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  • Subterfuge and Sabotage During Hitler’s Blitzkrieg

    Secret British Operations during the German Advance in Holland and Belgium, 1939-40

    by Clive Holden ...
    Britain mobilizes covert demolition teams to deny Holland and Belgium vital assets as war erupts.In September 1939 Britain was once again at war with Germany. In Whitehall, Prime Minister Chamberlain handed a senior cabinet minister the delicate task of co-ordinating plans for the denial to Germany of the vital economic assets of neutral Holland and Belgium should Hitler invade those countries ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Cold War Kent

    by Clive Holden ...
    For almost forty-five years following the end of the Second World War, the world held its breath as the spectre of an even more terrible and devastating conflict hung over it. Britain played a significant role in what became known as the ‘Cold War’. As a senior member of NATO with its own independent nuclear deterrent, the country was also a target for Soviet attack. Unlike the early years of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Kent at War

    by Clive Holden ...
    Series series At War
    Kent has a long and illustrious military history dating back to the Roman occupation but the first great conflict of the twentieth century brought the horrors of war to a new generation. Thousands of the county’s finest young men were sent off to fight in battlefields around the world including Europe’s Western Front, which was less than a day’s travel from Kent. Because of its proximity to this ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time

    by Clive Holden ...
    Series series Through Time
    Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622. It provided the facilities to build, repair, maintain and supply ships. In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on expanding the dockyard into St Mary's Island, where three huge basins and five new docks were constructed, almost quadrupling its size, in order to support twentieth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • River Medway

    by Clive Holden ...
    Series series River
    The River Medway travels through the highly populated areas of Gillingham, Chatham, Maidstone and Tonbridge, among a number of other smaller towns and villages. Married to the Thames, the Medway has a rich and varied history. Ancient sites are plentiful along the River Medway; Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman evidence can all be found. Two military battles have also been named after the river: the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Kent Britain's Frontline County

    by Clive Holden ...
    Kent’s military heritage is well known because of popular tourist attractions such as Dover Castle or Chatham Dockyard, but there are also many lesser-known sites dotted around the county, each with their own story to tell. Most of the sites included here date from the Second World War but there are also many military installations from other eras, from the eerie remains of the towers in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Chatham's Military Heritage

    by Clive Holden ...
    Series series Military Heritage
    Chatham has a rich military heritage dating back to the Roman occupation. Remains of a Roman military building on the high ground above the town were discovered in 1779. Following the Battle of Aylesford in AD 455, this same strategic high ground was occupied by one of the victorious Jutish warlike tribes, the Ceatta from which the town takes its name. In Chatham’s Military Heritage local military ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe

    by David O'Keefe ...
    Magnificent and engrossing, One Day in August reveals in full for the first time the “Ultra Secret” story behind one of WW2’s most controversial mysteries—and one of Canada’s most sorrowful moments.In a narrative as powerful and moving as it is authoritative, David O’Keefe rewrites history, connecting Canada’s tragedy at Dieppe with an extraordinary and colourful cast of characters—from the young ... Read more

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  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Mike Brown, Carol Harris ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

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  • UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44

    The Most Bombed Place on Earth

    by S A M Hudson ...
    As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Section, who dealt with all unexploded bombs, outside of airfields and the RN dockyard, across an area the size of Greater London ... Read more

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  • Saint-Nazaire

    Operation Chariot – 1942

    by James Dorrian ...
    Series series Battleground French Coast
    In early 1942, shipping losses in the Atlantic threatened Britain's very survival. In addition to the U-Boat menace, there was real concern that the mighty German battleship Tirpitz be unleashed against the vital Allied convoys. Yet only the 'Normandie' Dock at St Nazaire could take her vast size in the event of repairs being required. Destroy that and the Tirpitz would be neutralized.Thus was ... Read more

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  • The Night Blitz

    1940-1941

    by John Ray ...
    September 1940: defeated in the Battle of Britain, despite their superior numbers and better equipped aircraft, the Luftwaffe launched a new campaign of attack, their target this time the civilian population. For eight months, with hardly a night's break, Luftwaffe bombers pounded industrial cities and seaports in a concentrated attempt to smash Britain's war economy and destroy civilian morale. ... Read more

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