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Alex Kershaw
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HIROSHIMA BY THE SPLIT SECOND
8:15:15….75 years ago at this time in Japan, the Enola Gay's bomb bay doors open and Little Boy drops clear. The bombardier announces:"Bomb away." Enola Gay rises ten feet as the 9,700 pound bomb is released. It is rush hour in Hirsohima 31,000 feet below.
For 44.4 more seconds, the Enola Gay flies north and then Little Boy explodes. Three consecutive shockwaves strike the Enola Gay and the fuselag Read more of this blog post »
For 44.4 more seconds, the Enola Gay flies north and then Little Boy explodes. Three consecutive shockwaves strike the Enola Gay and the fuselag Read more of this blog post »
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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau:
"A well researched book. Not much has been written about the invasion of southern France. Very little has been written abut the units that liberated the concentration camps on the way to the Rhine river. Sparks unit was a well worn unit, over 500 days"
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"Great accounting of one of the more unsung tales of the European theater. From Sicily, through Italy, up into France and over the Maginot line into Germany, this was the story of a batallion that certainly earned the title of most combat experience i"
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“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS”
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist”
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
“His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but “pulling the chain,” as it was called, was his only option.”
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
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“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist”
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
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Jenean wrote: "Mr. Kershaw, I first read your book "Escape from the Deep" several years ago and then re-read it this fall after visiting the exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Since then I've bee..."d day again!!!!
Mr. Kershaw, I first read your book "Escape from the Deep" several years ago and then re-read it this fall after visiting the exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Since then I've been working my way through the rest of your titles - I read "Avenue of Spies" in two days last week and am a few chapters into "The Bedford Boys" now. I really enjoy all of them, especially how you make the men (and women) you write about seem so "real" - the personal details are terrific. I'd love to know what you're working on now! ~ Jenean
A woman in Berlin. And. The final enemy by Richard Hillary and all of Cornelius Ryan and Paul brickhill!
Mr. Kershaw, it seems that every book I pick up about the World Wars have only one or two stars from you. Other than your books, are there any authors I should read? I'm specifically talking about Human Smoke and Keegan's The First World War.As I reviewed here, I loved Avenue of Spies.
Thanks for accepting my friend request.
Happy New Year.
Cynthia Dunn
Thanks for the friend request, and congratulations on your book "the Liberator"
I am curious? Saw the television show "The Americans" the other night for the first time. I barely watch TV. I fancy I want to write a book about the "Cold War" myself and thereby I've read a lot of the recently published materials over the last fifteen years or so on it. Why hasn't recent scholarship on the "Cold War" penetrated the mainstream consciousness? Thoughts, observations, anything?
