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On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theater of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
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Robert Kinberg
reviewed Silent Skies: The Glider War 1939-1945 on March 15, 2013
Silent Skies
The first half of this book covers the development of the zero. technical goals all achieved by japanese engineers, advancing in many ways over the models of germans, british, americans, russians- have to take this on faith but the numbers are impressive. it is a very japanese book, praising mechanics, builders, even pilots, as particularly japanese values…
second half of the book covers ww2 in the pacific, starting with the war in china before the attack on pearl harbour. this is a japanese book and suggests the attack was necessary, that the us, the british, even the dutch, were threatening, were supplying the chinese, were intractable in demands. this may be the japanese history line, do not know, but there is a consistency in ideology and occasional expressions- the attack was glorious, the japanese resisted valiantly, the eventual development of kamikaze human bombs etc…
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