Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 62 results for “stephen wynn”
Skip side bar filters

  • Holocaust

    The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "Trace[s] the developing Holocaust from the Odessa Massacre . . . a very good point to start into understanding this terrible genocide." — FiretrenchIn Holocaust, Stephen Wynn looks at the build up to the Second World War, from the time of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, as the Nazi Party rose to power in a country that was still struggling to recover politically, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise & Fall of Imperial Japan

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Nearly a century of Japanese Imperial rule, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the end of WWII, is explored in this sweeping history.Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan established itself as a world power through rapid industrialization and militarization. Aligned with the Entente Powers during the First World War, Japan made a proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shetland 'Bus'

    Transporting Secret Agents Across the North Sea in WW2

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland's Shetland Islands.The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a route across the North Sea between Norway and the Shetland Islands, north-east of mainland Scotland. The first voyage was made by Norwegian sailors to help their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.Seized by the Nazis on February seven, 1943, on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, Itter Castle was changed into a five-star prison for a number of high-ranking French dignitaries, both civilian and military in just ten weeks. In the final days of the war, in May ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • St Nazaire Raid, 1942

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and British Commando units. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and the Atlantic Ocean, has a dry dock that was capable of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dieppe 1942

    Operation Jubilee—A Learning Curve

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy under a blanket of cover provided by the RAF. The official reason for the raid was to capture the town's port, gather relevant intelligence, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aftermath of Dunkirk

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Images of War
    Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome. There has been much debate in the years since the end of the war concerning the "Hitler Halt" order, which was given to German Panzer units waiting patiently on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hartlepool in the Great War

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the interests of both national security and for their own personal safety. They were held at the towns Stranton Ice Rink. Their numbers included the ex ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Isle of Thanet in the Great War

    Broadstairs–Margate–Ramsgate

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and Commonwealth troops returning from the fighting in France and Belgium, it was their first sight of England in months. The Isle of Thanet just happened to be on one of the routes German Zeppelins and Gotha Bombers took on their way to try and bomb ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Police Firearms Units

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The role of the police firearms officers is possibly one of the most thankless jobs there is in a non-military environment. Home Office figures for March 2022 to March 2023 show there were 6,038 police officers throughout England and Wales who were authorised to carry firearms for operational purposes, out of a total of 149,572 officers overall - the culmination of a four-year decline in firearms ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalag 383 Bavaria

    A History of the Camp, the Escapes & the Liberation

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Stalag 383 was somewhat unique as a Second World War prisoner of war camp. Located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills in Hofenfels, Bavaria, it began life in 1938 as a training ground for the German Army. At the outbreak of war it was commandeered by the German authorities for use as a prisoner of war camp for Allied non-commissioned officers, and given the name Oflag lllC. It ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Surrender of Singapore

    Three Years of Hell 1942–45

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way to countries such as Australia and New Zealand. All of that changed with the outbreak of the Second World War.Despite Major-General William Dobbie, the General Officer Commanding Malaya between 8 November 1935 and August 1939, warning that Singapore could be conquered by the Japanese, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus