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Recollections of WWII: May 2014
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. U-Boats at War - Landings on Hostile Shores. I recently purchased this book from The Lewes Book Centre. In Sussex (definitely worth a visit if you are in the area). The table of contents is:. Icelandic Betrayals and Failures. Sabotage in the United States. Investigating American Atom Bombs and Jet Aircraft. Intrusions into Canadian Waters. Landing Leutnant Langbein from U213. Landing Werner von Janowski from U518. Daylight Raid in Conception Bay. The R...
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Recollections of WWII: Stout Hearts - The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. Stout Hearts - The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944. Stout Hearts is a book which offers an entirely new perspective on the British Army in Normandy. This fresh study explores the anatomy of war through the Army's operations in the summer of 1944, informing and entertaining the general non-fiction reader as well as students of military history. How do combat engineers cross obstacles? How do tanks fight? Introduction and Campaign Overview. Closin...
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Recollections of WWII: 23 Days - A Memoir of 1939
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. 23 Days - A Memoir of 1939. Are the wartime memoirs of Antoni Jozef ( Joe. Written by him some 44 years after the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. It records his fight against the invading Russian Army, his subsequent. Capture, imprisonment and brutal interrogation before being sentenced to death and spending 23 days on death row in a prison in the town of Orsha, Russia. A reprieve condemned him to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic Ural. The Recollection...
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Recollections of WWII: July 2014
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood. Warsaw Boy is the memoir of a sixteen-year old boy soldier who fought in the vicious Warsaw Uprising in the late summer of 1944. The Warsaw Uprising lasted for 63 days: Heinrich Himmler described it as 'the worst street fighting since Stalingrad'. Yet for the most part the insurgents were poorly equipped local men and teenagers - some of them were even younger than Andrew. Viking (A Penguin imprint). Please ...
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Recollections of WWII: December 2014
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. Omaha Beach Field Guide. The first field guide to the iconic and tragic Omaha Beach. The author, Brigadier General Theodore G. Shuey served under the command of Omaha Beach veterans, including General Cota. Sector by sector (with complete maps), he records the operations, relying upon the testimonies of veterans, as well as studying the battles from a military perspective, in relation to the role played by the German posts. An Englishman in Auschwitz.
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Recollections of WWII: November 2014
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Memoirs and books which should be on your bookshelf. Neutral Shores - Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic. From September 1939 until the last days of the war in 1945 Ireland was host to a constant flow of casualties from the Battle of the Atlantic. Ireland's unique location situated near the vital shipping lanes of the Western Approaches placed the country in the immediate conflict zone once the war at sea began with the sinking of the British merchant liner Athenia. A Tale of Two Tankers. Chapter Eig...
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins: My Top 20: Coin No.4: Ptolemy II 308-346 BC
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins. For a full list of Ron's Coins, linked to a Chronological Index, go to the FEBRUARY ARCHIVES and scroll down to "Ron Goldstein's Chronological Index". Thursday, February 16, 2006. My Top 20: Coin No.4: Ptolemy II 308-346 BC. Known as Philadelphos (the peace lover), sucessor to his father Ptolemy I, he helped make Alexandria the centre of Hellenistic culture. He commissioned the translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek Septuagint. My Top 20: Coin No...
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins: My Top 20: Coin No.20: Constantine I, Struck in AD 317-320 Minted in Alexandria
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins. For a full list of Ron's Coins, linked to a Chronological Index, go to the FEBRUARY ARCHIVES and scroll down to "Ron Goldstein's Chronological Index". Friday, February 17, 2006. My Top 20: Coin No.20: Constantine I, Struck in AD 317-320 Minted in Alexandria. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Widows Mite Pendant. The Roman Emperors (Plus my collection index numbe. Rons Chronological Index (including Coin Collecti. My Top 20: Coin No.16: Vespasian.
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins: My Top Coin: Coin No.11: Mark Antony c 33BC
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins. For a full list of Ron's Coins, linked to a Chronological Index, go to the FEBRUARY ARCHIVES and scroll down to "Ron Goldstein's Chronological Index". Friday, February 17, 2006. My Top Coin: Coin No.11: Mark Antony c 33BC. Friend of Caesar, Cleopatra’s lover. 1 Debased coins and the dubious XXX III Legion (33x5000=165,000 men. 2 Some collectors look to find all his legions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Widows Mite Pendant. My Top 20: Coin No....
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins: My Top 20: Coin No.8: Alexander Jannaeus 103-76 BC
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A poor man's guide to collecting Ancient Coins. For a full list of Ron's Coins, linked to a Chronological Index, go to the FEBRUARY ARCHIVES and scroll down to "Ron Goldstein's Chronological Index". Friday, February 17, 2006. My Top 20: Coin No.8: Alexander Jannaeus 103-76 BC. The house of the Maccabees). 1 The right of the Jews to mint their own coinage, First King to do this. 2 Dynasty started after revolt against Antiochus IV and ended with Pompey capturing Jerusalem in 63 BC. The Widows Mite Pendant.
