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“alistair watts”

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  • Applied Photovoltaics

    Edited by Stuart R. Wenham, Martin A. Green, Muriel E. Watt, Richard Corkish, Alistair Sproul ...
    The new edition of this thoroughly considered textbook provides a reliable, accessible and comprehensive guide for students of photovoltaic applications and renewable energy engineering. Written by a group of award-winning authors it is brimming with information and is carefully designed to meet the needs of its readers.Along with exercises and references at the end of each chapter, it features a ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • New Zealand's France

    by Alistair Watts ...
    In New Zealand's France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective — one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand became British in the 1840s owes much, Dr Watts contends, to that other great colonial power of the time, France. The rich history of British ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Rommel's Backyard

    A memoir of the Long Range Desert Group

    by Andrew Gibson-Watt, Alistair Timpson ...
    This WWII journal takes readers inside an elite reconnaissance and raiding unit operating behind enemy lines in the North African campaign.As a young man entering the maelstrom of World War II, Alastair Timpson had the good fortune to find his way into the most romantic of special force units, the Long Range Desert Group. In Rommel's Backyard describes the various roles of the LRDG, all of which ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Long Range Desert Group, 1940–1945

    Providence Their Guide

    by David Lloyd-Owen ...
    "A very engaging and fine tribute to a small band of men whose impact on the North African campaign in particular was quite immense." —Pegasus ArchiveThis splendid record takes the reader behind enemy lines not only in North Africa but in Italy, the Aegean and the Balkans. The author, who commanded the LRDG, paints a vivid picture of the unit's colorful characters: for example, Ralph Bagnold who ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Patrol

    A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-1945

    by John Sadler ...
    From the author of D-Day: "an amazing tale of how the world's very first special force was created specifically for North Africa during WWII" ( Books Monthly).The origins of most of the West's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Long Range Desert Group

    Behind Enemy Lines in North Africa

    by W. B. Kennedy Shaw ...
    A "moving, exciting and authentic" chronicle of the British Army's legendary recon and raiding unit in the desert of North African during WWII ( The Observer).During its two-and-a-half years fighting in North Africa, from 1940 to 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the desert. This small, highly mobile force made a name for itself through daring exploits and vital ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943–1945

    Red Steamroller

    by Robert Forczyk ...
    The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II.By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fighting with Popski's Private Army

    by Park Yunnie ...
    This WWII memoir gives the inside story of Britain's legendary demolition squadron and their daring escapades in Italy and Norther Africa.During the Second World War, a Russian-born emigre named Vladimir Peniakoff emerged as a decorated officer of the British Special Forces in Cairo. Code-named Popski, he started the No. 1 Demolition Squadron—known as Popski's Private Army—charged with thwarting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1942

    Schwerpunkt

    by Robert Forczyk ...
    The author of Case White: The Invasion of Poland delves into the strategy and weaponry of armored warfare during the early years of the Russo-German War.The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Devil's General

    The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, "The Panzer Graf"

    by Raymond Bagdonas ...
    A detailed military biography of the most highly decorated Nazi regimental commander in WWII.The most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. He was serving with the 1st Panzer Division when the Polish campaign inaugurated World War II. Strachwitz's exploits as commander of a panzer battalion during the ... Read more

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  • Tank Commander

    From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close

    by Bill Close ...
    A remarkable World War II survival story and combat memoir by "an indestructible wartime tank commander" ( The Telegraph).In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, Bill Close served as a tank commander in Britain's Royal Tank Regiment—and he survived.His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Secret Defence Army

    Resisting the Nazi Invader

    by Arthur Ward ...
    By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real. In April Hitler's forces, invaded Norway and a month later began their assault on France and the Low Countries. The Anglo/French allies were routed. The British escaped to fight another day after evacuating the bulk of their armies at Dunkirk. When on 10 May Winston Churchill became Prime Minister he soon discovered that the nation's ... Read more

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