Three Little Ships

Author : Lilian Harry
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409130347
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Little Ships written by Lilian Harry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilian Harry's engrossing wartime saga about the heroes and heroines of Dunkirk. During just nine days in the early summer of 1940, nearly eight hundred 'little ships', from lifeboats and passenger steamers to small private yachts and dinghies, set off across the English Channel to rescue almost half a million men trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Among them were three very different craft - a London fireboat from the docklands of the East End, manned by skipper Olly Mears and his crew; a small pleasure steamer from the River Dart in Devon, commanded by twenty-one-year-old Robby Endacott, an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy who grew up on the banks of the Dart; and a small motor yacht owned by Portsmouth solicitor Hubert Stainbank and crewed by his sons, Charles and Toby. As each boat ferries exhausted men from the beaches to the waiting ships, under incessant fire from enemy aircraft and in a sea awash with debris and bodies, the men are unknowingly united by a powerful driving force - the urgent need to find one man, brother or son, who matters more to them than anyone else. Each of these missing men has a family, a wife or a sweetheart at home who is anxiously waiting for news...One sweetheart in particular is determined to play her own part in the rescue.

Author : Nigel Sharp
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647516
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dunkirk Little Ships written by Nigel Sharp and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how 700 small privately–owned vessels helped to save 338,226 British and French soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.

Author : Stewart Halsey Ross
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425121
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Roosevelt Failed America in World War II written by Stewart Halsey Ross and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling from the devastation of World War I, many Americans vowed never again to become involved in European conflicts. This stance was formalized in 1935 when Congress passed the first Neutrality Act, which was not only designed to keep America out of foreign wars but also called for the president to declare an immediate embargo of arms and munitions to all belligerent countries. As war loomed and eventually erupted in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted several policies that aided the Allies, and American neutrality was questionable many months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. This work examines how Roosevelt navigated prewar neutrality to push the United States toward intervention on the side of the Allies in World War II, and considers critically his wartime policy of unconditional surrender and his unprecedented acceptance of a fourth term. It covers his prewar policies that sidestepped neutrality, including covert submarine warfare, air patrol of the North Atlantic, the Lend Lease Act and coordination between the American and British navies, and critiques his plans for rebuilding postwar Europe. Thirteen appendices parallel prewar planning by Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and reproduce such key documents as the Atlantic Charter and the Potsdam Declaration.

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781857939330
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Ships written by Louise Borden and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of a fisherman's daughter, this is the story of how, in May 1940, an 'armada' of ordinary people in their own boats joined the Royal Navy to help rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk

Author : Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland written by Alice Bertha Gomme and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon W. Prange
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480489492
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Gordon W. Prange and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in “a superb work of history” (Albuquerque Journal Magazine). In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ships, destroying hundreds of airplanes, and taking the lives of over two thousand servicemen. The carnage lasted only two hours, but more than seventy years later, terrible questions remain unanswered. How did the Japanese slip past the American radar? Why were the Hawaiian defense forces so woefully underprepared? What, if anything, did American intelligence know before the first Japanese pilot shouted “Tora! Tora! Tora!”? In this incomparable volume, Pearl Harbor experts Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon tackle dozens of thorny issues in an attempt to determine who was at fault for one of the most shocking military disasters in history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1282 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Amend Merchant Marine Act of 1920 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Amend Merchant Marine Act of 1920 ..., Joint Hearings ..., on S.3217 and H.R. 10644 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465572899
Total Pages : 1077 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. (Complete) written by Alice Bertha Gomme and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: