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.
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.
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.
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:
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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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:
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:
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:
Download or read book The Traditional Games of England Scotland and Ireland written by Alice Bertha Gomme and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme
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Download or read book Radio History Ship Shore written by Spurgeon G. Roscoe and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From flags and pennants to Morse code and complex telecommunications, Radio History Ship to Shore is a treatise on the navigational aids vessels have used over the centuries. Author Spurgeon “Spud” G. Roscoe takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of communication systems globally, from the days of Columbus to modern times. Roscoe also mines his first-hand experience as a radio officer who sailed on a dozen ships, including a reproduction of the ill-fated HMS Bounty. Now in his eighties, he has been meticulously collecting the content for Radio History Ship to Shore for more than five decades. The result is a hefty tome in which Roscoe shares his encyclopedic knowledge and unyielding fascination with communications systems. The book includes all the vessels in the RCMP marine section (and, later, marine division), the RCAF marine squadrons, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, and the Canadian Coast Guard, including the weather ships, and icebreakers. Radio History Ship to Shore is complemented by a wealth of historic photos of everything from warships to Canada’s famous Bluenose schooner.
Download or read book IP and Other Things written by Robin Jacob and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob has been variously a leading member of the Intellectual Property Bar, a High Court judge and, as Lord Justice Jacob, a judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. His primary area of expertise is intellectual property (IP) rights. He chose to leave the Court of Appeal in March 2011 to take up his current position as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in intellectual property at University College London. Besides teaching and writing he still sits occasionally in the Court of Appeal, sits as an arbitrator, provides expert evidence, chairs the Advisory Committee on the Appointment and Training of the Judges of the Unified Patent Court and often advises the UK Government and EU Commission on IP matters. These essays and speeches, selected from his published and unpublished writings and lectures, illustrate the breadth of his learning in IP and other matters. They are written in typically straightforward and entertaining style and, in the case of the older essays, include a commentary of what has happened since they were first published. They will be of interest to any lawyer, law student or scholar interested in the development of IP law in the past quarter century or so.
Download or read book The Cruise of Her Majesty s Ship Bacchante written by Duke of Clarence and Avondale Albert Victor Christian Edward and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Catholic Readers by Grades Fifth Year written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of carefully selected catholic readers for children. It was compiled to help form a proper literary standard and promote a fondness for the best reading. At the same time, this work was created to interest the children with quality Christian education. It contains several short stories and verses to support children's reading development and help children become independent readers. The fascinating selections in the book grip the readers with various interesting themes and plots and promote confidence and a passion for reading.
Download or read book 1492 written by Mary Johnston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '1492' is an enthralling novel set during the time of Christopher Columbus, revealing the tale of a Jew named Jayme de Marchena who is struggling to evade the grip of the Spanish Inquisition. In an attempt to escape from Spain, he eventually ends up as a part of Columbus' crew, working as a medical doctor on the ship. The novel highlights the greed and harshness of the Spanish towards the Native Americans and each other, and it does not shy away from acknowledging the ill-treatment of the Native Americans.
