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An avid scuba diver Paterson has written four previous books on submarines He developed an interest in the German Navy after diving on German wrecks from WWII Drawing on information from official documentation personal recollections and dramatized true stories by writers of naval history who novelize their subjects he presents an account of the small battle units used by Germany during WWII The text offers a study of military tactics and rationale and a story of predominantly young men caught in the maelstrom of war Accessible to the general reader interested in military history Annotation 2007 Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Dropzone Normandy the Story of sold for 30 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Napier Crookenden was born on the 31st August 1915 the son of Colonel Arthur Crookenden CBE DSO late of the Cheshire Regiment He was educated at Wellington College and attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst where he gained the Kings Gold Medal Commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in 1935 he complete a tour of Palestine with their 2nd Battalion He was posted to a Territorial Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in 1939 and accompanied them to France during the following year He remained with this Battalion after the withdrawal from Dunkirk until 1942 when he volunteered for the Airborne Forces He attended parachute course 81 at RAF Ringway 6th to 16th September 1943 Upon completion of his airborne training and parachute course he was posted to the 6th Airlanding Brigade as the Brigade Major
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John Vanvordenthe Flying Dutchmanis a Vietnam pilot and one of the rugged few who know the danger and thrill of combat while piloting the US Armys UH1H Huey Iroquois helicopter He experiences screaming descents into hot landing zones to place military assault troops and rescue wounded soldiers He has the clarity of mind to survive seven days of horror in a Vietnamese jungle swamp while the psychology of a fellow soldier is severely tested Hes got the guts to buck military orders and battle his own brass to pursue an investigation when a botched operation spells disaster for the men under him Based on the authors personal experiences in the Vietnam War Huey is an authentic actionfilled book of historical fiction
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New paperback copies at a reduced price The story of The Assault Glider Trust a charitable voluntary organisation and the story of their reconstruction of a Horsa Glider Includes historical background technical development and wartime operations With details of the AGT Aircraft collection Illustrated 142 pages
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In 1941 the United Kingdom faced its darkest hour it stood alone against the Germans who had chased British forces out of France Norway and Greece All it had left were desperate measurescommando raids intelligence coups feats of derringdo Any such novel enterprise wrote Admiral John Godfrey Director of Naval Intelligence required an officer with drive and imagination of the highest order He found one in Commander Ian FlemingIn Ian Flemings Commandos Nicholas Rankin tells the exciting story of a secret intelligence outfit conceived and organized by Fleming Named 30 Assault Unit the group was expected to seize enemy codebooks cipher machines and documents in highstakes operations Assault unit commandos fought in the North African campaign and the invasions of Sicily and Italy poked over the bones of bombed Pantelleria and liberated Capri Rebranded 30 Assault Unit they went ashore on DDay heading for rocketsites and radarstations They helped liberate Paris including the Ritz Bar and the Rothschild mansion and then set out to steal scientific and industrial secrets from the heart of Germany Their final amazing coup was to seize the entire archives of the German Navys three hundred tons of documents Ian Fleming flew out in person to accompany the loot back to Britain where it was combed for evidence to use in the Nuremburg trialsBased on incisive research and written with verve and insight this new paperback edition of Ian Flemings Commandos brings to life a longobscured chapter of World War II and reveals the inspiration behind Flemings famous fiction
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When World War II broke out in Europe the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers But in the winter of 193940 after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees an amateur skier named Charles Minot Minnie Dole convinced the United States Army to let him recruit an extraordinary assortment of European expatriates wealthy ski bums mountaineers and thrillseekers and form them into a unique band of Alpine soldiers These men endured nearly three years of grueling training in the Colorado Rockies and in the process set new standards for both soldiering and mountaineering The newly forged 10th Mountain Division finally faced combat in the winter of 1945 in Italys Apennine Mountains against the seemingly unbreakable German fortifications north of the Gothic Line There they planned and executed what is still regarded as the most daring series of nighttime mountain attacks in US military history taking Mount Belvedere and the sheer treacherous face of Riva Ridge to smash the linchpin of the German armys linesDrawing on unique cooperation from veterans of the 10th Mountain Division and a vast archive of unpublished letters and documents The Last Ridge is written with enormous warmth energy and honesty This is one of the most captivating stories of World War II a blend of Band of Brothers and Into Thin Air It is a story of young men asked to do the impossible and succeeding
