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Author | : George S. Macdonell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-12-29 |
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ISBN | : 9781038758019 |
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This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.
Author | : George S. MacDonell |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550029983 |
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This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.
Author | : George S. MacDonell |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2002-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550024086 |
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This story details the fateful adventures of two Canadian army regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese.
Author | : Robert J. Dole |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
ISBN | : 9780002813457 |
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Author | : James E. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Edward A. Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
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Author | : Nigel Thomas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782004815 |
Download The German Army 1939–45 (1) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men. It eventually expanded to 9,500,000, and on 8-9 May 1945, the date of its unconditional surrender on the Western and Eastern Fronts, it still numbered 7,800,000. The Blitzkrieg period, from 1 September 1939 to 25 June 1940, was 10 months of almost total triumph for the Wehrmacht, as it defeated every country, except Great Britain, that took the field against it. In this first of five volumes examining the German Army of World War Two, Nigel Thomas examines the uniforms and insignia of Hitler's Blitzkrieg forces, including an overview of the Blitzkrieg campaign itself. Men-at-Arms 311, 316, 326, 330 and 336 are also available in a single volume special edition titled 'German Army in World War II'.
Author | : Franco David Macri |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700621083 |
Download Clash of Empires in South China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent--a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations. In the first book to cover this southern theater in detail, David Macri closely examines strategic decisions, campaigns, and operations and shows how they affected Allied grand strategy. Drawing on documents of U.S. and British officials, he reveals for the first time how the Sino-Japanese War served as a "proxy war" for the Allies: by keeping Japan's military resources focused on southern China, they hoped to keep the enemy bogged down in a war of attrition that would prevent them from breaching British and Soviet territory. While the most immediate concern was preserving Siberia and its vast resources from invasion, Macri identifies Hong Kong as the keystone in that proxy war-vital in sustaining Chinese resistance against Japan as it provided the logistical interface between the outside world and battles in Hunan and Kwangtung provinces; a situation that emerged because of its vital rail connection to the city of Changsha. He describes the development of Anglo-Japanese low-intensity conflict at Hong Kong; he then explains the geopolitical significance of Hong Kong and southern China for the period following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Opening a new window on this rarely studied theater, Macri underscores China's symbolic importance for the Allies, depicting them as unequal partners who fought the Japanese for entirely different reasons-China for restoration of its national sovereignty, the Allies to keep the Japanese preoccupied. And by aiding China's wartime efforts, the Allies further hoped to undermine Japanese propaganda designed to expel Western powers from its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As Macri shows, Hong Kong was not just a sleepy British Colonial outpost on the fringes of the empire but an essential logistical component of the war, and to fully understand broader events Hong Kong must be viewed together with southern China as a single military zone. His account of that forgotten fight is a pioneering work that provides new insight into the origins of the Pacific War.
Author | : Dan Bjarnason |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2011-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1770707727 |
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April 24th, 1951,was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their lives to begin. Soon, Chinese communist troops in their thousands, swarmed around them, plunging straight towards the Korean capital, Seoul. These Canadians were all that blocked the way. This is the story of the first battle by Canada’s first soldiers in the Korean War: the 2nd Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. These volunteers were straight from Central Casting: truck drivers, construction workers, kids just out of high school, and bored farm boys. Outnumbered and outgunned, this people’s army of amateurs beat off some of the toughest troops on earth. This battle that’s become a legend takes its name from a nearby peanut-sized village: Kapyong. It’s become a mythic Canadian story, except this is mythology that is true and real.
Author | : Richard Doherty |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473842808 |
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While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy.Superb generalship (Truscott 5th Army and McCreery 8th Army under General