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Author : Constantine Fitz Gibbon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Ordeal Below Zero written by Constantine Fitz Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Georges Blond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Ordeal Below Zero. (The Heroic Story of the Arctic Convoys in World War II.) [With Plates, Including Portraits, and a Map.]. written by Georges Blond and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georges Blond
Publisher : Firecrest/Chivers Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ordeal Below Zero written by Georges Blond and published by Firecrest/Chivers Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From August 1941 convoys of merchant ships gathered in Scottish ports or at Reykjavik and crossed the Arctic Ocean carrying war materials and Red Cross supplies for the Russian cities of Murmansk and Archangel. Each voyage was a struggle for survival through treacherous seas, ice-packs, snowstorms, and the Arctic darkness. The sailors struggled against German bomber planes, U-Boats, and destroyers, as well as the battleship Tirpitz. To survive the sea crossing was just the beginning as they also had to survive the Arctic winter. Georges Blond recreates these voyages, and the heroism of the ships' crews, through official documents, ships' logs, and eye-witness testimony. He conveys the drama and feats of endurance that led Winston Churchill to describe the Arctic convoys as "the worst journey in the world."
Author : Georges Blond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Convois vers l'U.R.S.S. Ordeal below Zero. (The heroic story of the Arctic convoys in World War II.) With plates. written by Georges Blond and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823292
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book 81 Days Below Zero written by Brian Murphy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A riveting...saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska's harsh Yukon territory Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one-Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with no wilderness experience. With little more than a parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, Crane now found himself alone in subzero temperatures. Crane knew, as did the Ladd Field crews who searched unsuccessfully for the crash site, that his chance of survival dropped swiftly with each passing day. But Crane did find a way to stay alive in the grip of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve and moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon's unforgiving wilds. His is a tale of the capacity to endure extreme conditions, intense loneliness, and flashes of raw terror-and emerge stronger than before.
Author : Reagan Fancher
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book The Red Warrior: U.S. Perceptions of Stalin’s Strategic Role in the Allied Journey to Victory in The Second World War written by Reagan Fancher and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program, American leaders sought to keep Joseph Stalin’s Red Army in the field and fighting Adolf Hitler’s forces in the Second World War from 1941 forward. Delivered by the Anglo-American Arctic naval convoys, overland through the Iranian deserts and mountains, and through the skies from Alaska to Siberia, this much-needed material aid helped Stalin’s Red Army to continue fighting and thereby prevented a separate peace with Hitler’s Germany and a mechanized repeat of the First World War’s Brest-Litovsk fiasco. Yet Roosevelt and other U.S. officials, due to their severe underestimation of Stalin’s character and his rigid and fanatical devotion to exporting Communism at gunpoint, gambled incorrectly that they could win the Soviet premier’s heart and mind through several excessive wartime aid gestures, including the furnishing of atomic bomb materials to the Soviet regime. By 1945, American leaders had succeeded in their strategic goal of keeping Stalin and his Red Army in the war and hastening victory but failed in their efforts to purchase the Soviet premier’s goodwill and commitment to postwar peace, heralding the global Cold War, and setting the stage for later U.S. martial aid programs to those resisting aggression abroad. In addition to its primary focus on the American leadership’s perceptions of Stalin’s strategic importance to the Allied war effort in the Second World War, this work also includes a detailed assessment of Roosevelt’s Soviet Lend-Lease program alongside U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s later support for the Afghan Islamic guerrillas resisting Soviet occupation during the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s and a comparison of both martial aid programs with Washington’s recent revival of Lend-Lease aid for the Ukrainian war effort. It offers today’s American leaders and policymakers a chance to consult the lessons of history and apply them in the present.
Author : Ron Lovell
Publisher : Ron Lovell
ISBN 13 : 9780976797807
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Murder Below Zero written by Ron Lovell and published by Ron Lovell. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest adventure, professor and sometime amateur sleuth Thomas Martindale leaves campus to sign on as a science writer for a research expedition to the Arctic for a change of pace from the often mundane world of the university. The work is unique: an attempt to study ice as a tool for national security. Soon after the members of the team board a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker for the journey to their base--a remote island in the Beaufort Sea--Russian scientists join the group with unpleasant consequences. The rivalry turns deadly after the icebreaker leaves and people start dying under mysterious circumstances. The arrival of an Arab terrorist and a marauding polar bear complicate life on the small island. An early freeze traps the men and women of the expedition as a massive ice shield closes in. The events oddly parallel a similar (and real) disaster Martindale is writing about, which took place in 1897.
Author : Charles D. Brower
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204731
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero written by Charles D. Brower and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Brower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him there for Charlie soon became fast friends with the native Inuit people. They taught him how to hunt seals on the ice, caribou on the tundra, and whales out on the sea. He learned their secrets, lived in their igloos, navigated in their kayaks and avoided being murdered in their feuds. Plus the young adventurer observed the great dramas of the Far North play out. He saw the last of the sailing ships disappear over the horizon, and watched the first airplane fly in. For fifty-seven years, through ice storms and northern lights, Charlie Brower maintained both this lonely outpost and his claim as “Uncle Sam’s most northerly citizen.” A book to remember, “Fifty Years Below Zero” is richly illustrated throughout with photos by the author.
Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782002812
Total Pages : 294 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 294 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 : Tony Lane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719023972
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 download)
Download or read book The Merchant Seamen's War written by Tony Lane and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R McKay
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1399036629
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Arctic Convoy PQ18 written by John R McKay and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly researched book tells the story of one of the most significant maritime operations of the Second World War. The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front has too often been underestimated. This book puts that right. Following PQ17, the worst Allied maritime disaster of the Second World War, it was imperative that PQ18 got through. So when the convoy left Loch Ewe on 2 September 1942 the stakes could not have been higher. The Battle of Stalingrad was hanging in the balance. Had the convoy suffered unacceptable shipping and war supply losses, the Arctic route would have had to be suspended with potentially war-changing consequences not just for the Soviets but the whole Allied war effort. Consequently, as this work vividly describes, it was both the most heavily defended and the most heavily attacked convoy of the whole war. The Author draws on contemporaneous accounts of the combatants from both sides including U-boat crews, airmen and, of course, the crews of the warships and merchantmen. Offering newly discovered facts about the convoy’s turbulent passage, this book is a valuable addition to the history of the campaign which will appeal to historians and laymen alike.
Author : Theodore Taylor
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402751233
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Battle in the Arctic Seas written by Theodore Taylor and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, America’s most crucial mission was to provide arms and supplies to our English and Russian allies. Theodore Taylor, who served in the merchant marines in World War II, tells the tragic tale of a convoy of 33 ships that sailed from Iceland to Russia in an effort to bring the Soviets needed tanks, trucks, airplanes, and ammunition. In vivid detail, Taylor follows one of the ships through the frigid waters of the Arctic as it battles Nazi bombers and submarines--and as its crew helplessly watches many of their companion ships perish in the mad dash to safe port.
Author : Stanley Bonnett
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Price of Admiralty: an Indictment of the Royal Navy 1805-1966 written by Stanley Bonnett and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1968 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 085052623X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy written by David Thomas and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.
Author : A. M. Glazer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191061808
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Crystal Clear written by A. M. Glazer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal Clear takes you behind the scenes in the life of one of the most prominent scientists of the twentieth century, William Lawrence Bragg (WLB) - an innovative genius, who together with his father, William Henry Bragg (WHB) founded and developed a whole new branch of science, X-ray Crystallography. The main body of the text contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both WLB and his wife, Alice. Alice Bragg was a public figure in her own right. She was Mayor of Cambridge and National Chairman of the Marriage Guidance Council among other roles. She and WLB were as different as chalk and cheese. Their autobiographies complement each other to give a rounded picture of the real personalities behind their public appearance. They write of their travels, their family life, their friends and their joys and sorrows. They write most of all about each other. Their younger daughter, Patience Thomson, provides anecdotes and vignettes, bringing her parents to life. She has also included extracts from previously unpublished letters and from articles which Alice Bragg wrote for National newspapers. The result is an unusual insight into the lives of two distinguished people. The two accounts reveal a fascinating interaction between these two characters, neither of whom could have achieved on this scale without the other. There is an underlying love story here which humanises and transforms. This is a unique book, adopting an original viewpoint, which will take the reader far beyond the scope of a normal biography.
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Total Pages : 2050 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
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