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The definitive account of the infamous 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the continuing controversy over what really happened Notorious incident In 1967 Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked the spy ship uSS Liberty in international waters during the SixDay War Thirtyfour sailors were killed and more than 170 wounded many critically injured Israel claimed mistaken identity which a US naval court of inquiry confirmed but that explanation is contradicted by the facts of the case Based on new revelations James Scott has interviewed Liberty survivors senior uS political and intelligence officials and examined newly declassified documents in Israel and the united States to write this comprehensive dramatic account He reveals that officers in Israels chain of command were aware of the Libertys identity and shows how events in Vietnam prompted the American government to deemphasize the attack despite widespread disbelief of Israels story Journalist and son of an attack survivor Scotts father John was an officer and engineer aboard the Liberty who was awarded the Silver Star for helping to save the ship from sinking
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Napier Crookenden was born on the 31st August 1915 the son of Colonel Arthur Crookenden CBE DSO late of the Cheshire Regiment He was educated at Wellington College and attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst where he gained the Kings Gold Medal Commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in 1935 he complete a tour of Palestine with their 2nd Battalion He was posted to a Territorial Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in 1939 and accompanied them to France during the following year He remained with this Battalion after the withdrawal from Dunkirk until 1942 when he volunteered for the Airborne Forces He attended parachute course 81 at RAF Ringway 6th to 16th September 1943 Upon completion of his airborne training and parachute course he was posted to the 6th Airlanding Brigade as the Brigade Major
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A surviving officer of the Liberty after interviewing government and military officials and other Liberty survivors presents a full candid account of how Israel knowingly attacked and almost sank an American spy ship in 1967
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World War II naval history has been discussed and examined from almost every possible angle One story that has never been told in detail however is that of the US Navys vessel designated the Landing Craft Tank LCT Even though they are known for ferrying troops and supplies to the beaches of Normandy LCTs were more than mere transports In fact the little craft had permanently assigned crews and participated in nearly all forms of naval warfare Beachhead Normandy combines the history of LCT operations with a detailed look at a specific ship the LCT 614 which landed at Omaha Beach under heavy fireTom Carter has gathered material from the US Navys archives the National Archives and personal stories from several members of the 614s crew including the ships skipper and second officer to give readers a clear picture of the LCTs role in one of World War IIs pivotal moments He also analyzes the role of LCTs in the Pacific theater including the 614s participation in the occupation of China while supporting the Marines famed First DivisionDrawing on both technical analyses and personal accounts by the actual participants including the authors father Beachhead Normandy is a rich and varied history of the key services these ships performed during and after World War II
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AMERICAN EAGLES is the thrilling true story of the US 101st Airborne Division From their rigorous training in Old Jolly England to their first operational jump in Normandy Whiting tells the story of this Band of Brothers who fought suffered and died in the eleven month campaign that followed From Normandy through Holland Bastogne French Alsace till their final date with destiny at Hitlers Eagles Nest in the Bavarian Alps we gain a picture of a brave elite division warts and all Drawing on his own youthful experiences when his regiment was under the command of 101st Airborne in Holland through painstaking research on the site of each of the 101sts battles plus survivors stories Whiting perhaps Britains most renowned popular WWII military historian provides an ideal companion for the viewers of Steven Spielbergs celebrated 100 million TV series Band of Brothers
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The storming of the Corregidor in February 1945 was a dramatic act in the ongoing saga of the Pacific war and a symbolic victory over Japan Capturing the nature of the fighting in the terrible conditions of jungle warfare in the Pacific theatre and the character of the men involved this is the story of war at its most pitiless
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This powerful book tells of the creation and growth of one of the principal antiJewish stories of the Middle Ages and the violence that it bred Beginning in Paris in the year 1290 Jews were accused of abusing Christ by desecrating the Eucharist the manifestation of Christs body in the communion service Over the next two centuries this became an authoritative aweinspiring tale that spread throughout Europe and led to violent antisemitic activity in areas from Catalonia to Bohemia particularly in some German regions where at times it produced regionwide massacres and cleansingsDrawing on sources ranging from religious tales to Jews confessions made under torture to religious poems Miri Rubin explores the frightening power of this narrative She looks not just at the occasions on which massacres occurred but also at those times when the story failed to set off violence She also investigates the ways in which these tales were commemorated in rituals altarpieces and legends and thus became enshrined in local traditions In exploring the character nature development and eventual decay of this fantasy of host desecration Rubin presents a vivid picture of the mental world of late medieval Europe and of the culture of antisemitism
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This volume examines one of the outstanding successes in smallarms history From the first gun designed by a convalescing Red Army sergeant in 1941 to mass production and use by a vast number of armed forces throughout the world this is the complete story of Kalashnikov The prototype was developed into the AK47 by 1949 and by the 1950s the Kalashnikov had achieved runaway success based on simplicity and reliability This superbly illustrated gunbygun directory identifies individual Kalashnikov variants and types and includes details of sights bayonets and ammunition
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Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War of 1982 it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael ClappHere he describes with considerable candour some of the problems met in a Navy racing to war and finding it necessary to recreate a largely abandoned operational technique in a somewhat ad hoc fashion During the time it took to go south some sense of order was imposed and a not very well defined command structure evolved As Michael Clapp reveals this was not done without generating a certain amount of frictionHere also is told how San Carlos Water was chosen for the assault and subsequent inshore operations Michael Clapp and his small staff made their stand and can claim a major role in the defeat of the Argentine Air and Land Forces
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This book first published in 1947 and therefore not reliant on secondhand sources details the full story of one Division the 3rd from its preparations for the Normandy landings through to the reduction of the city of Bremen and the surrender of Germany The author who served in the Division is able to describe events from the point of view of the fighting man This is a true classic of military writing and a book of major importance It is the story of their training for the amphibious assault on Hilters Atlantic Wall very thoroughly planned and rehearsed in the months before DDay The Divisions commander at the outset of the war was Monty Major General B L Montgomery who was succeeded by Major General T G Rennie and Bolo Whistler a distinguished armoured brigade commander from the North African campaign The Divisions assault on Sword Beach on DDay was remarkably successful though the follow through to take the city of Caen that day proved altogether too aspirational for one division Later in the campaign the 3rd Division was particulary proud of its conduct in the battles for Overloon and Venraij and in the even more intense fighting between the Maas and the Rhine
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In the 1870s Deadwood was a thrivingand largely lawlessboomtown And as any fan of western history and films knows stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory Now for the first time Robert K DeArment tells the story of the good guys and bad guys behind these violent crimes the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwoods roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargoDeArment shows in dramatic detail how for two years gangs of robbers ruled the road perpetrating holdups and killings until lawmen and stagecompany and railroad agents finally brought an end to the mayhem The characters populating this violent tale include such legendary figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the famous railroad detective James L Whispering Smith a formidable opponent of bandits We also get to know the men who operated the stages the lawmen and company men who ran and defended the coaches and the outlaws who fought against them DeArment tells where these men came from and what became of them after the outlawry ended He ends his account in the 1880s with Buffalo Bills Wild West show and its spectacular rendition of a shotgun robbery featuring an actual Deadwood stagecoach After nearly a century and a half the Deadwood stage continues to command our attention
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The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls offers healing reallife stories from survivors and powerful evidencebased tools to help you reclaim your life after sexual abuse or trauma If youve been sexually abused or experienced sexual trauma you may feel confused angry ashamed and unable to move forward emotionally Youre not alone Like many teens whove been abused you may be tempted to keep the secret locked deep inside and feel uncomfortable discussing your struggles with others If so this book can help you find your voiceThis empowering workbook will help you move past your trauma and serve as a comforting reminder that you are strong and resilient Healing is possibleand with healing comes victory In this book youll find true stories from other teen survivors and in reading the stories youll find reassurance in knowing you arent alone in your experiences Youll also find practical and proveneffective strategies and exercises to help promote emotional healing and reclaim your sense of selfSexual abuse or trauma may be a part of your past but it doesnt need to define who you are now This book will help you as you start on the path toward healing so you can move forward with confidence
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