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31 produkter
Harry’s War
Av Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
232 kr
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‘I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German who had been dead for months.’Harold …
Calais: 30 Brigade's Defiant Defence May 1940
Av Jon Cooksey
Häftad, 1999
124 kr
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This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a …
Boulogne
Av Jon Cooksey
Häftad, 2001
122 kr
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Boulogne - May 23 1940. A town under siege. A rampant German panzer division hammers at its gates. Panic in the street and chaos on the docks. Air Raids. Frightened refugees and dispirited Allied soliers scramble to escape. Churchill sends the Guards: the Irish and the Welsh, to help the French …
Harry’s War
Av Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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‘I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German who had been dead for months.’Harold …
3 Para Mount Longdon
The Bloodiest Battle
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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This, the first in a new series on Special Operations, tells the story of 3 Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It was a battle which tested the discipline, comradeship and professionalism of the Paras to the limit; it was a battle which witnessed another posthumous VC; it …
Calais
A Fight to the Finish - May 1940
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a …
Pebble Island
The Falklands War 1982
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland. Their task? To destroy the Argentinian Pucara aircraft stationed …
The Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Casteau to Le Cateau
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First …
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South
Etreux to the Marne
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the …
The Battles of French Flanders
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, …
Battles of Arras: North
A Visitor's Guide; Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras - including Vimy Ridge - are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivalled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them.Visitors can …
Battles of Arras: North
Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
E-bok, 2019
149 kr
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A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War. The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras—including Vimy Ridge—are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this …
Battles of Arras: North
Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
E-bok, 2019
149 kr
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A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War. The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras—including Vimy Ridge—are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this …
The First Day of the Somme
Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on t
Edgar Mobbs
Rugby International, Sportsman, Soldier, Legend
Av Jon Cooksey, Graham McKechnie
Inbunden, 2025
462 kr
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When Edgar Mobbs ran on a rugby field, people watched. Eyes were drawn to him. A towering, upright presence - long of stride with knees raised high; elegant and powerful.When opponents came too close, out would shoot the famous Mobbs' hand-off - a carefully aimed piston smacking into the hapless …
Somme 1916-Beyond the First Day
Beaucourt and Mametz Wood to the Butte de Warlencourt
E-bok, 2021
88 kr
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In their second Visitor''s Guide to the 1916 Battle of the Somme Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland focus on the series of secondary battles that were key stages in the five-month struggle that followed the start of the offensive on 1 July. They take the visitor – and the reader – across the entire …
Battles of Arras: South
Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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The First World War battlefields to the south of Arras - including Battery Valley and Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt, and Bullecourt - are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivalled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this …
Battles of Arras: South
Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe
E-bok, 2020
93 kr
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An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917.Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields on the Western Front are just to the south of the Arras. These sites include Battery Valley and …
Battles of Arras: South
Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe
E-bok, 2020
93 kr
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An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917.Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields on the Western Front are just to the south of the Arras. These sites include Battery Valley and …
Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World War
Camera & Conflict
Av Jon Cooksey
Inbunden, 2017
95 kr
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When one thinks about the First World War, one doesn’t immediately imagine the soldiers recording the horrors of trench warfare by taking snaps with their pocket cameras. But that is exactly what happened.Launched in April 1912, the Vest Pocket Kodak was one of the world’s first compact cameras. …
Falklands Hero
Ian McKay–The last VC of the 20th Century
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
131 kr
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At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War , 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment’s assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up by an Argentine machine gun, it falls to Sergeant Ian McKay to act. The machine gun has to be …
Battle Lines Ypres
Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Sword’s new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are …
Flanders 1915
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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By Christmas 1914 Britain's Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers leapt at the chance to serve their country overseas and were soon on their way to the trenches and …
Boulogne
The Guards Brigade Fighting Defence - May 1940
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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As German armored columns moved to seal off French ports from retreating British troops in 1940, Winston Churchill had few reserves he could commit. In an attempt to delay the Germans at Boulogne, Churchill sent in two battalions of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards in a hastily-organized …
Barnsley Pals
The 13th & 14th Battalions York and Lancaster Regiment
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2008
30 kr
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The true World War I story of one British town''s remarkable response to the message "Your Country Needs You." The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby''s scheme, and in response to Lord Kitchener''s famous call for a million volunteers, local …
Operation Chariot
The Raid on St Nazaire
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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By March 1942, mainland France had been under German occupation for almost two years. Every month that passed saw Germany bolster her defenses against an expected allied invasion. Every month that passed saw Germany tighten her grip on Britain's transatlantic lifeline; menacing allied shipping from …
Barnsley Pals
The 13th & 14th Battalions York and Lancaster Regiment
Av Jon Cooksey
E-bok, 2008
30 kr
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The true World War I story of one British town''s remarkable response to the message "Your Country Needs You." The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby''s scheme, and in response to Lord Kitchener''s famous call for a million volunteers, local …
Operation Tonga
Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery
Av Jon Cooksey
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near …
Barnsley Pals: The 13th & 14th Battalions York & Lancaster Regiment
Av Jon Cooksey
Häftad, 2008
280 kr
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The 'Pals' battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their …
Battlefield Archaeology
Av Jon Cooksey, Tim Lynch
Häftad, 2007
208 kr
Tillfälligt slut
From cold war bunkers to Civil War sieges - Britain is littered with sites of military significance. This book shows the amateur enthusiast how to unlock the drama of a battlefield in his or her own area. It explains how to read a military map and apply it to the ground, how to interpret the clues …
