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“greg annussek”

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  • Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini

    The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II

    by Greg Annussek ...
    As the Allied invasion of Italy wore on through the summer of 1943, Mussolini was unexpectedly overthrown and imprisoned by his own people in a remote mountaintop resort. Hitler was furious when he heard the news and swore to rescue his ally and friend. On September 12, a small convoy of glider aircraft suddenly began crash-landing near the hotel where Mussolini was being held and German commandos ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • In Foreign Fields

    Heroes Of Iraq And Afghanistan In Their Own Words

    by Dan Collins ...
    If you only read one book about our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, read this one.A searing, gripping, action-packed series of 25 amazing tales of courage, by medal-winning soldiers, Royal Marines and RAF men in their own words.These are the bravest of the brave, a collection of modest, honest, proud Brits who showed true grit when it mattered most.* LCoH Andrew Radford CGC ran 70 metres through ... Read more

    $3.25 USD

  • The Boer Wars - A Brief History

    A Brief History, #1

    by Andrew Knight ...
    Series Book 1 - A Brief History
    The Anglo-Boer Wars will introduce you to, one of the Victorian Wars of the British Empire. A bite size comprehensive account of the two Anglo-Boer Wars fought between 1880-1881 and 1899-1902. A fascinating tale of one of the bloodiest and expensive wars for over a century, which pitted the two Boer Republics of South Africa (Orange Free State and The Transvaal) against the might of the British ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dividing the Spoils

    The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Thirty Years War

    by Samuel Gardiner ...
    It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an emperor, who looked something like an English king, and a Diet, or General Assembly, which looked something like an English Parliament, but the resemblance was far greater in appearance ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of Waterloo

    by Jeremy Black ...
    The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth.With fresh details and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 69 A.D.

    The Year of Four Emperors

    by Gwyn Morgan ...
    The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious men who seized power only to lose it, one after another. In 69 AD, Gwyn Morgan offers a fresh look at this ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Red SAM

    The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 134 - New Vanguard
    The Russian SA-2, nicknamed “Red SAM,” is history's dominant antiaircraft missile.In 1960 it famously downed Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane, and two years later it was one of the missiles deployed during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost sparked a nuclear showdown between America and the USSR. The SA-2 was also deployed in Vietnam, North Korea, Egypt, and even the Gulf War.Using photographs, color ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • THE SPANISH COCKPIT

    An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War

    by Franz Borkenau ...
    Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘T***he Spanish Cockpit***’, was published in the early summer of 1937, when it impressed and influenced the recently ... Read more

    $5.37 USD

  • Men of War

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    War has been pervasive throughout the history of mankind.But who were these men that fought and why did they fight?This collection of essays by Philip Guedalla examines those question all the way from soldiers of the Norman Conquest through to the Ironsides of the English Civil right up to those men who took to the ramparts and fought during the revolutions across Europe in 1848.Guedalla analyses ... Read more

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  • SS Das Reich at War, 1939–1945

    A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts

    by Ian Baxter ...
    Series series Images of War
    Between 1933 and 1939, the strength and influence of the SS grew considerably with thousands of men being recruited into the new ideological armed formation, many into units known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (Special Disposal Troop). These troops saw action in Poland before switching to the Western Front in 1940. Out of this organisation the SS Das Reich Division was created.This book, with its ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men from Under the Sky

    The Arrival of Westerners in Fiji

    by Stanley Brown ...
    The cannibal kings of Fiji are gone, but their spirit lives on. Cannibalism in Fiji and the gruesome "earth ovens" are gone; the kai vavalagi, "the men from over the horizon," changed that, bringing their own brands of justice tempered by the musket, disease, and dissoluteness.There were giants in those days, Fijians and Westerners alike. This gripping and unique history of Fiji by Stanley Brown, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD