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  • The Capture of U-505

    The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944

    af Mark Lardas ...
    Serier Bog 58 - Raid
    U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats.On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a ... Læs mere

    141,11 kr.

  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    af Mark Lardas ...
    Serier Bog 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid. Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Læs mere

    147,53 kr.

  • Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act

    The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

    af Mark Lardas ...
    Serier Bog 22 - Raid
    On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat.Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline.This book recounts ... Læs mere

    107,04 kr.

  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    af Mark Lardas ...
    Serier Bog 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid.Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Læs mere

    147,53 kr.

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    A huge column of blood red smoke rose a thousand feet as the battleship USS Arizona blew up. The USS Oklahoma capsized. The California, Nevada and West Virginia were all sunk at their moorings. 181 Japanese warplanes had attacked the US Pacific Fleet as it lay at anchor in Pearl Harbor. There had been no formal declaration, but the United States of America was now at war...Read about the Japanese ... Læs mere

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  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation ... Læs mere

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

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  • The Conquering Tide

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  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

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  • The Shores of Tripoli

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