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  • KOREAN WAR - ALLIED SURGE
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    KOREAN WAR - ALLIED SURGE
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    Cold War crescendo: in the author’s first three volumes in a series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean forces cross the 38th Parallel, rolling back US and South Korean forces into a small corner of the Korean peninsula. Months later, commander of the United Nations Command (UNC) in Korea, General Douglas MacArthur, launches a daring counteroffensive invasion at Inchon, ...

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  • KOREAN WAR—IMJIN RIVER
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    KOREAN WAR—IMJIN RIVER
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    An in-depth look at the disastrous consequences of misjudgment and impulsiveness by the United States during the Korean War. As of October 1950, a quarter of a million Communist Chinese troops, in twenty-seven divisions, had poured across the Yalu River into North Korea, with the singular objective of forcing General Douglas MacArthur's United Nations troops back across the 38t...

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  • KOREAN WAR—CHINESE INVASION
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    KOREAN WAR—CHINESE INVASION
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    An examination of the causes and the direct outcome of North Korea's seemingly unstoppable thrust down the Korean Peninsula in 1950. In his first four volumes on the Korean War, the author traces the war's progress from the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the desperate American defense of the Pusan Perimeter, General Douglas MacArthur's daring and highly successful amphibio...

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  • INCHON LANDING
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    INCHON LANDING
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    A history of this dramatic and risky amphibious invasion, with photos included.   In the previous two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensi...

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  • IRGUN
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    IRGUN
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    A history of the controversial underground group that employed political violence in its quest to create an independent Israel. Includes photos.   In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi—National Military Organization—as "an underground, quasi-military organization with headquarters in Palestine . . . fanatical Zionists who wish to c...

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  • SINO-INDIAN WAR
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    SINO-INDIAN WAR
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    For a hundred years, British and Chinese territorial claims in the Himalayas conflicted, with Indian historians claiming that the region was the fountainhead of Hindu civilization. In the halcyon days of the Raj, London saw Afghanistan and Tibet as buffers against Russian and Chinese imperialism. In 1913, an ephemeral agreement between Britain, Tibet and China was signed, recog...

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  • ECHOES OF THE COVENTRY BLITZ
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    ECHOES OF THE COVENTRY BLITZ
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    Smoke rises in the City of Three Spires, the smouldering remnant of the Nazi hate. Coventry and England will remember and repay.From August 1940, Hitlers Luftwaffe mercilessly and indiscriminately bombed cities and towns in Britain. The historic West Midlands city of Coventry did not escape the carnage as, night after night, high-explosive and incendiary bombs rained down on th...

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  • SS EINSATZGRUPPEN
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    SS EINSATZGRUPPEN
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    "Provides important details about the Einsatzgruppen's leadership . . . Numerous photographs illustrate the text. A grim read, but a necessary one." — The Washington Times   In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing four million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Sov...

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  • NORTH KOREA INVADES THE SOUTH
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    NORTH KOREA INVADES THE SOUTH
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and...

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  • RED CHINA
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    RED CHINA
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and...

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  • SHEFFIELD'S MILITARY LEGACY
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    SHEFFIELD'S MILITARY LEGACY
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    In the century following the Norman invasion, a castle was built at the confluence of the rivers Sheaf and Don, an early recognition of Sheffields strategic importance. Destroyed in the thirteenth century during the Second Barons War, a second castle was built on the site, but in 1647, it was ordered to be demolished immediately after the cessation of the Civil War, thereby neg...

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  • NOTTINGHAM'S MILITARY LEGACY
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    NOTTINGHAM'S MILITARY LEGACY
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    Two years after landing on English soil in 1066, William of Normandy erected a strategic castle at Nottingham, thereby creating an enduring military nexus through to the modern era.On 22 August 1642, in his endeavours to quash Parliamentarian insurrection in the Midlands, King Charles raised his standard over Nottingham Castle, a rallying call to all Royalists to support their ...

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  • MALAYAN EMERGENCY
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    MALAYAN EMERGENCY
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    The story of the Anti-British National Liberation War, the long-running Cold War conflict that pit Communist guerrillas against the British in Malaya. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, Malaya became a Cold War flashpoint . . . By the time of the 1942 Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had already been fomenting...

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  • BERLIN BLOCKADE
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    BERLIN BLOCKADE
    GERRY VAN TONDER
    When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europewith the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, So...

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