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  • The Amnesiacs

    A Tale of Survival and the Search for Identity

    by David Fletcher ...
    "The Amnesiacs" is a gripping mystery thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. When passengers disembark from a transatlantic flight, they begin to experience amnesia - all of them except for one. As they try to remember who they are and what happened on the flight, they discover that their memories are not the only things that have disappeared.With danger ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Tank Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by David Fletcher, Janice Tait ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    If you want to find out about the career of a soldier who served in tanks, are researching medals awarded to a tank crew member or just want to know more about a particular regiment squadron or operation, this book will point you in the right direction.Assuming that the reader has little prior knowledge of the history of British armored forces, Janice Tait and David Fletcher trace their ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Battle Tanks

    British-made tanks of World War II

    by David Fletcher ...
    This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of the British-made tanks in World War II.Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those designed and built with limited resources in the opening years of the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Universal Carrier 1936–48

    The ‘Bren Gun Carrier’ Story

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 110 - New Vanguard
    Featuring specially-commissioned artwork, a compact guide to this fast, lightly armed vehicle, developed by the British Army to carry infantry across ground defended by small-arms fire, specifically the Bren light machine gun.This name, 'Bren Gun Carrier' would stick with the Universal Carrier and all of its future variants. This book examines the Carrier, which was employed in a number of roles ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • British Mark IV Tank

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 133 - New Vanguard
    The formidable Mark IV tank was pitted against the German Army from 1917 until the end of World War I.This book reveals the important role the tank played in the historic battle of Cambrai in 1917 as well as the first ever tank-versus-tank actions against German A7Vs. It was among the first ever mass produced tank deployed in large numbers on a battlefield. In awe of British technology, the ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • British Battle Tanks

    World War I to 1939

    by David Fletcher ...
    A highly illustrated history of the development and operation of the first British tanks, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of their introduction in World War I.When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916 they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon – the tank. After a stuttering start armoured behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V and Whippet played a ... Read more

    $19.59 CAD

  • Take 2

    by David Fletcher ...
    Warren found being propelled back through time to his long-ago university days unnerving in the extreme. When he then realised that this time shift had been combined not only with the return of his long-lost youthful body and a complete understanding of a long-abandoned degree subject, but also with a full recollection of his post-university life, he was more than just unnerved. He was terrified ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Four Widowers and a Funeral

    by David Fletcher ...
    Four old widowers gather in a village pub once a week to share their frustrations with modern-day living and their increasing sense of impotence in a world that is not as they’d like it.On one of their visits, they learn of the suicide of a local farmer, brought about by his despair at having to deal with repeated instances of fly-tipping on his land. With the authorities seemingly unable to bring ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 136 - New Vanguard
    A fire-breathing monster on the battlefield, the Churchill Crocodile was one of the most awe-inspiring weapons of World War II.Tank expert David Fletcher chronicles the development of the flamethrower tank, examining the dramatic effect of these tanks in battle from use in France to the terrifying attack on the Senio River in Italy, as well as investigating the post-war use of Crocodiles to burn ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • Sherman Crab Flail Tank

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 139 - New Vanguard
    The Sherman Crab Flail tank was the powerful culmination of a series of mine-clearing flail tanks developed during World War II.Here, David Fletcher recounts how the Sherman Crabs were among the first tanks ashore on D-Day and as the war progressed they were in constant demand both for formal attacks and more incidental operations. Following the development of the tank and its use in the war, he ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • Mark V Tank

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 178 - New Vanguard
    Although, to the casual eye, all British tanks of World War I look much the same, the Mark V is quite outstanding and has a strong claim to be the tank that won the Great War. In this title, renowned tank expert David Fletcher examines the technological developments that made this tank excel where others had failed, and the reasons why it gave the British the upper hand over the Germans on the ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • British Mark I Tank 1916

    by David Fletcher ...
    Series Book 100 - New Vanguard
    In 1915 a machine christened "Little Willie" changed the way that wars were fought.Little Willie was a fully tracked armoured vehicle that could break a trench system. Its development was completed in December 1915, but by then it had already been superseded by an improved design, Mother. This was the first rhomboid tank, and the prototype for the Mark 1 which would influence a whole generation of ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD