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Man Who Tested Parachutes
Charles Agate and the Development of Britain’s Airborne Forces for D-Day and Arnhem
Inbunden, 2025
274 kr
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By 1940 the Allies had fallen behind the Axis powers in parachute design and research. Other than as a means of escape from a doomed aircraft, the British regarded parachuting as of little military value. All that changed when the Germans used paratroops, the Fallschirmjäger, to devastating effect …
Bitter Fight to Free Italy
A ‘D-Day Dodger’s’ Experiences of the Italian Campaign in 1943
Av John Neil
Inbunden, 2025
271 kr
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The troops who fought their way up through the Italian peninsula in 1943 were labelled the ‘D-Day Dodgers’, but for the tens of thousands of men who were seriously wounded in the first months of the campaign, the mocking phrase was loaded with irony.It had all started so positively on 10 July 1943, …
