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  • Waterloo 1815

    History's Most Famous Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon Paris. Europe braced itself once again for war. The allied nations agreed to combine against Napoleon ... Read more

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  • The Zulu War

    The War Despatches Series

    Edited by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series series Despatches from the Front
    The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The fierce, but piecemeal, Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift came very close to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War in Italy, 1943–1944

    Edited by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series series Despatches from the Front
    Despatches in this volume include that on the Conquest of Sicily from 10 July 1942 to 17 August 1943 by Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis; the despatch on the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; despatch on naval operations in connection with the landings in the Gulf of Salerno in September 1943, by Admiral ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Norway, 1940–1942

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series series Despatches from the Front
    Despatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the despatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Despatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940; the despatch on carrier-borne aircraft attacks on Kirkenes (Norway) and Petsamo (Finland) in 1941, ... Read more

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  • The First VCs

    The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage

    by John Grehan ...
    Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with the bravery of the lower ranks. Fuelled by the reports from the first-ever war correspondents which ... Read more

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  • RAF and the SOE

    Special Duty Operations in Europe During WW2

    by John Grehan ...
    The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The culmination of their efforts was seen when the Allied armies landed at Normandy in June 1944, with the SOE and the Resistance causing widespread destruction ... Read more

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  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    A "compelling" portrait of the fateful Crimean War cavalry charge told through the soldiers' own words ( Historical Novels Review).The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to reveal the truth or to understand the reason why, exactly what happened at Balaklava on October 25, ... Read more

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  • Disaster in the Far East, 1940–1942

    The Defence of Malaya, Japanese Capture of Hong Kong and the Fall of Singapore

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series series Despatches from the Front
    Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherland East Indies between ... Read more

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  • Dunkirk Evacuation, Operation Dynamo

    Nine Days that Saved an Army

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Takes you right to the scene of the action in late May and early June 1940, when more than 300,000 soldiers were saved from capture or death." — RamblesThe "miracle" of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Hitler's Wolfsschanze

    The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front – An Illustrated Guide

    by John Grehan ...
    This detailed guide to Hitler's secret Prussian headquarters is fully illustrated with historic photos and rare color images of how it appears today.Set deep in the Masurian woods of northern Poland, formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers known as the Wolfsschanze or Wolf's Lair. This was Hitler's headquarters for the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. It is also ... Read more

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  • The Doolittle Raid

    The First Air Attack Against Japan, April 1942

    by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    A pictorial history of America's response to Pearl Harbor, with "hundreds of photos of the various stages of the raid" ( ModelingMadness).On April 1, 1942, less than four months after the world was stunned by the attack on Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The people of Tokyo, who had ... Read more

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