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Abundance of Valor
Resistance, Survival, and Liberation, 1944-1945
New York : Ballantine Books, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 378 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Telling the riveting story of history's largest airborne assault, "Abundance of Valor" focuses on the British and American forces who, in September 1944, dropped three parachute divisions into German-occupied Holland.
Contents:
Prologue -- The England game -- The man from Washington -- Hazardous duty -- Highlands interlude -- First Jeds into Holland -- Operation Market-Garden -- Germans everywhere -- Sunday, September 17, D-Day -- Monday, September 18, the second day -- Tuesday, September 19, the third day -- Wednesday, September 20, the fourth day -- Thursday, September 21, the fifth day -- Friday, September 22, the sixth day -- Saturday, September 23, the seventh day -- Sunday, September 24, the eighth day -- Withdrawal, the last day -- Prisoner of war -- Todd's journey begins -- Dulag Luft -- The insufferable Lord Haw Haw -- Solitary confinement -- Stolen plans to be delivered -- Oflag -- Goodbye to Bunny and Henk -- Pappy's return -- Missing in action -- The long march -- Patton's Hammelburg raid -- Rumors of evil -- Freedom -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Dutch Jedburgh teams.
Subjects:
Jedburgh (Program) -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
Parachute troops -- Biography.
Jedburgh (Program) -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
Parachute troops -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780345501769 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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HISTORY War WWII Campaigns Irw | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |