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Author : Ronald Seth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)
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Author : Great Britain. Army. Glider Pilot Regiment
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Lion with Blue Wings, etc. [By Ronald Seth.] written by Great Britain. Army. Glider Pilot Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Seth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Lion with Blue Wings written by Ronald Seth and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Seth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lion with Blue Wings written by Ronald Seth and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter omThe Glider Pilot Regiment og dets indsats under 2. verdenskrig. De blev anvendt bl. a. ved landgangene på Sicilien og i Normandiet.
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Author : Great Britain. Army. Glider Pilot Regiment
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Lion with Blue Wings. The story of the Glider Pilot Regiment. 1942-1945. By Ronald Seth, etc. [With plates.] written by Great Britain. Army. Glider Pilot Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zal Heiwa Sethna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Lions with Pale-blue Wings written by Zal Heiwa Sethna and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Seth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Lion with blue wings written by Ronald Seth and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jef Aerts
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646140095
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Blue Wings written by Jef Aerts and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers bound together by affection and responsibility. Jadran is five years older than Josh and huge enough to be nicknamed Giant. Josh is younger, and smaller; but his sweet and stubborn brother thinks in a way that would be more typical of a small child. They are both dealing with changes to their newly blended, Muslim family. So Josh looks after Jadran and they both adjust. When the brothers find an injured young crane, Jadran wants to bring it back to their small apartment and teach it to fly at any cost. And it turns out the cost is high. Intensely moving without ever slipping into sentimentality, The Blue Wings is a warm, love-filled story about fragility, strength, and brotherhood, in all its complications.
Author : John Dalmas
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0671876740
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Lion of Farside written by John Dalmas and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his wife Varia earning a living by tilling his land in the American Midwest. But Varia is from Yuulith, and when the Sisterhood called her home, she refused to go. Their big mistake was kidnapping her. For Curtis may seem like an ordinary farmer, but underneath lurks a strategic genius of the highest order.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440849757
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book D-Day written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed. The beach landings at Normandy, France, in June of 1944 were of critical importance in the outcome of World War II, and as a consequence, served to determine the economic and political state of the modern world as we know it. This latest reference book edited by esteemed historian Spencer C. Tucker supplies easy-to-understand overview entries on the Normandy Invasion ("Operation OVERLORD") and the European Theater in World War II as well as entries treating specific topics such as key individuals, technical innovations, weapons systems, command structures, terrain and logistical difficulties, and the role played by weather. Readers will come to understand why the eventual success of the Allied forces in the D-Day operations was so hard-fought and came at a tremendous cost of life. The book addresses the immense difficulty of supplying tens of thousands of soldiers—many of them inexperienced in combat—and countless tons of equipment and vehicles to the invasion force from over the beaches, after most of the teams landed in the wrong locations, and when many command structures were wiped out almost immediately upon landing; and it explains how these factors impacted the combat on the ground and resulted in the Allied forces' careful planning going awry. The book also describes the elaborate deception carried out by the Allies regarding the invasion landing site and how these efforts impacted battle developments, and it presents nine primary documents that treat various aspects of the battle, including the lengthy Allied plan for the invasion and primary sources of directives regarding the battle and technical innovations.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069840940X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Arnhem written by Antony Beevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account. On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, American, British, Polish, and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style and gripping narrative, is about much more than a single dramatic battle--it looks into the very heart of war.
Author : Jon Cooksey
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 152670885X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Operation Tonga written by Jon Cooksey and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near Bnouville, Howard's men took and held the bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation with minimal casualties. The 7th Parachute Battalion dropped in soon afterwards to relieve Howard's men and the action remains, by any standards, a remarkable feat of arms. But it was only one act in a much grander production put on by 6th Airborne Division that night to secure and protect the eastern flank of the Allied landings inland from Sword, the British landing beach. Key bridges over the Dives had to be blown to foil possible German counter attacks and to north east, at Merville, a battery of guns which the allied planners thought could wreak havoc on the beaches and ships at sea, had to be eliminated. The task fell to the men of the 9th Parachute Battalion, whose actions in assaulting the Merville Battery became another D-Day epic - but for very different reasons.
Author : John Weeks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782006087
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Assault From the Sky written by John Weeks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key look at the history of airborne forces from the Second World War to the 1980s, studying their training and equipment as well as their actions in battle. The introduction of Airborne forces revolutionised military tactics and thinking throughout the twentieth century. In this exciting edition, ex-paratrooper John Weeks presents a history of the Airborne forces across the globe, studying the generals, the planners and parachutists, as well as the aircraft, gliders, weapons and helicopters, alongside a look at their background and their most famous actions, such as Crete, Arnhem, D-Day and the crossing the Rhine. Within each chapter, Weeks presents detailed analyses of the main airborne forces. Airborne raids caught popular imagination from early in the Second World War, when the Germans carried out daring and alarming raids. The assault is fast and dynamic, and most of all, unpredictable, which in the early 1940s led all participants of the war to develop airborne forces of their own.
Author : Claude Smith
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147381507X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book History of the Glider Pilot Regiment written by Claude Smith and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of this tiny, little-known British Army regiment and the daring men who piloted engineless aircraft to WWII’s major battlefields. The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the regiment gained as much distinction as it has taken other units hundreds of years to achieve. Yet, strangely enough, the story of these heroic men who piloted their flimsy gliders to most of the important battlefields of the Second World War has never before been told. It is indeed a remarkable story, and no one is better qualified to tell it than Claude Smith, who himself served with the regiment and took part in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and later in the ill-fated landing at Arnhem, where he was taken prisoner. Smith tells the story of these supremely brave men factually and dispassionately, but it is impossible to read this book without being moved by their courage. As General Sir John Hackett says in his foreword: “Those who went to battle in gliders and above all those who got them there, the Glider Pilots, deserve our enduring esteem.” Includes maps and illustrations
Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473822335
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Allied Special Forces Insignia, 1939–1948 written by Peter Taylor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1940 political leaders and military commanders responsible for the conduct of the Allied operations relalised that, after a string of disastrous setbacks, national morale could only be restored by taking offensive action against the enemy. With the limited resources available Churchills stirring call to set Europe ablaze called for unconventional solutions and action.From these uncertain beginnings was born a plethora of Allied Special Force units. Inevitably some are household names but others are little known, having had brief and covert existences in far flung parts of the world.rnrnAll, however, had distinctive identities and their proudly worn insignia represent a fascinating and often elusive challenge for militaria collectors. This is due, not just to the scarcity of items in many cases, but to the mystery of their origin; a number of these units were established on an ad hoc and spontaneous basis.Peter Taylors aim in compiling Allied Special Forces Insignia 1939–1948 is to fill a gap in the growing bibliography of militaria collecting. At the same time, Brigadier Bryan Watkins introduction sets in context the growth and development of Allied Special Forces during the global conflict 1939-45.Lavishly illustrated, this work will prove an essential reference work and companion guide for the expert collector and all interested in military history.
Author : Air University (U.S.). Aerospace Studies Institute. Concepts Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Role of Airpower in Guerrilla Warfare (World War II) written by Air University (U.S.). Aerospace Studies Institute. Concepts Division and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jutta-Annette Page
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9780872901575
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Beyond Venice written by Jutta-Annette Page and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovingly illustrated celebration of the Venetian art of "cristallo" focuses on this remarkable glasswork produced in five countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using essays and photographs to highlight the aesthetic and social dimensions of this unique craft. 281 colour & 47 b/w illustrations
