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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
A St Helena Who's Who details the island of St Helena and its
administration, including military, naval and civil offices as well
as the overall population in the 1820s and expenses. A must have
for Napoleon historians, this comprehensive book chronicles the
residents of Longwood, the 'Who's Who' of St Helena and what
flag-ships were stationed there. As well as listing the regiments
based on the island such as the 53rd Foot Regiment (2nd Battalion)
and artillery and engineers, Napoleon's visitors to the island are
recorded as well as the chronology of his death, the construction
of his tomb and reports on the post-mortem examination. Also, Sir
Hudson Lowe and the East India Company involvement in the island
are exhaustively covered as are stories of military figures,
marriages and the abolition of slavery.
In 1963, a frustrated President Kennedy turned to the Pentagon for help in carrying out subversive operations against North Vietnam- a job the CIA had not managed to handle effectively. Thus was born the Pentagon's Special Operations Group(SOG). Under the cover name"Studies and Observation Group," SOG would, over the next eight years, dispatch numerous spies to North Vietnam, create a triple-cross deception program, wage psychological warfare by manipulating North Vietnamese POW's and kidnapped citizens, and stage deadly assaults on enemy soldiers traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Written by the country's leading expert on SOG, here is the story of that covert war-one that would have both spectacular and disastrous results.
I have found that there are many people who do not have any
knowledge of the Great War. But we should remember it, as nearly a
million people died. Their names are written on memorials all over
England, as well as France and Belgium. Do not forget them and the
sacrifice they made.
Two days after Christmas 1944, during the harshest winter in living
memory, 33 SAS troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano,
Northern Italy. Carried out in broad daylight, the parachute drop
was intended to deceive observing enemy forces into believing that
a full parachute brigade of 400 men had landed behind them. Drawing
on post-op reports and memoirs, this book is a fictionalised
account written from the perspective of one of the rank and file
parachutists who took part in the operation: the author's father.
Scrupulously researched and richly illustrated, Hann's personal
narrative brings to life the co-ordinated attemptsof the SAS and
local partisans to engage and evade the enemy. For the first time,
Hann provides a detailed account of some of the devastating
setbacks and triumphs of Operation Galia: one of the hardest fought
and most successful operations of the Second World War.
This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications,
and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.
This manual lists the different types of fuzes fitted to both
British and German artillery and trench mortar projectiles and
details how 'safe' they are to handle.
'Absolutely extraordinary ... Findlay reveals a vast, hidden
European story that few nations have ever been brave enough to
confront' Keith Lowe' 'Beautifully written, poignant and acutely
perceptive' Sinclair McKay 'Moving and powerful' Julia Samuel
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In My Grandfather's Shadow is an unflinching, thought-provoking
fusion of memoir and history, and an exploration of the hidden
scars left across generations by the conflict and horrors of the
Second World War. In a quest to discover the truth about her German
grandfather, first a proud Wehrmacht General serving on the Eastern
front, then a broken POW on trial for Nazi war crimes, Angela
Findlay travels across Europe and Russia to uncover the untold
story of millions of Germans long buried not only in guilt and
shame but also trauma. Carefully breaking the silence surrounding
so many of World War Two's perpetrators, she challenges widespread
binary narratives and offers a way forward that allows the
intergenerational wounds to heal and us all to grasp the urgent
lessons of the darkest episode in modern history. Brave, profoundly
insightful and moving, In My Grandfather's Shadow is a courageous
look at a taboo subject and raises important questions about how
and why we should remember the past.
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First Wave
(Paperback)
Kenneth James Stuart Ballantyne
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R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Perhaps one of the most memorable sights in the Second World War
was the arrival in Scapa Flow of the Home Fleet after the
successful sinking of Scharnhorst in the last week of 1943. Harry
Semark was one of the few civilians privileged to witness it. This
and other of his eye witness accounts, remembered with such clarity
down the years, add value to the record of what was a monumentous
six years in the history of not only these isles but most of the
world. This book describes with complete accuracy and in a most
unassuming way, the real story of the varied service that one man,
like thousands of others, gave ungrudgingly largely unnoticed and
unrewarded, to keep the Naval War machine, ready to fight and win.
Harry Semark makes light of the hardships the world often worked
in, in biting weather on large guns with practically no assistance,
being expected to analyse and make good faults as requested by the
Gunnery Officer (this was World War II practice). It is to his
credit that he invariably found a way to achieve the aim, be it
converting a fishing drifter for its self-protection to modifying a
battleship's 15" guns to allow it to engage and destroy the enemy.
A technical expert, he makes gunfitting come alive, this obvious
zest for knowledge and life ensures that the cameos he paints are
always vital and fascinating.
Foreword by Dan Snow. Ten holders of the Victoria Cross, the
highest British military honour - for 'valour in the face of the
enemy' - are associated with the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent,
UK. They include the very first VC to be awarded (in the Crimea,
1856).
The authentic description of a glider pilot's experience at the
Battle of Arnhem in 1944, from the take-off to his escape. A
graphic, detailed, and most absorbing account.
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