Hugh Dormer's Diaries
Author | : Hugh Dormer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh Dormer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hugh Dormer |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2019-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 183974118X |
Behind Enemy Lines: The World War Two Diary of British Secret Agent Hugh Dormer, first published in 1948 as Hugh Dormer's Diaries, is the gripping war-time account of Captain Hugh Everard Dormer, D.S.O., Irish Guards. Dormer twice parachuted into Nazi-occupied France with the objective of destroying an important shale oil processing plant. After each mission, Dormer made his way back to England by crossing into Spain on foot via the Pyrenees Mountains. Following the Normandy invasion, Dormer commanded a British tank crew which was shelled at close-range by a German tank. Dormer and two crewmen managed to escape the burning tank but Dormer was killed by machine-gun fire as he and the crewmen attempted to escape across an open meadow (the other two men were wounded and taken prisoner). Dormer, who was only 25 years old at the time of his death, was remembered fondly by all those who served with him, and had hoped to become a priest following the war. His dedication and heartfelt belief in the moral justness of the Allied cause provide a timeless story of courage and inspiration.
Author | : John Bunting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Loyd Lee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1997-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313033145 |
A broadly interdisciplinary work, this handbook discusses the best and most enduring literature related to the major topics and themes of World War II. Military historiography is treated in essays on the major theaters of military operations and the related themes of logistics and intelligence, while political and diplomatic history is covered in chapters on international relations, resistance movements, and collaboration. The volume analyzes themes of domestic history in essays on economic mobilization, the home fronts, and women in the military and civilian life. The book also covers the Holocaust. This handbook approaches each topic from a global viewpoint rather than focusing on individual national communities. Except for nonprint material, the literature, research, and sources surveyed are primarily those available in English. The volume is aimed at both experts on the war and the general academic community and will also be useful to students and serious laymen interested in the war.
Author | : John Broom |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473862418 |
The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world view on their neighbours, a struggle for what Winston Churchill described as `Christian civilisation took place on many fronts. On the home front, on land, on sea and in the air, as well as in the horrific concentration camps of Europe and prisoner of war camps in the Far East, people of a Christian faith found their beliefs challenged. However, for many this challenge provided an affirmation of that faith, as it provided a rock amidst the ever shifting sands of circumstance. This book contains the accounts of twenty such individuals, many drawn from previously unpublished sources. Their testimonies provide evidence that during a time of discord, disruption, dislocation and death, the Christian faith remained a key force in sustaining morale and a willingness to fight the good fight.Interesting Facts King George VI called National Days of Prayer during Britains darkest days in 1940Had Michael Benn survived the war, he would have become the 2nd Viscount Stansgate, meaning his brother, Tony, would not have had to fight to renounce his peerageBill Frankland avoided near certain death at the Alexandra Hospital Massacre by the toss of a coinStanley Warren only found out about the rediscovery of his Changi Murals during a chance work conversation in the 1950sAs a boy, Ken Tout was told by his parents to cross the street to avoid walking past the Catholic church. As a man he was invited to a private audience with Pope John Paul II.
Author | : Hugh Dormer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Author | : Robert Eisner |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472082209 |
Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel
Author | : Patrick Howarth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100045987X |
This book, first published in 1980, is an invaluable assessment of SOE’s contribution to the Allied victory. From both first-hand knowledge (Howarth served with SOE for 4 years) and in-depth research, this book traces the development of the organisation and its successes and failures. By bringing to life some of the outstanding men and women who served in SOE, this book pays tribute to their bravery and examines their role in fomenting and supporting clandestine resistance against the Nazi regime.
Author | : Samuel Hynes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101191724 |
The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare—and of each war's role in history—gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.
Author | : Roy Barnard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |