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  • PORTUGAL 1808: WELLINGTON’S FIRST PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN
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    PORTUGAL 1808: WELLINGTON’S FIRST PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN
    TIM SAUNDERS
    Covers Wellesley's early victories in Portugal, including the battles of Roliça and Vimiero, and the controversial Convention of Cintra. When Napoleon overreached himself by usurping the Burbon throne of Spain in early 1808, the resulting Spanish resentment and the brutal suppression of the Dos di Mayo Rebellion in Madrid turned Spain, a long-term enemy of Britain, into an ally...

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  • THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1811–1814
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    THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1811–1814
    TIM SAUNDERS / ROB YUILL
    "...this is an excellent partner to the original volume, very well presented by experienced military men, with a clear tactical eye and it is extremely well illustrated. It comes highly recommended." — The Napoleon Series By the middle of 1811, Brigadier General Robert Craufurd's Light Division was emerging as the elite of the Peninsular Army and Wellington was seeking opportun...

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  • THE TALAVERA CAMPAIGN 1809
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    THE TALAVERA CAMPAIGN 1809
    TIM SAUNDERS
    Dive into the tactics behind the Battle of Talavera as British and Spanish armies clashed against France in the opening engagements of Spain's late 1809 campaign. Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley returned to the Peninsular in 1809 convinced that the country could be held against the French. His audacious crossing of the Duoro and speedy victory at Oporto in May, followed...

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  • THE BATTLE OF THE REICHSWALD
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    THE BATTLE OF THE REICHSWALD
    TIM SAUNDERS
    During winter 1944/45 few German officers believed that the Allies would attack the wooded Reichswald Plug on the narrow neck of land between the rivers Rhine and Maas. Consequently, relying on the natural defenses of the forest, the vaunted Siegfried Line had been allowed to peter out. The 84th Infantry Division held field defenses that had been worked on all autumn, but the d...

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  • HILL 112: THE KEY TO DEFEATING HITLER IN NORMANDY
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    HILL 112: THE KEY TO DEFEATING HITLER IN NORMANDY
    TIM SAUNDERS
    A history of the relentless fighting between British and German forces in the French villages of Eterville and Maltot during World War II. 'He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy' seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unfold in every direction across a huge swath of Normandy. For the Germans it was their vital de...

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  • HILL 112: THE KEY TO DEFEATING HITLER IN NORMANDY
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    HILL 112: THE KEY TO DEFEATING HITLER IN NORMANDY
    TIM SAUNDERS
    A history of the relentless fighting between British and German forces in the French villages of Eterville and Maltot during World War II. 'He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy' seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unfold in every direction across a huge swath of Normandy. For the Germans it was their vital de...

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  • OPERATION TOTALIZE
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    OPERATION TOTALIZE
    TIM SAUNDERS
    By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of the German armour having been stripped away for the Mortain Counter-Attack, hopes ran high that the Corps, reinforced with Brit...

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  • SUCCESSFUL GROUP WORK
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    SUCCESSFUL GROUP WORK
    TIM O'SULLIVAN / JENNY RICE / SIMON ROGERSON / CAROL SAUNDERS
    This concise guide covers all the practical skills that students need to work effectively in a group in higher and further education. Using a variety of interactive teaming activities, students can practice the main principles. A number of case-study and real-life examples are also included. ...

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  • THE ISLAND
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    THE ISLAND
    TIM SAUNDERS
    Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and the 1st British Airborne Division. Here it found itself on an island of flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on He...

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  • SALAMANCA CAMPAIGN 1812
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    SALAMANCA CAMPAIGN 1812
    TIM SAUNDERS
    "A brilliant account of Wellington's Salamanca campaign in 1812. Reads somewhat like a Sharpe adventure!" — Books Monthly After a gap of two years, the 1812 Salamanca Campaign saw Wellington taking the offensive in Spain against Marshal Marmont's Army of Portugal. Marching from the border fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo which fell to the Allies in January, neither commander was will...

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  • BATTLE FOR THE BOCAGE: NORMANDY 1944
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    BATTLE FOR THE BOCAGE: NORMANDY 1944
    TIM SAUNDERS
    This WWII military study examines the combat experiences of three Allied divisions charged with spearheading the invasion of Normandy. To lead the charge into France after the Normandy landings, General Montgomery brought three veteran desert formations back from the Mediterranean. They were the 50th Infantry and 7th Armored divisions, plus 4th Armored Brigade. Their task beyon...

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  • THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1808–1811
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    THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1808–1811
    TIM SAUNDERS / ROB YUILL
    This regimental history chronicles the legendary exploits of the British Army's Light Division against Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. From the outset of the Peninsular campaigns in 1808, the Light Division achieved results way beyond their scant numbers. But it was during the epic winter retreat to La Corunna that they showed their metal. Returning to the Peninsula months late...

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  • ARRAS COUNTER-ATTACK, 1940
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    ARRAS COUNTER-ATTACK, 1940
    TIM SAUNDERS
    On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armored operation mounted by the British during the campaign.Poorly coordinated and starting badly, the Matilda tanks ran into the flanks of Rommels over-extended 7th Panzer Division. With the Ge...

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  • THE SIEGES OF CIUDAD RODRIGO, 1810 AND 1812
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    THE SIEGES OF CIUDAD RODRIGO, 1810 AND 1812
    TIM SAUNDERS
    The area astride the Spanish/Portuguese border between the respective fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida was the focus of the Peninsular War for much of the period from the autumn of 1809 through until 1812. The fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo that dominated the country between the Rivers Agueda and Ca, was one of the Keys to Spain for any army attacking either east or west ac...

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  • POINTE DU HOC, 1944
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    POINTE DU HOC, 1944
    TIM SAUNDERS
    The attack by Rudders Rangers on Pointe du Hoc, as one of the opening acts of D Day, is without doubt an epic of military history. As a result of Montgomerys upscaling of the invasion General Bradleys First US Army had to deal with a dangerous coastal gun battery that would dominate the approaches to both Omaha and Utah Beaches. When the plan to climb the defended cliff and put...

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  • NORMANDY: HILL 112
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    NORMANDY: HILL 112
    TIM SAUNDERS
    This WWII military history and battlefield guide examines a pivotal conflict of the Battle of Normandy—including detailed maps and illustrations. Over a month after the D-Day landings, the Allies were still confined to the Normandy peninsula. The German line was anchored by the medieval town of Caen, which the British were supposed to have occupied on D-Day. The key to capturin...

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  • CRETE
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    CRETE
    TIM SAUNDERS
    The invasion was launched to round off Hitlers Balkan Campaign against Crete in May 1941. The Island was important to Britains control of the Eastern Mediterranean and Churchill was determined that the Island would be held.The British garrison was largely made up of New Zealand and Australian troops who had been evacuated from Greece, with little more that what they stood up in...

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  • OPERATION PLUNDER
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    OPERATION PLUNDER
    TIM SAUNDERS
    This WWII history and battlefield guide examines the Allied push across the Rhine with maps, photos, and informative text. By late March of 1945, the advance through Europe had brought Allied forces to Hitler's doorstep. Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Field Marshal Montgomer...

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  • FORT EBEN EMAEL 1940
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    FORT EBEN EMAEL 1940
    TIM SAUNDERS
    This WWII battlefield guide offers a detailed history of the Siege of Fort Eben Emael during the Nazi invasion of Belgium—with maps and photos throughout. On May 10th, 1940, German forces launched an attack on Fort Eben Emael on the Belgian-Dutch border. The seizure of the fortress stronghold by German Airborne and Special Forces was the dramatic opening shot in the Nazis' deva...

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  • OPERATION EPSOM
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    OPERATION EPSOM
    TIM SAUNDERS
    Follow 15th Scottish and 11th Armoured Divisions as they fight to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen during WWII's Battle of Normandy. Operation EPSOM was Montgomery's third attempt to take the city of Caen, which was a key British D-Day objective. This book takes us through the actions in vivid detail. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen f...

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  • THE CAPTURE OF CAEN
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    THE CAPTURE OF CAEN
    TIM SAUNDERS
    With the German reinforcement of Normandy in April 1944, the chance of I Corps capturing Caen on D Day or shortly thereafter had become increasingly unlikely. And so it was, during D+1, the 21st Panzer Division were joined by the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division in a defensive wall around the north and west of the city, while the Allied main effort was transferred west to XXX Corps...

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  • THE ADVANCE ON CAEN
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    THE ADVANCE ON CAEN
    TIM SAUNDERS
    The 3rd Division's slow progress on D-Day, hindered by German defenses and reinforcements, delayed the capture of Caen, pivotal to Allied strategy. The COSSAC planners in 1943 outlined a strategy to capture the city of Caen, some 10 miles in-land from the coastline with an airborne division. On assumption of command of 21st Army Group, General Montgomery up-scaled the invasion ...

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  • THE CHURCHILL CROCODILE
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    THE CHURCHILL CROCODILE
    TIM SAUNDERS / RICHARD HONE
    The British Army started the development of flame throwers in 1938, but progress was slow and interest was side-lined after Dunkirk while the army reequipped. Investment in a flame-throwing tank only returned to the agenda thanks to interest by General Percy Hobart when he developed 'funnies' for 79th armored Division and the concept gained the support of General Sir Alan Brook...

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  • BREAKING THE SIEGFRIED LINE
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    BREAKING THE SIEGFRIED LINE
    TIM SAUNDERS
    In this second of Tim Saunders' volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground. Amidst the rapidly rising flood waters, 3rd Canadian Division earned the nickname 'The Water Rats' as they fought to clear villages and dykes, while on their ...

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  • THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1811–1814
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    THE LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1811–1814
    TIM SAUNDERS / ROB YUILL
    "...this is an excellent partner to the original volume, very well presented by experienced military men, with a clear tactical eye and it is extremely well illustrated. It comes highly recommended." — The Napoleon Series By the middle of 1811, Brigadier General Robert Craufurd's Light Division was emerging as the elite of the Peninsular Army and Wellington was seeking opportun...

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  • THE TALAVERA CAMPAIGN 1809
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    THE TALAVERA CAMPAIGN 1809
    TIM SAUNDERS
    Dive into the tactics behind the Battle of Talavera as British and Spanish armies clashed against France in the opening engagements of Spain's late 1809 campaign. Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley returned to the Peninsular in 1809 convinced that the country could be held against the French. His audacious crossing of the Duoro and speedy victory at Oporto in May, followed...

    $383.99

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  • THE BATTLE OF THE REICHSWALD
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    THE BATTLE OF THE REICHSWALD
    TIM SAUNDERS
    During winter 1944/45 few German officers believed that the Allies would attack the wooded Reichswald Plug on the narrow neck of land between the rivers Rhine and Maas. Consequently, relying on the natural defenses of the forest, the vaunted Siegfried Line had been allowed to peter out. The 84th Infantry Division held field defenses that had been worked on all autumn, but the d...

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  • MASSÉNA AT BAY 1811
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    MASSÉNA AT BAY 1811
    TIM SAUNDERS
    The 1810 French invasion of Portugal, commanded by the veteran marshal André Masséna, who was known to Napoleon as the 'Spoilt Child of Victory' has been well covered by historians. Conversely, the shock revelation of the presence of the Lines of Torres Vedras baring the French Army of Portugal's way to their objective of Lisbon, and numerous combats through to the Battle of Fu...

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  • ARRAS COUNTER-ATTACK, 1940
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    ARRAS COUNTER-ATTACK, 1940
    TIM SAUNDERS
    On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armored operation mounted by the British during the campaign.Poorly coordinated and starting badly, the Matilda tanks ran into the flanks of Rommels over-extended 7th Panzer Division. With the Ge...

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  • COMMANDOS & RANGERS
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    COMMANDOS & RANGERS
    TIM SAUNDERS
    "A first-class work detailing the work of the elite British Commandos and their American counterpart the Rangers . . . Outstanding . . . 10/10." — The Great War Magazine   In the dark days of 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill showed his belief in ultimate victory by ordering the raising of the elite Commandos to "break the intolerable shackles of defeat." Having proved the...

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