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David Armine Howarth

    28. Juli 1912 – 2. Juli 1991

    David Armine Howarth war ein britischer Historiker und Autor, dessen Werke von seinem umfassenden praktischen Wissen über Schiffe und das Meer geprägt sind. Nach seinem Kriegsdienst, zu dem auch Einsätze wie der Shetland Bus gehörten, nutzte er seine Erfahrungen, um fesselnde historische Erzählungen zu verfassen. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch ein tiefes Verständnis maritimer Themen und einen Geist abenteuerlicher Erzählkunst aus. Durch seine Bücher erweckt er nicht nur die Geschichte, sondern auch die menschlichen Schicksale darin für die Leser zum Leben.

    David Armine Howarth
    The Shetland Bus
    Die Kriegsschiffe
    Die Schlachtschiffe
    Panama-Kanal
    Einer der nicht sterben wollte
    Invasion
    • Entdecker, Piraten, Techniker: fundierte farbenprächtige Darstellung des 400jährigen Ringens um die Seeverbindung zwischen Atlantik und Pazifik.

      Panama-Kanal
    • A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. In The Shetland Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught. For the Norwegians who remained in Norway, The Shetland Bus fortified them both physically and spiritually. Nothing but war would have made seamen attempt such dangerous journeys. Some stretched two thousand miles in length and lasted as long as three weeks in boats only fifty to seventy-five feet long. Fishing boats crossing the North Sea were sometimes attacked and sunk in minutes, hundreds of miles from a friendly ship or shore. Their crews had no hope of being saved. But to "take the Shetland Bus" meant escape when capture became the only other option. The Shetland Bus is the amazing true-life account of storms, attacks, danger, and the heroic efforts of brave men.

      The Shetland Bus
    • Dawn of D-Day

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      4,2(7)Abgeben

      The power and the glory of the D-Day landings as recounted by the men who fought their way ashore. A tale told by a master of prose this account is among the best you'll ever read of the greatest amphibious invasion ever. číst celé

      Dawn of D-Day
    • Waterloo - A Near Run Thing

      • 192 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden
      4,2(18)Abgeben

      'Vivid, violent, almost impossible to put down unfinished, this is a particularly welcome reprint of a masterpiece' The Good Book Guide

      Waterloo - A Near Run Thing
    • In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard against Nazi interlopers--an unlikely scenario given the cruel climate. But one day, a footprint was spotted on desolate Sabine Island, along with other obvious signs of the enemy. Not expecting to find the trouble they did, the three Sledge Patrol members escaped to the nearest hunting hut only to have the Germans pursue them on foot. In the dead of the Arctic night, the men escaped capture at the last instant and, without their coats or sled dogs, walked fifty-six miles to get back to base. While the Sledge Patrol had only hunting rifles, resilience, and their knowledge of outdoor survival, the Germans were armed with machine guns and grenades and greatly outnumbered them. David Howarth skillfully relates the tensely exciting true tale of how the men of the Sledge Patrol fought capture or death in desolation by outwitting and outlasting the enemy. This is a saga of human skill, faith, and endurance--and one of the most remarkable Allied victories ever recorded.

      Sledge Patrol
    • We die alone

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      4,1(72)Abgeben

      In 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed to Norway to support the Norwegian resistance. Betrayed, only one man survived a Nazi ambush. Crippled with frostbite, snow-blind and hunted by the Nazis, he found an Arctic village where the people risked their lives to save him.

      We die alone