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  • The Battle of the Bulge 1944

    Hitler's Last Hope

    by Robin Cross ...
    Series series Military Classics
    In December 1944, the German Army launched an attack through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium that aimed to seize the port of Antwerp and cut the Allied supply lines, hoping to force the Western Allies either to delay their advance on Berlin, or even agree a peace settlement. The Battle of the Bulge is a comprehensive history of Hitler’s last offensive in the West, the failure of which undoubtedly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man of the World

    The Travels of Winston Churchill

    by Robin Cross ...
    Winston Churchill was truly a man of the world. In his long career as a soldier and statesman, and latterly as a global celebrity and artist, he visited and wrote about the length and breadth of the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Cuba, the Indian subcontinent, North, South and East Africa and the Soviet Union. From colonial wars to Cold War, Churchill was witness to the ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Hell Hath No Fury

    True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq

    by Rosalind Miles, Robin Cross ...
    An engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in warWhen you think of war, you think of men, right? Not so fast. In Hell Hath No Fury, Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross prove that although many of their stories have been erased or forgotten, women have played an integral role in wars throughout history.In witty and compelling ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Operation Dragoon

    by Robin Cross ...
    Forgotten Victory is the story of “Operation Dragoon,” the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after “Overlord,” the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its predecessor, but it significance cannot be underestimated. Forgotten Victory provides for the first time a complete overview of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Warrior Women

    3000 Years of Courage and Heroism

    by Robin Cross, Rosalind Miles ...
    From earliest times, women gained access to leadership in times of conflict and proved themselves equal to the challenge of commanding during war. Women leaders abounded in the ancient world from Ireland to Israel, sometimes through the accident of birth, but often rising to power through naked opportunism and raw courage in the ranks - and it is no accident that women war leaders, like men, are ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hitler

    by Robin Cross ...
    As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised unrestricted power over his country's social, political and economic life. Hitler's belligerent re-armament programme, his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation and his territorially aggressive policies led to genocide and worldwide conflict on an unprecedented scale. Although the subject of numerous biographies and fictional ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 50 Events You Really Need to Know: History of War

    by Robin Cross ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    Human history - from the empires of the ancient world to the superpowers of the 21st century - has been inextricably shaped by conflict and the weapons that have been used to wage it. The technologies that have produced advanced civilizations have also been harnessed to the grim business of warfare. This short history, stretching from the chariot to the Stuxnet virus which disabled Iran's nuclear ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Meeting the Enemy

    The Human Face of the Great War

    by Richard van Emden ...
    A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Japan's Gestapo

    Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

    by Mark Felton ...
    From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police.The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sacred Stone

    by The Medieval Murderers ...
    In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters discover a strangely-shaped meteor which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious 'sky-stone' seems to bring good luck, healing a lame boy and guaranteeing a good catch of furs. But violence and murder soon follow in fortune's wake as the villagers fight and struggle among themselves to get control of the precious stone.Over the next ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Gestapo: A History of Hitler's Secret Police 193345

    A History of Hitler's Secret Police 1933–45

    by Butler, Rupert ...
    Series series World War II Germany
    From its creation in 1933 until Hitler's death in May 1945, anyone living in Nazi-controlled territory lived in fear of a visit from the Gestapo an abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei or secret state police. Young or old, rich or poor, nobody was beyond the attentions of a brutally efficient organization that spread its malign influence into every corner of Europe in the wake of the all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Band of Angels

    The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

    by Kate Cooper ...
    "A distinguished ancient historian's elegant study of the extraordinary women who helped lay the foundations of the early Christian church" ( Kirkus Reviews).According to most recorded history, women in the ancient world lived invisibly. In Band of Angels, historian Kate Cooper has pieced together their story from the few contemporary accounts that have survived. Through painstaking detective work ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus