easy mission, but it proved to be anything but
Loaded with firsthand accounts from pilots and crews of bombers and fighters
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