In The Shadow Of Arnhem

Author : Ken Tout
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Arnhem written by Ken Tout and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicized over the years. Although the campaign came close to success, its relative failure left the Allies trapped within a 30-mile stretch of road. The Arnhem debacle saw vast stretches of Holland to the left and right of the salient occupied by enemy forces. These areas of Holland, criss-crossed by unfordable rivers and closely populated by small villages, had to be cleared by Allied troops in platoon or company strength, fighting in tight situations against bitter skilled resistance. There was none of the awesome and inspirational massing of troops seen in the battle of Normandy, for Arnhem itself. Interweaving his narrative with the eyewitness accounts and personal reminiscences of British, Canadian, and Polish troops, Ken Tout reveals how these men performed their heroic deeds. They suffered and died in unheralded, largely forgotten minor skirmishes, but on a scale far exceeding the casualties of the immediate assault on Arnhem.

Author : Gerard Nijsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820752
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Burgundy written by Gerard Nijsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the study of medieval courts has become a flourishing field. The courts of kings and popes, or of the Burgundian dukes, have usually attracted most attention. This book offers by contrast a wide-ranging study of a little-known, medium-sized court - that of Guelders in the Low Countries. Guelders offers an excellent vantage point for the study of European late medieval court culture. It was surrounded by the vast territories of the dukes of Burgundy, and it felt the growing power of the Valois dukes, yet the duchy managed to remain independent until 1473. Rich archival sources - including a long and virtually unbroken series of ducal accounts - reveal much about the rise of territorial or 'proto-national' awareness and about the role of the court in this process. The book also conveys the striking cultural and political richness of the court, poised between French and German spheres of influence.

Author : Helena Hall
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473823250
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman in the Shadow of the Second World War written by Helena Hall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second World War as it was experienced by people living in an English village. In her journal she describes her everyday activities alongside momentous national and international events. The war overshadows her narrative. Each daily entry gives us an insight into the extraordinary impact of the conflict on local lives, and shows how much energy and commitment ordinary people put into the war effort. This edited edition of her previously unpublished diary, written without embellishment or hindsight, shows how she heard about the war and how she reacted to it, and how it was reported and understood. It allows the reader today to connect directly with the wartime past and to see events clearly, as they were seen at the time.

Author : Hendrik van Remmerden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Swastika written by Hendrik van Remmerden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leroy Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849087601
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sten Gun written by Leroy Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sten submachine gun – officially the 'Carbine, Machine, Sten' – was developed to fulfill the pressing British need for large quantities of cheaply produced weapons after Dunkirk, when German invasion was a very real possibility. Over four million were built during World War II, and the Sten was widely used by airborne troops, tankers, and others who needed a compact weapon with substantial firepower. It proved especially popular with Resistance fighters as it was easy to conceal, deadly at close range, and could fire captured German ammunition – with a design so simple that Resistance fighters were able to produce them in bicycle shops. Featuring vivid first-hand accounts, specially commissioned full-colour artwork and close-up photographs, this is the fascinating story of the mass-produced submachine gun that provided Allied soldiers and Resistance fighters with devastating close-range firepower.

Author : Leo Heaps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913518110
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grey Goose of Arnhem written by Leo Heaps and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the activities of two hundred and fifty men who, with the aid of Dutch Resistance, made it back across the Rhine to allied lines. Heaps recorded an account of the most amazing mass escape of World War Two. Rather than stay within the safety of allied lines, some of these men returned to the frontline to assist the Resistance and ensure that as many of their comrades returned as possible.

Author : Charles R. Shrader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the 1982 International Military History Symposium written by Charles R. Shrader and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linde Egberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317166841
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chosen Legacies written by Linde Egberts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages or recent, shared traumas. Some themes such as the Roman era or the Second World War appear easier to appropriate than, for example, prehistory. This book assesses the role of heritage in the construction of regional identities in Western Europe. It contains case studies on early medieval heritage in Alsace and Euregio-Meuse Rhine, industrial heritage in the German Ruhr area and competing memories in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region in the Netherlands. It presents new insights into the process of heritage production on a regional level in relationship to processes of identity construction. The theoretical analysis of "heritage" and "regional identity" is innovative as these concepts were hardly analysed in relation to each other before. This book also offers insights into policy, tourism, spatial development and regional development to policymakers, politicians, designers and professionals in the heritage and tourism industries.

Author : Cornelius Ryan
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780340933985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bridge Too Far written by Cornelius Ryan and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War historian Cornelius Ryan chronicles in detailed, readable prose the battle of Arnhem, one of the most important -- and bloodiest -- campaigns in World War II.

Author : Graham Wilson
Publisher : Graham Wilson
ISBN 13 : 1301463434
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope written by Graham Wilson and published by Graham Wilson. This book was released on 2012 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was hot. There was sudden stillness in the late afternoon air and the surface of the small waterhole shone with unnatural smoothness. Fresh pig tracks at water's edge suggested pigs just gone. Two bubbles popped to the surface near the edge of the pool; just decaying vegetation, said my mind. I should have smelt crocodile! A story of a missionary family in remote aboriginal Australia. What is it about the Northern Territory that fascinates? I have only to mention it’s name in conversation and people turn to listen. Why, for 180 years, has it drawn people from all over to come, stay longer than they imagined and, often, never leave? This book is a memoir of a family's life in a remote aboriginal community, in Australia's Northern Territory, something the equivalent of remote Canada or Alaska, where few people go. The place Oenpelli,(now Gunbalanya) is near Kadadu National Park, made famous in Crocodile Dundee. This story tells of changing world as a missionary family and an aboriginal community become part of modern Australia This our family's story, growing amongst the people, animals and places and colours of this this strange land, alongside an aboriginal community going through its own changes; citizenship, alcohol, uranium mining, land rights, outstation development, and community self management. It is a memoir of growing up in one of the most isolated parts of Australia - in a small aboriginal missionary community in the Northern Territory, something the equivalent of the remote Canada or Alaska. It is the landscape featured in the movie Crocodile Dundee. It tells of the huge change in this place in the last half century with the coming of land rights and aboriginal self determination. It also tells of my mother and fathers lives and Christian beliefs which motivated their contribution to this change. It is a story of my memories and love for this remote and beautiful place, in which I lived as a child then worked as an adult and of many NT characters who gave me the memories.It is also the story of me working as an adult across many parts of the NT and about the hardy, outlandish characters that inhabit this place. It also tells of my own experience of surviving attack by a large crocodile in a remote swamp It also provides a foundation for my novels in the Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series. The places in these books are the places in which I lived and worked and many of the stories came little changed from people I knew. In particular my experience in surviving a crocodile attack of a large saltwater crocodile, which mauled my leg as told in this book forms part of the central role of the crocodile as a predator in this novel series. The role of my father in opening road transport including building a crossing of the East Alligator River, developing outstations for aboriginal communities, learning to fly on missionary wages and establishing an aviation service along with assisting the aboriginal peoples of this land to gain royalties from mining is a story that deserves to be told as a major part of NT history. Along with his tireless work the contribution of many others is also an essential part of the story.