Massacre At Oradour-Sur-Glane - Nazi Gold Murder of an Entire French Town By Ss Division Das Reich

Informationen zum Autor Vincent dePaul Lupiano is a specialist in corporate communications and speechwriting. For ten years, he was a speechwriter at IBM for senior executives and a script writer/film producer director for IBM corporate films. He was also a senior editor for an IBM management publication. Vince spent four years in the United States Air Force. During that time, he was an aircraft accident investigator and learned much about airplanes and how the military functions. While stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, he flew several missions between Clark and Vietnam helping to move loads of ammunition. He was writer/producer/announcer at Clark's Armed Forces Radio and TV station. In this capacity, he flew three combat missions over Vietnam in F4 Phantom and F105 fighter jets, carrying a tape recorder and writing and narrating stories of his experiences for hometown radio stations. He lives in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Klappentext This is the shocking story of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of every man, woman, and child in the French town on June 8, 1944, and its real cause: how two SS officers--a general and a major--"acquired" one million dollars' worth of gold ingots while encamped at nearby Montauban, and how that led to the massacre.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent dePaul Lupiano
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781493073740
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-7374-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Haute-Vienne, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, WWII history