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  • Operation Catapult

    Winston Churchill and the British Attack on the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir

    by Bill Whiteside ...
    In July 1940, just weeks after France signed an armistice with Germany, Winston Churchill made one of World War II’s most shocking and controversial decisions: he ordered the Royal Navy to open fire on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, killing more than 1,200 of Britain’s recent allies. The Associated Press called it “the strangest of all naval actions in the world’s history.” Churchill feared ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Mers el-Kébir 1940

    Operation Catapult

    by Ryan K. Noppen ...
    Series Book 405 - Campaign
    A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or Italy insisted upon the transfer of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers from the French Navy to the control of their own navies, the balance in the ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir

    The Promise of Anglo-French Naval Cooperation, 1919–40

    by George E Melton PhD. ...
    The two decades before World War II were some of the most unsettled in modern history. From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir examines one of the most unlikely—and perhaps least studied—relationships to form during that turbulent era: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. Beginning from a global perspective and gradually narrowing, George E. Melton brings new insights to the diplomacy ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

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    Series series Images of War
    This fully illustrated WWII history offers a vivid look at the armored vehicles used by Allied and Nazi forces during D-Day and the Normandy Campaign.The remarkable photographs collected here illustrate in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied D-Day landings and the liberation of occupied France—as well as the skill and tenacity of the German panzer units that confronted them. The ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second World War, Vol. 3

    The War at Sea

    by Philip D. Grove, Mark J. Grove, Alastair Finlan ...
    Series series Essential Histories
    This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theaters of combat: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a critical contest, as sea-lanes provided the logistical arteries for British and subsequent Allied armies fighting on the three continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Land forces ultimately won World War II, but the battles at sea fundamentally ... Read more

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  • WWII: D-Day Landings

    by Liam McCann ...
    The D-Day landings on June 6th 1944 were part of the largest military operation in history. An airborne assault in Northern France was followed by amphibious landings on five Normandy beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. The Allied invasion was designed to breach the fearsome defences of the Atlantic Wall, push inland to secure towns and villages, and drive German forces south and east ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • How Hitler Could Have Won World War II

    The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    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

  • D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy

    by Antony Beevor ...
    **"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—TimeBeevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books**Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than twenty years ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Fighting them on the Beaches

    The D-Day Landings - June 6, 1944

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest and most meticulously planned seaborne invasion in the history of warfare.As dawn broke on 6 June 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers - American, British, Canadian, Free French and Polish - hit the Normandy beaches and stormed the German defenses of the Atlantic Wall. By Midnight, over 150,000 troops had been safely landed, and the ling ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 'Sink the French!'

    At War with Our Ally—1940

    by David Wragg ...
    A history-defining moment in World War II, when the allied nations of England and France stood on the precipice of betrayal—and war with each other.After the forces of Nazi Germany launched their Blitzkrieg assault on Holland, Belgium, and Northern France, the tentative relationship between Great Britain and France was strained to the limit. For when the Vichy regime surrendered, the British had ... Read more

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  • Turning the Tide

    Decisive Battles of the Second World War

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain.In Turning the Tide, Nigel Cawthorne has taken a fresh look at the crucial battles which ... Read more

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  • Memoirs

    Ten Years and Twenty Days

    by Karl Doenitz, Jürgen Rohwer ...
    "A fascinating and detailed account of the German navy's war, mostly covering U-boat activities" by the man who succeeded Hitler as Fuhrer ( Damien Burke, author of TSR2: Britain's Lost Bomber).This is the story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Döenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures ... Read more

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