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 1964, Putnam Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Abebooks Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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Contents: Paris at last welcomes the Allies, in August 1944, and after the final flurry of atrocities and street-fighting, General de Gaulle enters the Capital. The consolidation of his authority is now virtually complete, and the defeat of Germany assured: but many months of bitter fighting yet remain to be endured. In this sequel to 'The Vichy Regime' and 'De Gaulle Before Paris', Robert Aron records with dispassionate clarity how the liberation of France proceeded to its end. In each of many cities the same problems arise in different forms: first the ousting of the Germans and the prevention of wanton destruction by them in their retreat; next the frustration of the Communist attempt to seize power in the municipality. The personality of Charles de Gaulle dominates the whole drama; and the close examination of his actions in those victorious days throws revealing light on the sources of his strength. The author describes the skill which enabled him to restore the authority of the central government under his own control. Besides the heroic aspect-the liberation of the South West by the Resistance, and the rebirth of the French Army-there is also the grim aftermath of war, the hunger, the Liberation Massacres, the persecution of 'collaborators', and the loss of young blood and talent. France's hour of triumph leaves problems enough to be solved as the last German pockets are captured, and Dunkirk, the last town on French soil to be liberated, surrenders, by a quirk of fate, to the British and the Czechs. Chapters: Part 2. The Liberation of the South Part 3. The Last Liberations Conclusion: The Balance Sheet of the Liberation |
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 c.1942, The Right Book Club, hbk In stock, click image above to buy for £10.99, not including post and packing (£2.80, which is Amazon UK's standard postal charge for UK orders) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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About this book: The barrage balloon was a British one which had appeared drifting over one of the aerodromes in Holland. German fighters went up, but missed the target. Then the Flak (anti-aircraft) used all its ammunition. No success. 'It burst from laughing.' ...In Apeldoorn, in the East of Holland, a German soldier wanted to buy a few things in a shop. The shop was packed with customers. One of them said to the shopkeeper: 'Please, serve the Germans first. They are in a hurry to leave for England.' This customer was sentenced to four months' imprisonment 'on account of behaviour offending the honour of the German army.' ...In September, a lady was arrested because she had listened to the B.B.C. Unperturbed, she defended herself by saying: 'After the fall of France, Adolf Hitler has announced that in October he would speak over the British wireless. I was very afraid of missing this historic speech.' What is happening in Holland? Have the Nazis succeeded in gaining Dutch collaboration? The above stories are the answer, for they are characteristic of Dutch resistance to the Nazis. This book reveals the full story of the occupation PART THREE: DOCUMENTS |
Holland in the 2nd World War |
 2000, Three Counties Publishing (Books) Limited, pbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book: Shot down over Germany, torpedoed by U-boats, killed by the murderous explosions of Luftwaffe bombs - this was the fate of some of the young men of Leek who lost their lives during the Second World War: Others fought and died in the barren wastes of the North African deserts, the valleys and mountains of Italy, the steaming jungles of Burma and the green fields of Normandy. This is the untold story of the 101 soldiers, sailors and airmen named on the the town's War Memorial. A story of bravery and tragedy. A story of sacrifices made by ordinary Leek men thrown into a bitter struggle against tyranny and oppression. 'In Name Only' includes a unique collection of photographs of many of the 101 casualties and the memories of the loved ones left behind. It takes the reader through the stages of the war as those six dark years claimed the lives of the 101, the youngest only 16 and the oldest 54. It details the service unit, squadron or ship each one was attached to, the date and place of his death and where he is buried or commemmorated. There are fascinating accounts of bewildered evacuees in the town, of bombs falling on Leek, of rationing and gas masks and of the telegram which every war-time family dreaded. This publication is as unique as the Leek Monument itself. It is a fitting tribute to all those who died and answers many questions about their short lives and tragic deaths. But it also raises a number of questions. Why were the Allies prepared to use mustard gas against the Germans in 1943? Why were bomber crews sent over enemy territory in bright moonlight only to be slaughtered in their hundreds? Why were so many young and inexperienced airmen killed in flying accidents here in England? In 1949, two brass plaques listing the names of the fallen were added to the Nicholson War Memorial in the centre of Leek. Over the last fifty years, countless thousands of people have looked at them in awe. 'In Name Only' tells the full story of the real people behind those names Chapters: |
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 1942, Embassy of the Soviet Socialist Republics, pbk In stock, click to buy for £50.00, not including p&p Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book/synopsis: This 75 page pbk from the Soviet Embassy in Washington in 1942, marks a year of fighting the German invasion of Russia, from June 22, 1941. It would appear it was published to coincide with the US observing the 1 year of fighting anniversary on June 22, 1942, when meetings and observances took place in many parts of the US; and when the governors of 28 states and the mayors of 214 American cities had officially proclaimed it "Aid-to-Russia Day". In New York, Ambassador Litvinov and Harry Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Roosevelt spoke at a meeting in Madison Square Garden. In tone and intent, the book is a very public, high-visibility verbal cementing of the alliance agreed between the US and the USSR signed on June 11, 1942 (and also by implication and direct mention-from the Russian side-of the alliance agreed between Russia and Great Britain on May 26, 1942); whereby the American allies and Russia celebrate and welcome each other's support and express the belief that it will see the end of Hitlerite Russia. Russia's efforts against Hitler are demonstrated and feted in both word and image throughout this publication. Understandably, Josef Stalin is the first entry in the book with an extract from his Order of the Day, May 1st 1942. His portrait, full page-size, lies directly opposite this on page 7, where he looks proud, strong, and triumphant, all good war imagery. Contents: US Salutations to the USSR includes passages from Henry Wallace, Vice President of the US; Cordell Hull, Secretary of State; Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy; General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, US Army; Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet; Harry Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Roosevelt; General MacArthur to the Soviet Alliance Anniversary Committee in London; Chairman Nelson, War Production Board; Edward R. Stettinius Jr, Lend Lease Administrator; William L. Batt, War Production Board; Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate of Foreign Relations Committee; Senator Homer T. Bone; Senator Charles L. McNary; Senator Claude Pepper; Senator Elbert D. Thomas; Andrew J. May, Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, House of Representatives; Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York; Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey; Colonel Raymond Robins, head of the American Red Cross in Russia in 1917-1918; John P. Davis, Secretary of the National Negro Congress; Czechoslovak National Council of America; Rumanian-American Alliance for Democracy, Paul M. Deac (National Chairman); William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor speaking at Russian War Relief meeting in Madison Square Garden, New York; Radiogram from American Seamen to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kalinin; International Fur and Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada, CIO, to Joseph Stalin; Dr. Ernest of Lawrence, Professor of Physics, University of California; Professor Walter Cannon, Professor of Physiology, Harvard University; Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor Henry E. Sigerist, John Hopkins University; Dr. Gilbert N. Lewis, Professor of Chemistry, University of California; Theodore Dreiser, writer; Upton Sinclair, writer; Paul de Kruif, writer; Efrem Zimbalist, violinist; Thomas Mann, writer; Lion Feuchtwanger, writer; Sava Kosanovich, Minister of State of Yugoslavia. Illustrations: It contains 30 plates. The photos included are: Soviet Troops Attacking; Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mikhail Kalinin; Stormoviks (Russian fighter planes) attacking German tanks; Soviet tanks racing into action; Red Infantrymen using anti-tank guns on a German tank; President Roosevelt and Foreign Commissar Molotov; Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov and Harry Hopkins shaking hands; mass shootings of civilians at Kerch by German troops; Women in the Red Army; Henry A. Wallace, VP of the US; Cordell Hull, Secretary of State; Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War; Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy; Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, field commander of the Red Army; General Douglas MacArthur Commander-in-Chief of UN Forces in SW Pacific; Donald M. Nelson; Wrecked German Bombers in Moscow; Cavalry in action striking into German lines in winter; Underground in Sevastopol; Snipers carrying the standard red army rifle equipped with an optical sight; Night Firing-when enemy divebombers plunge low to blast Red Army positions, Russian troops fire on them with quadruple maxims; the capture of Yukhnov from the Germans after crossing the Ugra River; Conscripted Russian troops under the new programme of universal military training proclaimed in September 1941, when the Germans were driving toward Leningrad; return of a Russian guerilla fighter (name Chistyakov) to his family home; Red Army infantrymen targeting enemy tanks with the famous long-barrelled Soviet anti-tank rifle; Cupolas in Borovsk-foreground: a Russian soldier stands next to a captured German tank, one of 2,766 captured between December 6 - January 15; a Red Army soldier touting a machine gun and guarding a captured train, surrounded by the abandoned bodies of German Guards; and finally a German cemetery, the burials having been carried out by fellow German soldiers |
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 2006, 1st Edition, stanfordprojects.co.uk, pbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here for our prebuilt search for any edition of this book on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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Contents: The Battle of Hong Kong took place between 8th December and 25th December 1941. This is the tale of the Stanford family and how they were affected by this battle. It tells of life in the Army, life in the colonies, the battle itself, the infamous Lisbon Maru, and how the family coped with the war, evacuation, repatriation, and post war. This book is based on events that happened to member's of the author's family in the second world war -in particular that which was documented in his grandmother's journal, which illuminates what was happening to thousands of other families during the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese. It's about the brave, but fruitless stand against the Imperial Japanese army and about the role of the various regiments, especially the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots - how they were caught unawares, how their discipline was restored, and how they eventually won the grudging respect of the other defenders, especially The Middlesex Regiment (the Diehards). The book draws upon the author's father's memories and this fits in with the book's aim to try and put a human face on real events Chapters: |
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 October 25th, 1946, The Amalgamated Press: fortnightly magazine, pbk, staple binding In stock, click to buy for £18.00, not including post and packing
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p440. Roll of Honour, with date of decease
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Contents: This staple-bound magazine published on 25th November 1946 was published at a point when the Nuremberg trials had only just been held and sentences, including executions, had been handed out. The centre pages show a double-page spread picture of somewhat grisly fascination of the Nazi officers and hierarchy sitting during the Nuremberg trials. The magazine is a mine of information and full of black and white pictures; and for the war collector and enthusiast, it is highly collectible. Articles and Photos Included: |
Other 'War Illustrated' Magazines edited by Sir John Hammerton WW2 illustrated-books and magazines: Nuremberg Trials Royal Navy, WW2 |
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in hardback with dustjacket, 360pp
in Great Britain by The Right Book Club in hardback with dustjacket, 138pp
. Published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Washington, D. C., as an information bulletin and special supplement, 75pp
. Original retail price: $25 