Forgotten Voices of the Secret War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Voices of the Secret War write by Roderick Bailey. This book was released on 2008-09-04. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my toenails out...' - Robert Sheppard, SOE agent The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in World War 2 to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines: in Winston Churchill's famous phrase, to 'set Europe ablaze'. Drawing on the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and featuring a mass of previously unpublished personal testimonies, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew and naval personnel in their own words. As the war unfolds, we learn of parachute drops into enemy territory, torture by the Gestapo and nerve-wracking sabotage missions in far-flung climes. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War is both an incredible account of espionage during World War 2 and a fitting testament to the efforts and sacrifices of a dedicated group of courageous men and women.
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Voices of the Secret War write by Roderick Bailey. This book was released on 2008. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Forgotten Voices of D-Day
Forgotten Voices of D-Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Voices of D-Day write by Roderick Bailey. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Forgotten Voices of D-Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious assault ever attempted. Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War Museum, Forgotten Voices of D-Day tells the compelling story of this turning point in World War 2. Hearing from paratroopers and commandos, glider pilots and landing craft crewmen, airmen and naval personnel, we learn first-hand what it was like as men waited to go in, as they neared the beaches and drop zones, and as they landed and met the enemy. Accounts range from memories of the daring capture of 'Pegasus' bridge by British glider-bourn troops to recollections of brutal fighting as the assault forces stormed the beaches. Featuring a mass of previously unpublished material, Forgotten Voices of D-Day is a powerful and important new record of a defining moment in modern history.
Forgotten Voices Desert Victory
Forgotten Voices Desert Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Voices Desert Victory write by Imperial War Museum. This book was released on 2011-05-12. Forgotten Voices Desert Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone’s face was one mass of sand ... The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone’ Bombardier Ray Ellis Had the Allies lost in North Africa, Rommel’s Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East, cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia and India, and taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Britain would have been isolated, without oil, and unable to fight. These historic battles of 1940–1943 were fought over vast distances on rugged terrain, with supply lines often stretched to breaking point. It was here that David Stirling formed the SAS to perform audacious sabotage missions, and the Long Range Desert Group collected intelligence from behind enemy lines. This is the story of the Allies’ first victory against Hitler’s army, told in the voices of the men who were there, which proved that the seemingly unstoppable Germans could be beaten.
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Voices Of The Great War write by Max Arthur. This book was released on 2012-08-31. Forgotten Voices Of The Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults, but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a monumental task. Now, forty years on, the Imperial War Museum has at last given author Max Arthur and his team of researchers unlimited access to the complete WWI tapes. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of survivors of the Great War. The resulting book is an important and compelling history of WWI in the words of those who experienced it.
