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  • Operation Steinbock 1944

    The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over England

    by Mr Chris Goss ...
    Series Book 52 - Air Campaign
    The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings.Operation Steinbock, or as it became known, the 'Baby Blitz'was the Luftwaffe's last sustained night bomber offensive against the United Kingdom. In this book, renowned Luftwaffe historian Chris Goss explains how and why the Luftwaffe's last ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Operation Bodenplatte 1945

    Death ride of the Luftwaffe

    by Julian Hale ...
    Series Book 67 - Air Campaign
    A freshly researched, superbly illustrated assessment of Operation Bodenplatte, the Luftwaffe's desperate bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, and its last attempt at a major offensive.With the Allies on Germany's borders, Hitler's Ardennes offensive – the Battle of the Bulge – was intended to split the advancing British and American armies. The Luftwaffe was to commit much of its remaining ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

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  • US Navy Pacific Fleet 1942–43

    Guadalcanal to the Solomons

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 24 - Fleet
    The savage naval battles of Guadalcanal, New Guinea and the Solomons were transformative for the US Navy. Fully illustrated, this analyses the fleet's capabilities and combat in this period.The naval battles of 1942–43 around Guadalcanal and in the Solomons were some of the fiercest and most closely contested of the Pacific War. The campaigns included most of the surface actions of the war, as ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

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  • Lexington-Class Aircraft Carriers 1927–46

    The US Navy's first fleet carriers

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 352 - New Vanguard
    This fully illustrated study explores the history of the Lexington class, the US Navy's first fleet carriers, from their battlecruiser origins to their service in World War II.The Lexington class began life as two of the six battlecruisers ordered for the US Navy in 1916. Laid down in 1920–21, they would have been the most powerful battlecruisers ever, if the Washington Naval Treaty had not ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

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  • Operation Praying Mantis 1988

    The US Navy takes on Iran's fleet

    by Si Sheppard ...
    Series Book 61 - Raid
    Dramatically illustrated, this is an expert account of America's biggest surface battle since World War II, when the US Navy took on Iran's navy and air force in open combat.Operation Praying Mantis was the culmination of the 1980s Tanker Wars in the Persian Gulf between the US and Iran. This one-day naval battle was a rare full-scale clash between modern warships, and until 2026 was the only ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

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  • Dakar 1940

    Operation Menace and the Allied Disaster in West Africa

    by Ryan K. Noppen ...
    Series Book 440 - Campaign
    A detailed analysis of the Allied failure in Dakar against Vichy France in September 1940.Amidst the onslaught of the Blitz, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was desperate to take the fight to the enemy and so he set his eyes on the French West African port of Dakar. Emboldened by the recent defection of some of the Vichy colonies to the Free French movement, Churchill asked Charles de ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

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  • World War II Close Air Support Tactics

    by Dr Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series Book 254 - Elite
    In this illustrated study, an acknowledged expert charts the development of close air support and battlefield air interdiction in theory and practice during World War II.In World War I the use of aircraft to support ground operations was in its infancy, and it was only after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 that close air support (CAS) and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • French Navy 1939–42

    The Marine nationale in World War II

    by Hugues Canuel ...
    Series Book 16 - Fleet
    An authoritative, illustrated analysis of the official French Navy in World War II, under the command of the Third Republic and of Vichy.At the outbreak of World War II, the Marine nationale was the most powerful navy in continental Europe, unified in its purpose of defending the nation and the colonial empire. It was the product of the unique 1920s–30s French naval doctrine and armaments ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Arctic Convoys 1942

    The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 32 - Air Campaign
    A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter.Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of PQ-15 was sunk in May, PQ-17 was virtually obliterated in July, and in September 30 percent of PQ-18 was sunk. The Allies were forced to suspend the convoys ... Read more

    $20.49 CAD

  • Germany's Norway Invasion Fleet 1940

    The Kriegsmarine in Operation Weserübung

    by Lawrence Paterson ...
    Series Book 26 - Fleet
    Fully illustrated throughout, this is the first book to focus on the Kriegsmarine's role in the invasion of Norway, Germany's only major amphibious landing of the war.The invasion of Denmark and Norway saw the Kriegsmarine's most extensive deployment of focused naval power of the entire war. Although truly a combined services invasion, the Kriegsmarine was the only means by which to make multiple ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

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  • The Kamikaze Campaign 1944–45

    Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 29 - Air Campaign
    An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 – the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets.As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to try to wear down US resolve enough to reach a negotiated settlement. Extraordinary measures seemed ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Operation Allied Force 1999

    NATO's airpower victory in Kosovo

    by Dr Brian D. Laslie ...
    Series Book 45 - Air Campaign
    A focused, illustrated history of NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. [THE CORRECT VERSION OF THIS EBOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD.]On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began military action to stop Serbia's campaign of repression during the Kosovo War. Initially planned to be a 72-hour operation, it took 78 days of sustained air warfare for Operation Allied Force to cause ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD