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Book The Return of Normandie

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  • Author : Milton Caniff
  • Publisher : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780918348845
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book The Return of Normandie written by Milton Caniff and published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April Kane is being forced, in a set-up over her brother in India, to help Sam Tapper get information on gold shipments Ryan is involved with, but she manages to tip Pat and Terry that she's in trouble. Pat comes over to her place faking drunkenness and invites Tapper for a drink ...

Book Normandie

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  • Author : Harvey Ardman
  • Publisher : Franklin Watts
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780531097847
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Normandie written by Harvey Ardman and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the construction of the Normandie, one of the world's largest ocean liners, describes the ship's facilities, decoration, and voyages, and explains why it was dismantled for scrap in 1946

Book Normandie

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  • Author : John Maxtone-Graham
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780393061208
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Normandie written by John Maxtone-Graham and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship. Normandiewas unquestionably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built. The world's largest at the time, she also became the world's fastest. Her art deco interiors were unrivaled: capacious, elegant, and chic, decorated by teams of France's most talented artists. YetNormandiewas plagued with frustrations-never attracting more passengers than the competition and tragically ending her days in flames at New York's Pier 88. Celebrated maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham confesses to a hypnotic fascination withNormandie. In this comprehensive volume, enriched by over 200 photographs and illustrations, he documents every aspect of the vessel's decorative antecedents, design, construction, and service. Always articulate, entertaining, and devastatingly well informed, Maxtone-Graham has created the definitiveNormandiepanegyric, a comprehensive and, at times, heartbreaking account of this fabled liner. 30 color and 175 black-and-white illustrations.

Book French Eagles  Soviet Heroes

Download or read book French Eagles Soviet Heroes written by John Clarke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, General de Gaulle agreed to send French pilots to fight alongside the Red Air Force against the Germans on the Eastern Front. On 1 September 1942, the Groupe de Chasse III or 3rd Fighter Group 'Normandie' was created, equipped with Yak-3 fighter aircraft. On 5 April 1943, pilots Preziosi and Durand shared the unit's first 'kill'. Over the next two years, the group became the most highly decorated fighter unit ever to fly for France, and the second highest scoring fighter air group of the Soviet Air Force. Such was their notoriety that in May 1943 an order was signed by the German General Keitel stating that all 'Normandie' pilots were to be shot if captured. The 'Normandie' Group took an active part in the air support of the epic Battle of Kursk and in 1944 Stalin added 'Niemen' to their title in recognition of the help they rendered to the Soviet Army in crossing this river. The first of the Western Allies to capture and occupy German territory, 'Normandie-Niemen' clashed with the crack German fighter group JG51 Molders in the air battle over Konigsberg in March 1945. By the war's end the Group had racked up an impressive 273 confirmed victories and another 36 probables.

Book Beyond the Beachhead

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  • Author : Joseph Balkoski
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2005-08-04
  • ISBN : 0811741451
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Beachhead written by Joseph Balkoski and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.

Book A Farm in Normandy

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  • Author : Mrs. Robert Henrey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book A Farm in Normandy written by Mrs. Robert Henrey and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pierre Deux s Normandy

Download or read book Pierre Deux s Normandy written by Linda Dannenberg and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1988 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals an intimate tour of the Normandy region

Book Return to Normandy

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  • Author : Delbert Reason
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-11-01
  • ISBN : 9781551972602
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Return to Normandy written by Delbert Reason and published by . This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Normandie

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  • Author : Clive Harvey
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780752421391
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Normandie written by Clive Harvey and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Normandiefront

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  • Author : Vince Milano
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2011-10-21
  • ISBN : 0752472860
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Normandiefront written by Vince Milano and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cold morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of German soldiers are in position from Port en Bessin eastwards past Colleville on the Normandy coast, aware that a massive invasion force is heading straight for them. According to Allied Intelligence, they shouldn't be there. 352 infantry division would ensure the invaders would pay a massive price to take Omaha beach. There were veterans from the Russian front amongst them and they were well trained and equipped. the presence of 352 Division meant that the number of defenders was literally double the number expected - and on the best fortified of all the invasion beaches. What makes this account of the bloody struggle unique is that it is told from the German standpoint, using firsthand testimony of German combatants. There are not many of them left and these accounts have been painstakingly collected by the authors over many years.

Book Normandie Triangle

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  • Author : Justin Scott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982-11-12
  • ISBN : 9780345306401
  • Pages : 580 pages

Download or read book Normandie Triangle written by Justin Scott and published by . This book was released on 1982-11-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Nazi saboteur engineers the sinking of the superliner Normandie just before World War II, naval architect Steven Gates investigates the ruins and penetrates the agent's insidious plans for even greater destruction.

Book My Return to Normandy

Download or read book My Return to Normandy written by Robert L. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book SS Normandie

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  • Author : William H. Miller
  • Publisher : Classic Liners
  • Release : 2013-09-02
  • ISBN : 9780752488080
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book SS Normandie written by William H. Miller and published by Classic Liners. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the full story behind the most decoratively striking of all the great Atlantic liners, the SS Normandie A creation of the extravagant 1930s, the Normandie was the pride of the great French Line, the national flagship, and a ship well ahead of almost all other passenger ships of her time. She was the largest, longest, and fastest, but also the most decoratively stunning and had the most striking and innovative overall design. Her dining room was longer than the famed Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and her outer decks were uncluttered, superbly balanced, and streamlined. Her career was, however, highly dramatic and quite tragic in the end. She sailed commercially for just four years, and then was laid up in New York due to the start of World War II; she suffered the fate of burning at her pier, capsizing, and becoming a complete loss. In 1946, to the great sadness of her endless fans, the 11-year-old ship went to the breakers. This book, through added insight and anecdotes by experts with many superb, unpublished photos, greatly adds to the story of this finest of French liners.

Book Return to Normandy   With Plates and an Endpaper Map

Download or read book Return to Normandy With Plates and an Endpaper Map written by Vivian Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Normandy  44

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  • Author : James Holland
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2020-05-19
  • ISBN : 9780802148964
  • Pages : 721 pages

Download or read book Normandy 44 written by James Holland and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a new history of the momentous Normandy campaign with fresh insights from award-winning historian James Holland D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy--a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I--come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength--delivered with operational brilliance--made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war.

Book Becalmed

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  • Author : Normandie Fischer
  • Publisher : Iron Stream Media
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781938499616
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Becalmed written by Normandie Fischer and published by Iron Stream Media. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Southern woman with a broken heart finds herself falling for a widower with a broken boat, it's anything but smooth sailing.

Book Making Sense of Normandy

Download or read book Making Sense of Normandy written by E. Carver Mcgriff and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We should have begun to face the sobering probability that we were heading for the hell of battle, but we were kids. We'd heard of war in far-off places, places like Italy and Africa, and the faraway Pacific, but we were in England. We thought life would go on like this with excitement, new places to see, friends we'd never otherwise have met, a sense of manhood new to most of us . . . how little we knew. Barely more than children, soon to suffer the death of innocence. Carver McGriff was 19 years old when he left Indiana and his innocence behind to join in the battle for freedom on one of the most important and bloodiest battlefields of World War II. In Making Sense of Normandy: A Young Man's Journey of War and Faith, McGriff gives a rare veteran first-hand account of the harsh realities of WWII combat - not only the struggle for physical survival but for emotional and spiritual survival as well. It is a timeless story for all generations, a rare treasure that will touch the hearts and minds of all the Greatest Generations - yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's.