All The Fine Young Eagles

Author : David L. Bashow
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771621366

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All the Fine Young Eagles by David L. Bashow Pdf

During the six years of the Second World War, Canadian fighter pilots flew and fought with great distinction in every theatre of war to which Commonwealth fighter forces were deployed. All the Fine Young Eagles captures the spirit and magnitude of the Canadian contribution, which began in Europe's Low Countries in 1940 and ended among the Japanese Home Islands in 1945. In keeping with the country's developing autonomy, Canadians served in both RAF and RCAF units, fighting with great courage in their Spitfires, Hurricanes, Kittyhawks and Typhoons. All the Fine Young Eagles collects the wartime diaries and postwar reminiscences from a great variety of the Canadian fighter pilots who served in World War II. Their vivid first-hand accounts take the reader into the cockpit to experience dogfights, tactical manoeuvres, forced landings and injuries, as well as the often tedious periods between engagements. They also illuminate the day-to-day living conditions on base and include humorous accounts of the vivid personalities and lighter moments of wartime. To provide context for their stories, Bashow's authoritative voice offers both a large-scale historical framework and detailed information about tactics, equipment and people, including such famous flying aces as "Buzz" Beurling and "Moose" Fumerton. This updated second edition contains a substantial amount of new material that veterans have contributed since the publication of the first edition.

Author : Bernie Bedford
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634172707

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The Young Eagle by Bernie Bedford Pdf

We are born with wings. We just need to learn how to spread them and learn how to fly. We need to realize that we are capable of doing great things and accept our weakness and turn them into our own strengths. Bernie Bedford's story about an eagle that is afraid to fly tells us all that the limits are all set in our minds. You can go travel the world or be the greatest person you want to be your entire life, but you need to take the limits out from your head. This story also tells you to appreci

Author : Ken Delve
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526703798

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The Desert Air Force in World War II by Ken Delve Pdf

This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known. It was formed in North Africa to support the 8th Army and included squadrons from the RAF, SAAF, RAAF and eventually the USAAF. The book includes descriptions of many notable defensive and offensive campaigns, the many types of aircraft used, weapons and the airfields that played host to these events. The five main sections of the book include a general historical introduction and overview, operations, operational groups, aircrew training and technical details of each aircraft type. Lengthy annexes cover personnel, the squadrons in World War II, accuracy of attacks, orders of battle for each wartime year, maps of airfield locations and numbers of enemy aircraft downed.

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143193043

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The Necessary War, Volume 1 by Tim Cook Pdf

Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey Award Tim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance. Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and technology. It gauges Canadian effectiveness against the skilled enemy whom they confronted in battlefields from 1939 to 1943, from the sweltering heat of Sicily to the frigid North Atlantic, and from the urban warfare of Ortona to the dark skies over Germany. The Necessary War examines the equally important factors of morale, discipline, and fortitude of the Canadian citizen-soldiers. The war was an engine of transformation for Canada. With a population of fewer than twelve million, Canada embraced its role as an arsenal of democracy, exporting war supplies, feeding its allies, and raising a million-strong armed forces that served and fought in nearly every theatre of war. The nation was mobilized like never before in the fight to preserve the liberal democratic order. The six-year-long exertion caused disruption, provoked nationwide industrialization, ushered in changes to gender roles, exacerbated the tension between English and French, and forged a new sense of Canadian identity. Canadians were willing to bear almost any burden and to pay the ultimate price in the pursuit of victory. As with his award-winning two-volume series on WWI, Tim Cook uses original sources, letters from soldiers, rare documents, and maps of battlefields to illustrate the contributions and sacrifices made by what is often called the greatest generation. Magisterial in its scope, The Necessary War illuminates Canada’s past as never before. From the Western Front to the home front, Canadians served many roles in a war that had to be fought and won.

Author : Ken Delve
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784383893

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Disaster in the Desert by Ken Delve Pdf

Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel’s Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis shipping routes across the Mediterranean he is denied those supplies. Meanwhile, the Allied build-up continues, and Montgomery holds at El Alamein and then counter attacks. Rommel is pushed back and then, in a double blow, the Allies land in Tunisia. The collapse of North Africa leads to the invasion of Italy and contributes to the final Axis defeat.But what if Rommel had won?In this alternate history, Ken Delve proposes that with a few strategic changes by the Axis powers and poor decision by Allied Commanders, the outcome of could have been very different. In this scenario, the Allied invasion in Tunisia fails, Rommel defeats Montgomery and seizes Egypt, leaving the Germans well-placed to sweep up through the Middle East, capturing oil installations and joining up with German forces in Russia.

Author : C.C. Humphreys
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385690522

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Someday I'll Find You by C.C. Humphreys Pdf

This instant national bestseller, for readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, is a dazzling novel about a spy and a pilot, who fall in love but are wrenched apart during World War II, and must find their way back to each other. When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more--a spy in training. Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal . . . and fall finally, fully, in love. Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite--which includes her beloved father--and send vital intelligence back to Britain. They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive--and that someday they find each other again. From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally, how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.

Author : Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190601898

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Sand and Steel by Peter Caddick-Adams Pdf

"Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. In addition to covering the build-up to the invasion, including the elaborate and lavish campaigns to deceive Germans as to where and when the invasion would take place, Peter Caddick-Adams gives a full and detailed account of the German preparations, but the heart of the book is Caddick-Adams' narratives of the five beaches where the terrible drama played out--Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, and the attempt by American, British, and Canadian soldiers to gain a foothold in Europe"--

Author : Bill Simpson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473818484

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Spitfire Dive-Bombers Versus the V2 by Bill Simpson Pdf

This WWII military history vividly recounts the Royal Air Force campaign to counter Germany’s V2 rocket attacks. On September 8th, 1944, the first V2 rockets aimed at southern England exploded in west London. They had been launched from a wooded street corner in Den Haag in the Netherlands. Air Marshal Roderic Hill of Fighter Command ordered a swift response to counter the threat. Six squadrons of Spitfires were sent to find and dive-bomb the mobile V2 launch sites scattered throughout the Dutch countryside. The missiles were well camouflaged and often positioned adjacent to dwellings occupied by civilians. The RAF was under orders to cause minimum damage to Dutch property and life, therefore precision bombing became a necessity. This complete account of the campaign includes discussions of the strategy and tactics employed and the equipment used. It also considers the effects on Dutch civilians. Bill Simpson draws on the experiences of sixteen Allied pilots, ground crew and the Dutch who were at the receiving-end of the attacks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UIUC:30112105115668

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Airpower Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : G.W. Mullins
Publisher : Light Of The Moon Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Walking With Spirits Volume 6 Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore by G.W. Mullins Pdf

Author : Frank Hamilton Cushing
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734045189

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Zuni Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Zuni Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Author : Jennifer Manuel
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771620888

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The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel Pdf

Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like organisms all their own, life upon life, the way moss grows around poplar trunks and barnacles atop crab shells, the way golden chanterelles spring from hemlock needles. They spread in the cove with the kelp and the eelgrass, and in the rainforest with the lichen, the cedars, the swordferns. They pelt down inside raindrops, erode thick slabs of driftwood, puddle the old logging road that these days led to nowhere.” Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own—how does she fit into the world? Her fears are complicated by the role she has played within their community: a keeper of secrets in a place “too small for secrets.” And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing. The community is thrown into upheaval, and with the surface broken, raw dysfunction, pain and truths float to the light.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590726968

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The Northern messenger, or, Monthly educational record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Brooks
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780981118109

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The Traveling Adventures of the Buttonville Flying Club by Mark Brooks Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590726965

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The Northern magazine by Anonim Pdf