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  • THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
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    THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific." — National Maritime Historical Society At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Oce...

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  • THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN IN 100 LOCATIONS
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    THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN IN 100 LOCATIONS
    JOHN GREHAN
    In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analyzed, apart from one – that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign. From Napoleon's landing on the Golfe Juan on France's Côte d'Azur, along the Route Napoleon and through Grenoble, the Emperor's journey back to ...

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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A stunning collection of photos providing rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid. As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that f...

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  • STORMING HITLER'S BRITISH FORTRESS
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    STORMING HITLER'S BRITISH FORTRESS
    SIMON HAMON / JOHN GREHAN
    In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory. Hitler was determined to hold onto what he saw as a valuable prize, and the islands were heavily fortified. However, despite being extensively defended, the occupied Channel Islands remained vulnerable to commando-style raids. Indeed, a total of nine such operations...

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  • THE ALLIED ASSAULT ON HITLER'S CHANNEL ISLAND FORTRESS
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    THE ALLIED ASSAULT ON HITLER'S CHANNEL ISLAND FORTRESS
    JOHN GREHAN
    Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially 'severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens. Under the codenames Constellation, Condor, Concertina, and Coverlet, the islands of Jersey, G...

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  • COMBINED OPERATIONS
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    COMBINED OPERATIONS
    JOHN GREHAN
    From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway’s Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler’s Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and other personnel, the headquarter...

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  • OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
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    OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
    JOHN GREHAN
    Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics of the US Tenth Army and the US Marines, as well as the unrelenting defiance of...

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  • OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
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    OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
    JOHN GREHAN
    Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics of the US Tenth Army and the US Marines, as well as the unrelenting defiance of...

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  • GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR
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    GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR
    JOHN GREHAN
    This volume of U.S. Navy reports offers an authoritatively detailed, refreshingly immediate perspective on the major battles of WWII in the Pacific. Scores of historians have chronicled the naval battles fought against Imperial Japan during the Second World War. But as we know, hindsight gives us 20/20 vision. The accounts collected in this volume were written during or immedia...

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  • THE HITLER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
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    THE HITLER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
    JOHN GREHAN
    Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie attempt carried out at the Wolfsschanze on 20 July 1944, many others have received far...

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  • SAIPAN 1944
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    SAIPAN 1944
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defe...

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  • BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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    BATTLE OF MIDWAY
    JOHN GREHAN
    Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands on 7 December 1941, had severely damaged the United States Pacific Fleet but had not destroyed it, for the fleet’s aircraft carrier force had been at sea when the Japanese struck. This meant that, despite the overwhelming success of Japanese military forces across the Pacific, US carrier-based aircraft could still attack Ja...

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  • THE FALL OF BURMA, 1941–1943
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    THE FALL OF BURMA, 1941–1943
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma between 15 December 1941 and 20 May 1942 by General Wavell; Operations in Eastern Theatre, based on India, March 1942 to 31 December 1942 by Field-Marshall Wavell; Operations in the Indo-Burma Theatre 21 June to 15 November 1942 by Field-Marshall Auchinleck; and Operations in the India Command 1 January to 20 June 19...

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  • WATERLOO 1815
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    WATERLOO 1815
    JOHN GREHAN
    For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon Paris. Europe braced itself once again for war. The allied nations agreed to combi...

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  • DEFENDING BRITAIN'S SKIES, 1940–1945
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    DEFENDING BRITAIN'S SKIES, 1940–1945
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defence of the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1945, and the report on air operations by ...

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  • THE BOER WAR, 1899–1902
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    THE BOER WAR, 1899–1902
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (18801881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence. The engagements that it involved, such as they were, were small and involved few casualties.More commonly ref...

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  • LIBERATING EUROPE: D-DAY TO VICTORY IN EUROPE, 1944–1945
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    LIBERATING EUROPE: D-DAY TO VICTORY IN EUROPE, 1944–1945
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include the Despatch on air operations by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North West Europe between November 1943 and September 1944, the despatch on the assault phase of the Normandy landings June 1944, despatch on operations of Coastal Command, Royal Air Force in Operation Overlord the invasion of Europe 1944, the despatch on operations in Nort...

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  • THE WAR AT SEA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940–1944
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    THE WAR AT SEA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940–1944
    JOHN GREHAN, MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include those covering the Battle of Matapan in 1941, Fleet Air Arm operations in 1940, the Battle of Sirte in 1942, the action with the Italian Fleet off Calabria (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the engagement between British and Italian forces off Cape Spartivento (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the Mediterranean convoys between January 1941 and Au...

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  • CAPITAL SHIPS AT WAR, 1939–1945
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    CAPITAL SHIPS AT WAR, 1939–1945
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on Tirpitz by midget submarines, the contribution by British Pacific Fleet to the ass...

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  • THE CRIMEAN WAR
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    THE CRIMEAN WAR
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller ca...

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  • BRITISH BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1807–1815
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    BRITISH BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1807–1815
    JOHN GREHAN
    The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are those original despatches from some forty generals, captains and admirals detai...

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  • MEDICAL OFFICERS ON THE INFAMOUS BURMA RAILWAY
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    MEDICAL OFFICERS ON THE INFAMOUS BURMA RAILWAY
    JOHN GREHAN
    In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor protests, but merely statements of fact. The prisoners received only one reply – that al...

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  • THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS
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    THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS
    JOHN GREHAN
    "This is a well-researched, well-written, closely argued and fascinating contribution to the historiography of the Peninsular War."— The Spectator   In 1809 French armies controlled almost every province of Spain and only Wellington's small force in Portugal stood between Napoleon and the conquest of Iberia.   The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810, but found their w...

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  • OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942–1944
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    OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942–1944
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief British land Forces, Middle East; despatch on Operation Tor...

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  • CHURCHILL'S SECRET INVASION
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    CHURCHILL'S SECRET INVASION
    JOHN GREHAN
    In the spring of 1942 Britain's far-flung empire was in the greatest peril. North Africa was being overrun by the German Afrika Korps and in south-east Asia the forces of Imperial Japan had captured Singapore and were threatening India. Only the most urgent reinforcement of both war fronts could prevent disaster. But Britain's shipping routes to Egypt and India passed the islan...

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  • BATTLEGROUND SUSSEX
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    BATTLEGROUND SUSSEX
    JOHN GREHAN
    From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the countys coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britains southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land transportation and the seas that define the borders of our nation aided, rather than det...

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  • THE FIRST VCS
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    THE FIRST VCS
    JOHN GREHAN
    Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with the bravery of the lower ranks. Fuelled by the reports from the first-ever war corr...

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  • RAF AND THE SOE
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    RAF AND THE SOE
    JOHN GREHAN
    The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The culmination of their efforts was seen when the Allied armies landed at Normandy in June 1944, with the SOE and the Resistance causing wi...

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  • THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066: THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
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    THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066: THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    This historical study upends the traditional narratives surrounding the Norman Conquest by revealing the true location of its most important battle. The Duke of Normandy’s victory at the Battle of Hastings on October 14th, 1066, was one of the most important events in English history. As such, its every detail has been analyzed by scholars and interpreted by historians. Yet one...

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  • DUNKIRK: NINE DAYS THAT SAVED AN ARMY
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    DUNKIRK: NINE DAYS THAT SAVED AN ARMY
    JOHN GREHAN
    The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in th...

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