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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    The Allied landings at Dieppe in German-occupied France in August 1942 are one the most famous amphibious operations of the Second World War and many books have been written about them, mostly from the Allied point of view. The German side of the story has been neglected, and that is why Graham Thomas's fresh account is so valuable. He reconstructs the immediate response of the...

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  • PIRATE HUNTER
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    PIRATE HUNTER
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with bo...

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  • ATTACK ON THE SCHELDT
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    ATTACK ON THE SCHELDT
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow. Graham Tho...

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  • PIRATE KILLERS
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    PIRATE KILLERS
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had do...

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  • TERROR FROM THE SKY
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    TERROR FROM THE SKY
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    The story of Britain’s desperate defensive operations against the Nazis’ V1 flying bombs in 1944.   In the summer of 1944, the Germans launched more than 10,000 flying bombs at Britain, most of them toward London—which had already endured the Blitz in the earlier phase of the war. Thousands of people were killed, and many more injured. RAF fighter pilots flew round the clock pa...

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  • THE SIEGE OF DUNKIRK, 1944
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    THE SIEGE OF DUNKIRK, 1944
    GRAHAM A THOMAS
    A gripping account of the Allied capture of key Channel ports and the prolonged siege of Dunkirk during WWII. As the Allies broke out of Normandy in June 1944 and pushed into France and the Low Countries they soon found that their supplies lines became more and more extended. They needed a proper working port on the Channel that would enable them to bring in more men and materi...

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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    GRAHAM A THOMAS
    The Allied landings at Dieppe in German-occupied France in August 1942 are one the most famous amphibious operations of the Second World War and many books have been written about them, mostly from the Allied point of view. The German side of the story has been neglected, and that is why Graham Thomas’s fresh account is so valuable. He reconstructs the immediate response of the...

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  • BLACKBEARD
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    BLACKBEARD
    CRAIG CABELL / GRAHAM A. THOMAS / ALLAN RICHARDS
    Edward Teach Blackbeard-is one of the legends of the so-called golden age of piracy. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and it gives a vivid insight into the nature of piracy and the naval operations that were launched against it.Th...

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  • CAPTAIN KIDD
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    CAPTAIN KIDD
    CRAIG CABELL / GRAHAM A. THOMAS / ALLAN RICHARDS
    The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy. The legend that has grown up around Kidds final voyage, his concealed treasure and the dubious conduct of his trial, has made him into one of the most intriguing and misunderstood figures from the golden age of piracy. For either Kidd was a...

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  • FURIES AND FIREFLIES OVER KOREA
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    FURIES AND FIREFLIES OVER KOREA
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    The historian and author details the exploits of British and Australian pilots during the Korean War. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which piston-engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated. This is the story o...

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  • THE BUCCANEER KING
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    THE BUCCANEER KING
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    This is the story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. His name was Captain Sir Henry Morgan and, unlike his contemporaries, he was not hunted down and killed or captured by the authorities. Instead he was considered a hero in England and given a knighthood as well as being made governor of Jamaica. As Graham Thoma...

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