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Author: Jeff Steel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922488259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war enveloped him, it took over his world; there was no escape. To do nothing was not an option. Ambrose joined RAF ground crew. That was not enough. He volunteered for active service as a Flight Engineer in Halifax bombers. The RAF high command forgot to tell him that his chance of survival was minimal. Ambrose found out the hard way as his bomber plummeted to earth in flames. Parachuting into a duck pond in Nazi Germany, he narrowly escaped death. On the run, he is pursued by German forces. They shot him. He survived. An odyssey through the monstrous world of Luftwaffe prisoner of war camps brought him to the eastern fringe of the Third Reich. The camp was called Stalag Luft III. Beneath the exterior calm of the camp routine, an ambitious plot was brewing. The prisoners were organising a mass breakout. There were hundreds involved. As a non-officer he would not be one to break free … but there was a lot that he could do to support the Great Escape.This was his war, his mission in life and his purpose. But would he ever see Miranda again? A gripping true story of love and war constructed from meticulous research, family records and eye-witness accounts.
Author: Jeff Steel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922488259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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Book Description
His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war enveloped him, it took over his world; there was no escape. To do nothing was not an option. Ambrose joined RAF ground crew. That was not enough. He volunteered for active service as a Flight Engineer in Halifax bombers. The RAF high command forgot to tell him that his chance of survival was minimal. Ambrose found out the hard way as his bomber plummeted to earth in flames. Parachuting into a duck pond in Nazi Germany, he narrowly escaped death. On the run, he is pursued by German forces. They shot him. He survived. An odyssey through the monstrous world of Luftwaffe prisoner of war camps brought him to the eastern fringe of the Third Reich. The camp was called Stalag Luft III. Beneath the exterior calm of the camp routine, an ambitious plot was brewing. The prisoners were organising a mass breakout. There were hundreds involved. As a non-officer he would not be one to break free … but there was a lot that he could do to support the Great Escape.This was his war, his mission in life and his purpose. But would he ever see Miranda again? A gripping true story of love and war constructed from meticulous research, family records and eye-witness accounts.
Author: JEFF STEEL AND MICHAEL. ADLAM
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ISBN: 9780369375308
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jeff Steel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369392756
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler's war came looking for him. The war enveloped him, it took over his world; there was no escape. To do nothing was not an option. Ambrose joined RAF ground crew. That was not enough. He volunteered for active service as a Flight Engineer in Halifax bombers. The RAF high command forgot to tell him that his chance of survival was minimal. Ambrose found out the hard way as his bomber plummeted to earth in flames. Parachuting into a duck pond in Nazi Germany, he narrowly escaped death. On the run, he is pursued by German forces. They shot him. He survived...
Author: Wilf Hodgson
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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A 4 year personal experience of World War II with Bomber Command as an aircrew member of a mighty Stirling bomber. During which the author was shot at, shot down, on the run in enemy territory, captured by the Nazis, interned as a POW in Stalag Luft 7 and then marched half starved in a freezing winter half way across Germany. All this before he turned 21 years old. And there is more.A truly remarkable story.
Author: K. Hodgson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646405896
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Events described were written on the way home to Australia after serving as a Bomb Aimer in Britain in WWII; he spent time as MIA and captured by the Gestapo. WA author.
Author: Wilf Hodgson
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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In 1942 a young Wilf Hodgson, from Waroona, a small country town south of Perth, Western Australia, joins the Royal Australian Air Force on 27 March. Only 18 years old and on the verge of an experience of a lifetime that would take him to England and be a part of Bomber Command during World War II. He was shot at, his Stirling Bomber was shot down in Normandy, he was on the run in German occupied France, capture in the south of France and then sent to a POW camp in Poland where in 1944, with no fanfare, freezing cold and half-starved, he turned 21. And that was not the end of it. There was more to come.
Author: Geoffrey Willatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844263820
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Author: John A. Keibel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615279077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Explore the many-sided history of Naval Weapons Station Concord, site of the Port Chicago Explosion (1944), high science and much more. An overview of the station¿s history interspersed with firsthand accounts and illustrations is followed by detail chapters and a full index. There is something for the casual as well as the studious reader.
Author: Ronald Cormier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773102788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada's armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war effort. Bombs and Barbed Wire provides an alternative point of view, revealing the commitment and bravery displayed by the approximately 24,000 Acadians who voluntarily joined the war effort. Battling both language barriers and a culture of exclusion, they overcame frustrations and prejudice to fight for the freedom of the country they loved. Based on extensive, in-depth interviews Cormier conducted in 1990 with eleven surviving Acadian veterans, Bombs & Barbed Wire brings to life the experience of Acadian soldiers for English-language readers for the first time. Bombs and Barbed Wire is volume 29 of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
Author: Edward N. Ross
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460290895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets draws attention to a significant part of Canadian military history, a period in which almost an entire generation of young men never returned from the battlefields of Europe. In 2017 Canada commemorates the 100th year of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The triumphant conquering of Vimy by the Canadian Corps in April 1917, was considered a defining moment in Canada’s rise to nationhood. Equally significant but much less publicized was the Canadian victory at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. It was there that more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers died, and almost 12,000 wounded. The Battle of Passchendaele will be forever remembered as a colossal slaughter in the mud of Flanders fields. Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets acknowledges those members of the 43rd Battalion who fought and died in the Ypres Salient, in the name of freedom.
