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  • Assault Crossing

    The River Seine 1944

    by Ken Ford ...
    The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second World War. Once the obstacle of the great river had been overcome, General Horrocks unleashed the armor of XXX Corps on their historic dash across northern France and Belgium.Assault Crossing Ken Fords classic account of this ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assault on Germany

    The Battle for Geilenkirchen

    by Ken Ford ...
    The author of A Luftwaffe General gives a detailed history of the Allied forces' brutal Operation Clipper during World War II.The Anglo-American battle for the Geilenkirchen salient in November, 1944, was infantry warfare at its worst, and it is described in vivid detail in this new edition of Ken Ford's classic study. The onset of winter saw the Allied advance from the Normandy beaches forced to ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assault on Sicily

    Monty and Patton at War

    by Ken Ford ...
    On the night of 9/10 July 1943, an Allied armada of 2,590 vessels launched one of the largest combined operations of the Second World War - the invasion of Sicily, Operation 'Husky'. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million British, Canadian, American and French soldiers, sailors, and airmen grappled with their German and Italian counterparts for control of this rocky outcrop of Hitler's ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Close To Hitler

    by Ken Ford ...
    Hitler had very definite views on the role of women in Nazi Germany; they were all destined to be wives and mothers. It was their duty to marry and produce lots of children for the future of the Third Reich. Set apart from these 'ordinary' women were a select group of others who were particularly close to him. They lived within his inner circle. They spent their lives in a cocoon, closeted amongst ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • St Nazaire 1942

    The Great Commando Raid

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 92 - Campaign
    A richly illustrated examination of the British raid on the port of St Nazaire: one of the most daring actions of World War II.The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base, contained the massive 'Normandie' dock, the only facility on the Atlantic coast large enough to accommodate the German pocket battleship Tirpitz.This book tells the story of the raid that ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Operation Neptune 1944

    D-Day’s Seaborne Armada

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 268 - Campaign
    The naval plan behind the Normandy landings that aided the success of the Allied invasion of France.The story of Operation Neptune was, of course, more than just a tale of planning, building and logistics. It had action a-plenty and the emotive tales of bravery, ingenuity and determination by the crews of the ships involved brought credit to the naval traditions of the Allied nations.Battleships, ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • A Poor Man's Life

    by Ken Ford ...
    England has been a land of rich and poor from time immemorial, with a pyramid of privilege that reaches down from the monarch to the lowest individual, each with their own station in life. The great and good always manage to leave their mark, but the poor live and die in anonymity. Throughout England's recorded history there have been many whose labouring existence marks them out as the lowest of ... Read more

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  • D-Day 1944 (3)

    Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 105 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings.At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Gazala 1942

    Rommel's greatest victory

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 196 - Campaign
    Illustrated by contemporary photos and specially commissioned maps, this book is a fascinating account of Rommel's greatest victory.Following a lull in the desert war which saw the Germans and British reinforce their armies, Rommel suddenly attacked British fortifications with an assault on the northern sector of the British line near Gazala.Pinning down the British in the north and outflanking ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Run The Gauntlet

    The Channel Dash 1942

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 28 - Raid
    In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Such A Dangerous Game

    by Ken Ford ...
    Lisbon 1941. Britain and Germany are at war inside a neutral country. The conflict between them has been reduced to a 'cat and mouse' game of espionage, dirty tricks and informants, as each side strives to gain the upper hand without upsetting their Portuguese hosts. Colonel Hulse, chief of Britain's MI6 station in the city believes he has a German mole in his organisation. The German Abwehr chief ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caen 1944

    Montgomery’s break-out attempt

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 143 - Campaign
    One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen.General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD