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  • THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION IN 100 OBJECTS
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    THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION IN 100 OBJECTS
    MARTIN MACE
    At 18.57 hours on Sunday, 26 May 1940, the Admiralty issued the directive which instigated the start of Operation Dynamo. This was the order to rescue the British Expeditionary Force from the French port of Dunkirk and the beaches surrounding it. The Admiralty believed that it would only be able to rescue 45,000 men over the course of the following two days, ‘at the end of whic...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE ROYAL NAVY AT DUNKIRK
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    THE ROYAL NAVY AT DUNKIRK
    MARTIN MACE
    The fact that the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk in May-June 1940 has achieved the status of a legend. Whilst the part played by the Little Ships in that miracle is equally well known, the role of the Royal Navys warships the destroyers, minesweepers and personnel ships is often overlooked. Indeed, more than 300,000 troops out of a total of 338,226, were...

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  • WESTERN FRONT, 1914–1916
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    WESTERN FRONT, 1914–1916
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as ...

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  • THE ROYAL NAVY AT DUNKIRK
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    THE ROYAL NAVY AT DUNKIRK
    MARTIN MACE
    The fact that the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk in May-June 1940 has achieved the status of a legend. Whilst the part played by the Little Ships in that miracle is equally well known, the role of the Royal Navys warships the destroyers, minesweepers and personnel ships is often overlooked. Indeed, more than 300,000 troops out of a total of 338,226, were...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR BURMA, 1943–1945
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    THE BATTLE FOR BURMA, 1943–1945
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma and North-East India between November 1943 and June 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard; the despatch on operations in Assam and Burma between June 1944 June and November 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief; the despatch on Naval operations in the Ramree Island area (Burma) in January and Fe...

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  • BOMBER HARRIS
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    BOMBER HARRIS
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    The bombing campaign conducted against Germany and German-occupied Europe in the Second World War was, and remains, one of the most controversial operations of the entire war. Much of Bomber Command's effort was what was defined as 'area' bombing, in which whole cities or districts were targeted. The ultimate aim of an attack on a town area, Sir Arthur Harris wrote in one of hi...

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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, 1793–1806
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    BRITISH BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1793–1806
    MARTIN MACE
    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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  • THE ZULU WAR
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    THE ZULU WAR
    JOHN GREHAN, MARTIN MACE
    The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The fierce, but piecemeal, Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift ca...

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  • SLAUGHTER ON THE SOMME 1 JULY 1916
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    SLAUGHTER ON THE SOMME 1 JULY 1916
    MARTIN MACE / JOHN GREHAN
    At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front, and began to make their way steadily ...

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  • WESTERN FRONT, 1914–1916
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    WESTERN FRONT, 1914–1916
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as ...

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  • GALLIPOLI AND THE DARDANELLES, 1915–1916
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    GALLIPOLI AND THE DARDANELLES, 1915–1916
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore the brunt of the initial action, supported by the French and with minor contribu...

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  • THE BEF IN FRANCE, 1939–1940
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    THE BEF IN FRANCE, 1939–1940
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British force in Europe from 19391940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force.The British Expeditionary Force was started in 1938 in readiness for a perceived threat of war after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938 and the claims on the Sudetenland, w...

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  • FAR EAST AIR OPERATIONS, 1942–1945
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    FAR EAST AIR OPERATIONS, 1942–1945
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944 to May 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, and the despatch on air oper...

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  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE WAR AT SEA, 1914–1919
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    THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE WAR AT SEA, 1914–1919
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Germany's attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on seaborne trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had expressed a desire for a navy in propo...

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  • OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 1939–1942
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    OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 1939–1942
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    The Middle East Command in the SecondWorld War covered a vast region, stretchingacross Egypt, Libya, Malta, Palestine andTransjordan, Cyprus, Sudan, Eritrea, most ofSyria and a small part of Iraq, and includedsome forty different languages. At one pointit also oversaw operations in Greece, Kenyaand British Somaliland. Its campaign area ranfor a thousand miles from the Jordan to...

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  • DISASTER IN THE FAR EAST, 1940–1942
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    DISASTER IN THE FAR EAST, 1940–1942
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherland East ...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR NORWAY, 1940–1942
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    THE BATTLE FOR NORWAY, 1940–1942
    JOHN GREHAN / MARTIN MACE
    Despatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the despatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Despatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940; the despatch on carrier-borne aircraft attacks on Kirkenes (Norway) and Petsamo ...

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  • UNEARTHING CHURCHILL'S SECRET ARMY
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    UNEARTHING CHURCHILL'S SECRET ARMY
    MARTIN MACE
    The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones and memorials of those courageous individuals.Then in 2003, the first batch of SOE...

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