A laboratory manual: Microbiology

Science & Math

Ooi, Wan H

Biological Sciences

Royal Pub. Co

<p>The plan - Operation Market Garden. A furious Allied air and land invasion through Holland. It was meant to end the war by Christmas, 1944. The objective - To seize the bridges over the Lower Rhine by airborne assault, allowing an Allied invasion of the Ruhr Valley, the industrial heart of Hitler's Germany. The toughest bridge was assigned to the 1st British Airborne Division - Arnhem, 64 miles deep into Nazi occupied Holland. What went wrong? - For the British paratroopers, almost everything. Bad weather and delayed reinforcements. Faulty radio communications and no air-ground support. But worst of all, British Intelligence failed to report that two SS Panzer Divisions were in the woods outside Arnhem. A first-hand account by the Major-General who led the British assault, this is the story of one of the most bloody battles of WWII, a daring operation that should have proven successful, had it not tried to go a bridge too far.</p>

Arnhem: Britain's Infamous Airborne Assault of WW II

History

Urquhart, Robert E.

Europe

THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard.F. SPENCER CHAPMAN, the book's unflappable author, narrates with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaysia.Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle, rarely by truck, and mainly in dugouts, on foot, and often on his belly through the jungle muck, Chapman recruits sympathetic Chinese, Malays, Tamils, and Sakai tribesman into an irregular corps of jungle fighters. Their mission: to harass the Japanese in any way possible. In riveting scenes, they blow up bridges, cut communication lines, and affix plasticine to troop-filled trucks idling by the road. They build mines by stuffing bamboo with gelignite. They throw grenades and disappear into the jungle, their faces darkened with carbon, their tommy guns wrapped in tape so as not to reflect the moonlight.And when he is not battling the Japanese, or escaping from their prisons, he is fighting the jungle's incessant rain, wild tigers, unfriendly tribesmen, leeches, and undergrowth so thick it can take four hours to walk a mile.It is a war story without rival.

The Jungle Is Neutral

Biographies & Memoirs

Chapman, F. Spencer

Leaders & Notable People

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