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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Solihull :
Helion,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Appendix G: The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31
- report on flying operations.