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  • Valley of the Shadow

    The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

    by Mr Kevin Boylan, Mr Luc Olivier ...
    Using new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications and the testimony of veterans, Valley of the Shadow offers a new perspective on the climactic French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.Following the end of World War II, France attempted to reassert control over its colonies in Indochina. In Vietnam, this was resisted by the Viet Minh leading to the First Indochina War. By ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Losing Binh Dinh

    The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971

    by Kevin M. Boylan ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam—one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home—over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been won, but also put forward one historically testable hypothesis—namely that the war actually was won ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Barbarossa 1941

    An Atlas of German Army Situation Maps

    by Mr Kevin Boylan ...
    Featuring original 1: 2,500,000-scale German military maps, this is a beautifully presented atlas of the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign.Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia in a matter of months. It was the one period when the Germans had a chance of achieving victory – but the ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

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    Valley of the Shadow

    The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

    by Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after World War II, the French established a huge air-land base in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) began massing its forces against the base in late 1953, French commanders seized the opportunity to draw their elusive enemy into a decisive set-piece battle.Defending a series of ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat

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    From an acclaimed military historian, a fascinating account of just how close the Allies were to losing World War II.Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Valley of Death

    The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

    by Ted Morgan ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial ... Read more

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  • The Wehrmacht Experience in Russia.

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This titanic and thoroughly comprehensive study of the German experience in Russia is the definitive single volume study of Hitlers War In The East. It incorporates the entire text of The Wehrmacht In Russia written by Emmy Award winning author Bob Carruthers in conjunction with the late Professor John Erickson, author of The Road To Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin. Also featured are dozens of ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Those Who Hold Bastogne

    The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge

    by Peter Schrijvers ...
    The acclaimed World War II historian delivers "a panoramic and compelling boots-on-the-ground illumination of one of the Bulge's most epic battles" (Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of Washington's Immortals).Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Operation Zitadelle 1943

    The Greatest Tank Battle

    by Mark Healy ...
    In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army. In reality, the German tanks came up against impenetrable Russian defences: minefields, artillery and anti-tank emplacements, spread through lines 250km deep ... Read more

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  • Finland's War of Choice

    The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II

    by Henrik O. Lunde ...
    A selection of the Military Book Club: "A solid operational analysis" from "an established scholar of the Scandinavian theater" ( Publishers Weekly).This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. In stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter War, which represented a gallant ... Read more

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  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941

    by David M Glantz ...
    On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht advanced from the Soviet Union's western borders to the immediate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov in the shockingly brief period of less than six months. The sudden, deep, relentless German ... Read more

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  • The First Air War

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    by Lee Kennett ...
    Historian Lee Kennett takes on the vital task of detailing the World War I aviator in this complete overview of the first air war, that Richard P. Hallion calls, "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation.""The whole subject of the first air war is like some imperfectly explored country: there are areas that have been crisscrossed by several generations of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD