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Kyburz, Ca 95720, Usa, Martin Hochstrasser
Kyburz, Ca 95720, Usa, Martin Hochstrasser
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Lake Tahoe is situated in the California Sierra Nevada on the border of the state of Nevada. One who travels from here over the gently descending Western slope of the mountain range to the California capital Sacramento or further to San Francisco, will choose US highway 50. After a few dozen kilometers drive through mountainous forested areas which have a few small settlements the traveler will come upon a group of buildings which obviously stem from stage coach times.
Book Review: Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War Ii., Karl Wood
Book Review: Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War Ii., Karl Wood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Stephen P. Halbrook's 1998 book, Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II is a well-narrated account of the Swiss preparedness to resist any possible invasion by a hostile power, but most especially by the Nazis, through the critical years of the 1930s and 1940s. The author brings to bear his considerable skills of persuasion and journalistic perception, reminiscent of the late William Shirer, of whose work he makes extensive use for historical perspective. He offers an argument that the "true Swiss experience in the war" lay not in the recently much-discussed accommodations made to the Nazis, "a regrettable …