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"If life hands you a lemon?"Viewed through the eyes of a naïve child of the 1930s' great depression, My Mother Said? follows author June Hill as she scrapes through the traumas and dramas of life in working-class Liverpool.Torn between her mother's often-quoted warnings and the desire to become one of the local gang, this Gemini develops a useful split personality as she journeys into adulthood.Her marriage takes her across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland, where she spends thirteen years in total culture shock before embarking on an even greater journey?www.junetoddhill.com
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A gripping account of the Royal Air Force’s daring exploits during the heroic evacuation of Allied troops from France in World War II. “Where is the RAF?” was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air forces were there, as Norman Franks proves, detailing the outstanding achievements of the Allied pilots who fought, using outmoded tactics, against enemy pilots who had earlier had easy victories over the Polish, Dutch and Belgian air forces. The RAF’s achievement reminds us just how close Britain came to di...
“The narrative moves smoothly and crisply. There is effective treatment of strategy, preparations, and then the invasion and battle for Saipan itself.” —Spencer C. Tucker, author of American Revolution In June 1944 the attention of the nation was riveted on events unfolding in France. But in the Pacific, the Battle of Saipan was of extreme strategic importance. This is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic engagements of World War II. The conquest of Saipan and the neighboring island of Tinian was a turning point in the war in the Pacific as it made the American victory against Japan inevitable. Until this battle, the Japanese continued to believe that success in the war remai...
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