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“martin middlebrook”

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  • Argentine Fight for the Falklands

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    An account by the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War.Avoiding involvement in the issue of sovereignty and concentrating entirely upon the military story, this history is a unique and balanced look at the 1982 war for the islands that the UK called the Falklands and Argentina called the Malvinas, a ten-week conflict ... Read more

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  • The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission

    The American Raids on 17 August 1943

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A detailed history of the American World War II bombing mission over Nazi Germany, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.On August 17, 1943, the entire strength of the American heavy bomber forces in England set out to raid two major industrial complexes deep in southern Germany: the Messerschmitt aircraft factory and the KGF ball bearing plant. For American commanders, it was the ... Read more

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  • The Kaiser's Battle

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The author of The First Day on the Somme details what it was like during the 1918 Spring Offensive during World War I, which led to Germany's defeat.At 9:30 AM on March 21, 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It was the first day of what the Germans called the ... Read more

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  • The Peenemünde Raid

    The Night of 17–18 August 1943

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The author of The First Day on the Somme recounts Operation Hydra, the British bombing on a Nazi army research center during World War II.On the night of August 17-18, 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive powers ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    Revised Edition

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A history of the British Army's experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than ... Read more

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  • The Berlin Raids

    The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943–1944

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A "meticulously documented" account that covers the RAF's controversial attempt to end World War II by the aerial bombing of Berlin ( Kirkus Reviews).The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Command Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A history of the British Army's experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arnhem 1944

    The Airborne Battle

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A detailed history of the World War II battle, featuring experiences from over 500 participants, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.The Battle of Arnhem was a turning point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges spanning the wide rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges ... Read more

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  • The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse

    The End of the Battleship Era

    by Martin Middlebrook, Patrick Mahoney ...
    The author of The First Day on the Somme recounts the sinking of two British Royal Navy ships by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser ... Read more

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  • Convoy SC122 & HX229

    Climax of the Battle of the Atlantic, March 1943

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The author of The First Day on the Somme details a naval skirmish that became a turning point for the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.Winston Churchill wrote, "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. There was a period ... Read more

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  • The Nuremberg Raid

    30-31 March 1944

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A thorough history of the RAF Bomber Command attack on the German city during World War II, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. Author Martin Middlebrook sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    1 July 1916

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'On 1 July 1916, a continous line of ... Read more

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