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  • Dunkirk Evacuation, Operation Dynamo

    Nine Days that Saved an Army

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Takes you right to the scene of the action in late May and early June 1940, when more than 300,000 soldiers were saved from capture or death." — RamblesThe "miracle" of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest ... Read more

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  • Saipan 1944

    The Most Decisive Battle of the Pacific War

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    Series series Images of War
    A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment."By pairing such sobering accounts with period photography, Saipan 1944 offers a brief but unvarnished glimpse at the horrors of combat in the Pacific Theatre." — The Northern MarinerAfter the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dieppe Raid

    The Allies' Assault Upon Hitler's Fortress Europe, August 1942

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    A stunning collection of photos providing rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid. As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that flanked Dieppe. Other ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Tinian

    The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific." — National Maritime Historical Society At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Ocean on one of the ... Read more

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  • The Lines of Torres Vedras

    The Cornerstone of Wellington's Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809-12

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series The Napoleonic Library
    "This is a well-researched, well-written, closely argued and fascinating contribution to the historiography of the Peninsular War."— The SpectatorIn 1809 French armies controlled almost every province of Spain and only Wellington's small force in Portugal stood between Napoleon and the conquest of Iberia.The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810, but found their way blocked by the most ... Read more

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  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

    A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation

    by John Grehan ...
    The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in the port itself and ... Read more

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  • Corregidor

    Siege & Liberation, 1941–1945

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    Series series Images of War
    Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That island fortress was Corregidor which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay and controlled all sea-borne access to Manila Harbor. At a ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Wolfsschanze

    The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front – An Illustrated Guide

    by John Grehan ...
    This detailed guide to Hitler's secret Prussian headquarters is fully illustrated with historic photos and rare color images of how it appears today.Set deep in the Masurian woods of northern Poland, formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers known as the Wolfsschanze or Wolf's Lair. This was Hitler's headquarters for the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. It is also ... Read more

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  • The Royal Navy and the War at Sea, 1914–1919

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Germany's attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on seaborne trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had expressed a desire for a navy in proportion to their ... Read more

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  • Hitler's V-Weapons

    The Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 Written at the Time, An Official History

    Edited by John Grehan ...
    A history of Germany's attempts to construct flying bombs during World War II and how to threat was handled by the Allies.At 04.08 hours on the morning of June 13, 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. At that moment, they spotted the approach of an object spurting red flames from its rear and making a noise ... Read more

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  • The Crimean War

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series series Images of War
    The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western ... Read more

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  • First Burma Campaign

    The Japanese Conquest of 1942 By Those Who Were There

    Edited by Colonel E C V Foucar MC ...
    The British Army's report on the Japanese invasion of Burma during WWII—based on firsthand accounts by the officers who survived it.In 1942, the Japanese military drove British and Indian forces out of Burma. Colonel E.C.V. Foucar, M.C., was given the task of discovering what happened. Seeking information and documentary evidence from officers of the First Burma Campaign, Foucar wrote this ... Read more

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