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Author : Paul Lund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450041723
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Pq17 Convoy to Hell written by Paul Lund and published by . This book was released on 1978-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872197340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (973 download)
Download or read book The Destruction of Convoy PQ17 written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Cawdell Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Destruction of Dresden written by David John Cawdell Irving and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Broome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Convoy is to Scatter written by Jack Broome and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretning om konvojen PQ17s tragiske sejlads fra Island mod Kola-halvøen. Der er et stort indhold af de udvekslede signaler mellem konvojen og hovedkvarteret. En hel del tegninger med humoristisk indhold
Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782002901
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Sacrifice written by Michael G. Walling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken. Operation Barbarossa saw defeat after defeat heaped on the Soviet army. With Russia's forces left staggering under the strain and in desperate need of supplies, Britain and the United States launched an ambitious operation to resupply the Soviet Union using convoys sent through the Arctic. Their journey was punctuated by torpedo attacks in freezing conditions, Stuka dive bombers, naval gun fire, and weeks of total darkness in the Arctic winter, with ships disappearing below the waves weighed down by the ice and snow on their decks. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories from eyewitnesses and veterans of the convoys, plus original research into the Russian Navy archives at Murmansk, historian Michael G. Walling offers a fresh retelling of one of World War II's pivotal yet largely overlooked campaigns.
Author : Paul Lund
Publisher : Foulsham
ISBN 13 : 9780572035426
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)
Download or read book I Was There on PQ17 the Convoy to Hell written by Paul Lund and published by Foulsham. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the inside story as told by the men who survived. It is the story of a brutally hard convoy that, according to official records, was incident free. It is the convoy that the British Admiralty tried to cover up"--Back cover.
Author : William Geroux
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557474
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Ships of Archangel written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.
Author : Frances Houghton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496911
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Veterans' Tale written by Frances Houghton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.
Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : John Curley & Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780792718420
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)
Download or read book A Hell of a War written by Douglas Fairbanks and published by John Curley & Associates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry C. Hutson
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576381188
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Arctic Interlude written by Harry C. Hutson and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251523
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition] written by Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.
Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book H.M.S. Ulysses written by Alistair MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Hill
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904381259
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Destroyer Captain written by Roger Hill and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of what it was like to command a destroyer during World War II. Spanning 1942 to 1945, Hill commanded HMS Ledbury during the tragedy of Arctic convoy PQ17 and played an outstanding role in Operation Pedestal. The pressures of command and the strain of years of continual fighting are conveyed here.
Author : B.B. Schofield
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 103610267X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Rescue Ships and the Convoys written by B.B. Schofield and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These ‘Rescue Ships’, commanded and manned by Merchant Navy personnel, carried medical teams, and life-saving equipment including operating theaters, hospital beds, ‘Carley’ floats, and hoists. Undeterred either by either enemy action or atrocious weather conditions, these vessels accompanied close to 800 convoys and saved 4,194 lives from ships sunk in the North Atlantic and with the Arctic convoys. During their service, seven Rescue Ships were lost. This is a story packed with suspense, danger, achievement and tragedy. As the author, Vice Admiral Schofield, who was closely involved in the establishment of the fleet, writes, it is a record ‘of great humanitarian endeavour, of superb acts of courage, of a display of seamanship of the highest order, of a devotion to duty by medical officers under the most arduous conditions imaginable, of great deeds by men of the Merchant Navy in little ships on voyages they were never designed to undertake.’
Author : Peter Tsouras
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783469463
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Disaster at Stalingrad written by Peter Tsouras and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating “what if” history of one of World War II’s most iconic battles. It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial center of communication and manufacturing, and to secure the valuable oil fields in the Caucasus. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history: a brutal war of attrition, characterized by fierce hand-to-hand combat, that lasted for nearly two years, and the eventual victory by a resolute Soviet Red Army. A ravaged German Army was pushed into full retreat. This was the first defeat of Hitler’s territorial ambitions in Europe and a critical turning point of World War II. But the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras demonstrates in this fascinating alternate history of this fateful battle. By introducing minor—and realistic— adjustments, Tsouras presents a scenario in which the course of the battle runs quite differently, which in turn throws up disturbing possibilities regarding the outcome of the whole war.
Author : Richard Woodman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526714264
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Arctic Convoys, 1941–1945 written by Richard Woodman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Allied merchant ships and crews who braved the frigid far north to extend a lifeline to Russia, filled with “sheer heroism and brazen drama” (Literary Review). During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the courage, determination, and sacrifice of Allied merchant ships, which withstood unremitting U-boat attacks and aerial bombardment to maintain the lifeline to Russia. In the storms, fog, and numbing cold of the Arctic, where the sinking of a ten thousand–ton freighter was equal to a land battle in terms of destruction, the losses sustained were huge. Told from the perspective of their crews, this is the inspiring story of the long-suffering merchant ships without which Russia would almost certainly have fallen to Nazi Germany.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008364966
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 written by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL
