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Faith, hope and Malta GC: ground and air heroes of the George Cross island
Par Tony Spooner. 1992
Malta was a vital base from which Allied aircraft could inflict serious damage on the crucial Axis supply route to…
Rommel in North Africa. In order to secure that route the might of the Luftwaffe and Italian Air Forces were thrown together against the tiny island, affecting not just the defending servicemen and women but the entire population. Heavily bombed and running short of fuel and food, the island laboured to stand firm in the face of the enemy. This book describes how the RAF and FAA fighter, bomber, torpedo and reconnaissance aircraft crews took the fight to the enemy and triumphantly succeeded with every odd stacked against them. 1992.Flag 4: the battle of coastal forces in the Mediterranean 1939-1945
Par Dudley Pope. 1998
FLAG 4, the signal for attack with torpedoes, is an account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats and…
US PT-boats in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. It is based on the eyewitness accounts of the officers and men who served in these perilous actions. 1998.D-Day, 1944: voices from Normandy
Par Robin Neillands, Roderick De Normann. 1994
This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and…
the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were there, from commanding officers to privates, are the tales of British, Canadian, American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen and the men and women of the French resistance. Here is a full account of the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 1994.Enemies become friends: a true story of German Prisoners of War
Par Pamela Howe Taylor. 1997
Using letters, diaries and newspaper reports the text tells of the people of Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire at the end of…
the Second World War, who welcomed German prisoners of war from the local camp into their homes at Christmas, and later they scraped together food and clothing to send to those same prisoners when they were repatriated to a devastated Germany. 1997.German jet aces of World War 2 (Osprey aircraft of the aces. #17.)
Par Stephen H Morgan, John A Weal. 1998
The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to sweep the massed Allied bomber formations from the skies of Germany centred around…
the new crop of jet 'wonder weapons' that were issued to the 'Jagdwaffe' from mid-1944 onwards. Despite operating from autobahns and forest runways, always being short of the exotic fuels necessary and lacking any strength in numbers, a handful of pilots amassed amazing scores in the last year of the war on these aircraft, flying with units like JG 7, JV 44 and NJG 11. This is their story. 1998.Kitchener's men: the King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front, 1915-1918
Par John Hutton. 2008
This text provides an account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the…
King's Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. It gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front. 2008.Kasztner's train: the true story of Rezso Kasztner, unknown hero of the holocaust
Par Anna Porter. 2007
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner, a lawyer and journalist, met with Adolf Eichmann in Budapest, where the two men made…
an agreement that allowed 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may also have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil", and prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Some explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.Killing the Bismarck: destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet
Par Iain Ballantyne. 2017
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack…
Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. 2017.Journey through genocide: stories of survivors and the dead
Par Raffy Boudjikanian. 2018
Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey--all visited by genocide, all…
still reeling in its wake. Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity. In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced migrations, he looks back at three humanitarian crises. In Chad, meet families displaced by massacres in neighbouring Darfur and Sudan, their ordeal still raw. In Rwanda, meet a people struggling with justice and reconciliation. And in Turkey, explore what it means to still be afraid a century after Boudjikanian's own ancestors were caught in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Clear-eyed and compassionate, Boudjikanian breathes life into horrors that too often seem remote. 2018.Gentleman Jim: the wartime story of a founder of the SAS and Special Forces
Par Lorna Almonds Windmill. 2002
The story of Jim Almonds is set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy and France, and recounts his formative…
role in the birth of the SAS. Against a backdrop of love, courage and high-risk adventure, it captures the real spirit of the young soldiers in the newly emerging Special Air Service. 2002.Forgotten victory: First Canadian Army and the cruel winter of 1944-45
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2014
During the winter of 1944-45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. After…
much rancorous debate, the Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive. Their story is one largely lost to the common national history of World War II. “Forgotten Victory” gives this important legacy back to Canadians. c2014.Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War
Par Monty Berger, Brian Jeffrey Street. 1994
Based on a manuscript written by Monty Berger in 1945, "Invasion without tears" chronicles the RCAF's 126 Wing from its…
formation in July 1943 to VE-Day two years later. The pilots of 126 Wing were among the war's most decorated and 126 Wing scored more victories than any other Allied air force. 1994.Into the blizzard: walking the fields of the Newfoundland dead
Par Michael Winter. 2014
Michael Winter’s narrative follows two parallel journeys: the first is that of the young men who came from Newfoundland’s outports,…
fields, villages and narrow city streets to join the storied regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The second is the author’s, taken a century later as he walks in the footsteps of the dead men to discover what remains of their passage across land and through memory. Part unconventional history, part memoir-travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, the author uniquely captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. 2014.Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
Par Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic. 2018
Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story…
of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial. 2018.Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
Par Richard Reeves. 2015
Examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted…
military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. 2015.In the name of humanity
Par Max Wallace. 2017
On November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of…
the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had been felled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades. Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified documents and an account from the only living eyewitness to unravel the mystery. He reveals an incredible story involving the secret negotiations of an unlikely trio--a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler himself--to end the Holocaust, aided by clandestine Swedish and American intelligence efforts. 2017.On 30th July 1945 the USS 'Indianapolis' was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew…
of 1196 men an estimated 300 were killed upon impact; nearly 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the Navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia and dementia. This text investigates the stories of three survivors; the captain, the ship's doctor and a young marine. 2001.In Hitler's Germany: daily life in the Third Reich
Par Bernt Engelmann. 1986
The author interweaves his memories and interviews with those of war survivors. Some of the Germans who speak here are…
completely unrepentant, still adore Hitler, and cannot understand why his reputation is ruined. 1986. Uniform title: Im Gleichschritt marsch.Black asserts that Nazi Germany used IBM punch-card technology to improve the efficiency of its persecutions during World War II…
and that IBM actively enabled the Holocaust and profited financially from collaboration with the Third Reich. Black also recounts how IBM aided the Allies, especially in code-breaking techniques. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.