Download or read book Tin Can Tommies Darkest Hour written by Mark Jones and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reluctant young hero haunted by the ghosts of his past. A team of mechanical warriors resurrected for one last stand. A tyrannical dictator hell-bent on exploiting the atom...brJune 1940. As Blitzkrieg burns through Europe, Corporal Jack Stone escapes Dunkirk by the skin of his teeth leaving Germany with its prize in sight across the English Channel: Great Britain - a stubborn little island that now stands alone.brRecruited by Winston Churchill to lead a team of robot commandos - veteran machines of the Great War nicknamed the Tin Can Tommies - Jack must venture into battle once again on an audacious mission deep behind enemy lines. But with dissention in the ranks, a traitor in their midst and Jack's nemesis hot on his heels, the odds are stacked against them.brWhatever happens, the Tommies will be in the thick of it - but as time runs out Jack will find himself in a deadly battle for survival as he confronts not only the shadows of his past, but an enemy whose insidious plan for world domination threatens the freedom of mankind itself.brEchoing the great British war films of the seventies, DARKEST HOUR is the first in a series of gripping wartime adventures featuring Jack Stone and the Tin Can Tommies - with explosive action, twists, thrills and a cast of compelling characters - this is dieselpunk military sci-fi with a pulp comic WW2 twist!brTIN CAN TOMMIES - BRITANNIA JUST BROKE OUT THE BIG GUNS!
Download or read book Tin Can Tommies written by Mark C Jones and published by Source Point Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1940. With England on the brink of invasion, a reluctant young hero leads a team of robot commandos to take the fight back to the enemy, but with dissention in the ranks, a traitor in their midst and his nemesis hot on their heels, the odds are against them. June 1940. After an insanely heroic rearguard action, Jack Stone and his friend, Billy Briggs, escape Dunkirk by the skin of their teeth with the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force, leaving Jack’s nemesis, General Ernst Mörder, immolated but alive. As France falls, Great Britain’s invasion appears imminent. Haunted by his brother’s death at Mörder’s hands, Jack is recruited by Winston Churchill to lead his first team of commandos. In Berlin, Adolf Hitler resurrects Mörder, an old comrade, ordering that he oversee a top-secret project in Norway. Hell-bent on revenge, Mörder is re-born, concealing his disfigurement with a grotesque crimson samurai mask. Flown to the Scottish Highlands to meet their team, Jack and Billy join Brigadier Charles Hastings and sassy American scientist, Doctor Cammy Sullivan, who introduces them to the Tin Can Tommies—four humanoid machines who fought for the Allies during the Great War—nicknamed Lancaster, Hurricane, Mosquito and Spitfire. Jack and Cammy bond as Lancaster stubbornly resists Jack’s command, and Billy starts to befriend the robots. While Jack remains unconvinced, the team slowly bond under the dutiful eye of their gritty drill instructor, Mungo McNulty, who is killed when Hastings reveals himself to be a quisling during the Tommies’ graduation celebration, handing Mörder top secret documents before committing suicide. Distraught at McNulty’s loss, Jack spirals into depression. Introducing him to the crawlers, the team’s single caterpillar-tracked motorcycles, Cammy challenges Jack to a race across the Highlands where she persuades him that the Tommies can take the fight to the enemy. Falling for Cammy, Jack commits to lead the team who are posted to Dover for paratroop training under maverick young Spitfire ace, Alan ‘Nosy’ Parker, and his pilots of 2 Squadron, and meet Sal ‘Fixer’ Remmy, the wise-cracking pilot of their new vehicle, the Valiant, a modified Flying Fortress. After a skirmish with a German U-boat off the English coast, the team earn 2 Squadron’s respect and training begins in earnest. Jack and Cammy grow closer as the team’s first mission is revealed—the destruction of a Hydropower plant in Vemork, Norway, to prevent the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Mörder arrives in Vemork on a mission of his own. As the team’s bomber is destroyed mid-flight over its drop zone, they parachute into Norway but are separated above the hostile wastes. Alerted to the crash, Mörder dispatches troops to investigate. Rescued by Norwegian resistance, Jack meets their leader, Magnus Hellstrøm, and is reunited with his team, but discovers Spitfire is missing. Aware of the team’s survival, Mörder plots their location. The team take refuge at Hellstrøm’s sister’s village where Spitfire’s motionless shell has been discovered. Cammy tells Jack that her parachute was slashed, and that there may be a traitor in the group. As Lancaster, Hurricane and Mosquito pray for Spitfire’s reactivation in the village church, Mörder arrives with his troops but Hellstrøm thwarts his plans, scattering Mörder’s men across a lake of broken ice as he and the team escape with a now reactivated Spitfire. Reaching Vemork, they infiltrate the factory where Mosquito reveals he is the traitor and the team are captured. Mörder tortures Jack and Lancaster as Mosquito loads heavy water barrels onto a train. After escaping captivity, the remainder of the team rescue Jack and Lancaster who head for the station. Hellstrøm is killed as Cammy, Billy and the Tommies blow up the factory. Commandeering a half-track, they speed alongside the train as Jack and Lancaster battle through carriages toward the heavy water barrels. Running out of road, the half-track is rescued by Remmy in the Valiant who swoops in low to pursue the train. Mosquito pins Lancaster to a carriage roof as Mörder confronts Jack. Cammy and Billy crash onto the train’s rear carriage in a tank from the Valiant’s bay and push forward. Above, the Valiant provides air support, winging a German fighter which hits a mountain creating an avalanche. The train is thrown from its tracks into an icy gorge. Perched upon a cliff edge, Cammy and Billy are lifted into the Valiant from the tank leaving Mosquito, now skewered on its cannon, to tumble to his doom. With his carriage wedged in the gorge and Lancaster half-destroyed, Jack sacrifices himself to avenge his brother, dragging Mörder to his death, but is rescued by Lancaster as Mörder plummets into the darkness. The Valiant hovers overhead and the team are re-united, vowing to continue the fight. Weeks later in Berlin, Mörder’s daughter, Ilsa, a promising pupil at Heinrich Himmler’s SS Academy tells her Godfather, Adolf Hitler, that she has a plan to destroy Jack Stone and the Tin Can Tommies.
Download or read book The Tin Can Man written by Marcia Leonard and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nan had a plan and one tin can. She got more and more cans. Then just see what she and her dad made!
Download or read book The Tin Can Man Dot Book written by Marcia Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phonics-based story for readers in pre-kindergarten through grade one in which a girl and her father build a figure out of tin cans that wins a blue ribbon.
Download or read book Black Tommies written by Ray Costello and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of the role played by Black British soldiers in the First World War.
Download or read book The Tin Can Man written by Marcia Leonard and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl and her father build a figure out of tin cans that wins a blue ribbon.
Download or read book The American Legion Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Just Dead I m Not Gone written by Jim Dickinson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941–2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording. The blues, Elvis, and early rock 'n' roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin' Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler. Dickinson is a member of the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Engineering and Production from the Americana Music Association, a Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, and a Heritage Marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This memoir recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and rock 'n' roll through Dickinson's captivating blend of intelligence, humor, and candor.
Download or read book Laugh or Cry written by Peter Hart and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King’s Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the Western Front during the Great War. Human beings are complicated, and there is no set pattern as to how they react to the outrageous stresses of war. But humor, often dark and representative of the horrors around them could and often did help. They may have been up to their knees in mud and blood, soaking wet and shot at from all sides, but many were still determined to see the ‘funny side’, rather than surrender to utter misery. Peter Hart and Gary Bain have delved deep into the archives to find examples of the soldier’s wit. The results are at times hilarious but rooted in tragedy. You have to laugh or cry.
Download or read book Feeding Tommy written by Andrew Robertshaw and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I found to my delight that I had stumbled across a kind of soup kitchen. The Tommy in charge was stirring a copperful of ‘Shackles’ (soup made from the very dregs of army cooking and stirred with a stick). I must have looked in need of extra nourishment for he said ‘D’yer want a drop, son?’ ‘Yes please’ I replied if you can spare it.’ The warmth and zest from that beefy liquid, unexpected as it was, compelled me to accept a second bowlful which I drank with the same enthusiasm as the first." - George Coppard, from With A Machine Gun to Cambrai. From bully beef to Tickler’s jam, explore what kept Tommy Atkins fed in the trenches by reading recipes and learning how meals were made just yards from the enemy. In this book Andrew Robertshaw combines history, recipes and historical experiments to reveal how Army Cooks in the First World War fed millions of men everyday against the odds.
Download or read book Back from Tobruk written by Croswell Bowen and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-lost diary of a journalist at war
Download or read book Tin Can Man written by Marcia Leonard and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Kids Readers, Level 1.
Download or read book A Yankee in the Trenches written by Robert Derby Holmes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Yankee in the Trenches" by Robert Derby Holmes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Seventh Regiment Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tommies written by John Sadler and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb.” —Books Monthly British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I. In August 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French and Belgians as the German army advanced. As it became apparent that the war would not, in fact, be over by Christmas, a vast drive for volunteer soldiers began. As enthusiasm for enlistment tailed off, eventually conscription was introduced in order to replenish the forces weakened by years of bloodshed. By 1918 the British army was transformed, fielding 5.5 million men on the western front alone. These Tommies fought an entirely new type of war, living in vast trench systems, threatened by death from the air and gas attack as well as by bullet, bomb, or bayonet. This introduction explores the experience of Tommies on the western front, explaining how their war evolved and changed from the mobile battles of August 1914 to the final days of the war, and discussing daily life as an infantryman on the front line using firsthand accounts, contemporary poems, and songs. The Casemate Short History Series “would be excellent for someone with an early interest in military history or for someone talking history at school. Very readable and easy to understand with some good illustrations” (Army Rumour Service).
Download or read book Gallipoli Diary written by John Graham Gillam and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
