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Produced shortly before the similarly accomplished 8-volume series on the First World War, it was first published in 1966, being reprinted several times during the 1970s. [1] The magazine was notable for its use of many writers – often well-known military figures – of many nationalities to present a rounded view of the subject.
Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell (6 September 1886 – 3 March 1955) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in World War I and World War II. A 1908 graduate of the United States Naval Academy , he captained destroyers during World War I.
William Henry Purnell Blandy (28 June 1890 – 12 January 1954), known to close associates as "Spike", [2] was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. Biography [ edit ]
A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Airborne Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster. Battle of Arnhem (1944) Bauer, Cornelis (1966). The Battle of Arnhem: The Betrayal Myth Refuted. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Beevor, Antony (2018). The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. New York ...
The History of the Second World War is the official history of the British contribution to the Second World War and was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). ). The immense project was sub-divided into areas to ease publication, United Kingdom Military Series, the United Kingdom Civil Series for the civilian war effort; the Foreign Policy series, the Intelligence series and the ...
"Rum Issue": sketch by John Worsley. Worsley spent his childhood on a coffee farm in Kenya, his family having emigrated from Liverpool just six months after his birth. In 1928 he was sent back to England and was enrolled in St. Winifred's boarding school, from where Worsley won a scholarship to Brighton College, after which he spent three years studying fine art at Goldsmiths' School of Art.
ISBN 978-1-62681-292-5. OCLC 893688998. Purnell, Sonia (2019). A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN 978-0-7352-2530-5. OCLC 1081338820. Demetrios, Heather (2021). Code name Badass: the true story of Virginia Hall. Simon and ...
The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1 , and this book as well as its two sequels , What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History , were edited by Robert Cowley .