The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17
The full book behind the PQ.17, scatter-order, Broome, Dowding, and Submarine Tracking Room archive trail.
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Convoy PQ.17
Convoy PQ.17, sailing from Iceland to Archangel in June, became the most disastrous Arctic convoy when First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound ordered it to scatter on 4 July due to intelligence suggesting German surface ships.
confidence BBattle of Stalingrad
In autumn the German Sixth Army drove into Stalingrad on the Volga and was encircled when Soviet armour broke through the Romanian Third Army on the Don bend.
confidence BThe Trail of the Fox
The Trail of the Fox is David Irving's biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, published by William Morrow in the United States with the subtitle "The Search for the True Field Marshal Rommel".
confidence BCSDIC reports on German generals
CSDIC (Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre) reports documented conversations between captured German generals and other high-ranking prisoners of war held in British facilities during and after World War II.
confidence ADresden Death-Toll Provenance
The death toll from Dresden's February 1945 bombing became a contested historical figure, with early estimates reaching hundreds of thousands before German police documentation revealed substantially lower numbers.
confidence BArthur Harris and area bombing
Arthur Harris was the head of RAF Bomber Command during the area-bombing campaign against German cities in the latter part of the war.
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Christa Schroeder
Christa Schroeder was Hitler's senior personal secretary from 1933 until the last days in the bunker, and was Irving's "other best source" inside the Fuehrer's female household alongside Traudl Junge.
confidence AHans Krebs
General Hans Krebs was the last Chief of the German Army General Staff, taking over from Heinz Guderian in March 1945 and remaining at his post in Hitler's Berlin bunker until the end.
confidence BHeinz Linge
Heinz Linge was Adolf Hitler's personal valet and an SS Captain who served the Fuehrer for ten years from 1935-1945, attended him to his suicide in the Berlin bunker, was captured with Otto Guensche by Soviet troops, and spent.
confidence AHitler at the Berghof
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's mountain residence above Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, the principal alternative to the Reich Chancellery as a working headquarters of the Third Reich.
confidence AHitler bunker April 1945
The Hitler bunker in April 1945 was the buried Fuehrerbunker in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, connected to the larger Voss Bunker which could house two thousand civilians.
confidence AHitler last will and testament
Adolf Hitler's last will and testament refers to two documents dictated in the Berlin Fuehrerbunker and signed by Hitler in the presence of witnesses including his Luftwaffe adjutant Nicolaus von Below: a personal will, and.
confidence BKarl Brandt
Karl Brandt was Adolf Hitler's escort surgeon (Begleitarzt) and lived a decade and a half within the Fuehrer's intimate household.
confidence BOtto Guensche
Otto Guensche was Adolf Hitler's SS personal adjutant from the later war years until the suicide in the Berlin bunker on 30 April 1945.
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Hitler's War (2025)
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The Churchill volume behind Most Secret Source, Bletchley/SIS, and British war-leadership archive references.
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