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  • OPERATION TONGA
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    OPERATION TONGA
    JON COOKSEY
    The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near Bnouville, Howard's men took and held the bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation w...

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  • THE BATTLES OF ARRAS: SOUTH
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    THE BATTLES OF ARRAS: SOUTH
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917. Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields on the Western Front are just to the south of the Arras. These sites include Battery Valley and Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt, and Bullecourt. And t...

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  • THE BATTLES OF ARRAS: NORTH
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    THE BATTLES OF ARRAS: NORTH
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War.   The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras—including Vimy Ridge—are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them. Visitors...

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  • PEBBLE ISLAND
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    PEBBLE ISLAND
    FRANCIS MACKAY / JON COOKSEY
    This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War.In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea King Helicopter on the Island. Their task was to destroy the 11 enemy aircraft located at the Airstrip on the Island and neutralize the Argentinean force posted there to guard it.The raid was successful and all the Aircraft were destroye...

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  • THE FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME
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    THE FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on the first day, 1 July 1916, when the British Army suffered around 60,000 casualties. That is why, on the centenary of that gre...

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  • FALKLANDS HERO
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    FALKLANDS HERO
    JON COOKSEY
    "A multi-layered portrait of a dedicated professional soldier who was far from being the archetypal rough-hewn paratrooper of popular mythology." —Eastern Daily Press At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment's assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up by an Argentine...

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  • BOULOGNE
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    BOULOGNE
    JON COOKSEY
    The story of the World War II battle for the French port which ended in a desperate evacuation—from the author of Calais: A Fight to the Finish. As German armored columns moved to seal off French ports from retreating British troops in 1940, Winston Churchill had few reserves he could commit. In an attempt to delay the Germans at Boulogne, Churchill sent in two battalions of th...

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  • FLANDERS 1915
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    FLANDERS 1915
    JON COOKSEY
    By Christmas 1914 Britain's Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers leapt at the chance to serve their country overseas and were soon on their way to the trenches and the harsh realities of war on the Western Front.Flanders 1915 tells the story, th...

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  • OPERATION TONGA
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    OPERATION TONGA
    JON COOKSEY
    The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near Bnouville, Howard's men took and held the bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation w...

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  • THE SOMME 1916—BEYOND THE FIRST DAY
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    THE SOMME 1916—BEYOND THE FIRST DAY
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    In their second Visitor's Guide to the 1916 Battle of the Somme Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland focus on the series of secondary battles that were key stages in the five-month struggle that followed the start of the offensive on 1 July. They take the visitor – and the reader – across the entire battlefield, covering in graphic detail sites where actions took place that are almost...

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  • THE BATTLES OF FRENCH FLANDERS
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    THE BATTLES OF FRENCH FLANDERS
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle and Loos was just as severe as was the 1916 battle at Fromelles and ...

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  • THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: SOUTH
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    THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: SOUTH
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the conflict all the important battle sites of the second stage of the retreat are fe...

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  • THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: NORTH
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    THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: NORTH
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First World War. All the most famous battle sites of the Great Retreat are featured here....

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  • THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: NORTH
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    THE RETREAT FROM MONS 1914: NORTH
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First World War. All the most famous battle sites of the Great Retreat are featured here....

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  • YPRES
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    YPRES
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of...

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  • BARNSLEY PALS
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    BARNSLEY PALS
    JON COOKSEY
    The true World War I story of one British town's remarkable response to the message "Your Country Needs You."   The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Lord Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on ...

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  • OPERATION CHARIOT
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    OPERATION CHARIOT
    JON COOKSEY
    By March 1942, mainland France had been under German occupation for almost two years. Every month that passed saw Germany bolster her defenses against an expected allied invasion. Every month that passed saw Germany tighten her grip on Britain's transatlantic lifeline; menacing allied shipping from the French west coast ports. At St Nazaire on the Loire estuary, the vast Norman...

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  • 3 PARA MOUNT LONGDON
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    3 PARA MOUNT LONGDON
    JON COOKSEY
    The author of Falklands Hero follows the Third Parachute Battalion through a ferocious battle to secure a key strategic position during the Falklands War.   This, the first in a series on Special Operations, tells the story of Three Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It was a battle that tested the discipline, comradeship, and professionalism of the Paras ...

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  • CALAIS
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    CALAIS
    JON COOKSEY / BRIGADIER DAVIES-SCOURFIELD
    This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a gateway to the Continent. The guide will take the visitor beyond the ferry terminal and...

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  • CALAIS: FIGHT TO THE FINISH – MAY 1940
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    CALAIS: FIGHT TO THE FINISH – MAY 1940
    JON COOKSEY / ‎BRIGADIER DAVIESSCOURFIELD
    This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a gateway to the Continent. The guide will take the visitor beyond the ferry terminal and...

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  • PEBBLE ISLAND: THE FALKLANDS WAR 1982
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    PEBBLE ISLAND: THE FALKLANDS WAR 1982
    FRANCIS MACKAY / JON COOKSEY
    In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland. Their task? To destroy the Argentinian Pucara aircraft stationed on the grassy airstrip above the isolated Pebble Island settlement, eliminate the...

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  • PEBBLE ISLAND
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    PEBBLE ISLAND
    FRANCIS MACKAY / JON COOKSEY
    This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War.In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea King Helicopter on the Island. Their task was to destroy the 11 enemy aircraft located at the Airstrip on the Island and neutralize the Argentinean force posted there to guard it.The raid was successful and all the Aircraft were destroye...

    $179.00

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  • THE FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME
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    THE FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME
    JON COOKSEY / JERRY MURLAND
    Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on the first day, 1 July 1916, when the British Army suffered around 60,000 casualties. That is why, on the centenary of that gre...

    $179.00

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