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Abundance of valor : resistance, survival, and liberation, 1944-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irwin, Will, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
Jedburgh (Program) > Biography.
Parachute troops > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The England game
  • The man from Washington
  • Hazardous duty
  • Highlands interlude
  • First Jeds into Holland
  • Operation Market-Garden
  • Germans everywhere
  • Sunday, September 17, D-Day
  • Monday, September 18, the second day
  • Tuesday, September 19, the third day
  • Wednesday, September 20, the fourth day
  • Thursday, September 21, the fifth day
  • Friday, September 22, the sixth day
  • Saturday, September 23, the seventh day
  • Sunday, September 24, the eighth day
  • Withdrawal, the last day
  • Prisoner of war
  • Todd's journey begins
  • Dulag Luft
  • The insufferable Lord Haw Haw
  • Solitary confinement
  • Stolen plans to be delivered
  • Oflag
  • Goodbye to Bunny and Henk
  • Pappy's return
  • Missing in action
  • The long march
  • Patton's Hammelburg raid
  • Rumors of evil
  • Freedom
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: The Dutch Jedburgh teams.