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Ghost Riders - Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses (Paperback): Mark Felton Ghost Riders - Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses (Paperback)
Mark Felton 1
R335 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries of careful breeding, are scattered across rural Austria and Czechoslovakia in areas soon to be swallowed up by Soviet forces – there, doubtless, to become rations for the Red Army.

Their only hope lies with the Americans: what if a small, highly mobile US task force could be sent deep behind German lines, through fanatical SS troops, to rescue the horses before the Soviets arrive. Just five light tanks, a handful of armoured cars and jeeps, and 300 battle-weary GIs must plunge headlong into the unknown on a rescue mission that could change the course of European history.

So begins Operation Cowboy, the greatest Second World War story that has never been fully told. GIs will join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world’s finest horses from fanatical SS and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe.

Operation Swallow - American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp (Hardcover): Mark Felton Operation Swallow - American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp (Hardcover)
Mark Felton 1
R617 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into concentration camp slaves. It begins in the snowy forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the charnel house of Buchenwald concentration camp in spring 1945. It is a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into a leadership position he didn't want and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders. Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair and salvation. Even more remarkably, it is a story that has barely been told before, a chapter of US military history that the American government tried to suppress for decades - and an uplifting story that deserves to be widely known.

Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (Paperback): Mark Felton Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (Paperback)
Mark Felton
R399 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The mistreatment and captivity of women by the Japanese is a little known and poorly documented aspect of the Second World War. In The Real Tenko, Mark Felton, who has a fast growing reputation as an authority and author on the war in the Far East, redresses this omission with a typically well researched yet necessarily gruesome account of the plight of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women in Japanese hands.Among the atrocities shamefully committed by the Emperor's forces were numerous massacres of nurses; that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore being perhaps the best known. The lack of respect for their defeated enemies extended in full measure to both European and Asian women and their vulnerability was all too often shockingly exploited. Those who found themselves imprisoned fared little better and suffered appalling indignities and starvation. Also covered are the hardships of gruelling marches under extreme conditions. Whereas the sexual enslavement of so called 'Comfort Women' has been regarded as affecting only Asiatic women, it transpires that this horror was experienced by whites as well.The Real Tenko is a disturbing and shocking testimony both to the callous and cruel behaviour of the Japanese and to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands.

Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape - The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape... Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape - The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape (Hardcover)
Mark Felton
R845 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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