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  • Overture to Overlord

    The Preparations of D-Day

    by Francis Mackay ...
    Series Book 1 - Special Operations World War II
    The book describes the problems of instigating resistance in France and the slow development of the clandestine warfare and special operation forces, equipment, training, delivery, communication, command, control and intelligence techniques.It covers the wide variety of organizations involved including OSS, SAS, US Operational Groups, Polish 'Bardsea' teams, Jedburgh and Sussex teams, Inter-Allied ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pebble Island

    The Falklands War 1982

    by Francis Mackay, Jon Cooksey ...
    This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War.In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea King Helicopter on the Island. Their task was to destroy the 11 enemy aircraft located at the Airstrip on the Island and neutralize the Argentinean force posted there to guard it.The raid was successful and all the Aircraft were destroyed but debate still ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Touring the Italian Front, 1917–1919

    by Francis Mackay ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    The guide describes the ground and operations covered by the British, French and US Expeditionary Forces deployed from France to the area North of Venice between November 1917 and Spring 1919. These Forces supported the Italians after their disastrous defeat at Caporetto and helped stem the Austrian and German onslaught.This is the first guide to the Allied contribution and the Piave Defence line. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SAS Trooper

    Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy Occupied France and Italy

    by Francis Mackay ...
    A British Army veteran revisits his military career, sharing thrilling stories of Special Forces missions behind enemy lines during World War II.A pre-war Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Africa until he returned to the UK for parachute training. He volunteered and joined 2SAS in Scotland. His first behind-the-lines operation was in France (Op. Rupert) cutting railway lines, and he then ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asiago

    Italy

    by Francis Mackay ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    A battlefield guide to the scene of an Austro-Hungarian attack on the British Corps sector of the Allied front line on the Asiago Plateau, forty miles north of Venice in Northern Italy, on 15/16 June 1918. This comprehensive and attractive guidebook describes the terrain, the forces involved and the fighting, including the action leading to the award of two Vcs. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Final Plan

    by Kenneth S. Murray ...
    The Final Plan is based on historical figures and actual events that occurred at the end of World War II. Hitler’s girl friend, Eva Braun, is pregnant. Positive that she will bear him a son, the Fuhrer conceives a daring scheme for her to escape to Argentina.Forty seven years later, Jake Brooks, an Israeli intelligence agent, is drawn into a murder in London and the Nazi plot begins to unfold. ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • Prisoner Of War

    Voices from Behind the Wire in the Second World War

    by Charles Rollings ...
    'For you, the war is over.' These famous words marked the end of the Second World War for nearly half a million allied servicemen, and the beginning of a very different battle in captivity. Waged against boredom, brutality, disease, hunger and despair, it was a battle for survival, fought without the aid of weapons against fully armed enemy captors.Based on interviews and correspondence with ex ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vulcan 607

    by Rowland White ...
    It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . .April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. And fast.The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing Rommel

    A Novel

    by Steven Pressfield ...
    A thrilling WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox."Autumn 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • One Hundred Days (Text Only)

    by Admiral Sandy Woodward ...
    The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.On 5 April 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic. It soon became obvious they were sailing to war. But with no advantage in the air or on land and the vast distances ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On Paths of Ash

    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus