9780709042402 - 64 days of a normandy summer: with a tank unit after d-day von jones, keith (6 Ergebnisse)
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, USAKisselburg Military Books
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First. author served with an armoured reconnaissance unit of the 11th Armoured Division which landed in Normandy soon after D-Day; flaw to endpaper.
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Vereinigtes KönigreichCrappy Old Books
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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Keith Jones?s Sixty-four Days of a Normandy Summer is the sort of title that sounds almost pastoral until you notice the tank unit. Summer in Normandy: fields, villages, hedgerows, orchards, weather, dust, and the small matter of several armies trying to settle Europe by means of armour, artillery a…nd terrified men in metal boxes. The word ?summer? is doing a lot of emotional tidying here, as though sunshine makes everything less loud. This is a memoir of the weeks after D-Day, following life with a tank unit as the Allied armies pushed inland from the beaches into the brutal, cramped, grinding business of the Normandy campaign. It is not the postcard version of liberation, with everyone waving flags and history arriving on time. It is the close-up version: roads blocked, hedgerows hiding unpleasant surprises, villages reduced to tactical problems, engines overheating, nerves tightening, and tanks discovering that being large and armoured does not make one invincible, merely more conspicuous. The Normandy campaign had a particular talent for making progress feel both heroic and miserably slow. Every field could become an argument. Every lane might contain an anti-tank gun with strong opinions. Every movement had to be paid for in petrol, patience, fear and, too often, lives. A tank looks magnificent from a distance; from inside, in battle, it is rather more like being sealed into a noisy industrial cupboard while strangers attempt to open it with high explosives. Jones gives the experience its proper human scale. The campaign is not just arrows on a map, nor the grand comfortable language of ?breakout? and ?advance.? It is men living with machines, waiting, moving, eating when possible, sleeping badly, repairing, swearing, hoping, enduring and carrying on because that is what the day has decided they will do. Sixty-four days is not long in peacetime. In Normandy in 1944, it was enough time for whole landscapes, units and lives to be rearranged beyond recognition. There is a useful irony in the tank itself: built as a symbol of modern power, but entirely dependent on tired crews, muddy roads, vulnerable supply lines and the deeply old-fashioned courage of people who would probably have preferred a quiet trade and regular tea. Armour gives protection, but not comfort; mobility, but not certainty; firepower, but not immunity from the next hedge, ditch, shell or mistake. War, being rude, declines to become simple just because engineering has become heavy. For readers of D-Day, Normandy, British armour, personal military memoirs, or the less polished realities of the campaign after the landing craft had gone home, this is a strong bit of wartime shelf material. It sits nicely in that awkward place between history and witness, where the big event is still visible, but the mud on the boots has not yet been edited out. Very Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. Ex-library, so it has already completed one tour of public duty: stamped, shelved, borrowed, returned and made to stand quietly under a classification number. A tidy veteran of institutional service, now demobbed and ready for a private shelf, where at least nobody will ask it to cross another Normandy field.
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Zustand: Very Good.
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Anytime Books, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichAnytime Books
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. A useful and detailed memoir. pp190. Illus. Maps. DW, spine sunned, now in archival sleeve.
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Anbieter: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Vereinigtes KönigreichAmazing Book Company
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a bo…ok weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. After four years of 'home defence' the tank unit Keith Jones was with lasted for just sxty-four days. The author's unit equipped with Daimler scoutcars and Cromwell tanks, landed in Normandy eight days after D-Day. Mony's plan was to take them into three key operations, all centres on Caen and to divert German armoured divisions from the Americans further west, second to dislodge the enemy from fortified villages south-east of the city; and third, to intercept the Panzers hell bent on reaching Avranches. Illustrated eyewitness memoir. Ref F 1.
