Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II (General Military)

Walling, Michael G.

ISBN 10: 1849087180 / ISBN 13: 9781849087186

Editore: Osprey Publishing, 2012

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• Titolo: Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II (General Military)
• Editore: Osprey Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849087180
• ISBN 13: 9781849087186
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Acceptable

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Riassunto

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II-an essence distilled from men's fear, anger, killing lust, courage, self-sacrifice, and agonizing death, mixed with bloodstained, oil-tainted water from the Arctic Sea.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael G. Walling is author of several books, including Bloodstained Sea, winner of the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. An internationally recognized World War II expert, Walling is a contributing author to the US Naval Institute's Naval History magazine and has appeared on The History Channel and PBS as an aviation and naval expert. After graduating from Montclair State College with a BA in Biology, Walling served in the US Coast Guard for six years as a commissioned officer and a senior petty officer. He has spent more than 45 years collecting stories from veterans from World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq as well as those of pilots, merchant seamen, and civilian personnel with NATO and EUFOR in the Balkans. His research has included visits to Afghanistan; Russia; London; Sarajevo; Baska Voda, Croatia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; St John's, Newfoundland; and New Orleans.