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Showing 1 - 12 of 17 results for “gerry van tonder”
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  • Nottingham's Military Legacy

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Military Legacy
    Two years after landing on English soil in 1066, William of Normandy erected a strategic castle at Nottingham, thereby creating an enduring military nexus through to the modern era.On 22 August 1642, in his endeavours to quash Parliamentarian insurrection in the Midlands, King Charles raised his standard over Nottingham Castle, a rallying call to all Royalists to support their monarch. Loyalty to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irgun

    Revisionist Zionism, 1931–1948

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series History of Terror
    A history of the controversial underground group that employed political violence in its quest to create an independent Israel. Includes photos.In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi—National Military Organization—as "an underground, quasi-military organization with headquarters in Palestine . . . fanatical Zionists who wish to convert Palestine and ... Read more

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  • Malayan Emergency

    Triumph of the Running Dogs, 1948–1960

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    The story of the Anti-British National Liberation War, the long-running Cold War conflict that pit Communist guerrillas against the British in Malaya.In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, Malaya became a Cold War flashpoint . . .By the time of the 1942 Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had already been fomenting merdeka—independence ... Read more

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  • Korean War—Imjin River

    Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951–July 1953

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    An in-depth look at the disastrous consequences of misjudgment and impulsiveness by the United States during the Korean War.As of October 1950, a quarter of a million Communist Chinese troops, in twenty-seven divisions, had poured across the Yalu River into North Korea, with the singular objective of forcing General Douglas MacArthur's United Nations troops back across the 38th Parallel and into ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SS Einsatzgruppen

    Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series History of Terror
    "Provides important details about the Einsatzgruppen's leadership . . . Numerous photographs illustrate the text. A grim read, but a necessary one." — The Washington TimesIn June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing four million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational ... Read more

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  • Inchon Landing

    MacArthur's Korean War Masterstroke, September 1950

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    A history of this dramatic and risky amphibious invasion, with photos included.In the previous two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensive enclave—the Pusan ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Berlin Blockade

    Soviet Chokehold and the Great Allied Airlift 1948-1949

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europewith the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. ... Read more

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  • North Korea Invades the South

    Across the 38th Parallel, June 1950

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sino-Indian War

    Border Clash: October–November 1962

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    For a hundred years, British and Chinese territorial claims in the Himalayas conflicted, with Indian historians claiming that the region was the fountainhead of Hindu civilization. In the halcyon days of the Raj, London saw Afghanistan and Tibet as buffers against Russian and Chinese imperialism. In 1913, an ephemeral agreement between Britain, Tibet and China was signed, recognizing the McMahon ... Read more

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  • Echoes of the Coventry Blitz

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Smoke rises in the City of Three Spires, the smouldering remnant of the Nazi hate. Coventry and England will remember and repay.From August 1940, Hitlers Luftwaffe mercilessly and indiscriminately bombed cities and towns in Britain. The historic West Midlands city of Coventry did not escape the carnage as, night after night, high-explosive and incendiary bombs rained down on the hapless production ... Read more

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  • Korean War—Chinese Invasion

    People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    An examination of the causes and the direct outcome of North Korea's seemingly unstoppable thrust down the Korean Peninsula in 1950.In his first four volumes on the Korean War, the author traces the war's progress from the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the desperate American defense of the Pusan Perimeter, General Douglas MacArthur's daring and highly successful amphibious offensive at Inch ... Read more

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  • Mansfield Through Time

    by Gerry van Tonder ...
    Series series Through Time
    Mansfield Through Time offers a cameo glimpse of a town whose character and identity has, over the last few hundred years, been moulded, modified and tempered by coal mining and the Industrial Revolution. This ancient market town evolved into Nottinghamshire’s second largest town, a strategic trading hub from which roads radiate to all cardinal points. With the surrounding area rich in coal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD