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For Five Shillings a Day
Personal Histories of World War II
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eBook - ePub
For Five Shillings a Day
Personal Histories of World War II
About this book
An amazing collection of eyewitness accounts of the British experience in World War II. First-hand narratives are drawn from every rank of the army and every corner of the conflict to create a moving and illuminating story of the greatest war of this century.
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Yes, you can access For Five Shillings a Day by Dr. Richard Campbell-Begg, Dr. Peter Liddle in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World War II. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The ‘Phoney War’ in France and its aftermath
- Chapter 2: The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
- Chapter 3: The war at sea – North Sea, Channel and Arctic
- Chapter 4: North Africa to the eve of El Alamein
- Chapter 5: Greece
- Chapter 6: Crete
- Chapter 7: Malta and the war in the Mediterranean
- Chapter 8: North Africa from El Alamein to Tunisia and overall victory
- Chapter 9: Italy: Sicily to Cassino
- Chapter 10: Italy: Cassino northwards
- Chapter 11: A new assailant: Japan and the war in South East Asia
- Chapter 12: Hitting back by sea and air
- Chapter 13: The second front: D-Day and beyond
- Chapter 14: The campaign in North West Europe and final victory
- Chapter 15: Prisoners of war in Italy and Germany
- Chapter 16: Operations in South East Asia and Japanese defeat in Burma
- Chapter 17: The war in the Pacific: with the Americans, fashioning victory from defeat
- Chapter 18: Prisoners of war in the Far East
- Appendix: The contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- About the Publisher