Burlington Public Library MA

The hidden places of World War II, the extraordinary sites where history was made during the war that saved civilization, Jerome M. O'Connor

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non fiction

The hidden places of World War II

1045208242

Jerome M. O'Connor

the extraordinary sites where history was made during the war that saved civilization

"In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a conversational style, the book opens the eyes of a new generation of readers, as well as an older generation, and takes them to the actual locations that changed history. Many military history readers don't know that you can still visit Nazi U-boat pens in Lorient and La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast (they were used in the filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark) and even pieces of the Atlantic Wall Hitler had built along the French coast in '43 and '44 to thwart the invasion he knew was coming. These are only two of the many hidden places the author introduces the reader to."--Provided by publisher

Ch. One The Fall of France: "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" -- ch. Two Wednesday, September 4, 1940, A Cabinet Meeting in the Bunker -- ch. Three Secret Services: Liverpool and the Western Approaches Command Center -- ch. Four FDR'S Undeclared War -- ch. Five Secret Mission to Singapore -- ch. Six Fall of the "Gibraltar of the East" -- ch. Seven From Sea to Shining Sea -- The Unknown Odyssey of the SS America/USS West Point -- ch. Eight Bletchley Park: The Secret War -- ch. Nine U-Boat Sanctuary -- ch. Ten Inside the Lion's Den -- ch. Eleven Launching the Invasion: Southwick House and D-Day -- ch. Twelve The Band of Brothers -- ch. Thirteen Air Force Pilot, Hero, and Movie Star -- Jimmy Stewart and the Need to Fly -- ch. Fourteen The US Army Air Force in Europe -- ch. Fifteen "Little America" -- Patriotism and Production Built the British Bases -- ch. Sixteen Sacrifice and Heromsim: Attacking the Heart of Germany -- ch. Seventeen Living the History -- The Bases Where It Began -- ch. Eighteen A Boy on the Fence -- ch. Nineteen The Norden Bombsight and the Myth of Strategic Bombing -- ch. Twenty Trent Park Tattletales -- ch. Twenty-One The Arsenal of Democracy -- ch. Twenty-Two Remains of the Reich: Intact Traces in Unexpected Places

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