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“michael somerville”

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  • Sherwood Boys

    Biography of a Battalion Volume 2: September 1943–March 1946

    by Michael Somerville ...
    This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the full span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. It provides a unique view on the British army through the lens of a single battalion, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sherwood Boys

    Biography of a Battalion, Volume 1: April 1939–August 1943

    by Michael Somerville ...
    This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. It provides a unique view on the British army through the lens of a single battalion, drawing ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On to Victory

    The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23May 5, 1945

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Passchendaele Campaign, 1917

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakout From Juno

    First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • By Tank into Normandy

    by Stuart Hills ...
    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940

    The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

    by Jerry Murland ...
    The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.Some of the engagements are ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tragedy at Dieppe

    Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sand and Steel

    A New History of D-Day

    by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ ...
    The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts‘Fascinating’ Daily Mail‘Magisterial’ James Holland________________6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.This was D-Day, the most impor... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sky Warriors

    British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

    by Saul David ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War.The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • El Alamein

    The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War

    by Bryn Hammond ...
    El Alamein, Britain's victory in the deserts of North Africa in 1942, was the first major reversal of fortunes for Hitler's Third Reich.Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline ... Read more

    $15.69 CAD

  • Start Digging, You Bastards!

    Australian and New Zealand forces' desperate battle with Rommel and the Axis at El Alamein

    by Tom Gilling ...
    The gripping story of Australians' and New Zealanders' key role defeating the Axis in North Africa a true turning point of World War II'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about ... We felt it was a suicide mission.'July 1942: the North African campaign ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

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