Abundance of valor : resistance, survival, and liberation, 1944-1945 / Will Irwin.
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نصالناشر:New York : Ballantine Books, 2010الطبعات:1st edوصف:xviii, 378 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780345501769 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0345501764 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- D763.N42 A73525 2010
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D763.N42 A73525 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011120045 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-366) and index.
Prologue -- The England game -- The man from Washington -- Hazardous duty -- Highlands interlude -- First Jeds into Holland -- Operation Market-Garden -- Germans everywhere -- Sunday, September 17, D-Day -- Monday, September 18, the second day -- Tuesday, September 19, the third day -- Wednesday, September 20, the fourth day -- Thursday, September 21, the fifth day -- Friday, September 22, the sixth day -- Saturday, September 23, the seventh day -- Sunday, September 24, the eighth day -- Withdrawal, the last day -- Prisoner of war -- Todd's journey begins -- Dulag Luft -- The insufferable Lord Haw Haw -- Solitary confinement -- Stolen plans to be delivered -- Oflag -- Goodbye to Bunny and Henk -- Pappy's return -- Missing in action -- The long march -- Patton's Hammelburg raid -- Rumors of evil -- Freedom -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Dutch Jedburgh teams.
Telling the riveting story of history's largest airborne assault, "Abundance of Valor" focuses on the British and American forces who, in September 1944, dropped three parachute divisions into German-occupied Holland.
