During the fall of 1944, once the Western Allies had gained military advantage over the Nazis, the crown jewel of Allied strategy became the liberation of Paris-the capital of France so long held in captivity. This event, however, was steeped in more complexity when the Allies returned than in 1940 when Hitler's legions first marched in.
'William Mortimer Moore has written a fine biography of Leclerc, who played almost as important a part as De Gaulle himself in restoring French pride in the Second World War'. - Antony Beevor, author of D-Day: The Battle of Normandy 'Superb.
On the eve of the Giro d'Italia's 100th anniversary, Tim Moore sets out to cycle the route of the first race, all 3,162 km of it. On a 100-year-old bike. That he built himself. The Giro is arguably the most brutal of the Grand Tours, and it began in style. At midnight on 24 May 1914 eighty-one starters were waved off by 10,000 spectators for this first circuit of Italy. Two weeks later, after enduring cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, even the loss of an eye by one competitor, eight cyclists finished. Tim hadn't done any significant cycling for twelve years, but taking on the 1914 Giro was a compelling challenge. To make it more authentic, he decided to do it on a 1914 bike, which, unburdened by relevant experience, he needed to assemble from a stack of rusty parts in a Breton farmer's barn. Fuelled by Chianti, wearing period leather goggles and a woollen cycling shirt, and with the winner of the 1914 Giro's diary as his trusty companion, Tim sets off to tell the story of this historic race, as well as the travails of a middle-aged man cycling up a lot of mountains on a mainly wooden bicycle.
Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, the author tackles the 9,000 km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. In this book, he reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.
One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . . Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia! For over thirty-six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to render matter invisible -- have denied the reality of THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT. If so, why -- * were all the men aboard ship who survived discharged as mentally unfit? * did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death? * were identities hidden, documents lost, and amazing connections between UFO sightings and events in the Bermuda Triangle denied? THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT -- the first full-length documented report on a chilling unsolved mystery that's been discussed for years. Now, official documents and first-hand stories have been revealed. Here is the truth in a report so shattering it is difficult to believe it's NOT fiction.
'The Grimoire of Forgotten Fairytales' is filled with dark tales and cryptic riddles. A world where every tale is a key, every page a mystery. Dare to unlock its secrets?
Philippe Leclerc ? charyzmatyczny dow�dca legendarnej 2. Dywizji Pancernej i, obok Charlesa de Gaullea, najbardziej znany bohater Wolnej Francji.Wojnę zaczynał w stopniu kapitana, kończył jako generał korpusu armii. Odni�słszy rany podczas kampanii francuskiej wiosną 1940 r., dwukrotnie zbiegł z niewoli niemieckiej.Już w sierpniu 1940 r. dowodził brawurową misją niewielkiego sześcioosobowego oddział u we francuskiej Afryce Zachodniej, zaś pod koniec tego roku zajął się organizacją pierwszych wypad�w przeciwko siłom włoskim na południu Libii.W styczniu 1943 r. Leclerc poprowadził swą brygadę w kierunku p�łnocno-zachodnim, na spotkanie z brytyjską 8. Armią, stacjonującą na terenie Trypolitanii. U boku Brytyjczyk�w walczył z niemieckim Africa Corps. Podczas tej kampanii zdołał wykazać, że umie zapomnieć o swej dumie i porozumieć się nawet z tak trudnym w obejściu człowiekiem, jakim był brytyjski marszałek polny Bernard Law MontgomeryGdy 8 maja 1945 r. Europa świętowała zwycięstwo, Leclerc cieszył się największym zaufaniem wśr�d rodak�w. Jego przedwczesna śmierć w 1947 r. pozbawiła Francję inteligentnego i wiernego dow�dcy.