The Distance From Normandy

Author : Jonathan Hull
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312314132
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distance from Normandy written by Jonathan Hull and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later, when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-and has haunted him ever since. His grandson Andrew, a scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right. At first, the two circle warily around each other, finding little in common. Then Andrew befriends a widow named Evelyn, and Mead busies himself fending off the match, even as he feels a reluctant attraction to this cheerful woman who seems to understand his grandson. One afternoon, rummaging through the garage, Andrew discovers an antique Luger, the deadly memento of his grandfather's war. In a final effort to save his grandson from himself, Mead takes the teenager on a journey to the beaches, bunkers, and cemeteries of Normandy, where both of them confront the secrets they have been trying to forget.

Author : K. M. Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737639114
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raven and the Dove written by K. M. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 9th-century Normandy, Norse Shieldmaiden Halla and Frankish Christian Taurin struggle to preserve their marriage as fanatics on both sides threaten to destroy the fragile peace between their peoples.

Author : Sarah Sundin
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493421298
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Beneath Us (Sunrise at Normandy Book #3) written by Sarah Sundin and published by Revell. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for--fulfilling the recurring dream of his death. Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp Forrest, longing to rise above her orphanage upbringing and belong to the community, even as she uses her spare time to search for her real family--the baby sisters she was separated from so long ago. After Clay saves Leah's life from a brutal attack, he saves her virtue with a marriage of convenience. When he ships out to train in England for D-day, their letters bind them together over the distance. But can a love strong enough to overcome death grow between them before Clay's recurring dream comes true?

Author : Jonathan Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984821808
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Julia written by Jonathan Hull and published by . This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, Patrick bonds with Daniel, but it is Daniel's lover, Julia, who changes Patrick forever. Daniel shares his letters from Julia with Patrick, and soon, Patrick feels Julia's presence wherever he is. Ten years later Patrick and Julia meet in France, and after a brief encounter, Patrick makes a fateful choice.

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526745828
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandy's Nightmare War written by Douglas Boyd and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The toll that both Nazi occupation and Allied liberation took on this northern French region during World War II, told through eyewitness accounts. Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second homes. Its coastline is also dotted with thousands of indestructible reinforced-concrete bunkers and gun emplacements that formed part of the Atlantic Wall of Hitler’s Fortress Europe. Tourists passing through the ferry ports like Boulogne, Cherbourg and Dunkirk may wonder why there are so few old buildings. Few know that the demolition which preceded the extensive urban renewal of the ancient town centers was affected by British bombs during four years of hell for the people living there. Before its belated liberation three ghastly months after D-Day, the sirens in Le Havre wailed 1,060 times to warn of approaching British and American bombers. After one single Allied raid, over 3,000 dead civilians were recovered from the city’s ruins, without counting the thousands of injured, maimed and traumatized survivors. So, whom did the Normans regard as the enemy: the German occupiers who shot a few hundred civilians or the Allied airmen who killed as many neutral citizens of northern France as died in Britain from German bombs during the whole war? Told largely in the words of French, German and Allied eyewitnesses—including the moving last letters of executed hostages—this is the story of Normandy’s nightmare war. “Boyd . . . uncovers some remarkable facts . . . A fascinating look at a region that has played a huge part in our own history.” —Books Monthly

Author : Didier Lodieu
Publisher : Histoire & Collections
ISBN 13 : 9782352502326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 116.Pz.Div's PANTHER Battalion, the I./Pz.Rgt.24 During the Battle of Normandy written by Didier Lodieu and published by Histoire & Collections. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the night of 19-20 July 1944, the I./Pz.Rgt. 24's 76 Panthers set off in a one kilometre column, with four yards between each tank. For the veteran Panzerschutzen, this would be a new and bloody battle; for the recruits, this would be their baptism of fire. This book by Didier Lodieu - one of France's foremost specialists on the fighting in Normandy - traces the odyssey of the 1st Battalion of Panthers of the 24th Regiment of the 116. Panzer Division, just back from the East, from the first engagements in July to the crossing of the Seine at the end of August; a day by day account of the terrible fighting during the "hedgerow" war. French text ILLUSTRATIONS: b/w photographs

Author : Justin Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345306401
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandie Triangle written by Justin Scott and published by . This book was released on 1982-11-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Nazi saboteur engineers the sinking of the superliner Normandie just before World War II, naval architect Steven Gates investigates the ruins and penetrates the agent's insidious plans for even greater destruction.

Author : Lois Anne Rothert
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811833429
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soups of France written by Lois Anne Rothert and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, a nation of small villages, an incredible variety of soups have evolved over time, with cherished family recipes handed down from generation to generation. The Soups of France uncovers those recipes, many still enjoyed today, others long forgotten. From famed Pot-au-Feu and Bouillabaisse to Baratxuri Salda, a spicy Basque broth of garlic, sausage, and red pepper, and the Dordognes Sobronade, ham and bean soup, each of the 90-plus recipes celebrates a melting pot of flavor. Rich with glorious photographs illustrating the lush countryside, quaint villages, and vibrant marketplaces, The Soups of France is a delightful culinary ramble. A labor of love on an art the French take for granted, this is a treasure no true collection of cookery books should be without.

Author : Lt.-Gen. Hans Speidel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200019
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign written by Lt.-Gen. Hans Speidel and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant-General Hans Speidel’s Invasion 1944 tells the story, from the German viewpoint, of one of the most critical periods of World War II. Indeed, to most Americans the summer months of 1944, highlighted by the battles on the Normandy beaches, represent the climax of the world convulsion. Every detail of this epic struggle is today of interest not only to those Americans who participated personally in the battles on the beaches and in the Normandy countryside, but to that still greater number who sweated and bled in Italy, on South Pacific isles, or in the Philippines, or were forced to stay at home. For the Norman beaches have now become a keystone in the arch of American military tradition—worthy to stand alongside Chancellorsville, Appomattox, Château-Thierry and the Meuse-Argonne. Our curiosity, therefore, cannot but be piqued as to what went on in the Château La Roche Guyon, the headquarters of the German Army Group opposing the Allied Normandy armies, as, day by day, American and British pressure brought Hitler’s doom nearer. Invasion is by no means merely military history, a record of the estimates and orders of the German Command during the Normandy struggle. This book tells a double story. The battles are the background, while the foreground is dominated by the narrative of another climactic struggle, that between the commander of the Army Group, Erwin Rommel, “the Desert Fox,” and his overlord Adolf Hitler. “A notable contribution to the...literature on the Normandy campaign. The author was Chief of Staff successively to Rommel, Kluge and Model.... What he has to say about the German defeat is authoritative and of high interest.”—New York Herald Tribune Book Review

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: