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  • Dieppe 1942

    Operation Jubilee—A Learning Curve

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy under a blanket of cover provided by the RAF. The official reason for the raid was to capture the town's port, gather relevant intelligence, and ... Read more

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  • Mystery of Missing Flight F-BELV

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The true story of the aircraft that disappeared between Saigon and Hanoi, one of the enduring mysteries of the Vietnam War.Following the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam found itself separated into North and South, with communist North Vietnam under the control of Ho Chi Minh. At the same time, the International Commission for Supervision and Control (ICSC) was established, whose role it was to ... Read more

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  • City of London in the Great War

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain's war effort, both at home and abroad. A far as Germany was concerned, the city was their ultimate goal the ultimate target that would bring them the sought-after victory they so desired. With the British Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, the heart of British Government at the Houses of Parliament and one of Europe's ... Read more

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  • A History of Police Firearms Units

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The role of the police firearms officers is possibly one of the most thankless jobs there is in a non-military environment. Home Office figures for March 2022 to March 2023 show there were 6,038 police officers throughout England and Wales who were authorised to carry firearms for operational purposes, out of a total of 149,572 officers overall - the culmination of a four-year decline in firearms ... Read more

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  • Etaples

    Britain's Notorious Infantry Base Depot, 1914–1919

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An account of the mismanagement and divisive atmosphere of the British Army's First World War base camp, which led to the infamous Étaples Mutiny.A coastal fishing port situated on the northeast French coast, fifteen miles south of Boulogne, Étaples was a base camp for the British Army, as well as a major medical facility for wounded and sick troops, including both British and Canadian hospitals ... Read more

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  • Holocaust

    The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "Trace[s] the developing Holocaust from the Odessa Massacre . . . a very good point to start into understanding this terrible genocide." — FiretrenchIn Holocaust, Stephen Wynn looks at the build up to the Second World War, from the time of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, as the Nazi Party rose to power in a country that was still struggling to recover politically, ... Read more

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  • The Shetland 'Bus'

    Transporting Secret Agents Across the North Sea in WW2

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland's Shetland Islands.The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a route across the North Sea between Norway and the Shetland Islands, north-east of mainland Scotland. The first voyage was made by Norwegian sailors to help their ... Read more

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  • Disaster Before D-Day

    Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "An eye-opening exposé of the Pre-D-Day disaster and incident of friendly fire tragedy and cover up that was the Slapton Sands." —WorldWars.comThis is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named "Operation Tiger," on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of ... Read more

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  • Escaping Stalag Luft III

    From the Wooden Horse to the Great Escape

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Recounts the daring escapes from Stalag Luft III and the real stories behind their lasting fame.Stalag Luft lll was where Germany sent all its habitual Allied escapers, and the first British and Commonwealth POWs arrived there on 11 April 1942.The following year, on 29 October, what became known as The Wooden Horse Escape took place – the name deriving from the use of a gymnastic vaulting horse to ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.Seized by the Nazis on February seven, 1943, on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, Itter Castle was changed into a five-star prison for a number of high-ranking French dignitaries, both civilian and military in just ten weeks. In the final days of the war, in May ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath of Dunkirk

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Images of War
    Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome. There has been much debate in the years since the end of the war concerning the "Hitler Halt" order, which was given to German Panzer units waiting patiently on ... Read more

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  • Women in the Great War

    by Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn ...
    A "superlative social history" of British women's efforts in WWI and how they led to the women's suffrage movement—includes photos ( Books Monthly).In this fascinating history, husband and wife coauthors Stephen and Tanya Wynn chronicle the effects of the Great War on the lives of women, and how those experiences shaped the women's suffrage movement. Before the war, women were employed as domestic ... Read more

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