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Ice, steel and fire : British explorers in peace and war, 1921-45 /
The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the Britis...
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Solihull :
Helion,
2013.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Ice, steel and fire : |b British explorers in peace and war, 1921-45 / |c Linda Parker. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Solihull : |b Helion, |c 2013. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: George Binney; 'A School for Explorers' 1921-24; Blockade Buster 1940-44; Chapter 2: Freddie Spencer Chapman; The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31; The Ascent of Chomolhari 1937; The jungle is neutral 1941-1945; Chapter 3: Quintin Riley; British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31; Watkins's Last Expedition 1932-33; The British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37; The Norwegian Campaign 1940; No. 30 Assault Unit 1941-45; Chapter 4: Peter Fleming. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Brazilian Adventure 1932News From Tartary 1933-35; Flying into Namsos 1940; Auxiliary Units and Greece 1941-42; Deception in the Far East 1942-1945; Chapter 5: Andrew Croft; The Crossing of Greenland, 1933-34; The Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen 1935-36; Escape from Sweden 1940; Auxiliary Units 1940; Assistant Military Attaché in Sweden 1941-42; Operation Balaclava -- Corsica 1943-44; Operation Snow White France 1944; Chapter 6: Alexander 'Sandy' Glen; Expeditions to Spitsbergen 1933 and 1935-36 -- "Those delightful dotted lines"; Yugoslavia 1940. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Operation Gauntlet and Operation FrithamAlbania and Yugoslavia 1944-45; Chapter 7: Martyn Sherwood; The voyage of the Tai Mo Shan 1933-34; The Cape Passaro Trawlers at Namsos 1940; Corvettes in the Mediterranean 1940-42; Landing Craft to Algiers 1943; D-Day and after; Chapter 8: R.E.D. Ryder; The Voyage of the British Graham Land Expedition Ship Penola 1934-37; Q Ship Captain, 1940; The Raid on St Nazaire 1942; Chapter 9: Lancelot Fleming; Iceland 1932; The Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen 1933; The British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37; Wartime Naval Chaplain. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 10: Augustine CourtauldThe Cambridge University Expedition to Greenland, 1926; Journey in the Sahara Desert 1927; The Cambridge University Expedition to Greenland 1929; British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31; Return to Greenland 1936; Wartime service in the Royal Navy; Chapter 11: H.W. Tilman; Across Africa by Bicycle 1933; The ascent of Nanda Devi 1934-36; Attempt on Mount Everest, 1938; Artillery Officer 1940-43, SOE in Albania 1943; SOE in Italy 1944-1945; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix A: Members of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1924; Oxford University. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Cambridge UniversityServices and Government Departments; Norwegians; Appendix B: Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen 1924; The Use of Wireless for Sledging Parties; Appendix C: The Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1924; The Flying Work of the Expedition; Appendix D: Members of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31; Appendix E: British Arctic Air Route Expedition -- Sledging Rations; Summary of expedition report on sledging rations by H.G. Watkins; Appendix F: The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31 -- summary of climatological notes; The Climate of East Greenland. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix G: The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31 -- report on flying operations. | |
| 520 | |a The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the British Arctic air route expedition to Greenland, including Martin Lindsay, Quintin Riley and Freddie Spencer Chapman, were to pioneer the weather research methods necessary for Trans-Atlantic Flight. The university expeditions to Spitsbergen led by George Binney in the 1920s and Sandy Glen in the 1930s t. | ||
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