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“michael g walling”

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  • Forgotten Sacrifice

    The Arctic Convoys of World War II

    by Michael G. Walling ...
    Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II.In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken. Operation Barbarossa saw defeat after defeat heaped on the Soviet army. With Russia's forces left staggering under the strain and in desperate need of supplies, Britain and the United States launched an ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Bloodstained Sands

    U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II

    by Michael G. Walling ...
    Bloodstained Sands tells the untold story of the men who stormed beaches around the globe during World War II, from the Sword and Juno Beaches on D-Day to the sands of Iwo Jima.For the men who served in America's Amphibious Forces during World War II, the conflict was an unceasing series of D-Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, most ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Iraq Full Circle

    From Shock and Awe to the Last Combat Patrol in Baghdad and Beyond

    by Darron L. Wright, Michael G. Walling ...
    U.S. Army LTC Darron Wright and former U.S. Coast Guard officer Mike Walling join forces to detail a complete, unique history of the Iraq War through first-hand, street-level accounts of the key events and battles that shaped the conflict.From 2003 through 2010, more than 200,000 men and women were deployed in Iraq. For seven years, they fought ferociously in the blistering sands in the Land ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices

    US Operations in Afghanistan

    by Michael G. Walling ...
    “Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories. This is the war in Afghanistan as experienced by the people who fought it.” - General Tommy R. Franks, Ret.The war in Afghanistan has seen men and women thrown into America's longest sustained combat operation.For over 13 years, US military personnel have been ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

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    The Channel Dash 1942

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 28 - Raid
    In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany.Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships ... Read more

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  • Nightmare at Scapa Flow

    The Truth About the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

    by H.J. Weaver ...
    A historian examines what really happened when the British World War II battleship was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Orkney.Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage, with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain during World War II. Within six weeks the Germans achieved their goal of breaching the ... Read more

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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

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  • Tirpitz

    The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship

    by Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander ...
    The authors of Bismarck deliver "a very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters" during World War II ( NYMAS Review).After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth—the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable ... Read more

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  • H.M.S. Rodney

    Warships of the Royal Navy

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    The biography of a British battleship, from an author with " a facility for rendering nonfiction into a narrative as brisk and readable as a novel" ( HistoryNet).The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck, in a thrilling duel. The Rodney, carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship, ... Read more

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  • The Battle of North Cape

    The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    "The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . . stirring" ( Work Boat).On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst's ... Read more

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  • Bismarck

    The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship

    by Michael Tamelander, Niklas Zetterling ...
    The author of Blitzkrieg covers one of the most dramatic events of the Second World War in an "outstanding book about naval warfare" ( World War II History).When the German battleship Bismarck—a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns—left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of May 18, 1941, the British battlecruiser Hood and ... Read more

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  • Heaven Lies About Us - A Fragment of Infancy

    by Howard Spring ...
    "Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir details his humble beginnings working as an errand boy for a newspaper. This experience was his first step into the world of journalism ... Read more

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