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41) The Athenia 1939
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Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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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...
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Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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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...
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Publisher
Bretwalda Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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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...
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John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (557 pages)
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English
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"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...
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Digital Dreams Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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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...
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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...
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Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 p.)
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English
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"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...
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University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (528 pages)
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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...
49) Blitz on Britain
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
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English
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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...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
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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...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (612 p.)
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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...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
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English
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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,...
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English
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Beginning with the D-day landings, this is a frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the campaign including Epsom, Goodwood, Cobra and Totalize. 'Tiger!' is a critique of how Montgomery's plans to seize territory and break out failed in the face of German resistance. It details the poor planning by British generals who made many mistakes and...
55) The Iron Cage
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"A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war "liberated" from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home. In investigating the fate of victims of the Cold War, Nigel Cawthorne travelled to Siberia to follow their trail."--
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Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories — and one of the worst Allied defeats — of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiership. It revived the flagging hopes of the German people and fanned the flames of Arab unrest. Furthering Rommel's ascendency and souring relations within the British Commonwealth, it marked a turning point in Anglo-American relations and the fight against the...
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In this remarkable study of the Far Eastern War, Oliver Lindsay and John R Harris have provided the most thorough and searching enquiry into the debacle which led to over 12,000 British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders surrendering Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. The authors have made use of a mass of unpublished material - part of it drawn from the original war diaries which have never before been in the public domain.Although it is over...
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English
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"The bomb that exploded in the "Wolf's Lair"-Hitler's command headquarters-on July 20th, 1944 was the closest any assassination attempt ever came to ridding the world of the Nazis' Fuhrer. Pierre Galante's account of the years that led up to the attempt, and its grim aftermath, offers an illuminating look at how dissent among the German officer corps grew until something had to be done. Conspirator General Adolf Heusinger, who met with Hitler on hundreds...
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English
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The Wolf's Lair was the most important German command post building during the Second World War. Orders sent from these secret headquarters would play a massive part in the outcome of the War. Ian Baxter looks in to the inner workings of Hitler's headquarters, highlighting the decisions that were made and analysing how they came about. Baxter not only utilises published works, unpublished records, military documents and archives on the subject, but...
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In the summer of 1941, a collective madness overtook Adolf Hitler and his senior generals. They convinced themselves that they could take on and defeat a superpower in the making - the Soviet Union. Foolishly, they thought in a swift campaign they could smash the Red Army and force Stalin to sue for peace, despite dire warnings that Stalin was amassing a reserve army of more than 1 million men on the Volga. The end result would be such carnage that...
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