Silent skies : the glider war, 1939-1945 / Tim Lynch
- Author
- Lynch, Tim
- Published
- Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2008.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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- Contents
- Introduction -- The fourth flank -- 'Here are the Germans!' : Eben-Emael, 10 May 1940 -- 'Nothing is impossible' : the Glider Pilot Regiment -- 'The graveyard of the paratroopers' : Mediterranean operations -- 'Hitler's best friend in America' : the US glider programme -- 'Any place, any time, anywhere' : operations in the Far East -- Over the west wall : the invasion of Europe 1944-1945 -- War behind the lines : Russian glider operations 1941-1945 -- Into the cauldron : German operations on the Eastern Front -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix A: Flying the Horsa -- Appendix B: Towing techniques -- Appendix C: Technical details.
- Summary
- "[The author] gives vivid accounts of glider operations ... in every theater of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East, and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution of glider tactics over the course of the war. He also gives detailed specifications of the gliders flown by all sides in the conflict and compares their design and performance"--Jacket
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- ISBN
- 1306877113 (electronic bk.)
9781306877114 (electronic bk.)
9781783838912 (electronic bk.)
1783838914 (electronic bk.)
9781473818231 (electronic bk.)
1473818230 (electronic bk.)
9781844157365
1844157369 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
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