The Defence Of Calais
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Author | : Airey Neave |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473814308 |
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The defence of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army, 30 Infantry Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of those who fought, was wounded and captured there and his account remains the classic.
Author | : Eric Linklater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Calais, Battle of, 1940 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jon Cooksey |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1999-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147381295X |
Download Calais Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a gateway to the Continent. The guide will take the visitor beyond the ferry terminal and hypermarkets to reveal the hidden Calais and the actions of individuals and units.
Author | : Eric Linklater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Grummitt |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843833980 |
Download The Calais Garrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Definitive account of the English garrison at Calais - the largest contemporary force in Europe - in the wider context of European warfare in the middle ages.
Author | : Carole McEntee-Taylor |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2014-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473838509 |
Download Surviving the Nazi Onslaught Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais Force. Initially sent to open up supply lines to the rapidly retreating BEF, they soon found themselves defending Calais against the might of the 10th Panzer Division. Outnumbered by at least three to one they held out for 4 days until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.For the next five years Ted found himself part of the huge slave labour force in Poland under the administration of Stalag XXA and Stalag XXB. Life in the POW camps bore little resemblance to the cheerful films of the 1950s with casual brutality never far from the surface. As 1945 began and the war entered its final bloody phase, the POWs dared to believe that at last they might be going home. But fate had one more cruel trick to play.As the Russians approached rapidly from the east, the terrified Germans evacuated the camps and, in temperatures below -25c, began marching the malnourished, poorly-clothed POWs back across Europe. The infamous 'death marches' to freedom across the frozen, chaotic, war ravaged landscape of Eastern Europe had begun.
Author | : Eric Linklater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Calais, Battle of, Calais, France, 1940 |
ISBN | : 9781904951070 |
Download The Defence of Calais, 22 - 27 June 1940 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Great Britain. War Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1005 |
Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141906162 |
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* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle. 'A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers' Tim Gardam, The Times 'Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence' Richard Ovary, Telegraph Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist and then an author. He wrote the best-selling Enigma: The Battle for the Code. One of his ancestors was evacuated from Dunkirk.
Author | : Michael Glover |
Publisher | : Leo Cooper Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Fight for the Channel Ports Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Historien om de tiloversblevne britiske tropper, som ikke blev undsat ved Dunkirk i sommeren 1941. - Greenjackets; Highland Division; St. Valery; Amiens; Abbeville; Doullens; 12. Eastern Division