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More Than That (Hardcover)
Anthony J Alexandre; Edited by Nicole Fegan; Cover design or artwork by Nuno Moreira
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As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied
troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of
Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers,
tasked to silence the German gun batteries that flanked Dieppe.
Other troops - the men of the 2nd Canadian Division - landed closer
to Dieppe to capture the German positions that overlooked the port
while, minutes later, the main body of the predominantly Canadian
assaulting force began clambering from landing craft that had run
onto the beach along Dieppe's seafront. This was the start of
Operation Jubilee, the Allies' most ambitious assault upon Hitler's
so-called Fortress Europe - it quickly became a bloodbath. The
early months of 1942 had been difficult ones for Prime Minister
Churchill. Stalin was demanding action in Western Europe to lessen
the pressure of the 280 German divisions that were bearing down
upon Stalingrad. Roosevelt was insisting that U.S. soldiers must
start fighting the Germans in Europe, and Mackenzie King, the
Canadian Prime Minister, desperately needed Canadian troops to
become involved in the war to keep his politically divided nation
together. Churchill's response to these measures was to authorise a
�super-raid' upon German-held territory, and the target selected
by the planners was Dieppe. Apart from the notable success of No.4
Commando, the raid was a disaster with more than 50 per cent of the
6,086 men who landed being killed, wounded, or taken prisoner, plus
all the Churchill tanks landed in support of the infantry suffered
mechanical failure or were shelled into smoking wrecks. Yet amid
the scenes slaughter, of confusion, and communication breakdown,
were acts of almost unimaginable heroism, ingenuity, determination,
and self-sacrifice to which the awarding of two Victoria Crosses
paid a worthy tribute. There were also special missions associated
with the raid, the details of which remained a closely guarded
secret until long after the war. This book opens a window on
Operation Jubilee, allowing the reader a rare insight into the
death and destruction inflicted upon the Allied force during just a
few hours, and of the damage done to Dieppe itself, with many of
the photographs being taken by the victorious German defenders. The
raid saw the heaviest casualty figures experienced by Canadians in
the Second World War, and the photographs in this book are a stark
reminder of that fateful day in late summer of 1942.
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Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan,
Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific
captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress garrisoned by a
few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That
island fortress was Corregidor which guarded the entrance to Manila
Bay and controlled all sea-borne access to Manila Harbour. At a
time when every news bulletin was one of Japanese success,
Corregidor shone as the only beacon of hope in the darkness of
defeat. The Japanese 14th Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu
Homma, threw everything it had at Corregidor, officially named Fort
Mills. But deep within the island's rocky heart, a tunnel had been
excavated into Malinta Hill and there the US troops, marine, naval
and army, endured the terrible onslaught. At their head was General
Douglas MacArthur who became a national hero with his resolute
determination never to surrender, until ordered to evacuate to
Australia to avoid such a senior officer being captured by the
enemy. Bur with his departure, the rest of the garrison knew that
there was no possibility of relief. They would have to fight on
until the bitter end, whatever form that might take. That end came
in May 1942\. The defenders were reduced to virtually starvation
rations with many of them wounded. Consequently, when, on 5 May the
Japanese mounted a powerful amphibious assault, the weakened
garrison could defy the enemy no longer. Corregidor, the 'Gibraltar
of the East', finally fell to the invaders. Those invaders were to
become the invaded when MacArthur returned in January 1945\. For
three weeks, US aircraft, warships and artillery hammered the
Japanese positions on Corregidor. Then, on 16 February, the
Americans landed on the island. It took MacArthur's men ten days to
hunt down the last of the Japanese, after many had chosen to commit
suicide rather than surrender, but Corregidor was at last back in
Allied hands. In this unique collection of images, the full story
Corregidor's part in the Second World War is dramatically revealed.
The ships, the aircraft, the guns, the fortifications and the men
themselves, are shown here, portraying the harsh, almost
unendurable, realities of war.
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More Than That (Paperback)
Anthony J Alexandre; Edited by Nicole Fegan; Cover design or artwork by Nuno Moreira
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
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++++National Library of ScotlandT190257Dundee: printed by J.
Chalmers, 1800. 27, 1]p.; 4
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beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Bibliothecae Bodleianae Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium ...
Catalogus ...; Volume 1 Of Bibliothecae Bodleianae Codicum
Manuscriptorum Orientalium ... Catalogus; Bodleian Library;
Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae;
Bibliothecae Bodleianae Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium ...
Catalogus, A J. Uri Confectus. Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum
Orientalium Bibliothecae Bodleianae Pars Secunda, Confecit A.
Nicoll, Ed. Absolvit Et Catalogum Urianum Aliquatenus Emendavit
E.B. Pusey; Edward Bouverie Pusey; Bibliothecae Bodleianae Codicum
Manuscriptorum Orientalium: Videlicet Hebraicorum, Chaldaicorum,
Syriacorum, Aethiopicorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum,
Copticorumque Catalogus... A Joanne Uri Confectus. Pars Prima;
Alexander Nicoll Bodleian Library, Joh Uri, Alexander Nicoll,
Edward Bouverie Pusey e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1787 Reference;
Bibliographies & Indexes; Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Arabic;
Manuscripts, Oriental; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes;
Reference / Catalogs
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