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Cover of Sas Operation Bulbasket
by Paul McCue
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990

The story of Operation Bulbasket is one of such tension and drama that any resume which revealed its outcome would rob the reader of the vital element of suspense. Suffice it to say that on 6 June, 1944, known to history as D-Day, two members of the SAS were dropped by parachute deep behind the lines...
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by Tom Wareham
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004

Frigate Commander is based on the private journal of Lieutenant - and then Captain - Graham Moore, a naval officer serving during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Moore’s journal gives a unique and detailed account of what life was like for a serving naval officer. In particular it reveals...
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Battleground Sussex

A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day

by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the county’s coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britain’s southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land...
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The Battle of the Berezina

Napoleon’s Great Escape

by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies, its chances of survival apparently nil. By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina - the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety...
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Walking Verdun

A Guide to the Battlefield

by Christina Holstein Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009

On 21 February 1916 the German Fifth Army launched a devastating offensive against French forces at Verdun and set in motion one of the most harrowing and prolonged battles of the Great War. By the time the struggle finished ten months later, over 650,000 men had been killed or wounded or were missing,...
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Bismarck

The Epic Chase

by James Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010

When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of...
Cover of The Historical Atlas of the British Isles
by Alex Swanston
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day. The first hunter-gatherers,who crossed into what would become our familiar islands by the ‘land-bridge’, and later followed by more familiar peoples – the Celts,Angles, Saxons,Vikings and Normans,who together...
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by Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016

The 1937-1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia. Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett's book is one of the first photographic...
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From Stalingrad to Berlin

The Illustrated Edition

by Earl Zeimke
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

With scarcely an interlude, the German-Soviet conflict in World War II lasted for 3 years, 10 months, and 16 days. The conflict seesawed across eastern and central Europe between the Elbe and the Volga, the Alps, and the Caucasus. The total number of troops continuously engaged averaged between 8...
Cover of Fighting Admirals of WWII
by David Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009

Seapower was a crucial element in the outcome of the Second World War. The U-Boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were crucial to keeping Russia in the War; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; allied naval supremacy made the D-Day...
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Killing the Bismarck

Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet

by Iain Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014

“An excellent account . . . A suspenseful narrative that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” —WWII History Magazine In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s...
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by Baxter, Ian
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010

This superbly illustrated book captures the dramatic action of May and June 1940. The speed and ferocity of the German onslaught took the Allies by surprise as Hitlers land and air forces annihilated the inferior opposition. After 9 months stalemate the collapse was cataclysmic and Holland and Belgium...
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The Challenge of K2

A History of the Savage Mountain

by Richard Sale
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011

K2 is a legend - one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing conditions test the technique, endurance and psychological strength of the most experienced mountaineers to the limit...
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Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Her Life, Loves & Impact

by Lucinda Hawksley
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

A biography of a Victorian-era woman who grew up as the daughter of novelist Charles Dickens—and found a creative career of her own. Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew...
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