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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Daniel Jarosch (Author photograph). xiii, [3], 288 pages. Illustrations. Author's Note.… More...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Daniel Jarosch (Author photograph). xiii, [3], 288 pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Eric Lichtblau (born 1965) is an American journalist, reporting for The New York Times in the Washington bureau, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Yorker, and the CNN network's investigative news unit. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with the New York Times for his reporting on warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. He also was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of Russia and the Trump campaign. He is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, and The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States. He was recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a goldmine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, Derived from a Kirkus review: A real-life World War II spy thriller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Lichtblau narrates the exciting story of Freddy Mayer (1926-2016), from his childhood in Germany before the rise of the Nazis to his escapades in the OSS. His family was lucky to escape from Germany, arriving in New York in 1938. After Pearl Harbor, he tried to enlist, hoping to use his German training as a mechanic, but he was rejected as an "enemy alien." Soon, the need for able-bodied men eased the restrictions, and Mayer's older brother was called up. Freddy appealed, and the draft board took him instead, allowing his brother to finish college. His dauntlessness, abilities, and outlandish maneuvers brought him to the attention of the OSS, and after months of training, he arrived in Africa in June 1944. His partner was Hans Wynberg, a Dutch Jew and Morse code expert. Frustrated at the lack of action, Mayer came up with audacious ideas for missions. While his superiors never doubted his motives, they worried that he had no limits. Finally, they engaged in a mission into the Austrian Tyrol, but there were no local resisters to meet their landing; they needed a guide. Thus Mayer was sent to a Nazi POW camp to find a German ready to turn to their side. He struck gold with Franz Weber, a German deserter born in the Alps. Mayer, Wynberg, and Weber ended up in Weber's hometown, where some local citizens helped them. And that's just the backstory. Freddy was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and waterboarded for days. Remarkably, he persuaded the Nazi commander for the region to surrender, completing one of the most successful OSS missions of the war. Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of ninety-four, Return to the Reich is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism. Recounting one of the most successful espionage missions, Lichtblau delivers the goods, shining a bright spotlight on a truly unique character: Mayer was aggressive, ingenious, and often disregarded the rules, to great effect. An enthralling page-turner., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019, 3, New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [2], 267, [3] pages. Footnotes. DJ edges worn: small tears, small chips missing, creases. Daniel O. Graham (April 13, 1925 - December 31, 1995) was a U.S. Army officer. Graham was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Medford. He attended college at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the army's Command and General Staff College, and graduated in 1946. He also attended the U.S. Army War College and ultimately rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the United States Army. Graham served in Germany, Korea, and Vietnam and received several decorations including some of the highest the United States military bestows: the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal during his distinguished 30-year military career. From 1963-1966, Graham worked for the CIA in the Office of National Estimates. During the Vietnam war from 1967-1968 he was chief of the army's military intelligence estimates. Graham served again in the Office of National Estimates during 1968-1971, then served as director of collections for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1971. During 1973-1974 Graham served as deputy director of the CIA under Director William Colby and from 1974-1976 he was the director of the DIA. General Graham is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. He was chairman of the American Space Frontier Committee and the Coalition for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and co-chairman of the Coalition for Peace through Strength. After he retired, Graham's goal was to defend against nuclear attack. This book gives a thorough examination of the facts and arguments surrounding the question--Shall America be Defended? Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear war is so total as to produce only total losers. A generation of American leaders has not considered the possibility that either the United States or the Soviet Union could actually use nuclear weapons against the other to defend itself or its interests. All that is necessary, they believe, is for both sides to possess sufficient weapons to destroy each other. Since about 1974, however, the United States no longer had the capacity to inflict as much harm on the Soviet Union as the Soviet Union could inflict on the United States. The Soviets have built missiles that can destroy a sufficient part of America's nuclear arsenal so as to limit sharply our capacity to retaliate. Equally as important as the particulars of SALT II is the spirit of the treaty. That spirit is the doctrine is that safety for both the United States and the Soviet Union lies in the absolute vulnerability of each to the other's weapons. As long as American officials entertain this doctrine, they will not want to take advantage of opportunities for the defense of America. Written to lay to rest the widespread notion that no defense is possible against nuclear weapons, General Graham examines the effect of nuclear weapons on U.S. military strategy, the strategy of the USSR for winning wars in the nuclear age, the Soviet's plans for the protection of its civilian population, and the vulnerability of American nuclear forces to a surprise attack. The Soviet Union, the author argues, is well along the road to creating a military reality in which a nuclear war, World War III, would do less damage to the Soviet Union than any previous war., Arlington House Publishers, 1979, 2.75, Baltimore: Clearfield Co. New. 1981. Paperback. Index. 4 parts in 1. . 288 pages. Most German and Swiss emigrants to the New World during the middle of the 19th century left from the Port of Bremen. Sadly, those lists were destroyed during the final year of World War II. The lists that have survived from this period pertain to the port of Hamburg and are in the custody of the Hamburg police authorities. (For the early years of this migration, the original Hamburg lists do not exist; instead, researchers must rely on transcriptions made by police clerks in large bound registers. ) Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register. The lists themselves were published originally as the first three Parts of this volume, each of which concluded with a surname index. The fourth and final Part contains the author's supplemental notes on the emigrants' places of origin-a heroic effort on the part of Mr. Smith to differentiate among the 1,750 places of origin mentioned in the police lists. Since the original lists do not distinguish among villages of the same name, the author provides his own alphabetical listing of every place name from eastern and central Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary from which an emigrant may have originated-complete with latitude and longitude coordinates. ., Clearfield Co, 1981, 6<

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Baltimore: Clearfield Co. New. 1981. Paperback. Index. 4 parts in 1. . 288 pages. Most German and Swiss emigrants to the New World during the middle of the 19th century left from the Por… More...

Baltimore: Clearfield Co. New. 1981. Paperback. Index. 4 parts in 1. . 288 pages. Most German and Swiss emigrants to the New World during the middle of the 19th century left from the Port of Bremen. Sadly, those lists were destroyed during the final year of World War II. The lists that have survived from this period pertain to the port of Hamburg and are in the custody of the Hamburg police authorities. (For the early years of this migration, the original Hamburg lists do not exist; instead, researchers must rely on transcriptions made by police clerks in large bound registers. ) Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register. The lists themselves were published originally as the first three Parts of this volume, each of which concluded with a surname index. The fourth and final Part contains the author's supplemental notes on the emigrants' places of origin-a heroic effort on the part of Mr. Smith to differentiate among the 1,750 places of origin mentioned in the police lists. Since the original lists do not distinguish among villages of the same name, the author provides his own alphabetical listing of every place name from eastern and central Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary from which an emigrant may have originated-complete with latitude and longitude coordinates. ., Clearfield Co, 1981, 6<

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Genealogical Publishing Company], Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 306, [GW: 753g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

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[EAN: 9780806352787], Neubuch, [PU: Genealogical Publishing Company], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register., Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780806352787

Kartoniert, 306 Seiten, 280mm x 210mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about… More...

Kartoniert, 306 Seiten, 280mm x 210mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7, 000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register. Versandkostenfreie Lieferung, [PU: Genealogical Publishing]<