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Bramcote, England: Grove Books, 1991.. "The aim of this booklet - the work of several members of ECRJ (Evangelical Christians for Racial Justice) is two-fold: to illuminate the racism which characterizes British society, including its churches, and to suggest some ways of combatting it" Pp.25. P/b with illustrated cover. VG. ., Bramcote, England: Grove Books, 1991., 0, Illuminate Publishing. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 09/01/2018, Illuminate Publishing, 2.5, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1990. First British Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Old price sticker to rear cover minor shelf wear, tiny closed tear to front endpaper. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; 208 pages; Collection of ten short stories each of which illuminates a dark corner of human existance. Some are amusing, some tragic, but all are beautifully observed, touching and provocative. ., Penguin Books, 1990, 3, Ballantine Books, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! ONE SPINE CREASE, MODERATE WEAR & CORNER BENDS ON COVER. AGING PAGES, NO MARKS IN TEXT. "Description: Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display. Examines the irrationalities of governments through analysis of four crises of history--the fall of Troy, the Renaissance popes' provocation of the Protestant Reformation, Britain's loss of the American colonies, and America's involvement in Vietnam.", Ballantine Books, 1984, 3, Illuminate Publishing. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 07/06/2018, Illuminate Publishing, 2.5, Profile Books. Very Good. 18.5 x 11.7 x 1.8 centimetres (0. Hardcover. 2004. 152 pages. Dj faded.<br>'It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word - U.S. PresidentShakespeare, Shake- speare, Shakspeare, Shaxberd, Shakespere, Shak-speare, Shaskpear, Shakspere, Shaksper, Schaksp., Shakespear, Shakespheare'My spell ing is Wobbly' - Winnie-the-Pooh This delightful, quick-footed bo ok celebrates the English language by exploring the rich treasure house of spelling in all its variety - setting tests and proposi ng rules, with illuminating quotations and tantalising lists Head rillaz and Misteeq; Naming Pop Groups; miniscule parallels; non-l etters; the three-letter rule; Faeder ure pup e eart on heofunum; UK number plates; HipHop spelling; East Anglian place-names; the E-cancellation spelling test - these are just some of the intrig uing subjects presented in this must-have, must-give little book. ., Profile Books, 2004, 2.75, Chronicle Books. Good. 8.4 x 1.1 x 10.8 inches. Hardcover. 1997. 224 pages. Spine chipped and faded.<br>By the time he was twenty- two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; fou nded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a ph otojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and ci vil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regu larity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. Bu t, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape i s the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, wor ds, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveal s his strange and vivid life. The Journey is the Destination offe rs a selection of pages from these extraordinary journals, at onc e the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpo urings of a young man just beginning to live. Editorial Reviews Review Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the younge st photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, w hich had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop cul ture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held h is art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfu lness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young co uld have this kind of artistic depth and insight. From Library J ournal Photojournalists who risk their lives while on assignment in dangerous circumstances are often unsung heroes. In 1993, Dan Eldon was a 22-year-old Reuters photographer covering the severe famine and strife in Somalia when he was brutally murdered by an enraged mob. In a painful tribute to her son, freelance journalis t Kathy Eldon has assembled and prefaced a somewhat offbeat, scra pbook-type publication containing collages, sketches, photographs , and written ruminations culled from her son's 17 journals. Born in England and raised in Kenya, Eldon comes through as an exuber ant, passionate, handsome youth who was troubled by the world's v iolence and deprivations. He appears to have possessed a fearless spirit, and women were attracted to him. With Eldon prominently featured in an upcoming Turner-produced TV documentary on journal ists at risk and with an exhibition of his work opening in New Yo rk, this book could attract a wider-than-expected audience and is recommended for general collections.?Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Co pyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review This book ha s been written up almost everywhere, around the world, in local n ewspapers, and international publications. Here are a few of the reviews, each reflecting on the profundity of Dan Eldon's story. By Peter Canby Dan Eldon was only twenty-two when, at the heig ht of conflict in Somalia, he and three other journalists were ch ased down by a mob enraged at a United Nations helicopter attack and stoned to death. The year was 1993. Eldon was among the first to document the famine in Somalia; he had risen rapidly through the ranks of war photographers, with spreads in Time, Newsweek, a nd Stern. But, as The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon shows, he was an artist as well. The son of an English father and an American mother, he grew up in Nairobi, where he b ecame fascinated by the mixture of European and African cultures and learned to speak fluent Swahili. At fifteen, he began recordi ng his life in a series of eclectic, exuberantly collaged journal s, which incorporate everything from his own drawings and paintin gs to stamps, matchbook covers, photographs of his friends, and s elf-portraits. By the time Eldon died, he had compiled seventee n journals, the last of which -- according to his mother, Kathy, who edited the published selection -- consisted, uncharacteristic ally, of his Somalia photographs mounted on plain white paper. El don was a popular figure in Somalia, but he'd become depressed by seeing the Africa he loved crumbling around him. In one of his j ournals he quotes Plato: Only the dead have seen the end of war. Lest the Picture Fade By Joshua Hammer For Kathy Eldon the tri p was the climax of a four-year obsession. On a blazingly hot day , last September, Eldon, her daughter, Amy, a television crew and 40 Somali bodyguards rode through the streets of Mogadishu to th e rubble of a large cinder-block house. Here, on July 12, 1993, a U.N. helicopter fired missiles into a group of suspected aides t o warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, killing 80 people. Minutes after the attack, Kathy's son, Dan Eldon, 22, and three other foreign j ounalists were cornered by an angry mob and stoned and beaten to death. Now, as mother and daughter approached the killing site to film a documentary, another hostile crowd gathered. They were sc reaming 'Get these foreigners out, we don't want to remember that horrible day', says Kathy Eldon, 51. We piled back into the vehi cles and left in a hurry. She was both shaken and strangely elate d by the experience. There was a curious sense of joy that we'd b een there and seen where he died, she says. Kathy Eldon has not grieved quietly. Over the past four years, she has traveled acro ss three continents--and repeatedly relived her son's horrifying end--in a quest to commemorate his brief, eventful life. She has found an eager audience. Last month Chronicle Books published The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, a collect ion of vibrant collages created by Dan from the age of 13 until h is death. The book has already sold nearly 30,000 copies, and a s econd printing is being planned. Meanwhile, former Columbia Pictu res president Lisa Henson and Oliver Stone's former partner Janet Yang are developing a feature movie about the last three years o f Dan Eldon's life. Next September Amy Eldon, 23, will appear in a Turner Broadcasting documentary about Dan's career called Dying to Tell the Story. Thousands of teenagers have participated in a Nairobi program founded in 1993 by Dan's father, Michael, called The Depot--Dan Eldon Place of Tomorrow, a sort of Outward Bound- on-the-savanna that teaches leadership skills. Eldon's story, a mix of doomed innocence, gonzo adventure and Third World exotici sm, seems tailored for cinematic mythmaking. Son of a British fat her and an Amencan mother, now divorced, Eldon grew up in Kenya. His charismatic energy and precocious visual talent led him, at 2 0, to the office of Jonathan Clayton, then Reuters' Nairobi burea u chief. He was another affluent white African kid who announced, 'I'm a photographer,' like they all do, Clayton remembers. But h e had a wonderful eye for color and composition, and he was willi ng to learn. Eldon hooked up with the Reuters wire service as a f reelancer, then got his big break after the December 1992 U.S. in tervention in Somalia. Eldon captured vivid images of clan gunmen , starving children, Cobra helicopter gunships and bikini clad Am erican soldiers in Mogadishu. Those pictures ran prominently in U .S. newspapers and magazines, including NEWSWEEK. Kathy Eldon w as at home in Santa Monica, Calif., when she received the news of her son's murder. I sank to the floor and said, 'Somebody help m e. Help me', she remembers. After his violent death, Dan might we ll have faded into obscurity, but his family was determined not t o let that happen. Michael Eldon, a Nairobi businessman, raised f unds in Kenya and abroad to launch The Depot. Kathy, an aspiring film producer, began making the rounds of Hollywood film studios and publishers, often bringing along Dan's 17 bound journals. Pla yful pastiches of newspaper headlines, airline tickets, passport stamps, African coins, maps, condom packages, surrealistic drawin gs and photographs of teenage nymphets, wildlife and Masai warrio rs, the journals reflect both a life of white African privilege a nd a boundless curiosity about the world. The Eldons' crusade h asn't won over everybody. A few of Eldon's colleagues and friends admit to feeling queasy about the relentless celebration of his short life. The Dan Eldon I knew would have been embarrassed by i t, says one Africa-based correspondent who worked closely with hi m. It's over the top. Some are also bothered by the disparity bet ween the tributes lavished on Eldon and the scant attention paid to the three journalists who died alongside him: German photograp her Hansi Krauss of the Associated Press and Kenyans Hos Maina an d Anthony Macharia of Reuters. Kathy Eldon finds such criticism u nfair. Dan had a spirit of adventure and awareness of the world t hat we're trying to communicate to people, she says. The art on d isplay in The Journey is the Destination makes a promising--and p oignant--beginning. Pages Ripped from Life By Liesl Schillinger Just as a botanist presses flowers in a book to trap the color they held when they still lived, The Journey Is the Destination holds a life compressed in its pages. That life vibrates with viv id hues and breathing texture; it is a collage of dewy girlfriend s and Masai tribesmen, of wildebeest and decrepit Land Rovers, of photos, ironic news clippings and journal entries, all of them t ransformed by paint, ink, hair, beads, coins and blood into a tal ismanic journal of an artist's youth. That artist is Dan Eldon, a dashing young Reuters photographer who was born in London, raise d in Kenya, and killed in Somalia at the age of 22, when an angry crowd stoned him to death after a United Nations bombing raid. T he book has been drawn from the 17 visual journals Eldon made bet ween 1984, the year he turned 14, and 1993, the year he died; and its pages were selected by his mother, Kathy, not to mourn his d eath but to celebrate his exuberant, concentrated life. At 22, an age when most of his contemporaries were frolicking in their l ast summer of freedom, the pause between college graduation and t he yoke of the first job, Dan Eldon had been drawn by his conscie nce to go to Somalia, to document the famine, war and lawlessness that prevailed there in 1992 and 1993. He was hardly a hardened newsman; he was a free-spirited boy with a hungry eye for beauty. But in Somalia, he would notice a pretty girl, wrapped in a colo rful cloth, only to see later that both her hands and feet had be en severed by shrapnel. Someone had tossed a grenade in the marke t. The depravity of impersonal deaths came as a shock to him. T his was my first experience with war, he wrote in a book he self- published. Before Somalia, I had only seen two dead bodies in my life. I have now seen hundreds, tossed into ditches like sacks. T he worst things I could not photograph. Only the last few pages o f his journals acknowledge the stark brutality of Somalia; the ot hers preserve a rare adolescence in which imaginative horseplay j ostled with exuberant idealism. For young people who doubt that a life grander than MTV and the mall can be achieved in this age , Eldon's journals prove otherwise. And for kids, and adults, who long for a role model in their own image, an untarnished face th at represents possibility, not pompousness, Eldon stands tall. Th e Journals focus a spyglass on Eldon's life, showing him explorin g the Great Rift Valley with his Kenyan friend Lengai Croze, phot ographing his sister Amy and her lissome friends in absurdist sce narios, and raising money to pay for a heart operation for a sick Kenyan girl. They chronicle his trips to Japan, Russia, America and Europe (during which he acquired a variety of lurid call-girl matchbooks), and his brief stints at a few colleges. They also highlight the relief expedition he initiated to help Mozambiquan refugees in Malawi, an adventure for which he raised $17,000 and mobilized an international team of 12 dazzlingly attractive youn g people, turning the mission into an orgy of youthful philanthro py. Using two rugged cars--a Land Rover that had been nicknamed D eziree after a voluptuous Italian girlfriend, and another called Arabella--Team Deziree embarked on the mission of helping refugee s while recording in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty (of the flesh or otherwise), horror, irony, traces of utopia or H ell. It was, he writes, the Search for clean water in a swamp. Everywhere Eldon's insights, sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent , sometimes just plain funny, scrawl across the page. He got the agony, she got the remedy, he writes across a two-page pastiche o f paint-washed savannah, guinea fowl feathers and crinkled photos of iconic youths. Excised photos of cheetah, a... The power of Dan Eldon's art is a dazzling testament to the way in which he li ved his life. . . Jan Sardi, screenwriter, Shine Wild with sex a nd death, the collection resembles the illuminations of a young B lake. British Esquire About the Author Dan Eldon was born in Lon don in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Soma lia's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped tr igger the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Soma li mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing both a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about journalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She liv es in Los Angeles. About the Author Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. His photographs of Somalia 's brutal famine, published in newspapers worldwide, helped trigg er the world's conscience. Eldon was stoned to death by a Somali mob reacting against a UN bombing Kathy Eldon is co-producing bo th a feature film about her son's life and a documentary about jo urnalists who put their lives at risk to tell a story. She lives in Los Angeles. ., Chronicle Books, 1997, 2.5, London: Guild Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. Reprint. Hard Cover. Sm 4to Dust jacket complete.Brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 159 pages clean and tight. Robert Adley's previous books of his own colour photographs of working BR steam have proved immensely popular, with total sales approaching six figures. His latest offering, IN PRAISE OF STEAM, keeps up the same high standard. As before, he skilfully involves the reader in his own escapades in search of the railway photograph, and how close he came in that quest may be judged from his work in this book. The book includes 72 colour photographs, nearly all of them showing some aspect of the last days of British steam, and all of them previously unpublished. There are locations and locomotives to rekindle the spark of excitement in any steam enthusiast, from Lickey to Willesden, from 'Royal Scot' No. 46129 The Scottish Horse on one of its last express passenger working, to LBSCR 'E4' No. 32479, built in Victoria's reign but still in faithful service in 1963. There are also historic maps and plans - some in colour and previously unpublished - which complement the photographs and illuminate the text. Robert Adley is MP for Christchurch as well as a successful author and dedicated transport enthusiast. He is Joint Chairman of the All-Party Railways Group, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Transport Committee, and a committee member of the National Railway Museum. He founded the Brunel Society. ., Guild Publishing, 1986, 2.75, British Library, London, first edition, 2007. Laminated illustrated wrappers with flaps, small 4to, 24 cm,. 224 pp, colour ills, maps. The catalogue of the exhibition 'Sacred' held at the British Library, 27 April-23 September 2007. Contents include: The idea of a sacred text, by Karen Armstrong; Living with sacred Jewish texts, by Everett Fox; The poet in performance : the composition of the Qur'an, by F.E. Peters; The sacred texts; Dissemination, division and difference; Establishing the sacred texts; Illuminating the word in colours and gold; Religious life : encountering the sacred; Judaism glossary; Christianity glossary; Islam glossary. Wrappers slightly scuffed, otherwise Very Good., British Library, London, first edition, 2007, 2007, 3, Brockhampton Press, London [1998]. Hard Cover. 124 p., illus. '...from an early age [Beardsley] displayed an unusual mastery of drawing with pen and ink. Encouraged by Burne-Jones, he shot to fame through illustrating books and high-profile magazines... He swiftly became a master of the erotic and macabre... Beardsley successfully united the tradition of western manuscript illumination with eastern printmaking, effectively blending the Celtic and the Japanese in a robust new style.' Dj very slightly worn; VG+. Stock#21239., Brockhampton Press, London [1998], 0, Music Sales Own. 1. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 11/21/2002, Music Sales Own, 2.5, London England: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985. Paperback. Making For the Open. Slight mark to back cover from removal of old label. Slight shelf wear to bottom edge of cover. Few anthologies of contemporary poetry by women have the range or depth of this book. Drawing on work produced during the last twenty years, it contains a generous selection from Britain and America, as well as poems from Australia, Canada, Eastern Europe, El Salvador, Ireland, Israel, Russia, and many other countries. But it is not only the scope of the book which makes it unique. it is also remarkable for the fact that no writer has been included, or excluded, simply on the grounds of literary and social politics. The quality of the work alone, Carol Rumens says in her Introduction, must decide the argument for women to be taken seriously as poets. In this sense the book is post-feminist: while demonstrating that the struggle for women's freedom and justice has not been decisively and absolutely won, its authors have been able to choose not to concentrate exclusively on questions of gender and self-definition. At least within the circumscribed world of the poems, they are fully liberated. This book is a continuously engrossing and challenging anthology: one which celebrates the power of women as poets, and also illuminates broad issues of human rights - between countries as well as individuals. 151 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Paperback., Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985, 2.5, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1974. Reprint. Softcover. 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ISBN/EAN: 9780140038774. Inventory No: 0123418. . 9780140038774, Penguin Books, 1974, 3, Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 5.25 x 0.52 x 9.25 inches. Paperback. 1988. 208 pages. <br>In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a smal l detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defens e forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Peg asus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might hav e failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand con frontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardi ce, kindness and brutality-the stuff of all great adventures. Ed itorial Reviews Review Los Angeles Herald Examiner All the vivid ness of a movie, and all the intelligence -- in every sense -- of fine military history. Drew Middleton The New York Times Book R eview An illuminating account of an operation as strategically im portant as any fought on D-Day. James Pitts New Orleans Times A little gem. One that will be drawn from by historians of the futu re. Noland Norgaard The Denver Post The best war story this revi ewer has ever read. From the Back Cover In the early morning hou rs of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Alli ed invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire No rmandy invasion might have failed. About the Author Stephen E. A mbrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing L ike It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Bo yd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a co ntributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. D-Day: 0000 to 0015 Hours It was a steel-girder bridge, painted gray, w ith a large water tower and superstructure. At 0000 hours, June 5 /6, 1944, the scudding clouds parted sufficiently to allow the ne arly full moon to shine and reveal the bridge, standing starkly v isible above the shimmering water of the Caen Canal. On the brid ge, Private Vern Bonck, a twenty-two-year-old Pole conscripted in to the German Army, clicked his heels sharply as he saluted Priva te Helmut Romer, an eighteen-year-old Berliner. Romer had reporte d to relieve Bonck. As Bonck went off duty, he met with his fello w sentry, another Pole. They decided they were not sleepy and agr eed to go to the local brothel, in the village of Benouville, for a bit of fun. They strolled west along the bridge road, then tur ned south (left) at the T-junction, and were on the road into Ben ouville. By 0005 they were at the brothel. Regular customers, wit hin two minutes they were knocking back cheap red wine with two F rench whores. Beside the bridge, on the west bank, south of the road, Georges and Theresa Gondree and their two daughters slept i n their small cafe. They were in separate rooms, not by choice bu t as a way to use every room and thus to keep the Germans from bi lleting soldiers with them. It was the 1,450th night of the Germa n occupation of Benouville. So far as the Germans knew, the Gond rees were simple Norman peasants, people of no consequence who ga ve them no trouble. Indeed, Georges sold beer, coffee, food, and a concoction made by Madame of rotting melons and half-fermented sugar to the grateful German troops stationed at the bridge. Ther e were about fifty of them, the NCOs and officers all German, the enlisted men mostly conscripts from Eastern Europe. But the Gon drees were not as simple as they pretended to be. Madame came fro m Alsace and spoke German, a fact she successfully hid from the g arrison. Georges, before acquiring the cafe, had been for twelve years a clerk in Lloyd's Bank in Paris and understood English. Th e Gondrees hated the Germans for what they had done to France, ha ted the life they led under the occupation, feared for the future of their daughters, and were consequently active in trying to br ing German rule to an end. In their case, the most valuable thing they could do for the Allies was to provide information on condi tions at the bridge. Theresa got information by listening to the chitter-chatter of the NCOs in the cafe; she passed along to Geor ges, who passed it to Mme. Vion, director of the maternity hospit al, who passed it along to the Resistance in Caen on her trips to the city for medical supplies. From Caen, it was passed on to En gland via Lysander airplanes, small craft that could land in fiel ds and get out in a hurry. Only a few days ago, on June 2, Georg es had sent through this process a tidbit Theresa had overheard - - that the button that would set off the explosives to blow the b ridge was located in the machine-gun pillbox across the road from the antitank gun. He hoped that information had got through, if only because he would hate to see his bridge destroyed. The man who would give that order, the commander of the garrison at the b ridge, was Major Hans Schmidt. Schmidt had an understrength compa ny of the 736th Grenadier Regiment of the 716th Infantry Division . At 0000 hours, June 5/6, he was in Ranville, a village two kilo meters east of the Orne River. The river ran parallel to the cana l, about four hundred meters to the east, and was also crossed by a bridge (fixed, and guarded by sentries but without emplacement s or a garrison). Although the Germans expected the long-anticipa ted invasion at any time, and although Schmidt had been told that the two bridges were the most critical points in Normandy, becau se they provided the only crossings of the Orne waterways along t he Norman coast road, Schmidt did not have his garrison at full a lert, nor was he in Ranville on business. Except for the two sent ries on each bridge, his troops were either sleeping in their bun kers, or dozing in their slit trenches or in the machine-gun pill box, or off whoring in Benouville. Schmidt himself was with his girl friend in Ranville, enjoying the magnificent food and drink of Normandy. He thought of himself as a fanatic Nazi, this Schmid t, who was determined to do his duty for his Fuhrer. But he seldo m let duty interfere with pleasure, and he had no worries that ev ening. His routine concern was the possibility of French partisan s blowing his bridges, but that hardly seemed likely except in co njunction with an airborne operation, and the high winds and stor my weather of the past two days precluded a parachute drop. He ha d orders to blow the bridges himself if capture seemed imminent. He had prepared the bridges for demolition, but had not put the e xplosives into their chambers, for fear of accident or the partis ans. Since his bridges were almost five miles inland, he figured he would have plenty of warning before any Allied units reached h im, even paratroopers, because the paras were notorious for takin g a long time to form up and get organized after their drops scat tered them all over the DZ. Schmidt treated himself to some more wine, and another pinch. At Vimont, east of Caen, Colonel Hans A . von Luck, commanding the 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 21st Panzer Division, was working on personnel reports at his he adquarters. The contrast between Schmidt and von Luck extended fa r beyond their activities at midnight. Schmidt was an officer gon e soft from years of cushy occupation duty; von Luck was an offic er hardened by combat. Von Luck had been in Poland in 1939, had c ommanded the leading reconnaissance battalion for Rommel at Dunki rk in 1940, had been in the van at Moscow in 1941 (in December, h e actually led his battalion into the outskirts of Moscow, the de epest penetration of the campaign) and with Rommel throughout the North African campaign of 1942-43. There was an equally sharp c ontrast between the units von Luck and Schmidt commanded. The 716 th Infantry was a second-rate, poorly equipped, immobile division made up of a hodgepodge of Polish, Russian, French, and other co nscripted troops, while the 21st Panzer was Rommel's favorite div ision. Von Luck's regiment, the 125th, was one of the best equipp ed in the German Army. The 21st Panzer Division had been destroye d in Tunisia in April and May 1943, but Rommel had got most of th e officer corps out of the trap, and around that nucleus rebuilt the division. It had all-new equipment, including Tiger tanks, se lf-propelled vehicles (SPVs) of all types, and an outstanding wir eless communications network. The men were volunteers, young Germ ans deliberately raised by the Nazis for the challenge they were about to face, tough, well trained, eager to come to grips with t he enemy. There was a tremendous amount of air activity that nig ht, with British and American bombers crossing the Channel to bom b Caen. As usual, Schmidt paid no attention to it. Neither did vo n Luck, consciously, but he was so accustomed to the sights and s ounds of combat that at about 0010 hours he noticed something non e of his clerks did. There were a half-dozen or so planes flying unusually low, at five hundred feet or less. That could only mean they were dropping something by parachute. Probably supplies for the Resistance, von Luck thought, and he ordered a search of the area, hoping to capture some local resisters while they were gat hering in the supplies. Heinrich (now Henry) Heinz Hickman, a se rgeant in the German 6th (Independent) Parachute Regiment, was at that moment riding in an open staff car, coming from Ouistreham, on the coast, toward Benouville. Hickman, twenty-four years old, was a combat veteran of Sicily and Italy. His regiment had come to Normandy a fortnight ago; at 2300 hours on June 5 his company commander had ordered Hickman to pick up four young privates at o bservation posts outside Ouistreham and bring them back to headqu arters, near Breville, on the east side of the river. Hickman, h imself a paratrooper, also heard low-flying planes. He came to th e same conclusion as von Luck, that they were dropping supplies t o the Resistance, and for the same reason -- he could not imagine that the Allies would make a paratrooper drop with only a half-d ozen airplanes involved. He drove on toward the bridge over the C aen Canal. Over the Channel, at 0000 hours, two groups of three Halifax bombers flew at seven thousand feet toward Caen. With all the other air activity going on, neither German searchlights nor AA gunners noticed that each Halifax was tugging a Horsa glider. Inside the lead glider, Private Wally Parr of D Company, the 2d Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox and Bucks), a part of the Air Landing Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division of the British Army, was leading the twenty-eight men in singing. Wi th his powerful voice and strong Cockney accent, Parr was booming out Abby, Abby, My Boy. Corporal Billy Gray, sitting down the ro w from Parr, was barely singing, because all that he could think about was the pee he had to take. At the back end of the glider, Corporal Jack Bailey sang, but he also worried about the parachut e he was responsible for securing. The pilot, twenty-four-year-o ld Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork, of the Glider Pilot Regiment, ant icipated casting off any second now, because he could see the sur f breaking over the Norman coast. Beside him his copilot, Staff S ergeant John Ainsworth, was concentrating intensely on his stopwa tch. Sitting behind Ainsworth, the commander of D Company, Major John Howard, a thirty-one-year-old former regimental sergeant maj or and an ex-cop, laughed with everyone else when the song ended and Parr called out, Has the major laid his kitt yet? Howard suff ered from airsickness and had vomited on every training flight. O n this flight, however, he had not been sick. Like his men, he ha d not been in combat before, but the prospect seemed to calm him more than it shook him. As Parr started up It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, Howard touched the tiny red shoe in his battle-jac ket pocket, one of his two-year-old son Terry's infant shoes that he had brought along for good luck. He thought of Joy, his wife, and Terry and their baby daughter, Penny. They were back in Oxfo rd, living near a factory, and he hoped there were no bombing rai ds that night. Beside Howard sat Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, whos e wife was pregnant and due to deliver any day (five other men in the company had pregnant wives back in England). Howard had talk ed Brotheridge into joining the Ox and Bucks, and had selected hi s platoon for the #1 glider because he thought Brotheridge and hi s platoon the best in his company. One minute behind Wallwork's glider was #2, carrying Lieutenant David Wood's platoon. Another minute behind that Horsa was #3 glider, with Lieutenant R. Sandy Smith's platoon. The three gliders in this group were going to cr oss the coast near Cabourg, well east of the mouth of the Orne Ri ver. Parallel to that group, to the west and a few minutes behin d, Captain Brian Priday sat with Lieutenant Tony Hooper's platoon , followed by the gliders carrying the platoons of Lieutenants H. J. Tod Sweeney and Dennis Fox. This second group was headed towa rd the mouth of the Orne River. In Fox's platoon, Sergeant M. C. Wagger Thornton was singing Cow Cow Boogie and -- like almost eve ryone else on all the gliders -- chain-smoking Players cigarettes . In #2 glider, with the first group, the pilot, Staff Sergeant Oliver Boland, who had just turned twenty-three years old a fortn ight past, found crossing the Channel an enormously emotional exp erience, setting off as he was as the spearhead of the most colos sal army ever assembled. I found it difficult to believe because I felt so insignificant. At 0007, Wallwork cast off his lead gli der as he crossed the coast. At that instant, the invasion had be gun. There were 156,000 men prepared to go into France that day, by air and by sea, British, Canadian, and American, organized in to some twelve thousand companies. D Company led the way. It was not only the spearhead of the mighty host, it was also the only c ompany attacking as a completely independent unit. 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