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  • The Battle of Jutland

    by Diane Canwell, Jon Sutherland ...
    The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when Scheer threw his entire fleet in a mission to attack the British mainland in May 1916, he could not ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallschirmjager

    Elite German Paratroops in World War II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    A rare collection of personal photographs following Nazi Germany's airborne soldiers on their missions through the Balkans, Crete, and Russia.The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blitzkrieg Poland

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    "These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft.There are several shots of recently knocked out Polish vehicles, captured Polish troops and civilians. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Air War in East Africa, 1940–41

    The RAF Versus the Italian Air Force

    by Diane Canwell, Jon Sutherland ...
    This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds. This, against a backdrop of Britains meager assets being in demand in the much more prominent and important theatres such as Egypt and, of course, at home during the height of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U-Boats at War in World War I and II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    A photographic history of German submarines in the world wars, including unseen images from the personal collections of captains and crew.U-boats were the scourge of the seas for Allied shipping during both world wars, almost bringing Britain to the brink of starvation on several occasions. This book contains unseen photographs taken by German submarine crew and captains during each war.The World ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Heathcliff a Murderer?

    Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    by Jon Sutherland ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A BRAND NEW EDITION'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' SpectatorDoes Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster?Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Pirates

    The Royal Naval Patrol Service in World War II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tates Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations. The officers and seamen were mainly ex-fishermen who had manned trawlers in Icelandic waters. The service was armed mostly with obsolete weaponry and suffered heavy casualties in the early stages of the war. The service was not confined to the seas around Britain ... Read more

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  • Blitzkrieg Russia

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa. Two of the albums contain shots taken by German infantrymen and include shots of combat, vehicles, knocked-out tanks and prisoners of war. Two of the other albums feature flak and artillery units in the invasion. These include shots of artillery and flak units in action, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Alamein 1942

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Battleground General
    The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your ability to make the right tactical decision will be tested at every turn of the page. The 2nd Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 was one of the crucial turning points of WWII. Here Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery ('Monty') and the British Eighth Army (the famous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berlin Airlift

    The Salvation of a City

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    In June 1948, Joseph Stalin halted all road and rail traffic in to and out of the Allied sector of Berlin and cut off all electricity to the city. The only route into Berlin was by means of three twenty-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet zone of Germany. Thus the wartime allies of Britain, France and the USA realized that the only option open to them was to supply the beleaguered West ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arnhem 1944

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Battleground General
    This is the first in a series of game books which put you in command of the forces in engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your tactical skill and ability to make the right command decision will be tested at every turn of the page. Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was one of the most daring Allied plans of the Second World War. An audacious surprise assault from the air, it ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farming Industry

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of the Past
    Drawing on prestigious archives of photographs, this pictorial charts the history of Britain's farming heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs.Nearly eleven thousand years ago humans moved away from hunting and gathering and began to raise livestock and plant crops. Our nostalgia for the way the countryside once was is an enduring passion. Photography emerged at a crucial time when farming tasks ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus