No Bridges Blown

Author : William B. Dreux
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268107998
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Bridges Blown written by William B. Dreux and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780608126821
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Bridges Blown written by William B. Dreux and published by . This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Younger
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783833203
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blowing Our Bridges written by Tony Younger and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126674
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pegasus Bridge written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed WWII historian’s “illuminating account of . . . an operation as strategically important as any fought on D-Day” (The New York Times Book Review). In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. It was a mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. In Pegasus Bridge, Stephen Ambrose draws on original interviews with British, German, and French survivors to present a thrilling, ground-level view of the battle. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures.

Author : Edgar M. Howell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782896171
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Edgar M. Howell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0297855719
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1918 written by Peter Hart and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American military engineers. 1935" inserted in v. 27.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422783
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jaguar Smile written by Salman Rushdie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians and warriors who were poets; a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. His perceptions always heightened by his special sensitivity to “the views from underneath,” Rushdie reveals a land resounding with the clashes between history and morality, government and individuals. With a new preface by the author.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deseret Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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