World War 2 Soldier Stories Part Ix

Author : Ryan Jenkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503216861

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World War 2 Soldier Stories Part IX by Ryan Jenkins Pdf

Behind enemy lines is a harrowing place to be. Few survive and those that do may never be the same again. World War II was no gentleman's war. There was brutality all around and death may have been a welcomed alternative to captivity. Rescue or survival was wanted even more though. There are stories of those that have been caught behind the enemies lines. They are cut off from their allies. Alone. Desperate. These are just a few of those stories. Ask yourself, what would you do to survive? What lengths would you go to in order to make it out alive? This book explores what some did when faced with that very real question. Germany was determined to crush Yugoslavia when it broke ties with them and aligned themselves with the Allied Forces. When a British envoy arrived to meet if Yugoslavian leaders, they find themselves running for their lives as the Germans close in. What was to be a diplomatic mission, soon turns into a nightmare. Will they all make it home alive? The Special Air Service is one of the most elite units in the British military. These men come from all corners of the United Kingdom and are some of the best out there. What happens when an already beleaguered unit finds it's self behind enemy lines and betrayed by possibly one of their own? This is another action packed book on the men that fought, and sometimes died, in World War II. They sacrificed their lives for the freedom of not only others but their own countries as well. Some of their stories are forever immortalized here in these pages.

Author : Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910646415

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Wojtek by Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony Pdf

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Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907

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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries Pdf

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Author : R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424639

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Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman Pdf

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02703977C

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The Ardennes by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921746932

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D-Day Invasion by iMinds Pdf

The story behind D-Day begins in 1939 when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, attacked Poland and ignited World War Two. The following year, the Germans occupied France and Western Europe and launched a vicious air war against Britain. In 1941, they invaded the Soviet Union. Seemingly unstoppable, the Nazis now held virtually all of Europe. They imposed a ruthless system of control and unleashed the horror of the Holocaust. However, by 1943, the tide had begun to turn in favor of the Allies, the forces opposed to Germany. In the east, despite huge losses, the Soviets began to force the Germans back.

Author : Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023151304

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War Bulletin ... by Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service Pdf

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007325764

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Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser Pdf

‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John Keegan

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II by Maurer Maurer Pdf

Author : Michael D. Doubler
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700607440

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Closing with the Enemy by Michael D. Doubler Pdf

Closing with the Enemy picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the "breakout" in France to the German army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Doubler deals with the deadly business of war-closing with the enemy, fighting and winning battles, taking and holding territory. His study provides a provocative reassessment of how American GIs accomplished these dangerous and costly tasks. Doubler portrays a far more capable and successful American fighting force than previous historians-notably Russell Weigley, Martin Van Creveld, and S.L.A. Marshall-have depicted. True, the GIs weren't fully prepared or organized for a war in Europe and have often been viewed as inferior to their German opponent. But, Doubler argues, they more than compensated for this by their ability to learn quickly from mistakes, to adapt in the face of unforseen obstacles, and to innovate new tactics on the battlefield. This adaptability, Doubler contends, was far more crucial to the American effort than we've been led to believe. Fueled by a fiercely democratic and entrepreneurial spirit, GI innovations emerged from every level within the ranks-from the novel employment of conventional weapons and small units to the rapid retraining of troops on the battlefield. Their most dramatic success, however, was with combined arms warfare-the coordinated use of infantry, tanks, artillery, air power, and engineers-in which they perfected the use of air support for ground operations and tank-infantry teams for breaking through enemy strongholds. Doubler argues that, without such ingenuity and imaginative leadership, it would have been impossible to defeat an enemy as well trained and heavily fortified as the German army the GIs confronted in the tortuous hedgerow country of northern France, the narrow cobblestoned streets of Aachen and Brest, the dark recesses of the Huertgen Forest, and the frigid snow-covered hills of the Ardennes. Marking the 50th anniversary of the American victory in the Battle of the Bulge, Doubler offers a timely reminder that "the tremendous effects of firepower and technology will still not relieve ground troops of the burden of closing with the enemy." As even Desert Storm suggests, that will likely prove true for future high-tech battlefields, where an army's adaptability will continue to be prized.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:B4958043

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United States Army in World War II. by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Hallowell Ohly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Industrial mobilization
ISBN : UIUC:30112048582065

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Industrialists in Olive Drab by John Hallowell Ohly Pdf

Author : Ernest F. Fisher, Jr.
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0160613108

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United States Army in World War 2, Mediterranean Theater of Operations by Ernest F. Fisher, Jr. Pdf

CMH 6-4. United States Army in World War 2. Includes a portfolio of maps extracted from the cloth edition. Relates the story of the last year of the Allied campaign against Germans forces in Northern Italy.

Author : Charles Brown MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : PSU:000059701545

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The Siegfried Line Campaign by Charles Brown MacDonald Pdf

Author : David N. Spires
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112053887664

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Air Power for Patton's Army by David N. Spires Pdf

Presents a case study of one air-ground team's experience with the theory and practice of tactical air power employed during the climactic World War 2 campaigns against the forces of Nazi Germany.