On the afternoon of 17 September 1944, Lieutenant Joseph Enthammer, a Wehrmacht artillery officer based in Arnhem, gazed up to the clear skies, hardly believing what he saw. White 'snowflakes' appeared to hang in the air. 'That cannot be' he thought. 'It never snows in September! They must be parachutists!' They were. He was witnessing the first ...
Many books have been written about the Normandy landings, but Robert Kershaw brings a new perspective by drawing heavily on German and Allied sources little used in the standard accounts. The actual landings and the subsequent few days of battle often resolved themselves into a multitude of desperate small-scale struggles - for the next few yards ...
In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War, from the soldiers fighting abroad to those battling on the home front, and creates an extraordinary portrait of a generation fighting for survival. Beginning with first-hand accounts of the reaction to Chamberlain's declaration of war in ...
There are few battles in the sometimes bloody history of the expansion of the United States in North American during the Indian Wars that are more famous than Little Bighorn. The romantic view of Custer's last stand against marauding hordes of Indians has achieved iconic status but the reality was somewhat different, as recent research has shown. ...
'I thought Tank Men was a triumph ...it is a really fine piece of work' - Richard Holmes 'Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare at the sharp end' --NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST The First World War saw the birth of an ...
In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern front was literally a campaign ...
Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment 'Home Nannies', 'Weekend Warriors', and worse. On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach, however, these proud Virginians who carried the legacy of the famed Stonewall Brigade showed the regular army and the world what true valor really was. In this ...
In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War, from the soldiers fighting abroad to those battling on the home front, and creates an extraordinary portrait of a generation fighting for survival. Beginning with first-hand accounts of the reaction to Chamberlain's declaration of war in ...
In NEVER SURRENDER Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War. Read first-hand accounts of the breathless reaction to Chamberlain's declaration of war in 1939. Discover what it was really like to fight in the limitless western desert of North Africa or through the horrific 24 hours of D-Day? How did ...
Description: Very Good. B000P8ZQGK Paperback book has clean pages and tight binding. No marks, writing or stickers inside or out. A hint of edge wear from storage. Some wear and only a couple small creases on outside cover. Orders posted same or next business day with email confirmation. Ships from a pet-free, smoke-free warehouse! We ship to APO, FPO and International. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA
Date Published: 1969
Description: Softcover booklet. 6 x 9. 40 pages. Illustrated with color photos. Covers rubbed with creasing to corners, a little writing on front. Light creasing to tips of page corners. Otherwise good. Interior clean and tight. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich Mass
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. 6 x 9. Signed by Authors Covers have heavy edge wear, corners bumped, signed by both authors in ink inside front cover, binding tight, scattered light soil on a few pages, 40 pages, bw and color illustrations of glass ware in the museum with brief descriptions. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1969, 6 x 9, 40 pages, Paperback, Book is in Very Good Condition. Shows some wear/scuffs/age/use. Previous owner's name/date on inside of front cover. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Very Good condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. ) EXCEPT as noted and EXCEPT previous pencil pricing/erasing on top corner of first page. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Sarpedon, New York
Date Published: 1990
Description: Clean, tight book in bright, near fine dustjacket but for one short closed tear to crown of front panel. 8vo, 364pp, index. "The German View of Market-Garden and The Battle of Arnhem, Septmeber 1944. " read more
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