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Author : P. Lund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450041723
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Pq17 Convoy to Hell written by P. Lund and published by . This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B.B. Schofield
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1036102696
Total Pages : 242 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 242 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 : United States. Navy Department. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Convoys in World War II. written by United States. Navy Department. Library and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise A. Arnold-Friend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Era of World War II written by Louise A. Arnold-Friend and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Ian Garden
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969172
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Battling With the Truth written by Ian Garden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.' – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dunkirk, Stalingrad, the Dieppe Raid: there were many bloody and gruesome conflicts fought during the Second World War, yet there was one vital and aggressive battle in which no blood was directly shed – that of the warring nations' battle with the truth. In Battling With the Truth (a follow-up to The Third Reich's Celluloid War) Ian Garden offers fascinating insights into the ways by which both the Axis and Allies manipulated military and political facts for their own ends. By analysing key incidents and contemporary sources from both British and German perspectives, he reveals how essential information was concealed from the public. Asking how both sides could have believed they were fighting a just war, Garden exposes the extent to which their peoples were told downright lies or fed very carefully worded versions of the truth. Often these 'versions' gave completely false impressions of the success or failure of missions – even whole campaigns. Ultimately, Battling With the Truth demonstrates that almost nothing about war is as clear-cut as the reporting at the time makes out. From the past, we can learn valuable lessons about the continuing potential for media manipulation and political misinformation – especially during wartime.
Author : Andrew Hemmings
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445663279
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Secret Newport written by Andrew Hemmings and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the secret history of Newport through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
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 : Rolf-Dieter Müller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812933
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945 written by Rolf-Dieter Müller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide to the extensive literature on the war in the East, including largely unknown Soviet writing on the subject. Sections on policy and strategy, the military campaign, the ideologically motivated war of annihilation in the East, the occupation, and coming to terms with the results of the war offer a wealth of bibliographic citations, and include introductions detailing history of the period and related issues. For military historians, and for scholars who approach this period in history from a socio-economic or cultural perspective. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Timothy Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604037
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Being Soviet written by Timothy Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It examines how the language of Soviet identity evolved in this period, and how ordinary citizens responded to that shift.
Author : United States. Department of the Navy. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book World War II Commemorative Bibliography: Convoys in World War II written by United States. Department of the Navy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Special Bibliographic Series written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Convoy written by John Winton and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Som titlen udsiger, indeholder bogen en historisk gennemgang af konvojtjenesten i nævnte periode med et naturligt og særligt henblik på de to verdenskrige, i hvilke især ubådskrigen udgjorde den største fare for de transatlantiske transporter.
Author : David T. Zabecki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824070298
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book World War Two in Europe written by David T. Zabecki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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 : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0850528984
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Road to Russia written by Bernard Edwards and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Edwards, the formidable naval historian, has researched the fate of Convoys PQ13 and PQ17 bound from Iceland to Northern Russia as well as the westbound Convoy QP13. Attacked relentlessly by aircraft and U-boats, the former lost a total of thirty ships while QP13 ran into a British minefield off Iceland, losing seven vessels. The Road to Russia is an important addition to the bibliography of this bitterly fought campaign.
Author : G. H. Bennett
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book SURVIVORS: BRITISH MERCHANT SEAMEN written by G. H. Bennett and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning the Battle of the Atlantic was critical to Britain's survival in the Second World War. The British Merchant Navy suffered enormous losses of both ships and men, particularly in the early years of the war. Sailing through U-boat wolf-packs across the Atlantic, or on the perilous routes to Malta and Murmansk, took a special kind of courage. Ships often sank within minutes of being torpedoed. Survivors is the history of this epic struggle. It is a graphic account of how the ships were attacked and sunk, how crews reacted, how they attempted to launch their lifeboats and how they ended up swimming or clinging to debris, or making long voyages in lifeboats or on rafts. Death might come at any stage, yet the will to live and the resourcefulness and skill of the seamen enabled a surprising number to survive. "There was a terrific smash and everything was pandemonium on deck. The wheel house collapsed on top of me and I was trapped by the concrete slabs which had fallen on me and pinned me to the deck. I think that the ship sank in about thirty seconds after breaking in two ... Although I was trapped, I could see everything over my head. The stern burst into flames and I saw flames forward. I could see the water coming up and coming over my head. The ship hit the bottom and turned over, the debris was thrown off me and I was released and I came to the surface."--Sinking of SS Abukir, 28 May 1940
