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  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

    A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation

    by 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 the port itself and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First VCs

    The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage

    by 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 correspondents which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Okinawa: The Last Naval Battle of WW2

    The Official Admiralty Account of Operation Iceberg

    by 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 the Japanese ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Wolfsschanze

    The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front – An Illustrated Guide

    by John Grehan ...
    This detailed guide to Hitler's secret Prussian headquarters is fully illustrated with historic photos and rare color images of how it appears today.Set deep in the Masurian woods of northern Poland, formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers known as the Wolfsschanze or Wolf's Lair. This was Hitler's headquarters for the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. It is also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RAF and the SOE

    Special Duty Operations in Europe During WW2

    by 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 widespread destruction ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    A "compelling" portrait of the fateful Crimean War cavalry charge told through the soldiers' own words ( Historical Novels Review).The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to reveal the truth or to understand the reason why, exactly what happened at Balaklava on October 25, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hitler Assassination Attempts

    The Plots, Places and People that Almost Changed History

    by 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 less attention – ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lines of Torres Vedras

    The Cornerstone of Wellington's Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809-12

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series The Napoleonic Library
    "This is a well-researched, well-written, closely argued and fascinating contribution to the historiography of the Peninsular War."— The SpectatorIn 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 way blocked by the most ... Read more

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  • Combined Operations

    An Official History of Amphibious Warfare Against Hitler's Third Reich, 1940–1945

    by 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 headquarters of Combined ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress

    The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943

    by 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, Guernsey and Alderney ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waterloo Campaign in 100 Locations

    by 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 Paris, and back to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berlin Airlift

    The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation

    by John Grehan ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    "Stuffed with great images . . . and perfectly detailed information, superbly illustrating one of the first major international crises of the Cold War." — Vintage AirfixDuring the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, Stalin decided to make the Allied hold on West Berlin untenable by shutting down all the overland routes used to keep the city supplied. The choice faced by the ... Read more

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