Author: Israel Everett VailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Three Years on the Blockade
Author: Israel Everett VailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Three Years on the Blockade
Author: Israel Everett VailPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781289762728
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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Three Years On The Blockade
Author: Israel Everett VailPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378553794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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Three Years on the Blockade
Author: I. E. VailPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282071196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Excerpt from Three Years on the Blockade: A Naval Experience While I felt awed in the presence of whaling cap tains, and was thrilled with excitement at the narra tion of their perilous adventures in many oceans, I had never yet seen a naval officer, and my only knowl edge of their daring deeds, was such as I had gained in the perusal of the early history of my country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Book of the Blockade
Author: Алесь АдамовічPublisher: Moscow : Raduga Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Berlin In The Balance
Author: Thomas ParrishPublisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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In June 1948, Soviet authorities in Germany announced a land blockade of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. Isolated more than one hundred miles within Soviet-occupied territory, western Berlin was in danger of running out of coal, food, and the courage to stand up to Joseph Stalin.As Berlin in the Balance recounts, this crisis was a turning-point for U.S. policy. Just three years earlier, the Soviet Union had been an ally and Berlin the target of American bombers. In 1946 Winston Churchill had ignited protests by calling for an Anglo-American alliance against the USSR. The Berlin blockade made Churchill's ”iron curtain” through Europe an inescapable reality.Led by Harry S. Truman, the Western Allies refused to back away from Berlin. Instead, they took to the air, packing passenger planes with coal, potatoes, flour, and other necessities. Not even the commanders of the year-old U.S. Air Force believed this fleet could supply western Berlin for long. Its main airport was squeezed among apartment buildings. Autumn would bring blinding fogs. And nobody had ever tried to supply a city of millions by air. Berlin in the Balance tells the full, gripping story of this critical conflict—how it developed and how it played out. Noted historian Thomas Parrish shows us the crisis through the eyes of Truman, Stalin, and other leaders. We hear Berliners cheer the arrival of each ”raisin bomber”; the planes' roar was assurance that the democratic powers had not abandoned them. Through sources made available only after the fall of the USSR, we learn how Soviet leaders planned their strategy to drive out the West, what they feared, and what they hoped to achieve. Berlin in the Balance spotlights a different kind of air force heroism—flying heavy transport planes in weather so bad ”the birds walked,” harassed by Soviet fighters but never firing a shot. Under the decisive leadership of General William H. Tunner, crews took off every three minutes around the clock. Soldiers rushed to maintain the airplanes and runways, master a new radar system, even build a new airport. The operation depended on support from Frankfurt to London to Montana, on the sacrifices of German civilians and the boldness of French saboteurs. Using archives and fresh interviews, Parrish details the full scope and success of ”Operation Vittles.”The Berlin airlift stopped Stalin's expansion in Europe. It helped Truman win his upset election in 1948. And it set the course of East-West conflict for the next forty years. More than sixty U.S. and allied fliers died in this great operation, keeping a besieged city fueled, fed, and free. Berlin in the Balance is a masterful chronicle of this crucial, stirring saga.
The Blockade Busters
Author: Ralph BarkerPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844152820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air strength was dominant and where the Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite Admiralty gloom and in the face of political objections that were overcome by Binney's persistence, five ships carrying a year's supply of valuable materials for the expanding British war industries were successfully sailed to Britain in January 1941. A following attempt was not as successful and ended when six ships were sunk or scuttled. But then came the saga of the Little Ships, the motor gunboats flying the Red Duster that operated out of the Humber to and from the Swedish coast in the winter of 1943/44, defying the strengthened German defences and the wrath of severe weather.
Splintering the Wooden Wall
Author: Wade G. DudleyPublisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"This work presents a useful overview of the history, theory, and practice of blockades during the age of fighting sail. It also provides an evaluation of the naval capabilities of the belligerents, a comparison of the blockade of the United States to British blockades of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and a discussion of the importance of geography in the theater of conflict. Readers will be fascinated by the story that emerges of the modern world's first superpower at war with a developing nation and of a conflict between civilized states that threatened to devolve into little more than a campaign of terror. To support Dudley's examination of documentary evidence are more than thirty tables, charts, maps, and illustrations."--Jacket.
Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear
Author: Dawson CarrPublisher: Blair
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Story of blockade runners, the captains, the crews, the cargoes, the opponents, and the unbelievable escapes.
Naval Blockades in Peace and War
Author: Lance E. DavisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185749X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoiding war, are examined in this book. The impact of new technology and organizational changes on the nature of blockades and their effectiveness as military measures are discussed. Legal, economic, and political questions are explored to understand the various constraints upon belligerent behavior. The analysis draw upon the extensive amount of quantitative material available from military publications.