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“frederick grice”

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  • War's Nomads

    A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign, 1942–3

    by Frederick Grice ...
    "The only known detailed account in existence of the small radar units who played a key part in the Western Desert Campaign . . . Highly recommended" ( Military Modelcraft International).War's Nomads is an evocative account of one man's experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel's Afrika Korps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Railway Man

    by Eric Lomax ...
    During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened. Fifty ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    by Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abducting a General

    The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kriepe, has been published.One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sagittarius Rising

    by Cecil Lewis ...
    ‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Desert War

    The classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-43

    by Alan Moorehead ...
    The seminal account of the battle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert.In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Wallaby Warrior

    The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion

    by Greg Growden ...
    Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.'With an introduction by leading Australian rugby ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ill Met By Moonlight

    by W. Stanley Moss ...
    NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMORIll Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British officer who, along with Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, sets out in Nazi-occupied Crete to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopool Division, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • State of Siege

    by Eric Ambler ...
    All in all Steve Fraser had enjoyed his three-year stint in the former Dutch Southeast Asian colony of Sunda, and he’d been well compensated. But now he was looking forward to a last weekend in the capital before heading home. But Sunda was newly independent, and not entirely stable. An opposition faction with fundamentalist Islamic leanings was set on overthrowing the provisional government. And ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sapper Martin

    The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin

    Edited by Richard van Emden ...
    Albert John ('Jack') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity, written in a voice as compelling and distinctive as Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon and all ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • SAS Trooper

    Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy Occupied France and Italy

    by Francis Mackay ...
    A British Army veteran revisits his military career, sharing thrilling stories of Special Forces missions behind enemy lines during World War II.A pre-war Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Africa until he returned to the UK for parachute training. He volunteered and joined 2SAS in Scotland. His first behind-the-lines operation was in France (Op. Rupert) cutting railway lines, and he then ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born of the Desert

    With the SAS in North Africa

    by Malcolm James ...
    An SAS medical officer's gripping memoir of his WWII service in North Africa.Born of the Desert is a classic account of the early years of the SAS. The Special Air Service was formed in 1941 and quickly earned a reputation for stealth, daring, and audacity in the Western Desert Campaign. This elite force utilized the endless expanse of the desert to carry out surprise attacks and hit and run raids ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus