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Exercise Tiger
Exercise Tiger: A series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded in mystery, one of these exercises ended in disaster for over 600 young American servicemen, as their operation was discovered by a patrol of German e-boats, which attacked, leaving two LSTs sunk and one badly damaged. The secret nature of these exercises, some claimed, led to a military cover-up and many families were not immediately informed of the nature of the deaths of their loved-ones. Over the months that followed, D-Day came and went, the war ended and there seemed little point in raking over this sorry affair. Exercise Tiger became a forgotten chapter in the annals of the Second World War. Using archive documents and images, this book recounts the history and personal accounts behind this tragic event, as well as examining the many subsequent conspiracy theories and exploring the evidence behind them. Illustrations: 75 black-and-white photographs
Terror In Black and White
A man aids a woman who witnessed a crime. They are running from a ruthless group of private police who want to cover up that crime.
Back to Ground Zero
A depressed man allows a scientist to hook up his brain to a super computer turning him into a super human.
Lost to Time
Stories that history forgot…but readers will remember “The only thing new in the world,” said Harry S. Truman, “is the history you dont know.” In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time. Though barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Ziryab, an eighth-century black slave whose influence on music, cuisine, fashion, and manners still reverberates, to Cahokia, a 12th century city north of the Rio Grande, which at its zenith contained a population estimated to have been as high as 40,000 (more than any contemporary European city), to the worst peacetime maritime disaster ever, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on the Mississippi in 1865. These tales are far from trivia; they illuminate little-known American and foreign achievements, ingenuity, heroics, blunders, and tragedies that changed the course of history and resonate today.
Blunders & Disasters at Sea
“A superb collection of some ninety-nine well-researched and concise short stories of tragedy at sea . . . crammed with information on ships of all types.”—Naval Historical Society of Australia As any sailor knows, life at sea is hazardous under even normal circumstances. In times of war with an enemy intent on killing and sinking you, it is infinitely more so. David Blackmore has researched 100 extreme cases over the span of history and written graphic descriptions covering the background, the events and the tragic consequences. Many were the result of enemy action, others (too many) straight human error, and the remainder were caused by act of God, not least the weather.
Wild Adventures of the New Aviators
A collection of thrilling excursions from aviation including paragliding, hang-gliding, paramotoring and micro-lighting. Soaring over forest fires, a moonlight New Year’s Eve flight over the Pennines, bungee-jumping from a paraglider as a birthday celebration, jumping off Mount Everest, or numerous several-hundred-mile flights over open country and on different continents. This book covering many exhilarating and enthralling stories from New Aviation – including paragliding, hang-gliding, paramotoring and micro-lighting – has them all. There is even the story of a pilot using flexwings to teach geese how to migrate – and of a marriage proposal at 500 feet. The challenges explored by ...
The Forgotten Dead
27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings. This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world. This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man's curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.
Tell Me a Story
The author, Angelo Crapanzano was ninety-six years old when he finished his fourteenth novel. After that novel was published he could not think of any subject that would be good for his next novel. About six months later he got a very serious throat infection. After eight days in the hospital he went home. Due to the problem he had he could not lay down flat. That would cause the mucus to go down the throat and cause coughing and blocked his breathing. At home, for a week he had to sleep on a Recliner that keeps his body in a partial sitting position. His family finally got him a bed that had ends that could be raised in a half-sitting position. That was fine for him. However, there was a side effect when lying on your back even if it was in a half-sitting position. It was that it gave a person strange dreams. Author Mr. Crapanzano had these dreams. They were like short stories. Half of the stories in this novel were obtained from the author's dreams.
Monte Cucco Valley
How many of us can say we know the caves of Monte Cucco? Their beauty is so captivating for its now over a hundred year history of reinterpretations and explorations. Reading this book one has the feeling of flying with a hang glider, which rises quickly above the Cucco, its valley and its villages, capturing the decidedly unique and unrepeatable overall spatial vision: from Cucco to Chiascio, from Monte to Piano , from inside to outside, from yesterday to today.
