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  • Tanks on the Somme

    From Morval to Beaumont Hamel

    by Trevor Pidgeon ...
    On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of the decisive weapons of twentieth-century warfare - were sent into action for the first time. In his previous books Trevor Pidgeon, one of the leading authorities on the early tanks, has told the story of that memorable day, but only now has his account of later tank operations during the Somme battle become available. In this, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boom Ravine

    Somme

    by Trevor Pidgeon ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    The dramatic World War I story of the events on the Somme after the great battle of 1916 ended and before the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line.Boom Ravine was one of the most spectacular features on the Somme battlefield. The Germans took full advantage of the ravine's defensive possibilities, and inflicted heavy casualties on successive waves of British attackers.There has been a lack of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flers & Gueudecourt

    Somme

    by Trevor Pidgeon ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army in this slogging match that was the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ... Read more

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  • Dunkirk

    Fight to the Last Man

    by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore ...
    * * * S****pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * *Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Brave Battalion

    The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark Zuehlke presents the harrowing experiences that bonded the men and which came to represent the uniting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Passchendaele Campaign, 1917

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July ... Read more

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  • Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940

    The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

    by Jerry Murland ...
    The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.Some of the engagements are ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ypres 1914-1915

    The Fight for Flanders Fields

    by Will Fowler ...
    Ypres was a medieval town known for its textiles; however, it became infamous during the Great War with trench warfare, poison gas and many thousands of casualties.As the German Army advanced through Belgium, it failed to take the Ypres Salient. On 13 October 1914, German troops entered Ypres. On looting the city, the Germans retreated as the British Expeditionary Force advanced. On 22 November ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Loos 1915

    The Poisoned Field

    by Peter Doyle ...
    Through the first year of the First World War, Allied strategy had relied upon a series of small-scale assaults, which in reality achieved little or no ground gained. The Battle of Loos was to be different. Kitchener's Army was deployed in strength for the first time and an ambitious plan aimed to take ground over a 20-mile front.However, the battlefield was not the Allies' ideal site and the ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victory on the Western Front

    The Decisive Battles of World War One

    by Martin Marix Evans ...
    Presenting the Allied and German experience of war - both military and on a personal level - Victory on the Western Front is an immensely readable, visually striking account of the pivotal final stages of World War I, when two very different concepts went head-to-head on the battlefield.The Germans gambled on winning on the Western Front through the sophisticated use of artillery and new infantry ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Retreat and Rearguard, 1914

    The BEF's Actions From Mons to the Marne

    by Jerry Murland ...
    The British action at Mons on 23 August 1914 was the catalyst for what became a full blown retreat over 200 blood drenched miles. This book examines eighteen of the desperate rearguard actions that occurred during the twelve days of this near rout. While those at Le Cateau and Nery are well chronicled, others such as cavalry actions at Morsain and Taillefontaine, the Connaught Rangers at Le Grand ... Read more

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  • The Long Left Flank

    The Hard Fought Way to the Reich, 1944–1945

    by Jeffery Williams ...
    When in August, 1944, the Allies broke out of Normandy, the world's attention became fixed on the dramatic British and American armoured thrusts into the Rhine. The war in Europe seemed all but over. Far to the left, along the flank of the Allied Expeditionary Force, almost unnoticed, a battle was beginning on whose outcome hung not only victory but the possibility of disaster Under-strength, ... Read more

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