This book is filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania, including: Tiger I and II heavy tanks and their variants (Germany), Jagdpanther tank destroyer (Germany), Maus super-heavy tank (Germany), Toldi IIa medium tank (Hungary), AB 41 armored car (Italy), Ho-Ni III self-propelled gun ...
Examines the folk origins of Christmas in the Keystone State. This book records holiday traditions from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century, including mummers, Christ-Kindel and Kriss Kringle, Christmas trees and trimming, Belsnickels, the Philadelphia carnival of horns, and Moravian pyramids and putzes.
On December 16, 1944, when Hitler launched a surprise attack in the Ardennes to start the Battle of the Bulge, the green U.S. 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Infantry Division occupied a critical road junction at Losheimergraben, Belgium.
This highly popular book offers the separating servicemember the most up-to-date information on planning a smooth transition from the military to well-paying civilian jobs. Includes experience assessment, job market, resume writing, interviewing tips, and benefits and salary negotiations.
A Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, 1944-45
Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, young Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father, a German-speaking Mennonite who came to Canada from Ukraine and believed the Third Reich offered a better life than Canada. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division.
Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq
* How does a woman adapt to life back at home when returning from war-torn Iraq? These deeply personal and emotional accounts of more than a dozen American soldiers returning home from the war in Iraq includes contributions from women from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.
From embracing solar energy and wind power to using fluorescent bulbs and growing vegetable gardens, this book presents ways to live a more ecological and economical lifestyle. It shows how to cut heating and cooling costs, utilize solar energy, construct non-flush toilets and solar showers, collect rainwater, and apply permaculture techniques.
Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge focus on the center, where the 101st Airborne held Bastogne, but the Germans' main thrust actually occurred to the north, where Sepp Dietrich's 6th SS Panzer Army stormed through the Losheim Gap on its way to Liege and Antwerp.
