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Free Download Living with Hitler: Compelling recollections of Hitler’s Personal Staff by Karl Wilhelm Krause Kuch
English | November 19, 2020 | ISBN: 036934877X | 460 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
This collection paints a picture of Hitler from members of his household in the unique position of being "seemingly ever-present, yet totally unconnected to events." Compelling recollections from Hitler’s Bodyguard Karl Krause (1934-39), his house administrator Herbert Döhring (1935-43) and chambermaid Anna Plaim (1941-43). From these accounts we get a deeper sense of Hitler in close proximity. These accounts massively add to our understanding of Hitler as a three dimensional character, especially from subjects like Plaim who only knew Hitler’s home life, having rarely left Berghof. The authors shed light on his likes and dislikes from foods to his hobbies, creating a strange sense of humanity. This collection also provides fresh anecdotes, observations and portraits of Hitler’s entourage and relatives. Plaim’s images of Eva Braun came from finding torn fragments in the bin, whilst Döhring sheds light on Martin Bormann’s demeanour.

Free Download V. Ramnarayan, "Third Man: Recollections From A Life In Cricket"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 9384030821 | EPUB | pages: 380 | 1.3 mb
Revelling in the challenge of his position as Third Man, Ramnarayan was an integral part of many Hyderabad victories in the Ranji Trophy, performing alongside names like Abbas Ali Baig, Abid Ali, ML Jaisimha and MAK Pataudi. He also had the opportunity to bowl to stalwarts of Indian cricket like GR Vishwanath, Ashok Mankad, Brijesh Patel and the Amarnath brothers and rub shoulders with the likes of VV Kumar,BishanBedi, Salim Durrani and Hanumant Singh in the vibrant first class scene of a largely amateur era. The stories featured in this fine book are recollections of a life spent playing and observing cricket. They are stories of a time when sheer love for the game drove people to cricket grounds. At a time when rampant commercialization has overtaken the game, these stories bring back memories of a simpler time. Nostalgic and insightful, Third Man is a welcome addition to cricketing lore contributed by a former cricketer who, as a journalist today, straddles the worlds of sports and arts.

Free Download Benjamin Harris, "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1089868472 | EPUB | pages: 107 | 0.2 mb
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris provide a rare insight into the life of an enlisted man in Wellington’s army.

Free Download Moyle Sherer, "Recollections of the Peninsula"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0554800845 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.3 mb
Captain Sherer’s record of service in the Peninsular War is second to none. A hard campaigner, he served with the 34th Foot at Busaco, Badajoz, Albuera, Arroyo Molinos, Vittoria and the Pyrenees, during which he was taken prisoner by the advancing French. In this, his service was no different to huge numbers of officers, a good number of whom left their memoirs to posterity. What marks out Sherer and his recollections is their quality. His descriptions of himself, his men and, above all, the actions that he took part in are of the first order, quoted with great frequency by historians – an example of which is below (from his description of the hard fighting at Albuera):

Free Download Joshua Duke, "Recollections of the Kabul Campaign: 1879 & 1880"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1017126925, 1017117594 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 3.5 mb
Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880 is a firsthand account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, Joshua Duke, was a British officer in the Bengal Medical Service, attached to "our native army in India." The war began in Nov. 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India.

Free Download Sergeant In the Ninety-Fourth Donaldson, "Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1845747593 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 0.5 mb
Deservedly well-known to historians, these are the recollections of a Scottish soldier whose military career stretched for some 21 years, from a private in Picton’s Division in the Peninsula War to service as a recruiting officer for the East India Company in the Victorian Raj. This book covers the early part of the author’s life and relates Donaldson’s deprived Glasgow childhood, his enlistment in the army, and his experiences in Iberia. After leaving the army in 1814, he wrote up his recollections in 1817 while attempting to study medicine. Dire necessity – including the burden of supporting ten children – forced him to resume military life as a recruiting officer. Tragically, he died in 1830 of lung disease while studying anatomy in Paris, at the early age of just thirty-seven.

Free Download Acland Anderson, "Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran – Scholar’s Choice Edition"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1297388518 | EPUB | pages: 316 | 0.3 mb
Lt. Col. Anderson wrote his memoirs as for his own family not suspecting their interest to the larger reading public. As such they hold a charm of their own apart from a number of the more swashbuckling accounts of soldier’s adventures in the British army during the Napoleonic and Victorian periods. That is not to say that they are staid in any way but written from a more modest view-point than some.

Free Download Francis William Soutter, "Recollections of a Labour Pioneer"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 113832891X | EPUB | pages: 238 | 0.4 mb
First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of interest to anyone interested in political and social history. This title examines Soutter’s background, his fight for labour representation, and provides an extensive overview of his political activity.

Free Download Charles Alexander Gordon, "Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 3752397349 | EPUB | pages: 302 | 0.5 mb
The fascinating memoirs of Dr Charles Alexander Gordon, who survived thirty-nine years as a military surgeon across the world during many of the famed Empire building campaigns of Queen Victoria’s Reign.

Free Download Professor Thomas Morris, "Recollections of Military Service in 1813, 1814, and 1815, through Germany, Holland, and France: including some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 134074189X | EPUB | pages: 244 | 1.0 mb
This account of military service during the Peninsular War penned by the late sergeant of the 2nd Battalion of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Thomas Morris, who was not even born by the time of the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. At the tender age of 16 in 1812 he became a substitute volunteer in the British Army, enticed by the tales of derring-do and the £60 bounty paid to each man. Even at that young age he had a fine eye for detail and anecdote which he took to Belgium to join the forces pressing Napoleon back into France. He served at the battle of Waterloo in which his regiment was heavily engaged in some of the fiercest fighting charged by French Cavalry no less than 11 times during the battle and bombarded by French artillery. It remained in square without breaking. The 2nd/73rd lost 6 officers and 225 men killed and wounded, the second heaviest casualties suffered by a line infantry regiment.