Dale, Frank T:Bridges over the Delaware River : A History of Crossings
- Taschenbuch 2020, ISBN: 9780813532134
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Tyndale House Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Tyndale House Publishers, 2.5, Tyndale House Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Tyndale House Publishers, 2.5, Tyndale House Publishers. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Tyndale House Publishers, 2.5, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, New York: Bantam Books, 2007. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Fourth printing. Remainder mark. 2007 Trade Paperback. 530 pp. "Son, we’re going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn’t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death. Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again–until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the Houston was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home. In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as The Bridge on the River Kwai, the war continued for the men of the Houston—a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma–Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will–power—and the undying faith that their country would prevail. Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of Houston’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true., Bantam Books, 2007, 4, Brooklyn Museum, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Brooklyn Museum, The, 2.5, Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2.5, DRB Enterprise, Incorporated, 2014-08-04. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Previous owner name. The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division had just finished the battle for the bridge too far, Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden. As Christmas 1944 approached, the division was settling in for some hard earned rest and recuperation. Despite its failure to hold the Rhine River bridgehead at Arnhem a few weeks earlier, Eisenhower's Allied juggernaut appeared unstoppable. Then, Hitler ordered a massive Nazi counterattack through the supposedly impenetrable Ardennes Forest. The overwhelming armor-heavy Wehrmacht forces cut through the thinly-manned Allied lines, racing for Antwerp and the coast. German victory in what is now known at the Battle of the Bulge would split the Allied armies, cripple their attack against the Reich, and lengthen the war, perhaps by years. The author and the rest of the Screaming Eagles were rushed to Bastogne, a small Belgian crossroads town where seven roads met. The lightly-armed paratrooper became 'the cork in the bottle' of the Nazi onslaught. Bastogne became the key to German victory. They immediately found themselves in close combat. Without enough ammunition or food, in freezing weather with deep snow, they even lacked winter clothing. Yet, for eleven days they held out against the best the Nazis could throw at them, buying the time needed for Patton's Third Army to redeploy form the south. Burgett's memoir (he was not yet twenty years old at the time of the battle) is an exciting and enduring testament to the Screaming Eagles and their epic defense of Bastogne. Donald R. Burgett is the author of three additional books; Currahee! a critically acclaimed memoir of the Normandy invasion, Road to Arnhem and Beyond the Rhine., DRB Enterprise, Incorporated, 2014-08-04, 3, Thorndike Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Thorndike Press, 2.5, Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, London: GEORGE PHILIP. Very Good/Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0540012467 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 144 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.6 x 1.8 cm. This sequel to "The Painted Stream" includes the observations and paintings of a Dartmoor river bailiff. His stories range from nabbing poachers, to preserving young fish from the Camelford pollution disaster, to the ignominy of his own arrest for fishing without a licence. ., GEORGE PHILIP, 1991, 3, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, Tuttle Publishing. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Tuttle Publishing, 2.5, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, One of the most popular marches ever written, Colonel Bogey was composed in 1914 by Lt. Frederick J. Ricketts (1881-1945) under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford. Born in London, Ricketts enlisted in the band of the First Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment at age fourteen He later studied at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. Ricketts served as bandmaster to several battalions, and was appointed Director of Music of the famed Royal Marines of Plymouth in 1930.He composed 19 known marches and several other light works under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford, but Colonel Bogey remains his most popular work. Opening with a characteristic two-note phrase (a descending minor third) it is said that the tune was inspired by a fiery and somewhat eccentric military man and avid golfer nicknamed "Colonel Bogey" who used to whistle the catchy notes instead of shouting "Fore" when about to drive a ball. By the early 1930s Colonel Bogey had sold well over one million copies, and became widely used for events both in the golfing world and the military world, as it is the authorized march-past in quick time for several Canadian battalions. Its popularity re-surged in the 1950s when the English composer Malcolm Arnold used it in his score of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." This new edition by Richard W. Sargeant Jr. remains true to the composer's original 1914 scoring, without the bloated extra instrumentation which was added by publishers over the decades. As with the others in this series, it is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved authoritative editions prepared from the primary sources using the composer's original instrumentation, which is sometimes markedly different from that found in bands today., Serenissima Music, Inc., 2013, 6, Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2.5, "Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero hits the (dirt) streets of Ohio City and Cleveland, the twin towns racing to become the first great metropolis of the West. Their rivalry reaches a boil over the building of a bridge across the Cuyahoga River--and Big stumbles right into the kettle. The resulting misadventures involve elderly terrorists, infrastructure collapse, steamboat races, wild pigs, and multiple ruined weddings. Narrating this ... tale is Medium Son--known as Meed--apprentice coffin maker, almanac author, orphan, and the younger brother of Big. Meed finds himself swept up in the action, and he is forced to choose between brotherly love and his own ambitions"--, scribner, 2020, 6, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. 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