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Book Synopsis The Canberra in the Falklands War by : Andrew Vine
Download or read book The Canberra in the Falklands War written by Andrew Vine and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982, Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to carry the Marines and Paratroops into battle. Against all odds she surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, At the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a heroes welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner: waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners, found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. A Very Strange Way to Go to War is a candid and captivating story, drawing from first hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the heroic courage of ordinary British men and women in the face of great adversity, at the outpost of empire.
Book Synopsis Open the Unusual Door by : Barbara Summers
Download or read book Open the Unusual Door written by Barbara Summers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains stories about sixteen African Americans who became successful in a wide range of activities.
Book Synopsis The Falklands War by : Terence Victor Barnes
Download or read book The Falklands War written by Terence Victor Barnes and published by Terence Victor Barnes. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my second book about the Falklands War, The book is foreword by Major-General Malcolm Hunt OBE FRSA. .This time I have recorded interviews, written statements from both British and Argentine Marines and even permission to publish a poem! These are backed up with some iconic pictures. 40 Commando Royal Marines gets little or no coverage during the Falkland’s war. Many historians dismiss the unit as only playing the bland role of Brigade reserve. This was NOT the case. Alpha and Charlie Companies were attached to the Welsh Guards and took the southern route towards Port Stanley. Others were committed to 45 Commando RM and as for Bravo and HQ well, they were kept busy with actions on the West Island. My concept in this book is to give personal accounts by myself from or attached to 40 Commando RM and our adversaries from the Argentine Marines, during Operation Corporate (1982). As a young 19 year old Royal Marine in 9 Troop, C Company, I landed with the first wave at San Carlos Settlement Blue Beach, progressed on to Wreck Point, Ajax Bay and with the rest of A and C Companies was eventually attached to the Welsh Guards after the air bombing of Sir Galahad. During this period we formed the start line for the attack on Mount Harriet, advanced on Mount William and took Sapper Hill in the only 'hot' helicopter assault during the war that resulted in casualties and fatalities. A hill that the Welsh Guards seem to imply they alone had attacked and won. The fact being that the Welsh Guards did not fire one shot. The synopsis: A brief resume before my induction into the Royal Marines training at Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM). The Falklands-War call up and sailing south on the P&O SS Canberra. The first landings at San Carlos Settlement off HMS Fearless at night. Air attacks In Bomb Alley. A and C Companies move from 3 Commando Brigade to join the 5th Army Brigade at Bluff Cove to replace the loss of Welsh Guards on Sir Galahad. A and C Companies southern route. Yomping over rivers of rock to the start line for the attack on Mount Harriet. Another night yomp this time through a mine field and getting stuck with casualties,. the little known and only 'hot' helicopter attack during the Falklands War on Sappers Hill by 9 and some members of 8 Troop. There is also a section on the Royal Marines ships attachment on HMS Yarmouth. The written accounts explain in some detail about being stuck in a minefield for five hours with casualties. Then immediately afterwards, the only helicopter daytime attack, under fire from Argentine Marines, by 9 Troop, 40 Commando Royal Marines at Sappers Hill, the last high ground before Port Stanley. This episode resulted in fatalities and casualties. Finally I comment on the Pros and Cons of the War and an unpalatable plaque placed on Sapper Hill by the Welsh Guards.
Download or read book SS Canberra written by William H. Miller and published by History Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the famous cruise ship the RMS Canberra, known to some as The Great White Whale.
Book Synopsis The Bottom of the Map by : Ken Wollenberg
Download or read book The Bottom of the Map written by Ken Wollenberg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-07-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Falklands and all other subantarctic islands with tales of exploration, shipwreck and war. These are the ultimate faraway places.
Book Synopsis The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years on by : Stephen Badsey
Download or read book The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years on written by Stephen Badsey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a conference at Sandhurst Military College held to re-examine the events in the Falklands of spring 1982. It is a mix of those who participated in the event with historians, political scientists and journalists.
Book Synopsis The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony by :
Download or read book The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Falklands War by : Gordon Ramsey
Download or read book The Falklands War written by Gordon Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falkland Islands — ownership of which had been disputed with Great Britain for over a century — would put an end to years of political wrangling. However Britain’s response was to immediately dispatch a task force to recover the islands, by force if necessary. The ‘conflict’ which followed (a formal declaration of war was never given) lasted ten weeks from Argentine invasion to British liberation, the white heat of battle using 20th century technology contrasting with bitter hand-to-hand bayonet fighting in inhospitable conditions. Eyewitness accounts by the participants of both sides, and islanders, leave us in no doubt as to the ferocity of the combat on land, sea, and in the air. Comparison photography in color of all the battlefields, the crash sites of the aircraft shot down, the relics and the remains, together with portraits of those who lost their lives and the battlefield memorials, serve as a graphic testimony to their endeavors, 25 years after the battle. A Roll of Honour lists the casualties of both sides and, for the first time, the graves of all the British fallen — both on the islands and in the United Kingdom — have been visited and photographed as a lasting record of all those who made the supreme sacrifice.
Book Synopsis Come Travel with Me and My Cameras by : Terry Turle
Download or read book Come Travel with Me and My Cameras written by Terry Turle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOCUMENTARIES WORLDWIDE ‘COME with me and my CAMERAS’ Here is YOUR INVITATION from Author TERRY TURLE GET OFF THE BEATEN TRACK NOW! JOIN in Adventure Travelling & FILMING/PHOTOGRAPHY COME with me, read /see and relive Experiences as we Discover Far off Lands Starting from London to Morocco, Ceuta, Leptis Magna in Libya Crossing the SAHARA DESERT to ANCIENT TIMBUKTU. Meet the Tuareg and Fulani tribes celebrating their past customs Witness Vibrandt TRIBAL Dances in the Sahara Desert Sands Over 30 days exploring MALI, TASSILI ancient Cave Paintings This Year JERUSALEM, ISRAEL Celebrating 21st Birthday. Just after the ‘SIX DAY’ war in 1967, we drove everywhere. Complete coverage of the Old City of Jerusalem, The Wailing Wall, Dome of the Rock, Way of the Cross Easter story. Golan Heights, Galilee.Kibbutzim, Tel-Aviv, Negev Desert, Massada. OVER 20 countries. All of EGYPT and TUTANKAMUNS
Download or read book The Planter written by Owen Genty and published by Owen Genty. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of adventure. A true account of life and work with cannibalism, helping to educate native tribes who are still living off the spear and bow and arrow, primitive and illiterate.
Download or read book Heading South written by Tim Richards and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland, and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tim's journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes, and forays into personal and public histories—as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.
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Book Synopsis Ordinary Heroes by : Christopher Hilton
Download or read book Ordinary Heroes written by Christopher Hilton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated the Argentinian forces occupying the Falkland Islands and recaptured this far-flung outpost of what was once an empire. It was a much-needed triumph for Margaret Thatcher’s government and for Britain.Many books have been published on the Falklands War, some offering accounts from participants in it. But this is the first one only to include interviews with the ordinary seamen, marines, soldiers and airmen who achieved that victory, as well as those whose contribution is often overlooked – the merchant seaman who crewed ships taken up from trade, the NAAFI personnel who supplied the all-important treats that kept spirits up, the Hong Kong Chinese laundrymen who were aboard every warship.Published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the conflict, this is the story of what ‘Britain’s last colonial war’ was really like.
Book Synopsis I Never Knew That About Ireland by : Christopher Winn
Download or read book I Never Knew That About Ireland written by Christopher Winn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the ultimate trip around Ireland Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in Irish history. Packed full of myths and legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, this fact book visits each of the four provinces - Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught - and unearths the hidden gems that each county in these provinces holds. Discover where people and ideas were born, where dreams were inspired and where the unforgettable figures of Ireland's past now slumber. You'll be able to visit the holy mountain, Croagh Patrick in Country Mayo, where St Patrick is said to have driven all the snakes in Ireland into the sea. At Lismore Castle in County Waterford you will uncover the bathroom dedicated to Fred Astaire, whose sister Adele was the hugely popular Chatelaine of Lismore in the 1930s and 40s. On the winter solstice you can bathe in the sunlight that fills the burial chamber at Newgrange, County Meath - the oldest solar observatory in the world. This irresistible compendium of facts and stories will give you a captivating insight into the Irish, and the ideas and events that have shaped the individual identity of every place you visit, and will have you exclaiming again and again: 'Well, I never knew that!'
Book Synopsis Cruise Ships by : Jonathan Sutherland
Download or read book Cruise Ships written by Jonathan Sutherland and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at key features of cruise ships, from the "Titanic" that was immortalized in the movies to the "RMS Queen Elizabeth 2" that sails around the world today.
Book Synopsis A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects by : Mark Berry
Download or read book A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects written by Mark Berry and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of ocean liners through the objects that bring them to life. Liners represented the ambitions of their nations in peace and war; their design, interiors and fittings incorporated the finest contemporary technological and artistic features. In peacetime they carried celebrities, vacationers and emigrants; while in war they carried thousands of troops – and then war brides seeking new lives. A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects takes in evolving technology, supreme luxury and fine cuisine, as well as hardship and the burning hope for a better life. There is peril, disaster and death, international pride and competition, glory and war. The objects tell a fascinating story, showing how the functional sea voyage has evolved from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the huge cruise industry we have today.
Book Synopsis Jigsaw Puzzles by : Giles Orpen-Smellie
Download or read book Jigsaw Puzzles written by Giles Orpen-Smellie and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful new book, published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the end of the Falklands War, former intelligence officer Orpen-Smellie offers a fascinating insider’s account of how intelligence was collected and utilised during the war.
