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    Through The Warriors' Eyes
    Through The Warriors' Eyes
    Through The Warriors' Eyes
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    Through The Warriors' Eyes

    By Bruce Laidlaw

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    Follow World War II in Europe through the eyes and camera lenses of the fighters. The views of war begin with the Nazi invasion of Poland where we see the Jewish villagers rounded up for deportation to the ghettos. The views and descriptions continue through the Nazi invasions of Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Russia. Members of the Luftwafe are seen loading their bombs and then flying to drop the payloads on Great Britain. From the eyes of an American soldier, we then see the recapture of France. 81 photos and drawings take the reader through to the fall of the Third Reich

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Laidlaw
    Release dateMay 28, 2014
    ISBN9781310876042
    Through The Warriors' Eyes
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    Bruce Laidlaw

    Bruce Laidlaw is a municipal law attorney, freelance writer and photographer. He received his law and undergraduate degrees at the University of Michigan where he was on the wrestling team. He also attended the Aix-Marseille Université in Aix-en-Provence, France. Laidlaw was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for community leaders to study at Dartmouth College. He studied Spanish in Cuernavaca, Mexico and San Jose, Costa Rica. He has been the attorney for the City of Ann Arbor, numerous townships and public libraries and one village. Laidlaw resides, with his wife and two cats, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and near the Village of Eastport in northern Michigan. He has competed in running and cross-country ski marathons and in nordic biathlons. He also dabbles at sailing, windsurfing, rollerblading, kayaking, SUP boarding, badminton and geocaching.

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      Book preview

      Through The Warriors' Eyes - Bruce Laidlaw

      Through the Warriors’ Eyes

      WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE AS SEEN

      BY THOSE WHO FOUGHT THERE

      Bruce Laidlaw

      Full sized copies of the images in this book may be seen at:

      http://warriorseyes.net/warrior/gallery/

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 by Bruce Laidlaw

      The author has provided this e-book for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publically available in any way.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The World War Begins

      Chapter 2: The Invasion of Denmark

      Chapter 3: The Invasion of Norway

      Chapter 4: The Invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

      Chapter 5: The Fall of France

      Chapter 6: The Battle of Britain

      Chapter 7: Operation Barbarossa, the Invasion of Russia

      Chapter 8: The End Game

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      The soldiers who fought in Europe in World War II helped illustrate this history of the war with their cameras. The views of the war by German soldiers begin with the start of the war, the invasion of Poland. They follow the route of the war with invasions of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Russia. We see the German view of the air assault on Britain. The German views end in France with the capture of the fighters by Captain Andrews Hays. He confiscated the photographs from the prisoners of war. We have no way of knowing the identity of the captured soldiers or whether one or more of them served in all the invasion fronts.

      Writing on the backs of many of the German photograph helped identify the scenes. Different handwriting on the backs and different photograph formats indicated that numerous cameras and photographers captured the views. There were also some pre-war shots. One can only guess at why a soldier was carrying this pre 1935 photo of a Cierva 1 gyrocopter.

      Captain Andrews Hays also took a camera to war. His views of the recapture of France help illustrate this history. Andrews Hays (Andy) spent his first 21 years in East Lansing Michigan. In June 1941, Andy graduated from Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), and married Jean Widick who had graduated with him. In July, he entered the United States Army as a second lieutenant. The United States was six months away from entering the war, but its entry appeared inevitable. Of the male wedding attendants, those who could, all served in the war. From left to right: Andy’s younger brother John lied about his age to enlist in the Army. Charles Leighton joined the Army Air Force and was the navigator of the Memphis Belle, B-17 bomber. Andy’s older brother Jim could not serve due to ill health and would die later that year. Andy and friend Chet Kennedy would become tank commanders. Jean's brother, Jack, served in the Navy.

      Wedding of Jean and Andy Hays

      Chapter 1: The World War Begins

      If the Allies had chosen to enforce the Treaty of Versailles, World War II might not have happened. The treaty limited German military forces to 100,000. Naval forces were limited to 10,000. Conscription was prohibited. But those restrictions were ignored by the government of Adolph Hitler. In March 1935, it reinstated compulsory military conscription and began building the armed forces. The rebuilding included a new navy and air force (Luftwaffe).

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