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Author |
: James Holland |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141961125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141961120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duty Calls: Dunkirk by : James Holland
'YOU WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION - WELL YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW ALL RIGHT.' Friday 24th May, 1940 Private Johnny Hawke, aged sixteen, awakens to artillery fire. Hours later, Stukas scream down from the sky. Messerschmit fighters roar towards his regiment. Trucks burst into flames. Now men and mules lay dead and dying, severed limbs twisted grotesquely as blood soaks the cobbled streets. Young Private Hawke just wants to do his duty and serve his country. But as he - and his fellow soldiers - prepare to stop the German advance, there's only one question on everyone's lips. HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE?
Author |
: James Holland |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141332192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141332190 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duty Calls by : James Holland
'YOU WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION - WELL YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW ALL RIGHT.' Friday 24th May, 1940 Private Johnny Hawke, aged sixteen, awakens to artillery fire. Hours later, Stukas scream down from the sky. Messerschmit fighters roar towards his regiment. Trucks burst into flames. Now men and mules lay dead and dying, severed limbs twisted grotesquely as blood soaks the cobbled streets. Young Private Hawke just wants to do his duty and serve his country. But as he - and his fellow soldiers - prepare to stop the German advance, there's only one question on everyone's lips. HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE?
Author |
: James Holland |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2012-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141961132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141961139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duty Calls: Battle of Britain by : James Holland
Pilot officer Archie Jackson, 19, is in control of the RAF's newest fighter aircraft, a Supermarine Spitfire. Now he has the Luftwaffe in his sights and only one thing matters: defending Britain. Suddenly planes are falling from the sky, exploding and spiralling into the English Channel. France has fallen and the swastika flies over Occupied Europe. Only these young pilots - barely out of boyhood - stand between Britain and a Nazi invasion . . . Duty Calls: Battle of Britain, throws you deep into the heart - and horror - of Britain's darkest, and finest, hour. ** Historian James Holland is the bestselling author of the Jack Tanner adult war fiction books. Duty Calls is his first series for younger readers, and showcases his expertise on the Second World War. ** James Holland presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2.
Author |
: William C. Dietz |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2008-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101079119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101079118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Duty Calls by : William C. Dietz
As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, diplomat Christine Vanderveen finds herself torn between her love for Santana and her new loyalty towards the charismatic, recently elected president of the Clone Republic. As Christine fights her own divided heart, light years away, Santana is in a battle for his life. And this battle may be his last.
Author |
: Sandy Mitchell |
Publisher |
: Games Workshop(uk) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844164659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844164653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duty Calls by : Sandy Mitchell
While assisting local forces to quell widespread civil disorder, Commissar Cain and his regiment of Valhallans discover sinister forces are at work behind the scenes. With a rioting populace, aliens on the rampage, and the Inquisition poking their noses everywhere, how can the wily commissar ever find the easy life he prefers? Original.
Author |
: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 1005 |
Release |
: 2007-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141906164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141906162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dunkirk by : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle. 'A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers' Tim Gardam, The Times 'Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence' Richard Ovary, Telegraph Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist and then an author. He wrote the best-selling Enigma: The Battle for the Code. One of his ancestors was evacuated from Dunkirk.
Author |
: Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 790 |
Release |
: 2008-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439126196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439126194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Ordinary Time by : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
Author |
: Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2020-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984856142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984856146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis War: How Conflict Shaped Us by : Margaret MacMillan
Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.
Author |
: Philip Hamlyn Williams |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2021-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1526794306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781526794307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dunkirk to D-Day by : Philip Hamlyn Williams
At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result. The story begins in Victorian south London. It goes out to Portuguese East Africa and then to Malaya, before being caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. Between the wars, its leading characters work at Pilkington, Dunlop and English Steel; they serve in Gallipoli, Gibraltar and Malta; they transform the way a mechanized army is supplied. They supply in the desert and the jungle. They build massive depots, and relationships with motor companies here and in the USA. After the war they work for companies driving the post-war economy: Vickers, Dunlop and Rootes. Many died, exhausted, years before their time.
Author |
: James Holland |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780099436461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0099436469 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Pair of Silver Wings by : James Holland
At the school where Edward Enderby taught for over forty years, there were few who knew he'd once been a successful fighter pilot during the war.It was not something he ever talked about - not even to his family. And for over half a century he had, for the most part, managed to put the memories of those years out of his mind. But fifty years on, he is alone - a widower - with a strained relationship with his only son, and a career behind him that has brought him respect but little affection.In 1995, Britain is celebrating the anniversary of the end of the war, and Edward finds himself forced to confront the tragedy he suffered during those years. Embarking on a journey of self-discovery and personal redemption, Edward travels from England to Malta and then to Italy, and in doing so comes face-to-face with the idealistic young man he once was, and the devastated and traumatised 23-year-old he was to become.Following his experiences over the skies of England in 1941, through the dark days of the Siege of Malta, to the partisan struggle in Italy, A PAIR OF SILVER WINGS is a story of friendship, love and the terrible legacy of war, exploring universal themes of grief and redemption, and one man's quest to heal the scars of the past.