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Book Synopsis The Long Road Back to Arnhem by : John Sliz
Download or read book The Long Road Back to Arnhem written by John Sliz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their famous evacuation of the 1st British Airborne Division during Operation Berlin the 23rd Field Company, R.C.E., or Storm Boat Kings as they were nicknamed, were given a number of unique tasks. These included everything from helping M.I.9 send agents behind enemy lines to training other units in the use of Storm boats.
Book Synopsis The Long Road by : Oliver Clutton-Brock
Download or read book The Long Road written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is firstly a testament to those of many nationalities who found themselves imprisoned at Stalag Luft VII, Bankau (Luft 7 for short) in Upper Silesia, the Luftwaffes last prisoner of war camp. Having survived the trauma of action against, and capture by, the enemy, some as far back as 1940, they came from France, the Low Countries, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, the Balkans, Italy, Hungary, the Mediterranean and other seas, and from North Africa. Many of their experiences and adventures have never been documented before. It is also the complete history of their prisoner of war (POW) camp, Luft 7, told in full detail for the first time, a camp that existed for barely thirty-two weeks from its opening in early June 1944 to its closure in mid January 1945.
Download or read book Back Roads Australia written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia driving holiday guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming villages, local restaurants and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of this magical region with all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information and opening hours. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities from walks to days on the beach and children's attractions, to wine and cycling trips. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses and charming restaurants specialising in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. The guide is full-colour throughout. Discover the unexpected on your driving holiday with DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia. Now available in PDF format.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia by : DK Eyewitness
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Back Roads Australia written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through the back roads of Australia to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on the beach or at a spa, to wine tours, cycling trips, and watersports. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses, as well as restaurants specializing in regional produce, have been selected by expert authors. Discover the unexpected on your road trip with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads Australia.
Download or read book Arnhem written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR 'Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Finely recorded...truly the battle of Arnhem has been fortunate in its historian' SUNDAY TIMES This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944. Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem. Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army. Nine days later, after some of the fiercest street-fighting of the war, 2000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety. Made famous by the film A BRIDGE TOO FAR
Book Synopsis The Long Road Home by : David J. Toynton
Download or read book The Long Road Home written by David J. Toynton and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative unfolds the life of Ernst, a young German soldier during World War II, caught at the crossroads of duty and family loyalty, stretched between Germany and England. At nineteen, Ernst navigates the tumult of his own moral dilemmas against the backdrop of a war-torn landscape, accompanied by an officer who has vowed to see him safely home. As we journey through the pages, we’re drawn into the visceral experiences of war-torn Germany. Nightly, as Ernst and his comrades traverse the roads under the cover of darkness, the ominous hum of bombers overhead is palpable, each man acutely aware that their loved ones are in the crosshairs. In the daybreak’s light, the crimson hue of their burning cities stains the horizon, a constant reminder of the devastation being wrought upon their homeland. The story doesn’t shy away from the shared fear and terror that grips both German and American soldiers, delving into the harrowing plight of US troops captured and held as prisoners of war. Despite the hospital’s eerie quiet, indicating few casualties are being brought in, the war’s end in 1945 doesn’t immediately herald peace for Ernst and his comrades. It’s not until four years later that they can finally part ways. Returning to a country he can call home, Ernst confronts the suspicion and distrust from those around him. It is during this turbulent time that he meets a young woman who helps to heal the bitterness of war. Together, they embark on a life filled with hope, leaving the shadows of the past behind as they step into a shared future.
Book Synopsis Victory in the West: The defeat of Germany by : Lionel Frederic Ellis
Download or read book Victory in the West: The defeat of Germany written by Lionel Frederic Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volume British record of the victorious Allied campaign in North-West Europe during World War II.
Book Synopsis From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem by : Nicholas Kinloch
Download or read book From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem written by Nicholas Kinloch and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught Between Nazis and Soviets, Stanislaw Kulik was a man who dodged death. After the Russian occupation of Poland, Stanislaw Kulik, aged 15, was deported to the Soviet gulags and put to work. If you didn’t work, you didn't eat. While many died, Stanislaw managed to survive. Following the Nazis’ invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, he was given an opportunity to join the Polish army being formed somewhere in the Soviet Union, but nobody knew where. After months traveling on his own through central Asia, through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Stanislaw finally reached Iraq, where he worked in a camp which processed Polish refugees. Too young to join, the Army faked his age and eventually he was then taken by ship to Great Britain via India, where he joined with the Polish Parachute Brigade. After qualifying as a paratrooper in Scotland, he dropped at Arnhem, in Operation Market Garden, where he found himself trapped behind enemy lines. Thanks to the Dutch underground he avoided capture by the Nazis. This thrilling memoir is an inspiring story of a triumph of resilience and courage against great odds.
Download or read book Arnhem written by R E Urquhart and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major-General Urquhart commanded the 1st British Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden, the greatest airbone assault of World War II, the struggle to capture Arnhem and win control of the bridge across the lower Rhine. The story of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem involved not only an Airborne Corps of three Divisions but also the bulk of the British 2nd Army in Europe. Gen. Urquhart has told the story of those fateful nine days clearly, frankly and, despite the terrible circumstances, not without humour. It ranks as an important work, describing an operation which opened with such high hopes and left its name forever as a feat of the highest endurance and valour.
