No Bridges Blown

Author : William B. Dreux
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268107994

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No Bridges Blown by William B. Dreux Pdf

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II When William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer had cinematic visions of blood-and-guts heroics, of leading the French Maquis resistance forces in daring missions to blow up key bridges and delay the German advance. This isn’t the glamorized screen-ready account he expected; this is the real story. Dreux’s three-man OSS team landed behind enemy lines in France, in uniform, far from the targeted bridges. No Bridges Blown is a story of mistakes, failures, and survival, a story of volunteers and countrymen working together in the French countryside. The only book written by one of the Jedburghs about his wartime experiences, Dreux brings the history of World War II to life with stories of real people amidst a small section of the fighting in France. These people had reckless courage, little training, and faced impossible odds. This story will resonate with veterans and everyday citizens alike and it brings to life the realities of war on the ground in Nazi-occupied France.

Author : William B. Dreux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608126829

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No Bridges Blown by William B. Dreux Pdf

Author : Tony Younger
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783833207

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Blowing Our Bridges by Tony Younger Pdf

This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape at Dunkirk. He then became closely involved in anthrax experiments, before playing a full role in the Normandy Campaign and the conquest of Germany. After a period in Burma, he was sent to Korea, where in bitter fighting against hordes of Chinese and North Korean troops he was extremely lucky to escape with his life.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Bridges
ISBN : UOM:39015074996276

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Bridges Across Delaware River at Wilmington, Delaware by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045424186

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Bridges Across Delaware River at Wilmington, Del. Hearings ... S. 1857, H.R. 7725, and H.R. 8287 ... Feb. 6 and 7, 1929 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : NYPL:33433106104569

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United States Coast Pilot 3 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045428765

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San Francisco Bay Bridges. Hearings ... on H.R. 7467, 8712, & 10760 ... Mar. 21 & 22, 1928 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Bridges
ISBN : LOC:00121562182

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San Francisco Bay Bridges by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : LOC:00185430698

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Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Years 1984-85: (has no special title) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Jack Adams
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783834396

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The Doomed Expedition by Jack Adams Pdf

A gripping account of the disastrous first significant land encounter of WWII, focusing on the areas of Narvik and Bodö-Mosjöen, Namsos and Aandalsnes. In the early hours of 9 April 1940, the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway. Within twenty-four hours, Denmark was overwhelmed and the main Norwegian airfields and seaports were under German control. Thus started the first confrontation in modern war in which combined operations on land, sea, and in the air were fully involved. Reluctantly the Allies launched Anglo-French landings in the Lofoten Islands and in Central Norway. At the outset, serious liaison, command and, above all, communication problems arose. The urgent military needs of the Norwegians, with their King and government pursued by the Germans, were tragically misrepresented and never fully understood by the Allied politicians. On another level, personality clashes between senior commanders further confused conditions in the field, where lack of air cover, supporting arms, and equipment made the task of the comparatively few combatants almost impossible to perform. Heroic battles and humiliating retreats led to the inevitable evacuation of an Allied expedition doomed from the start.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Inland navigation
ISBN : UCAL:$B97300

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Rules and Regulations Relating to the Navigable Waters of the United States by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 16871 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781801701051

