Storming Eagles

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1800329849
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storming Eagles written by James Lucas and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unstoppable and deadly, this is the gripping story of some of the most feared soldiers in the war The daring, courage and skill of the highly-trained men who spearheaded German assaults in the blitzkrieg of 1940, dropping from the air to seize and overwhelm key invasion points, showed to an alarmed world that a new dimension had been added to the science of warfare. One spectacular success was the invasion and capture of Crete in May 1941, all be it achieved at a terrible price. The German paratroopers were an elite, justifying again and again their great reputation for courage and hard fighting in Russia, North Africa and Italy. Bestselling military historian James Lucas has researched deeply in Allied and German archives and interviewed many of the leading members of the Fallschirmjaegar who survived the war. This is an unmissable and dramatic account of the Second World War’s most frightening elite, perfect for readers of James Holland and Max Hastings.

Author : James Sidney Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storming Eagles written by James Sidney Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Sidney Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storming Eagles written by James Sidney Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Ring
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571282407
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storming the Eagle's Nest written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich.'Yes,' Hitler declared of his headquarters in the Bavarian Alps, 'I have a close link to this mountain. Much was done there, came about and ended there; those were the best times of my life . . . My great plans were forged there.'With great authority and verve, Jim Ring tells the story of how the war was conceived and directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism, and how Switzerland herself became the Nazi's banker and Europe's spy centre. How the Alps in France, Italy and Yugoslavia became cradles of resistance, how the range proved both a sanctuary and a death-trap for Europe's Jews - and how the whole war culminated in the Allies' descent on what was rumoured to be Hitler's Alpine Redoubt, a Bavarian mountain fortress.

Author : Edward Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Drama of the Eagles written by Edward Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Lynch
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473818230
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Skies written by Tim Lynch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.

Author : Bernd Horn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459743393
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrecking Crew written by Bernd Horn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wrecking Crew reveals the dramatic details of Operation Colossus, the first Allied airborne commando raid of the Second World War.

Author : Mark Saliger
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612006906
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Bridge Too Far written by Mark Saliger and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid chronicle of the first battle between British and German paratroopers—the unsung battle that prefigured the Battle of Arnhem. From July 13 to 16, 1943, British paratroopers fought for control of a strategically important bridge in Sicily. Now, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in the first narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest-fought battles for British airborne troops of World War II. The British paratroopers of the famed 1st Parachute Brigade, known as the “Red Devils,” fought their equally esteemed German paratrooper opponents, known as the “Green Devils,” during the Allies’ first invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe. The paratroopers found themselves cut off behind enemy lines with dwindling ammunition as they faced ever-growing enemy forces. Yet they courageously maintained the fight until ground forces arrived to capture the bridge before it was destroyed. The hard-won experience of the 1st Parachute Brigade was then tested only a year later in an almost identical battle on a larger scale: The Battle of Arnhem—the battle christened “a bridge too far.” While Arnhem is well documented, the events at Primosole Bridge deserve to be told at last.

Author : Jonathan Trigg
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445699451
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To VE-Day Through German Eyes written by Jonathan Trigg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Führer’s personality guarantee this.' (Joseph Goebbels, 4 June 1943.) It wasn't and it didn't.

Author : Jonathan Trigg
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398107239
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarossa Through German Eyes written by Jonathan Trigg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world’s largest ever invasion through the voices of the men – and women – who witnessed it first-hand.