Book Synopsis The Long Road by : Henrique Van Biene
Download or read book The Long Road written by Henrique Van Biene and published by Hoving Junior Harry. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Road tells the true story of a boy who faced hunger, cold, poverty, discrimination and persecution due to his Jewish origins, but managed to reach adulthood as a winner. He crossed the world alone, working in various professions, fleeing war and Nazism, building and losing families, until settling in Brazil. In our country, he found peace, love, tranquillity, and finally a place to stay, raise his children and adopt as his home until his "passage" to eternity. This long journey is told in an autobiographical way, allowing the reader to have a sensitive view of historical facts, based on the fears, anxieties, doubts and dreams of a real character. In addition to the well-known stories of concentration camps, Henrique Van Biene leads the reader to reflect on the struggle for survival in such a hostile environment.
Download or read book Journey's End written by Kevin Wilson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' Observer In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues to this day, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany. Journey's End neither condemns nor condones the bombing of Dresden, but puts it in its proper context as part of a much larger campaign. To the young men who flew over Germany night after night there were other much more pressing worries: the V2 rockets that threatened their loved ones at home; the brand new German jet fighters that could strike them at speeds of over 600mph. They lived life at a heightened tempo during these final unforgiving months of the bomber war when no quarter was given on either side. As the climactic volume in Kevin Wilson's acclaimed bomber war trilogy, Journey's End chronicles the brutal endgame of a conflict that caused such devastation and tragedy on both sides.
Book Synopsis Glider Pilots at Arnhem by : Mike Peters
Download or read book Glider Pilots at Arnhem written by Mike Peters and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fierce struggle between the British 1st Airborne Division and the superior German forces in and around Arnhem is well documented. This book tells of the role played in the battle for Oosterbeek and the bridge at Arnhem itself by the men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR). These men were already experienced soldiers who volunteered to join the airborne forces and take the fight to the Germans in a totally new regiment.The men of the GPR were predominantly SNCOs trained to fly wooden assault gliders into occupied territory. Once on the ground they were expected to go into battle with the troops they had delivered onto the Landing Zone. During the Arnhem operation they were involved in the initial defense of the LZs, before fighting house to house leading mixed groups of infantrymen, engineers and medics. In so doing they suffered extensive losses from which the Regiment never fully recovered. This book tells their story in their own words from the moment they landed on Dutch soil through the fierce fighting all around the ever shrinking perimeter until the survivors of the GPR proudly marked the route out for the battered survivors of 1st Airborne Division as they escaped over the Rhine.
Book Synopsis Turn Left at the Devil Tree by : Derek Pugh
Download or read book Turn Left at the Devil Tree written by Derek Pugh and published by Derek Pugh. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by Turkey, his little 'hunting' dog, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most remote parts of Arnhem Land and gained a rare insight into a traditional way of life which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders. By turns reflective, tragic and hilarious, Turn Left at the Devil Tree is a memoir of a visiting teacher among the Indigenous people and wildlife of the Top End of Australia. It is also a history - revealing some little known and disturbing events that were sanctioned from the highest levels of government. Life there was "frustrating at times, but always a challenge and Derek has recorded his experiences beautifully in this delightful book". Ted Egan AO
Book Synopsis Battle Stories — The WWII 3-Book Bundle by :
Download or read book Battle Stories — The WWII 3-Book Bundle written by and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three battles that changed the course of WWII and echo through world history to the present day. Three renowned experts each take up one of these crucial engagements. Iwo Jima 1945 Operation Detachment, the invasion of Iwo Jima, on February 19, 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil, and it resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign. El Alamein 1942 El Alamein saw two of the greatest generals of the war pitted against each other: Rommel and Montgomery. Arnhem 1944 When we think of Arnhem, we think of a bridge too far and a sky full of parachutes dropping the Allies into the Netherlands. It was one of the most complex and strategically important operations of the war.
Download or read book Swords for Hire written by James Miller and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the king of Sweden's army. Sinclair has legendary status in Norway but has been almost totally forgotten at home, just as the memory of thousands of other Scots who served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries has faded into obscurity. In this book, James Miller tells how a considerable proportion of the able-bodied male population of Scotland at one time sought service on behalf of almost every dynasty and monarch on the continent. Some were fleeing from justice, others went to seek fame and fortune - and found it.
Book Synopsis Norwich City The Nineties by : Edward Couzens-Lake
Download or read book Norwich City The Nineties written by Edward Couzens-Lake and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and its much-loved football team.
Download or read book This is WAR!? written by Jennie Gray and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Cotterell wrote a unique form of war journalism – witty, sharp,engaging, and so vivid it was almost cinematic. As an official British Army journalist during the Second World War, he flew on bombing raids, sailed with merchant shipping convoys, crossed to France on D-Day, and took part in the Normandy Campaign. During this time he kept a diary, a hilarious and caustic record of his role in the war, a diary which abruptly ended after he vanished in mysterious circumstances after the battleof Arnhem bridge in 1944.Cotterell’s diary and selected war journalism, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, are presented together here to shed new light not only on the everyday life of the British Army in the Second World War but also on the role of the pressduring times of conflict. The quality of his writing is truly captivating and his account of the Normandy campaign is surely the nearest that a modern reader will ever get to experiencing what it was like to be in the thick of a Normandy tank battle.
