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EIGHTH ARMY: FROM THE WESTERN DESERT TO THE ALPS, 1939-1945
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Robin Neillands |
452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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The Battle of Normandy, 1944
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Robin Neillands |
What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland? How did the Germans, deprived of … |
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In the combat zone
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Robin Neillands |
The Green Berets. The Navy SEALs. The secret Delta Force. The British SAS. The Israeli Mossad. Almost every country has a special force unit in their military. But what do they do, whom do they recru… |
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The Dieppe Raid
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Robin Neillands |
The Dieppe Raid is one of World War II’s most controversial hours. In 1942, a full two years before D-Day, thousands of men, mostly Canadian troops eager for their first taste of battle, were sent ac… |
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A Fighting Retreat
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Robin Neillands |
From Indian independence to the return of Hong Kong to China, British military specialist Neillands thoroughly chronicles Britain's retreat from empire. He offers a paean to the empire and its soldie… |
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The Hundred Years War
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Robin Neillands |
This is the story of a war ... the Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a quarrel between cousins, Plantagenet and Valois, that embroiled two great nations in decades of blood a… |
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The Battle for the Rhine
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Robin Neillands |
In what may be his last book, the late Neillands, a distinguished British military historian, covers the campaign in northwestern Europe that commenced with the breakout from Normandy and ended with … |
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Winston Churchill
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Robin Neillands |
This is the story of Winston Spencer Churchill, a man who a huge majority in England believe to be the greatest Briton of them all. Churchill was a soldier, journalist, author, public speaker, member… |
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