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245 10 Ice, steel and fire :|bBritish explorers in peace and war,
1921-45 /|cLinda Parker.
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and
index.
505 0 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of
Illustrations; List of Maps; Abbreviations;
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: George Binney;
'A School for Explorers' 1921-24; Blockade Buster 1940-44;
Chapter 2: Freddie Spencer Chapman; The British Arctic Air
Route Expedition 1930-31; The Ascent of Chomolhari 1937;
The jungle is neutral 1941-1945; Chapter 3: Quintin Riley;
British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31; Watkins's
Last Expedition 1932-33; The British Graham Land
Expedition 1934-37; The Norwegian Campaign 1940; No. 30
Assault Unit 1941-45; Chapter 4: Peter Fleming.
505 8 Brazilian Adventure 1932News From Tartary 1933-35; Flying
into Namsos 1940; Auxiliary Units and Greece 1941-42;
Deception in the Far East 1942-1945; Chapter 5: Andrew
Croft; The Crossing of Greenland, 1933-34; The Oxford
University Expedition to Spitsbergen 1935-36; Escape from
Sweden 1940; Auxiliary Units 1940; Assistant Military
Attaché in Sweden 1941-42; Operation Balaclava -- Corsica
1943-44; Operation Snow White France 1944; Chapter 6:
Alexander 'Sandy' Glen; Expeditions to Spitsbergen 1933
and 1935-36 -- "Those delightful dotted lines"; Yugoslavia
1940.
505 8 Operation Gauntlet and Operation FrithamAlbania and
Yugoslavia 1944-45; Chapter 7: Martyn Sherwood; The voyage
of the Tai Mo Shan 1933-34; The Cape Passaro Trawlers at
Namsos 1940; Corvettes in the Mediterranean 1940-42;
Landing Craft to Algiers 1943; D-Day and after; Chapter 8:
R.E.D. Ryder; The Voyage of the British Graham Land
Expedition Ship Penola 1934-37; Q Ship Captain, 1940; The
Raid on St Nazaire 1942; Chapter 9: Lancelot Fleming;
Iceland 1932; The Oxford University Expedition to
Spitsbergen 1933; The British Graham Land Expedition 1934-
37; Wartime Naval Chaplain.
505 8 Chapter 10: Augustine CourtauldThe Cambridge University
Expedition to Greenland, 1926; Journey in the Sahara
Desert 1927; The Cambridge University Expedition to
Greenland 1929; British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-
31; Return to Greenland 1936; Wartime service in the Royal
Navy; Chapter 11: H.W. Tilman; Across Africa by Bicycle
1933; The ascent of Nanda Devi 1934-36; Attempt on Mount
Everest, 1938; Artillery Officer 1940-43, SOE in Albania
1943; SOE in Italy 1944-1945; Conclusion; Appendices;
Appendix A: Members of the Oxford University Arctic
Expedition 1924; Oxford University.
505 8 Cambridge UniversityServices and Government Departments;
Norwegians; Appendix B: Oxford University Expedition to
Spitsbergen 1924; The Use of Wireless for Sledging
Parties; Appendix C: The Oxford University Arctic
Expedition 1924; The Flying Work of the Expedition;
Appendix D: Members of the British Arctic Air Route
Expedition 1930-31; Appendix E: British Arctic Air Route
Expedition -- Sledging Rations; Summary of expedition
report on sledging rations by H.G. Watkins; Appendix F:
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31 -- summary
of climatological notes; The Climate of East Greenland.
505 8 Appendix G: The British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-
31 -- report on flying operations.
520 The generation that reached maturity in the inter war
years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of
Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in
the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as
astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation.
The members of the British Arctic air route expedition to
Greenland, including Martin Lindsay, Quintin Riley and
Freddie Spencer Chapman, were to pioneer the weather
research methods necessary for Trans-Atlantic Flight. The
university expeditions to Spitsbergen led by George Binney
in the 1920s and Sandy Glen in the 1930s t.
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