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Delphi Collected Works of Upton Sinclair (Illustrated) by Upton Sinclair Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943, Upton Sinclair was a prolific American novelist and polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech and worker rights. His classic muckraking novel ‘The Jungle’ is regarded as a landmark naturalistic proletarian work, praised by Jack London as “the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of wage slavery.” Sinclair also reached a wide audience with his Lanny Budd series of contemporary historical novels, concerning the adventures of an antifascist hero, who witnesses key events surrounding the two World Wars. This comprehensive eBook presents Sinclair’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sinclair’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * 43 novels, with individual contents tables * The Complete Lanny Budd Series; all eleven novels * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes a selection of Sinclair’s plays and non-fiction * Features two autobiographies – discover Sinclair’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Lanny Budd Series World’s End (1940) Between Two Worlds (1941) Dragon’s Teeth (1942) Wide Is the Gate (1943) Presidential Agent (1944) Dragon Harvest (1945) A World to Win (1946) A Presidential Mission (1947) One Clear Call (1948) O Shepherd, Speak! (1949) The Return of Lanny Budd (1953) Other Novels A Prisoner of Morro (1898) Springtime and Harvest (1901) The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) On Guard (1903) The West Point Rivals (1903) A West Point Treasure (1903) A Cadet’s Honor (1903) The Cruise of the Training Ship (1903) Manassas (1904) A Captain of Industry (1906) The Jungle (1906) The Overman (1907) The Metropolis (1908) The Moneychangers (1908) Samuel the Seeker (1910) Love’s Pilgrimage (1911) Damaged Goods (1913) Sylvia (1913) Sylvia’s Marriage (1914) King Coal (1917) Jimmie Higgins (1919) 100%: The Story of a Patriot (1920) They Call Me Carpenter (1922) The Millennium (1924) The Spokesman’s Secretary (1926) Oil! (1927) Boston (1928) The Gnomobile (1936) The Flivver King (1937) What Didymus Did (1954) Affectionately Eve (1961) The Plays Plays of Protest (1912) The Pot Boiler (1913) The Non-Fiction The Industrial Republic (1907) Good Health and How We Won It (1909) The Fasting Cure (1911) The Profits of Religion (1917) The Brass Check (1919) The Goose-Step (1923) The Goslings (1924) Mammonart (1925) Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (1925) Mental Radio (1930) The Book of Love (1934) The Autobiographies American Outpost (1932) The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962)

Author : Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199942091

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Eisenhower's Guerrillas by Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance groups known collectively as the maquis. The Allies' objective was to push the Germans out of France. The French objective, on the other hand, was a France free of all foreign armies, including the Allies. President Roosevelt refused to give full support to Charles de Gaulle, whom he mistrusted, and declined to supply the timing, location, and other key details of Operation Overlord to his Free French government. Eisenhower's hands were tied. He needed to involve the French, but without simultaneously involving them in operational planning. Into this atmosphere of tension and confusion jumped teams consisting of three officers each -- one from the British Special Operations Bureau, one from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, one from the Free French Bureau Central de Renseignement -- as well as a radioman from any one of the three nations. Known as the Jedburghs, their primary purpose was to serve as liaisons to the maquis, working to arm, train, and equip them. They were to incite guerilla warfare. Benjamin Jones' Eisenhower's Guerrillas is the first book to show in detail how the Jedburghs -- whose heroism and exploits have been widely celebrated -- and the maquis worked together. Underscoring the critical and often overlooked role that irregular warfare played in Allied operations on the Continent, it tells the story of the battle for and liberation of France and the complexities that threatened to undermine the operation before it even began.

Author : Edgar M. Howell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782896173

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The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 by Edgar M. Howell Pdf

The purpose of this text is to provide the Army with a factual account of the organization and operations of the Soviet resistance movement behind the German forces on the Eastern Front during World War II. This movement offers a particularly valuable case study, for it can be viewed both in relation to the German occupation in the Soviet Union and to the offensive and defensive operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The scope of the study includes an over-all picture of a quasi-military organization in relation to a larger conflict between two regular armies. It is not a study in partisan tactics, nor is it intended to be. German measures taken to combat the partisan movement are sketched in, but the story in large part remains that of an organization and how it operated. The German planning for the invasion of Russia is treated at some length because many of the circumstances which favored the rise and development of the movement had their bases in errors the Germans made in their initial planning. The operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army are likewise described in considerable detail as the backdrop against which the operations of the partisan units are projected. Because of the lack of reliable Soviet sources, the story has been told much as the Germans recorded it. German documents written during the course of World War II constitute the principal sources, but many survivors who had experience in Russia have made important contributions based upon their personal experience.

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297855712

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1918 by Peter Hart Pdf

The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War. 1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof that by 1918, the British army was the most effective fighting force in the world. But this ultimate victory came at devastating cost. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material, historian Peter Hart gives a vivid account of this last year of conflict - what it was like to fight on the frontline, through the words of the men who were there. In a chronicle of unparalleled scope and depth, he brings to life the suspense, turmoil and tragedy of 1918's vast offensives.