John Grehan: 33 books
The Boer War 1899-1902
Ladysmith, Megersfontein, Spion Kop, Kimberley and Mafeking
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880–1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence. The engagements that it...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on...
The Berlin Airlift
The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin’s Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communist advance across Europe. The first step in Stalin’s scheme was to bring Berlin under Soviet control. Berlin was situated deep inside the Soviet-occupied...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include those covering the Battle of Matapan in 1941, Fleet Air Arm operations in 1940, the Battle of Sirte in 1942, the action with the Italian Fleet off Calabria (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the engagement between British and Italian forces off Cape Spartivento (Central...
Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army
A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
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...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Conquest of Sicily from 10 July 1942 to 17 August 1943 by Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis; the despatch on the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; despatch on...
Churchill's Secret Invasion
Britain’s First Large Scale Combined Offensive 1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
In the spring of 1942 Britain's far-flung empire was in the greatest peril. North Africa was being overrun by the German Afrika Korps and in south-east Asia the forces of Imperial Japan had captured Singapore and were threatening India. Only the most urgent reinforcement of both war fronts could prevent...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815
History's most famous battle told through eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, parliamentary debate, memoirs and diaries.
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received – Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939-1942
Tobruk, Crete, Syria and East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Middle East Command in the Second
World War covered a vast region, stretching
across Egypt, Libya, Malta, Palestine and
Transjordan, Cyprus, Sudan, Eritrea, most of
Syria and a small part of Iraq, and included
some forty different languages. At one point
it also oversaw operations in Greece, Kenya
and...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the...
The Zulu War
The War Despatches Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defence...