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  • Holocaust

    The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "Trace[s] the developing Holocaust from the Odessa Massacre . . . a very good point to start into understanding this terrible genocide." — FiretrenchIn Holocaust, Stephen Wynn looks at the build up to the Second World War, from the time of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, as the Nazi Party rose to power in a country that was still struggling to recover politically, ... Read more

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  • The Shetland 'Bus'

    Transporting Secret Agents Across the North Sea in WW2

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland's Shetland Islands.The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a route across the North Sea between Norway and the Shetland Islands, north-east of mainland Scotland. The first voyage was made by Norwegian sailors to help their ... Read more

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  • A History of Police Firearms Units

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The role of the police firearms officers is possibly one of the most thankless jobs there is in a non-military environment. Home Office figures for March 2022 to March 2023 show there were 6,038 police officers throughout England and Wales who were authorised to carry firearms for operational purposes, out of a total of 149,572 officers overall - the culmination of a four-year decline in firearms ... Read more

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  • The Rise & Fall of Imperial Japan

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Nearly a century of Japanese Imperial rule, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the end of WWII, is explored in this sweeping history.Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan established itself as a world power through rapid industrialization and militarization. Aligned with the Entente Powers during the First World War, Japan made a proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ... Read more

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  • Two Sons in a War Zone

    Afghanistan: The True Story of a Father's Conflict

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    When soldiers go to war, what do their families and friends experience? There is huge public support for the military, who risk their lives in faraway war zones, but do we really have any idea what their 'nearest and dearest' go through while the troops are away? This book started out as a diary of a year in the life of Stephen Wynn, a police officer who happens to have two sons in the military. ... Read more

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  • Disaster Before D-Day

    Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "An eye-opening exposé of the Pre-D-Day disaster and incident of friendly fire tragedy and cover up that was the Slapton Sands." —WorldWars.comThis is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named "Operation Tiger," on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath of Dunkirk

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Images of War
    Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome. There has been much debate in the years since the end of the war concerning the "Hitler Halt" order, which was given to German Panzer units waiting patiently on ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.Seized by the Nazis on February seven, 1943, on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, Itter Castle was changed into a five-star prison for a number of high-ranking French dignitaries, both civilian and military in just ten weeks. In the final days of the war, in May ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Flawed Decisions

    Errors in Office of The Greatest Briton

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An examination of the political and military controversies that turned out to be missteps on the road to greatness for the British Prime Minister.Winston Churchill is undoubtedly one of the most respected and best-loved characters England has ever known. However, much of how people view him is based on his leadership during the bleak and dire times of the Second World War. If it wasn't for him, ... Read more

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  • The Surrender of Singapore

    Three Years of Hell 1942–45

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way to countries such as Australia and New Zealand. All of that changed with the outbreak of the Second World War.Despite Major-General William Dobbie, the General Officer Commanding Malaya between 8 November 1935 and August 1939, warning that Singapore could be conquered by the Japanese, ... Read more

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  • Women in the Great War

    by Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn ...
    A "superlative social history" of British women's efforts in WWI and how they led to the women's suffrage movement—includes photos ( Books Monthly).In this fascinating history, husband and wife coauthors Stephen and Tanya Wynn chronicle the effects of the Great War on the lives of women, and how those experiences shaped the women's suffrage movement. Before the war, women were employed as domestic ... Read more

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  • St Nazaire Raid, 1942

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and British Commando units. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and the Atlantic Ocean, has a dry dock that was capable of ... Read more

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