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21) Sitting Ducks
Author
Publisher
Plympton
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Sitting Ducks pieces together the story of an impossible and lesser-known World War II mission. In December 1944, during the bloody Battle of the Bulge, teams of German commandos disguised as American soldiers slipped behind the US front lines. Riding in captured U.S. jeeps, they committed sabotage, sowed confusion and caused paranoia among American troops. Word quickly spread that the undercover commandos were out to kill U.S. General Eisenhower....
Author
Publisher
Summersdale
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (192 pages)
Language
English
Description
Telling the stories of the commanders, the air raids, the pilots, the aircraft, and the vital use of the world's first radar air defense system, this comprehensive miscellany is a compelling guide to this most crucial of World War II battles-the first to be fought solely in the air. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
An ebook contianing contemporary newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts of what it was like to live through the Blackout during World War IIOn the day war broke out the Blackout was imposed. It was illegal to show a light outside at night for any reason at all. Cars drove without headlights, windows were blacked out, torches were banned and streetlights switched off. Britain at night became a country plunged into inky blackness. How did people...
24) The Athenia 1939
Author
Series
Publisher
Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
An ebook contianing eyewitness accounts of the first British ship to be sunk in World War II - just 10 hours after war was declared. Complete with explanatory text and background on the men and machines involved. The Athenia left port in peacetime, heading for Canada with more than a thousand passengers and crew on board. Nobody had any idea that they were steaming into any kind of danger at all. But lurking in her path was U-30 a Type VIIA U-boat...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
An ebook containing eyewitness accounts of the RAF's first big night raid on Germany. Complete with explanatory text and background on the men and machines involved. By March 1940 World War II? was six months old and yet the RAF had still not launched a major night raid on Germany. They had been held back by the French who insisted that only military bases could be bombed - not weapons factories or transport links - and by their own navigational problems...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
The U-boat war against Russia was as fierce and unrelenting as the land war that raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. From Wolf Pack attacks on Russian convoy traffic and military vessels to close-quarter combat undertaken by small U-boats transported by land and river to the Black Sea, the Kriegsmarine wrestled for control of the seas fringing an embattled Soviet Union.Previously untold in English, Lawrence Paterson explores the tremendous...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
Where's everybody else, Morrison?" -Wing Commander Paddy Bandon to Sergeant Jock Morrison, May 17, 1940Morrison had brought home the sole surviving 82 Squadron aircraft of 12 that had set out on a bombing sortie over France earlier that day. His aircraft was so badly damaged by enemy fire that it had to be written off; none of the other eleven bombers made it back to RAF Watton, though some of their aircrew survived. Their stories form the core of...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (192 pages)
Language
English
Description
Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous, gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots, flying Lancaster Bombers, Spitfires and many other aircraft in hundreds of perilous missions across the country. In The Female Few, five of these astonishingly brave women tell their stories for the first time, awe inspiring tales of incredible risk, tenacity and sacrifice. Their spirit and fearlessness in the face of...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF), American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and British Special Operations Executive (SOE) jointly played a crucial part in operations behind enemy lines in occupied Europe during World War II. Milton Ernest Hall, a country house in Bedfordshire and official UK headquarters of the U.S. Army Airforce Service Command, was located at the heart of a network of top secret Allied Radio and propaganda transmitting stations,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (612 p.)
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times printed more words on World War II than any other newspaper and had more than 160 correspondents worldwide reporting on the war. Now, for the first time, The New York Times Complete World War II offers a singular opportunity to experience all the battles, politics, and personal stories through daily, first-hand journalism. Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of the Times-including firsthand accounts of major...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (528 pages)
Language
English
Description
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played --or failed to play--in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the southwest Pacific theatre--the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal--presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942. It is a story of both Australian and American airmen...
33) Blitz on Britain
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
During the latter half of the 1930s, the fear of a possible aerial knock-out on Great Britain became a dominating factor in the formulation of national policy. This text examines how justified these pre-war fears were in light of the Luftwaffe's capabilities in 1939 and describes the bombing attacks on Britain during the years that followed, together with the operations of the defenses to parry them. From the start, the air defenses proved able to...
Author
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (557 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Sixty million people died in the Second World War, and still they tell us it was the Peoples War. The official history of the Second World War is Victors History. This is the history of the Second World War without the patriotic whitewash. The Second World War was not fought to stop fascism, or to liberate Europe. It was a war between imperialist powers to decide which among them would rule over the world, a division of the spoils of empire, and...
Author
Publisher
Digital Dreams Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
One main track had snapped and three road wheels had been blown apart. From a distance the Tiger still looked every bit as menacing as it had always been, this tank though had seen its fair share of battle and had the scars on its armour to prove it. The crew of the Tiger was huddled together dead in their steel tomb. After a successful campaign the tank lay lifeless in a field flames flickering from the engine compartment after being hit in the rear...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
14 August 1940, which Hitler code-named 'Adlertag', or 'Eagle Day', was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It signified the start of the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive, planned to cripple Britain and clear the path for the German troops ammased in readiness for invasion. The Luftwaffe sent out waves of unescorted bombers to attack difficult and long-range targets by daylight, hoping to confuse and split the fighter...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
They called it "the slaughter of the innocents." The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but when the German blitzkrieg sliced through the Allied armies they were all that stood in the way of the annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force. Paying with their lives, they bought precious time as the army fell back towards Dunkirk, and long after the last of the little ships reached home, the...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (448 pages)
Language
English
Description
The official history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands, this book is based on previously untapped sources of information, including papers from Government departments, the Island's own wartime files, as well as files left behind by the Feldkommandantur in Guernsey and Jersey. Dr. Cruickshank provides a full account of the German invasion, the subsequent landings of various British agents, raids, and of an attempt to psychological warfare...
Author
Publisher
Bene Factum Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (368 pages)
Language
English
Description
The story of the remarkable efforts to bolster Britain's defensive capability in South East Asia in the face of the Japanese threat after 1941Alan Ogden brings to life the extraordinary story of SOE in the Far East as an organization battling against vested interests and competing Allied agencies and how over time it became a significant provider of strategic and tactical intelligence as well as carrying out countless dangerous missions behind enemy...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
The occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II is an often-neglected aspect of the war: here, for the first time, Will Fowler presents an account of life under German occupation peppered with first-hand accounts and details of the political maneuvering behind the scenes. Fowler provides the most comprehensive account of the last German raid of the war: the Granville Raid of March 8th, 1945. The raid was a success, damaging British and American...
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