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  • The War Diaries of Louis E. Wren

    One Man's Journey in the British Merchant Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) in WWII

    by Christopher Wren, Louis E. Wren ...
    After my father passed away, we discovered two handwritten journals that he had painstakingly maintained during the six years he spent in WWll. When the war broke out he was an engineer aboard an oil tanker in the British Merchant Navy. The first diary describes harrowing convoy trips across the Atlantic Ocean in severe weather while zigzagging to avoid U-boat attacks. Losses of ships and merchant ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    At dawn, they saw her masts on the horizon and immediately prepared for battle. They were up against a formidable foe; the Admiral Graf Spee had already sunk nine British merchant ships in the South Atlantic. Now, her modern prototype diesel engines were set at maximum power and she was heading straight for them at full speed...Read about the Royal Navy’s determined hunt for the enemy battleship ... Read more

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  • Imperial War Museums' Book of War Behind Enemy Lines

    by Julian Thompson ...
    An account of the various units of the British special forces used during the Second World War, perfect for military enthusiasts and WWII history buffs.War Behind Enemy Lines tells the unvarnished story of British Special Forces in the Second World War. While the SAS and SBS remain household names today, there were a plethora of lesser known units, large and small, that played their part before ... Read more

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  • Battle of the Atlantic

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    by Ted Barris ...
    The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navyThe years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also ... Read more

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  • Doomed Destroyer

    by Ron Cope ...
    On March 1st 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered Operation Weserubung: the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable iron ore being delivered by rail from Sweden to the Norwegian port of Narvik. To complete the task, Hitler sent ten large destroyers, with 220 Alpine Troops on each. Five smaller British H Class destroyers were sent up ... Read more

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  • Sand and Steel

    A New History of D-Day

    by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ ...
    The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts‘Fascinating’ Daily Mail‘Magisterial’ James Holland________________6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.This was D-Day, the most impor... ... Read more

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  • HMS London

    Warships of the Royal Navy

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    A fascinating and lively account of the lives of British warships named London, looking at history from the perspective of the men who were there.There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history.For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th century ... Read more

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  • Hobart's 79th Armoured Division at War

    Invention, Innovation & Inspiration

    by Richard Doherty ...
    This WWII history chronicles the remarkable career of a brilliant British Army commander and the innovative armored vehicles he created.Joining the Royal Tank Corps in 1923, Major-General Percy Hobart quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armored warfare. By 1938 he was GOC Mobile Division, later 7th Armored Division, in Egypt. He was also known for not suffering fools—a ... Read more

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  • Speed, Aggression, Surprise

    The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS

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  • The Pacific War Uncensored

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    by Harold Guard, John Tring ...
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  • Convoy SC122 & HX229

    Climax of the Battle of the Atlantic, March 1943

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The author of The First Day on the Somme details a naval skirmish that became a turning point for the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.Winston Churchill wrote, "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. There was a period ... Read more

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  • The Mighty Hood

    The Battleship that Challenged the Bismarck

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal.When it was launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, "The Mighty Hood" was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for all the Hood's might, it had one fatal flaw: armor had been sacrificed ... Read more

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