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D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector: The US Navy's Western Task Force Brian Lane Herder 9781472863621
RRP: $20.63$17.53A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg. The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval... -
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable True Story of WWII’s Most Daring Raid Robert Lyman 9781529440065
RRP: $14.18$9.55During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary,... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War Jacky Hyams 9781789296846
RRP: $14.18$9.64Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
Fortress Britain 1940: Britain's Unsung and Secret Defences on Land, Sea and in the Air Andrew Chatterton 9781636243450
$26.17Alone, unprepared and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain's position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the reality is very different. On land, sea and in the air,... -
A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun Dennis Newton 9781398125407
RRP: $15.47$13.15Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. Ranked sixth in the ‘ace of aces’ of the aerial campaign of summer 1940, he shot down at least fourteen enemy aircraft, mostly the Spitfire’s closely matched rival the... -
Operation Amherst: The Last Airborne Operation of WWII Joël Stoppels 9781399014663
RRP: $32.25$27.41In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night of 7 to 8 April 1945. This last airborne operation of the Second World War was carried out by 702 French (SAS) paratroopers. The... -
Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in WWII French MacLean 9780764368295
RRP: $47.72$28.06Of the 177 enlisted men who formed Company B in 1941, less than 7% percent were still with the unit in May 1945. Many of the absent 93% died hard, brutal deaths in combat. In the mold of the classic Band of Brothers, Col. French MacLean presents a... -
Suddenly an Englishman: 'The Life of Louis Hagen' and 'Arnhem Lift, A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment' Louis Hagen 9781803997193
RRP: $25.80$19.40Lousi Hagen, as a young German Jew in 1934, aged only 17, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. His time there was mercifully cut short when he was released to his school friend’s father,... -
The Royal Hospital Chelsea at War Martin Cawthorne 9781803995991
RRP: $25.80$19.40In May 1938 a confidential meeting was held between Officers of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Government Departments responsible for Civil Defence planning. All participants agreed that should war come, the 500 Chelsea Pensioners living in the Royal... -
Operation Tonga: The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944 Stephen Wright 9781804200551
RRP: $32.25$22.73From training for the operation to the evacuations after D-Day, this is the story of the Glider Pilot Regiment's role in the first stage of the airborne assault in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. Operation Tonga was vital to the success of D-Day...