Mastermind Of Dunkirk And D Day
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Mastermind Of Dunkirk And D Day
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Author : Brian Izzard
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2020-04-15
Mastermind Of Dunkirk And D Day written by Brian Izzard and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This detailed biography brings to life one of the greatest military heroes of WWII—and demonstrates why his contributions were crucial to Allied victory. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of some 330,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. He went on to play a crucial role in the invasion of Sicily and the planning and execution of the D-Day invasion, where he commanded the 7,000 ships that delivered Allied forces to the beaches of Normandy. All this from a man who had retired in 1938—only to be persuaded back to the service by Winston Churchill himself. In 1944, Ramsay was promoted to Admiral and appointed Naval Commander-in-Chief for the D-Day naval expeditionary force. A year later, he died in a mysterious air crash. Though Ramsay’s legacy has been remembered by the Royal Navy, his key role in the Allied victory has been widely forgotten. Now biographer Brian Izzard corrects this oversight, arguing that without Ramsay the outcome of both Dunkirk and D-Day—and perhaps the entire war—could have been very different.
Dunkirk To D Day
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Author : Philip Hamlyn Williams
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2021-06-09
Dunkirk To D Day written by Philip Hamlyn Williams and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-09 with History categories.
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 mechanised 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.
Dunkirk To D Day
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Author : Jeff Steel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-06-01
Dunkirk To D Day written by Jeff Steel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-01 with History categories.
Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam’s hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction. It all happened. Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal ‘for gallantry under fire’ by King George VI. Bill volunteered for commandos: he thrived on adrenaline. Number 4 commando took him to a surgical strike in the north of Norway. The stated objective: to destroy oil installations. It was a feint. Ian Fleming of the Secret Intelligence Service had masterminded the raid. Its objective: to help break the Enigma Code. Number 4 Commando then sent him on a raid to Dieppe to spike naval guns to enable a landing by Canadian forces. Bill’s commanding officer was Lord Lovat: cousin to Ian Fleming and (allegedly) template for the fictional James Bond. Bill’s prowess as a commando saw him headhunted to a top-secret location in the wilds of Scotland. Here he trained others in the dark arts of ‘butcher and bolt’. On D-Day morning Bill passed over the sands of Normandy in minutes. The next two months saw him up against Hitler’s elite army and Waffen SS divisions. The reader will ask the same question that Bill asked: how would he ever come out alive?
Alan Brooke Churchill S Right Hand Critic
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Author : Andrew Sangster
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2021-04-05
Alan Brooke Churchill S Right Hand Critic written by Andrew Sangster and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This new biography of Churchill’s top WWII advisor is “an excellent book for anyone interested in military leadership” (The NYMAS Review). Voted the greatest Briton of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill has long been credited with almost single-handedly leading his country to victory in World War II. But without Alan Brooke, a skilled tactician, at his side the outcome might well have been disastrous. Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, more often than not served as a brake on some of Churchill’s more impetuous ideas. However, while Brooke’s diaries reveal his fury with some of Churchill’s decisions, they also reveal his respect and admiration for the wartime prime minister. In return Churchill must surely have considered Brooke one of his most difficult subordinates—but later wrote that he was “fearless, formidable, articulate, and in the end convincing.” As CIGS, Brooke was integral to coordination between the Allied forces, and so had to wrestle with the cultural strategy clash between the British and Americans. Comments in his diaries offer up his opinions of both his British and American military colleagues—his negative assessments of Mountbatten’s ability, and acerbic comments on the difficult character of de Gaulle and the weaknesses of Eisenhower. Conversely, he was clearly overindulgent in the face of Montgomery’s foibles. Brooke was often seen as a stern and humorless figure, but a study of his private life reveals a little-seen lighter side, a lifelong passion for birdwatching, and abiding love for his family. The two tragedies that befell his immediate family were a critical influence on his life. Andrew Sangster completes this new biography with a survey of the way various historians have assessed Brooke, explaining how he has lapsed into seeming obscurity in the years since his crucial part in the Allied victory in World War II.
One Crew The Rnli S Official 200 Year History
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Author : Helen Doe
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2024-02-15
One Crew The Rnli S Official 200 Year History written by Helen Doe and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-15 with Transportation categories.
This book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has responded over 200 years.
The Nine Days Of Dunkirk
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Author : David Divine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Nine Days Of Dunkirk written by David Divine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with History categories.
After Dunkirk
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Author : John Dalgleish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-09
After Dunkirk written by John Dalgleish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with categories.
In this minor war classic, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1945, Major John Dalgleish, R.A.S.C., 'Daily Express' journalist and BBC commentator, provides a short account of the planning for D-Day. A complete history of the so called Second Front would run to a million words and still be incomplete. The present volume is intended to be a bird's-eye view of what happened behind the veil of secrecy which shrouded the two years of planning after the disaster of Dunkirk and before the success of D-Day.'What a great book! Very readable, written by an RASC officer involved in pre-Neptune, pre-Overlord planning especially regarding movement and catering. An excellent addition, published just after the war, to the literature; pleasing to have a very British view of what could have been chaos.'Amazon.com (5 Star review)'MAJOR DALGLEISH has written a valuable book ... Here is no abstract enunciation of the importance of "administration," but a statement of the planners' task in terms of a series of interlinking and very concrete problems. The armchair strategist of the future ought at least to read such a book as this before he passes judgement, unless he possesses the valuable practical experience of having been responsible for the movement of at least a company of real troops... Very wisely, in a popular book of this kind, he gives a general picture of the planning as a whole, placing special emphasis on the problems which concerned him most... such diverse activities as training, the equipment of the invasion troops, their concentration and movement, their embarkation and transportation by sea. Life is given to his account... by constant reference to particular problems and the way in which they were tackled. There was humour in this triumph of planning, and I particularly enjoyed the story of the R.A.M.C. officer whose unit failed to appear at the time of embarkation because his practice was to file all "Top Secret" instructions unopened and wait for orders to open them... Reading [this] might well form part of the military and political education of every citizen.'S. H. F. JOHNSTON in 'The Spectator'
The D Day Companion
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Author : Jane Penrose
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-10
The D Day Companion written by Jane Penrose and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with History categories.
Published to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, The D-Day Companion brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the Atlantic. Operation Overlord saw the Allied Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery pit their wits against Hitler in a bold bid to liberate continental Europe. Featuring a foreword by Major Richard Winters, real-life commander of Easy Company as featured in Stephen E Ambrose's Band of Brothers, this is a unique and incisive examination of the momentous events that surrounded June 6, 1944. Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of the D-Day landings, from the build-up to the attack to the experiences of the troops on the ground.
Dunkirk
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Author : R. Conrad Stein
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Release Date : 1982
Dunkirk written by R. Conrad Stein and has been published by Children's Press(CT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
Details the heroic evacuation of Allied troops from the beach at Dunkirk by both British naval ships and civilian craft in June 1940, despite heavy German bombardment.
D Day
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :
D Day written by Spencer C. Tucker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed. The beach landings at Normandy, France, in June of 1944 were of critical importance in the outcome of World War II, and as a consequence, served to determine the economic and political state of the modern world as we know it. This latest reference book edited by esteemed historian Spencer C. Tucker supplies easy-to-understand overview entries on the Normandy Invasion ("Operation OVERLORD") and the European Theater in World War II as well as entries treating specific topics such as key individuals, technical innovations, weapons systems, command structures, terrain and logistical difficulties, and the role played by weather. Readers will come to understand why the eventual success of the Allied forces in the D-Day operations was so hard-fought and came at a tremendous cost of life. The book addresses the immense difficulty of supplying tens of thousands of soldiers--many of them inexperienced in combat--and countless tons of equipment and vehicles to the invasion force from over the beaches, after most of the teams landed in the wrong locations, and when many command structures were wiped out almost immediately upon landing; and it explains how these factors impacted the combat on the ground and resulted in the Allied forces' careful planning going awry. The book also describes the elaborate deception carried out by the Allies regarding the invasion landing site and how these efforts impacted battle developments, and it presents nine primary documents that treat various aspects of the battle, including the lengthy Allied plan for the invasion and primary sources of directives regarding the battle and technical innovations.