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  • Sabotage and Subversion: Classic Histories Series

    The SOE and OSS at War

    by Ian Dear ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    During the Second World War daring and highly unusual missions were mounted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) – formed on Churchill's orders 'to set Europe ablaze' – and its American counterpart, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In sixteen separate chapters the author describes how the fearless individuals in these clandestine organisations were recruited, trained and armed, and ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tattie Lads

    The untold story of the Rescue Tug Service in two world wars and its battles to save cargoes, ships and lives

    by Ian Dear ...
    Enduring great danger and often terrible conditions in heavy seas, the Rescue Tug Services worked tirelessly to bring to port damaged vessels and keep up the supply of food and essential items during two world wars.They were first deployed towards the end of the First World War to support and if necessary to salvage merchant shipping that had been damaged by U-boat attacks. During the Second World ... Read more

    $30.29 CAD

  • Ten Commando

    by Ian Dear ...
    A history of the foreign commando unit formed by the British army during WWII from volunteer troops from Germany and Nazi-occupied countries.It is indeed remarkable, since the archives of the Second World War must have been pillaged, ransacked, burrowed into, and turned over almost as thoroughly as Monte Cassino itself, that no book has been written about one of the strangest units created during ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spy and Counterspy

    Secret Agents and Double Agents from the Second World War to the Cold War

    by Ian Dear ...
    The shadowy world of supposedly legalized spying has an enduring fascination for us all. Spy and Counterspy reveals for the first time the web of spies that spanned the globe during and after the Second World War, working for organisations like MI5 & MI6, the CIA & OSS, Soviet Smersh & NKVD, Japanese Tokko and the German Gestapo. These men and women lived extraordinary lives, always on the edge ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dunkirk

    The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation

    by John Harris ...
    How the miracle on the beaches saved a nation. A gripping account of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World WarIn May 1940 British and Allied troops on mainland Europe were in a perilous situation: cut off and surrounded, at the conclusion of the bloody Battle of France they faced complete annihilation. It would be a devastating blow, handing Europe to the Nazis.But over a few frantic ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

    A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation

    by John Grehan ...
    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 a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in the port itself and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dunkirk

    Fight to the Last Man

    by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore ...
    * * * S****pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * *Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Sand and Steel

    A New History of D-Day

    by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ ...
    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

  • England's Last War Against France

    Fighting Vichy 1940-42

    by Colin Smith ...
    Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi Germany, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Operation Dynamo: The Battle of Dunkirk

    by Francis Hayes ...
    Series Book 4 - Legendary Battles of History
    The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk. You've seen the movie, now read about the most miraculous evacuation in military history!Nine months into the second world war, Hitler had the Allies on the ropes. Stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, the 338,000 strong British Expeditionary Force were about to be decimated by the seemingly unstoppable ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Bloody Battle for Tilly

    Normandy 1944

    by Ken Tout ...
    The fierce battle to capture the French village of Tilly-la-Campagne was an exceptionally bloody episode in the story of the allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944. Small Allied infantry units faced an almost impossible mission, hampered by the proximity of the elite German 1st SS Panzer Division and 'friendly fire' from the erratic USAAF bombing raids. If that was not enough, ... Read more

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  • Operation Plunder

    The British & Canadian Rhine Crossing

    by Tim Saunders ...
    Series series Battleground The Rhine Crossing
    This WWII history and battlefield guide examines the Allied push across the Rhine with maps, photos, and informative text.By late March of 1945, the advance through Europe had brought Allied forces to Hitler's doorstep. Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Field Marshal Montgomery's best assault ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus