Author: Darren Ware
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906033576
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. It was in the border region that his brother lost his life in a massive unpredicted terrorist attack in 1991.
A Rendezvous with the Enemy
Author: Darren Ware
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906033576
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. It was in the border region that his brother lost his life in a massive unpredicted terrorist attack in 1991.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906033576
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. It was in the border region that his brother lost his life in a massive unpredicted terrorist attack in 1991.
Rendezvous with Destiny
Author: Michael Fullilove
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.
The Enemy Below
Author: Denys Arthur Rayner
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Enemy Below is a story of a battle at sea, written by Denys Rayner. It is fiction, but based on the author's experiences during the Battle of the Atlantic. It was published in 1956.
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Enemy Below is a story of a battle at sea, written by Denys Rayner. It is fiction, but based on the author's experiences during the Battle of the Atlantic. It was published in 1956.
The Politician's Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Report of the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Special Forces Rendezvous
Author: Elle Kennedy
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373278195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Newly involved with each other, fugitive sergeant Sebastian Stone and Dr. Julia Davenport stumble onto a shocking conspiracy behind a terrifying ultimatum, but exposing it could cost their lives.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373278195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Newly involved with each other, fugitive sergeant Sebastian Stone and Dr. Julia Davenport stumble onto a shocking conspiracy behind a terrifying ultimatum, but exposing it could cost their lives.
The Enemy's Gates
Author: Richmond Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The World Crisis, 1915
Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
6 binds værk om verdenskrisen og 1. Verdenskrig, fra 1914 til 1918. Churchill har iøvrigt senere skrevet mere udførligt om 1. Verdenskrig, The Great War. Værket her gav anledning til en del debat og meget kritik fra militære kredse, da det udkom; og der er da også fejl og mangler i det - og besynderlige udeladelser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
6 binds værk om verdenskrisen og 1. Verdenskrig, fra 1914 til 1918. Churchill har iøvrigt senere skrevet mere udførligt om 1. Verdenskrig, The Great War. Værket her gav anledning til en del debat og meget kritik fra militære kredse, da det udkom; og der er da også fejl og mangler i det - og besynderlige udeladelser
1915. 2d ed. 1923
Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924
Author: Henry Isham Hazelton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description