Given Up For Dead

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553585673
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Given Up for Dead written by Bill Sloan and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping narrative of unprecedented valor and personal courage, here is the story of the first American battle of World War II: the battle for Wake Island. Based on firsthand accounts from long-lost survivors who have emerged to tell about it, this stirring tale of the “Alamo of the Pacific” will reverberate for generations to come. On December 8, 1941, just five hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes attacked a remote U.S. outpost in the westernmost reaches of the Pacific. It was the beginning of an incredible sixteen-day fight for Wake Island, a tiny but strategically valuable dot in the ocean. Unprepared for the stunning assault, the small battalion was dangerously outnumbered and outgunned. But they compensated with a surplus of bravery and perseverance, waging an extraordinary battle against all odds. When it was over, a few hundred American Marines, sailors, and soldiers, along with a small army of heroic civilian laborers, had repulsed enemy forces several thousand strong––but it was still not enough. Among the Marines was twenty-year-old PFC Wiley Sloman. By Christmas Day, he lay semiconscious in the sand, struck by enemy fire. Another day would pass before he was found—stripped of his rifle and his uniform. Shocked to realize he hadn’t awakened to victory, Sloman wondered: Had he been given up for dead—and had the Marines simply given up? In this riveting account, veteran journalist Bill Sloan re-creates this history-making battle, the crushing surrender, and the stories of the uncommonly gutsy men who fought it. From the civilians who served as gunmen, medics, and even preachers, to the daily grind of life on an isolated island—literally at the ends of the earth—to the agony of POW camps, here we meet our heroes and confront the enemy face-to-face, bayonet to bayonet.

Author : Flint Whitlock
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078673664X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Given Up For Dead written by Flint Whitlock and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1944, the Ardennes Forest on the German-Belgium border was considered a "quiet" zone where new American divisions, fresh from the States, came to get acclimated to "life at the front." No one in Allied headquarters knew that the Ardennes had been personally selected by Hitler to be the soft point through which over 250,000 men and hundreds of Panzers would plunge in the Third Reich's last-gasp attempt to split the Americans and British armies and perhaps win a negotiated peace in the West. When the Germans crashed through American lines during what became known as the "Battle of the Bulge," in December 1944, thousands of stunned American soldiers who had never before been in combat were taken prisoner. Most were sent to prisoner-of-war camps, where their treatment was dictated by the Geneva Convention and the rules of warfare. For an unfortunate few - mostly Jewish or other "ethnic" GIs - a different fate awaited them. Taken first to Stalag 9B at Bad Orb, Germany, 350 soldiers were singled out for "special treatment," segregated from their buddies, and transported by unheated railroad boxcars with no sanitary facilities on a week-long journey to Berga-an-der-Elster, a picturesque village 50 miles south of Leipzig. Awaiting them at Berga was a sinister slave-labor camp bulging with 1,000 inmates. The incarceration at Berga is the only known instance of captured American soldiers being turned into slave laborers at a Nazi concentration camp. Given Up for Dead is the story of their survival. For over three months, the American soldiers worked under brutal, inhuman conditions, building tunnels in a mountainside for the German munitions industry. The prisoners had no protective masks or clothing; were worked for 12 hours per shift with no food, water, or rest; were beaten regularly for the most minor infractions (or none at all); were fed only starvation rations; slept two to a bed in ghastly, lice-infested bunks; and were never allowed a bath or a change of clothing. Of the 350 GIs in the original contingent, 70 of them died within the first two months at Berga; the others struggled to survive in a living nightmare. As the Allies' front lines moved inexorably closer to Berga, the Nazi guards forced the inmates to endure a death march as a way of keeping them from being liberated; many died along the route. Only the timely arrival of an American armored division at war's end saved them all from certain death. Strangely, when the war was over, many of the Americans who had survived Berga were required to sign a "security certificate" which forbade them from ever disclosing the details of their imprisonment at Berga. Until recent years, what had happened to the American soldiers at Berga has been a closely guarded secret.

Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295629
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Fearful Odds written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Fearful Odds is based on interviews and correspondence gathered from more than seventy of Wake's American defenders and on research in archival and printed sources. The book covers the planning and political struggles that began Wake Island's transformation into a naval air station and submarine base, the U.S. Navy's eleventh-hour efforts to garrison and fortify Wake, and the various air, sea, and land attacks that resulted in the atoll's capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy. This study attempts to correct the myths that shroud what happened on the atoll. - from preface.

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743292472
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Battle written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Battle tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, utilizing the same up-close narrative style and "grunt's-eye" view of the action that distinguishes Sloan's Brotherhood of Heroesfrom other war books. It is a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death in the largest land-sea-air operation in US history. From April through June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost (including those of nearly 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire). The Ultimate Battle is a searing re-creation of the Okinawa campaign as seen through the eyes of men who were in the midst of it, and it is filled with fresh insights that only these men can provide.

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785558827347
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Given Up for Dead written by Bill Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Given Up for Dead" is the gripping, true story of America's first World War II battle--a rarely reported test of wills that erupted just five hours after the bombing of Pearl harbor. Two 8-page photo inserts.

Author : Dick Quinn
Publisher : R. F. Quinn Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780963283900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left for Dead written by Dick Quinn and published by R. F. Quinn Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author shares how he controls blood pressure and cholesterol, and prevents heart attack by using herbal remedies.

Author : Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Cory is a woman in love but also a feisty detective on a mission to solve a peculiar case involving—diamond, murder and of course villains!_x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind time—I wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a 'bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet." Thus soliloquised Harley Riddell, ruefully, as he hurriedly picked his way through the somewhat aggressive conglomeration of wagons, hansoms, 'buses and fourwheelers, which threatened to still further belate his arrival at the establishment of his employers, Messrs. Stavanger, Stavanger and Co., diamond merchants, of Hatton Garden..."

Author : S. Thomas Russell
Publisher : Putnam Adult
ISBN 13 : 0399158979
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead written by S. Thomas Russell and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 2014 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seafaring adventure featuring Charles Hayden, continuing the series that began with UNDER ENEMY COLORS, A BATTLE WON, and TAKE, BURN OR DESTROY"--

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425256391
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Ever After written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. When a shocking murder rocks the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, psychic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse learns that she has more than one enemy waiting to get vengeance for the past. Beacuse nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...

Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559493
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.