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Endlich wieder verfügbar! Sichern Sie sich jetzt die erschütternde Autobiografie des MG-Schützen Heinrich Severloh, die sich weltweit bereits mehr als 60.000 mal verkauft hat! D-Day, 6. Juni 1944. Mit 7.000 Schiffen und 13.000 Flugzeugen starten die Alliierten die größte Landeoperation der Menschheitsgeschichte. Strandabschnitt Omaha Beach: Der MG-Schütze Heinrich "Hein" Severloh befindet sich im Widerstandsnest 62 – das WN 62 –, als 34.000 GIs vor ihm am Strand landen. Neun Stunden lang feuert Severloh unentwegt auf die Angreifer. Mehr als 2.000 von ihnen finden im wütenden Abwehrfeuer den Tod.

Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right?

In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia, and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had grown so bold that it invaded and annexed the whole of Rome's eastern empire and occupied Greece itself. But as Rome emerged from the devastating effects of the First Civil War, a new breed of general emerged with it, eager to re-assert Roman military dominance and carve out a fresh empire in the east.

Area 62 is coming to you from Joshua Tree, out in the Mojave Desert. Produced by the students, staff, and faculty of Joshua Tree's Copper Mountain College, Area 62 brings together the culture, history, nature, and lifestyle of the hi-desert, along with news and features from CMC.The views expressed on Area 62 are the personal views of hosts and guests, and are not, and do not necessarily reflect the policies and positions of Copper Mountain College.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of National Service, Historian Dr. Colin Shindler has interviewed a wide range of ex-conscripts, from all backgrounds, across all ranks, and spanning the entire fourteen years that peacetime conscription lasted, and captured their memories in this engrossing book. From them, we experience the tension of a postwar Berlin surrounded by Russians, the exotic heat and colour of Tripoli in 1948, the brief but intense flashpoint of the Suez Crisis, and the fear of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya.

René, 67 ans, raconte à sa fille Nina ses années 52-62, ses années algériennes, celles de l'enfance et de la guerre. En cinq épisodes, il fait appel à ses sens pour se souvenir de ce que ses yeux d’enfant ont vu, de ce que son nez sentait, de ce qu’il mangeait et ne mange plus, de ce que ses mains saisissaient pour jouer, de ce que son corps ressentait sous le soleil oranais, les langues mêlées qu’il entendait au marché, les bruits sourds des armes et, parfois, des larmes. «52-62, mon enfance en Algérie», un podcast Slate Podcasts par Nina Pareja. Hébergé par Audion. ...