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  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED
    JACK HOLROYD
    This second volume begins with the account of Mussolini attempting to mirror Hitler in acts of aggression by thrusting towards Egypt and capturing the important artery of the British Empire; the Suez Canal. The Italian initiative failed and when its army was driven back with heavy losses, Mussolini asked for help and Hitler sent Rommel. Beginning in the spring of 1941, Axis for...

    $165.99

  • THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED 1916
    JACK HOLROYD / WILLIAM LANGFORD
    With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme claiming 20,000 British dead on the first day alone, the resolve of the British and allied troops in 1916 was being sorely tested. The Great War Illustrated 1916 is the third picture volum...

    $344.99

  • THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED - 1915
    WILLIAM LANGFORD / JACK HOLROYD
    The second volume of this pictorial WWI history chronicles the pivotal events of 1915—from the Gallipoli campaign to the Battle of Loos. The Great War Illustrated series presents a vivid chronicle of the First World War in photographs, with a separate volume dedicated to each year of the conflict. Richly furnished with archival images, many of which have rarely been seen before...

    $200.00

  • LOST LEGEND OF THE THRYBERG HAWK
    JACK HOLROYD
    Marksmanship skills honed to perfection, driven by necessity and desperation, Edmund Hawksworth hunted with his crossbow to keep his ailing mother alive, only to have her die in his arms. Deserted by his father who had left to fight the Lancastrian cause, the embittered and determined lad set out on a mission of vengeance and became embroiled in the bitter struggle for the thro...

    $249.00

  • AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
    JACK HOLROYD
    When the United States entered the war in April 1917 the belligerents were approaching exhaustion. It had been hoped by the Generals in both Britain and France that untold numbers of fresh troops would be assimilated into their respective commands. However, this idea was firmly resisted, America would field its own army alongside the Allies it would have its own section on the ...

    $119.00

  • THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED - 1917
    WILLIAM LANGFORD / JACK HOLROYD
    Fourth in a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in presen...

    $329.00

  • SS TOTENKOPF FRANCE, 1940
    JACK HOLROYD
    "By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in postwar Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made responsible for Reich internal security, it implemented Nazi racial policy and managed the death camps. Most oddly it produced a...

    $119.00

  • THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED 1918
    JACK HOLROYD / WILLIAM LANGFORD
    A pictorial history of events that occurred during World War I in 1918. The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become pa...

    $119.00

  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED
    JACK HOLROYD
    This fully illustrated history chronicles the road to WWII and the first year of combat through archival and color photographs accompanied by text.   The first volume in this series depicts the contributing factors that led to the outbreak of hostilities, including the rise of fascist dictators across Europe and in Japan. It also details the Blitzkrieg invasions that rocked the...

    $229.00

  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED
    JACK HOLROYD
    With over 1,000 original photographs, this is a true labor of love and an ideal purchase for anyone interested in the history of the Second World War in a more accessible form. The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields a...

    $242.99

  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED
    JACK HOLROYD
    With over 1,000 original photographs, this is a true labor of love and an ideal purchase for anyone interested in the history of the Second World War in a more accessible form. The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields a...

    $242.99

  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED
    JACK HOLROYD
    The Second World War Illustrated: 1944 follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1943 to the late summer of 1944. This year marked a defining change in the balance of the war; by its end the Axis powers were in serious trouble on...

    $191.99