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  • Radar's Role in Defeating the Nazis

    From Dunkirk to Dieppe and D-Day: The Silent Weapon That Defeated Hitler

    Jack Nissenthall helped redefine radar warfare, revealing how secrecy, ingenuity, and planning forged Allied breakthroughs.There was a silent battle fought between the Allies and the Third Reich during the Second World War – the war of the airwaves. As a radar expert, Jack Nissenthall was at the very heart of the development of radar detection and jamming.From as early as 1936, Jack was involved ... Read more

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    American Raiders

    The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening German secret weapons. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse, the race was on to snatch these secrets before the Soviet Red Army found them.The last battle of World War II was not for military victory but for the technology of the Third Reich. In American Raiders, Wolfgang Samuel assembles from official Air Force records and ... Read more

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  • Deadly Skies (True Combat)

    Just after 2100 hours, the mission’s leader Wing Commander Guy Gibson gave the signal. The red light went on and the Merlin engines of the thirteen Lancaster bombers roared into life. They had been in intensive training for eight weeks for the most famous bombing raid of World War II. RAF 617 squadron, the Dambusters, were finally ready to go...Read about the RAF’s daring Dambusters mission, along ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Churchill's Shadow Raiders

    The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history."One of the most readable World War 2 his... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arnhem 1944

    The Airborne Battle

    A detailed history of the World War II battle, featuring experiences from over 500 participants, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.The Battle of Arnhem was a turning point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges spanning the wide rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bismarck

    The Epic Chase

    by Jim Crossley ...
    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 Britains most powerful ships were sent to pursue and sink her. The first encounter proved disastrous for ... Read more

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  • Arnhem: Black Tuesday

    The Classic World War II Battle Told As Never Before

    by Al Murray ...
    Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author.‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David_________The Battle of Arn... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck

    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONJohn Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot and flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike, delivered from an obsolete biplane, in a force nine gale, in the middle of the Atlantic, brought about the sinking of Nazi Germany’s most powerful battleship, the Bismarck.This short book gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into ... Read more

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  • Sand and Steel

    A New History of D-Day

    The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts‘Fascinating’ Daily Mail‘Magisterial’ James Holland________________6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.This was D-Day, the most impor... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cinderella Boys

    The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic

    by Leo McKinstry ...
    'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect**' Richard Overy**The remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who made Allied victory possible.In 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival as deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic. In desperation, Churchill turned to an overlooked, underfunded force known as "The ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Somme Success

    The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916

    by Peter Hart ...
    This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.During the summer and fall of 1916, high above the blood-soaked trenches of the Somme, the Royal Flying Corps was engaging in one of the first great aerial battles of history. Even in those pioneering days of aerial warfare, primitive aircraft and the brave men who flew ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bruneval Raid

    Operation Biting 1942

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 13 - Raid
    In the darkest days of World War II, the British planned a daring airborne operation to capture the secret of the new German radar. Lead by Major John Frost, a company of paratroopers dropped into Bruneval on the French coast, and quickly neutralized a small German garrison. Then began a desperate fight for time as the British tried to dismantle the German radar and evacuate back to England, as ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD