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  • Boulogne

    The Guards Brigade Fighting Defence - May 1940

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    The story of the World War II battle for the French port which ended in a desperate evacuation—from the author of Calais: A Fight to the Finish.As German armored columns moved to seal off French ports from retreating British troops in 1940, Winston Churchill had few reserves he could commit. In an attempt to delay the Germans at Boulogne, Churchill sent in two battalions of the Irish Guards and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Somme 1916—Beyond the First Day

    Beaucourt and Mametz Wood to the Butte de Warlencourt

    by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ...
    Series series A Visitor's Guide
    In their second Visitor's Guide to the 1916 Battle of the Somme Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland focus on the series of secondary battles that were key stages in the five-month struggle that followed the start of the offensive on 1 July. They take the visitor – and the reader – across the entire battlefield, covering in graphic detail sites where actions took place that are almost as famous as the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battles of Arras: North

    Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle

    by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ...
    Series series A Visitor's Guide
    A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War.The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras—including Vimy Ridge—are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them. Visitors can trace for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Day of the Somme

    Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916

    by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ...
    Series series A Visitor's Guide
    Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on the first day, 1 July 1916, when the British Army suffered around 60,000 casualties. That is why, on the centenary of that great battle, this new ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Para Mount Longdon

    The Bloodiest Battle

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    Series series Elite Forces Operations Series
    The author of Falklands Hero follows the Third Parachute Battalion through a ferocious battle to secure a key strategic position during the Falklands War.This, the first in a series on Special Operations, tells the story of Three Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It was a battle that tested the discipline, comradeship, and professionalism of the Paras to the limit; it was a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calais

    A Fight to the Finish - May 1940

    by Jon Cooksey, Brigadier Davies-Scourfield ...
    Series series Channel Ports
    One of the few contemporary accounts of the defence of Calais by thirty Brigade in May 1940, plus a wealth of information on how best to visit the battlefield.This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Tonga

    6th Airborne Division—June 1944

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    Series series Elite Forces Operations Series
    The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near Bnouville, Howard's men took and held the bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation with minimal ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Falklands Hero

    Ian McKay–The last VC of the 20th Century

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    **"A multi-layered portrait of a dedicated professional soldier who was far from being the archetypal rough-hewn paratrooper of popular mythology." —**Eastern Daily PressAt the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment's assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up by an Argentine machine gun, it ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battles of French Flanders

    Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles

    by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ...
    The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle and Loos was just as severe as was the 1916 battle at Fromelles and the battlefields are ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Chariot

    The Raid on St Nazaire

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    Series series Elite Forces Operations Series
    By March 1942, mainland France had been under German occupation for almost two years. Every month that passed saw Germany bolster her defenses against an expected allied invasion. Every month that passed saw Germany tighten her grip on Britain's transatlantic lifeline; menacing allied shipping from the French west coast ports. At St Nazaire on the Loire estuary, the vast Normandie dry dock was the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battles of Arras: South

    Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe

    by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ...
    Series series A Visitor's Guide
    An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917.Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields on the Western Front are just to the south of the Arras. These sites include Battery Valley and Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt, and Bullecourt. And this clearly written, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barnsley Pals

    The 13th & 14th Battalions York and Lancaster Regiment

    by Jon Cooksey ...
    The true World War I story of one British town's remarkable response to the message "Your Country Needs You."The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Lord Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front.Their ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus