OPERATION MINCEMEAT by Ben Macintyre. (Bloomsbury 2010)
"One April morning in 1943 a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a series of events that would change the course of the Second World War."
Referred to previously as 'the man who never was', the passage of time and newly released material has given the author the full story of the hoodwinking of the Nazi espionage chiefs prior to Operation Husky. A thoroughly absorbing read!
101st Airborne - The Great Hour Struck - a novel of D-Day
A somewhat "novel" trailer for the new WWII novel "The Great Hour Struck" by Gary Varner, using a montage of actual WWII photos that loosely follow the flow of the story. "The Great Hour Struck" .
The Great Hour Struck ;
As the inferno of World War II engulfs 101st Airborne Division paratrooper Lieutenant Sam Henry, the scholar-turned-soldier is thrust on a collision course with the embodiment of beauty-and the horrors of combat.Training and awaiting D-Day in England, Sam's can-do Yank confidence suffers the harsh realities of a war-weary nation under siege as well as a tyrannical platoon leader. His fascination with the beautiful British schoolteacher, Maggie Elliott, sustains his hopes and softens the bite of military life but cannot erase the dread of Sam's upcoming mission. When that fateful day arrives, June 6, 1944, Sam embarks on one of the most dangerous missions of the war. But the massive parachute night drop behind Hitler's Atlantic Wall disintegrates into pockets of fractured units and individuals locked in kill-or-be-killed close combat chaos, testing Sam's optimistic intellectualism to the breaking point. His personal mission becomes nothing more than getting his beloved men out-alive. Yet, with the D-Day airborne objectives nearly secured, an unforeseen clash against a Russian Front hardened storm trooper, Helmut Behr, threatens to destroy Sam's sanity-and his life."Evocative and haunting. Varner's action scenes are fantastic he really brought me into D-Day." -Jefferson Scott, author of the Operation Firebrand series
My husband was one of many having problems viewing images within email programs. He is running Windows 7 with IE8. Well I discovered it wasn't inherit with GMAIL, but was due to a security setting within IE8.
We applied this fix this morning, and viola, all is well.
In IE8
tools --> internet options --> security --> custom level --> miscellaneous --> display mixed content --> CHANGE FROM DISABLE TO ENABLE
