It’s An Ill Wind
Memories of A Young Man
by
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About the Book
Towards the end of 1943 and during all of 1944 the war on all Fronts was relentlessly and violently building to a dangerous and complex climax Although the Allies had massively invaded Europe in the early summer of 1944, we didn’t see German capitulation for almost a year and even then only after the Russians, renewed from their awful Battle of Stalingrad, were rolling west into the very heartland of Germany, taking Berlin block by block, building by building. With equal ferocity the Allies had rolled east. Eisenhower was poised fifty miles west at the The German end came fast. Although the World celebrated Victory in The foe in the Pacific would prove as implacable. In contrast to the land war in A few months after
About the Author
At nineteen the author was accepted at the
Post war shipyards closed down and the
In 1962 he and his wife, Marjorie, started their own company with financial help from a wealthy New Englander. It grew and became listed on the
Mr. and Mrs. Crump have endowed three academic chairs: two at U.C.L.A. and one at