The first hours and days following the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 have a strong claim to be amongst the most crucial in world history. Spearheading this vast undertaking were crack Bri
This major addition to our Battleground WW2 Series covers the U.S. airborne and seaborne landings on the Cotentin Peninsular on D-Day 6 June 1946. It tells a dramatic story of near disastrous drops by
The story of the final battle of the First Crusade The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099. Other
"A leader of the first major American assault on June 6, 1918, and the last ranking officer in the American Expeditionary Forces to learn that the war was over, Hamilton earned the Distinguished Servi
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2011, held in Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, in June 2011. The 26 cont
The VI International Conference on “Times of Polymers (TOP) and Composites” was held on June 2012 (Ischia-Italy). This was the fourth of a series of biennial workshops on “polymers timescales” resulti
“A great All-American story. . . . Saylor conjures up the World War II years in truly inspired fashion. A wonderful book.” Douglas Brinkley, author of Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 World War I
This book was written to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and to preserve the last personal voices of the truly great soldiers that went ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944 or shortly there
This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 7th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6 International Summer School, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in June 20
On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from New York State’s largest maximum security prison, Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. The media became instantly obsessed wit
It's the most famous amphibious invasion in history; thousands of ships, millions of soldiers and sailors, all clashing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.Author Bruce Bliven, Jr. was ther
This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2015), held in Salamanca, Spain on June 3th-5th at the University of Salamanca. After a careful r
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2015, held in Braga, Portugal, in June 2015. The theme of the event was "Enterprising C
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in June/July 2015. The total of 53 full p
The second volume in the War Stories: World War II Firsthand series tackles the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted until that time -- the historic landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944. More th
This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James: 1880–1883?includes 122 letters, 67 of which are published for the first time, written between June 6, 1880, and October 20, 1881. The letters record
