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  • D-Day Through German Eyes

    How the Wehrmacht Lost France

    Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force, helped by dreadful German command errors and the terrible state of Wehrmacht forces in the West – but is this all true? The Wehrmacht was hugely experienced, equipped with some of the best weaponry of the war ... Read more

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  • Death in Derry

    Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British

    ‘I was in the Army over thirty years and Derry was the most resentful place I ever served, even the dogs hated us.’When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s assistant from the Bogside – quickly rose through the ranks, ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Somme Through German Eyes

    How Germany Turned Victory into Defeat

    ‘We knew that this time we were on the verge of a battle such as the world had never seen. Soon our excited talk rose to a pitch that would have rejoiced the hearts of any freebooters, or of Frederick’s grenadiers. A few days later there were very few of that party still alive.’Everyone is familiar with the story of the Battle of the Somme: on the morning of Saturday 1 July 1916 the finest army ... Read more

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  • Death in the Fields

    The IRA in East Tyrone

    ‘In Belfast the Provos were trying to make the 6 o’clock news, in East Tyrone they were trying to kill you.’With the advent of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Provisional IRA (PIRA) became active in the towns and villages of East Tyrone, the volunteers forming the so-called East Tyrone Brigade and carrying out attacks on members of the security forces. Drawing volunteers from the region’s ... Read more

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  • Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS

    The Final Testament of the Oostfronters

    At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium’s citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin’s Soviet Union. By the end of the war thousands had volunteered. Casualties were high, but there were survivors and they returned home, often to face condemnation ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes

    The Death of the Sixth Army

    Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides fought for the city on the Volga. By mid-November, the Germans ... Read more

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  • The Air War Through German Eyes

    How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies over the Reich

    Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis’ homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day, the Flying Fortresses of the Mighty Eighth US Airforce confronted the day fighters of Luftflotte Reich, and then it was the turn of Bomber Command’s Lancasters to fight ... Read more

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  • To VE-Day Through German Eyes

    The Final Defeat of Nazi Germany

    ‘If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Führer’s personality guarantee this.’ (Joseph Goebbels, 4 June 1943.) It wasn’t and it didn’t. After the collapse of the German Army in the West in August 1944, the western Allies raced towards the borders of the Reich ... Read more

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  • Battle Stories — The English Throne and the Fate of Europe 3-Book Bundle

    Hastings 1066 / Bosworth 1485 / Waterloo 1815

    Series series Battle Story
    Three battles that shook the British Isles and changed the course of world history. Three renowned experts each take up one crucial day when the future of the throne, or Europe itself, hung in the balance.Hastings 1066In 1066, a foreign invader won the throne of England in a single battle and changed not only the history of the British Isles, but that of Christendom, forever. Harold Godwinson’s ... Read more

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  • The Defeat of the Luftwaffe

    The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster

    In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand-in-glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolised this combat revolution, and in the air its symbol was the all-conquering Luftwaffe with its fleets of Stuka dive bombers. When Hitler looked further ... Read more

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  • Hastings 1066

    Series Book 8 - Battle Story
    The battle in which the destruction of the shield wall changed Western Europe forever.In 1066, a foreign invader won the throne of England in a single battle and changed not only the history of the British Isles but of Christendom forever. Harold Godwinson’s army, exhausted from their victory against an invading Norwegian Viking army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in the north, and his navy, ... Read more

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  • Voices of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS

    The Final Testament of Hitler's Vikings

    At the beginning of the Second World War Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone. Less than a year later citizens from all three of those Scandinavian nations volunteered to join the Nazi Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin’s Soviet Union. By the end of the war in 1945 the number of Scandinavians who had fought in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD