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1) Saving Zasha
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The Second World War has just ended when Mikhail finds a dying man and his German shepherd, Zasha, in the woods. It's dangerous, some say traitorous, to own a German dog after the war, so Mikhail must keep Zasha a secret to keep her alive. But how long can he get away with it?
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
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Washington Post correspondent Kathy Reilly taps her friend, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to find information on a Mili Petrova, a World War II female sniper in Stalin's Army. As they travel to Russia and the Carpathian Mountains, in the belief that Mili's disappearance was no accident, someone is determined to stop them at any cost.
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World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
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A duel between two World War II snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad. The Russian is Vasily Zaitsev, a Siberian peasant who runs the Red Army's sniper school. He does such a good job, the Germans dispatch master sniper SS Colonel Heinz Thorvald.
10) Stalingrad
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[2019]
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"Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to...
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2021
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Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War Two but of all time--the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941. Often seen as the turning point of the war in Europe, Operation Barbarossa turned allies into mortal enemies, triggering the atrocities that would characterize the Holocaust.