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  • Carlson’s Marine Raiders

    Makin Island 1942

    Serie Bok 44 - Raid
    On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific.This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier; the Raiders were to destroy the ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

  • The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid

    The Philippines 1945

    Serie Bok 14 - Raid
    On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp.Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by Alamo Scouts, local guerrillas, and amphibious tractors, they seized the element of surprise, and ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

  • Carlson’s Marine Raiders

    Makin Island 1942

    Serie Bok 44 - Raid
    On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier; the Raiders were to destroy the ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

  • The Cabanatuan Prison Raid

    The Philippines 1945

    Serie Bok 3 - Raid
    On 27 January 1945 the 6th Ranger Battalion and the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit (the Alamo Scouts) began the most dangerous and important mission of their careers to rescue 500 American, British and Dutch prisoners-of-war held at a camp near Cabanatuan. This daring plan was fraught with difficulties – the rangers had to struggle with harsh jungle terrain, 30 miles behind enemy lines ... Les mer

    142,89 kr

  • The Great Locomotive Chase

    The Andrews Raid 1862

    Serie Bok 5 - Raid
    In April 1862, the stage was set for one of the greatest locomotive chases in history. Union forces planned to steal a train and travel at high speed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, disabling the line as they went, in order to cut off vital rail supplies to the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta, Georgia, some 100-plus miles to the southwest. What they hadn't banked on was the dogged determination of ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

  • The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid

    The Philippines 1945

    Serie Bok 14 - Raid
    On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by Alamo Scouts, local guerrillas, and amphibious tractors, they seized the element of surprise, and ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

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  • Storming Monte La Difensa

    The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943

    av Bret Werner ...
    Serie Bok 48 - Raid
    In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was part of the formidable German defences overlooking the Allies' planned route to Rome via Monte Cassino.In the First Special Service Force's first combat in the Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training in mountain and winter warfare to scale the peak, capture it, and then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. ... Les mer

    165,59 kr

  • Israel’s Lightning Strike

    The raid on Entebbe 1976

    av Simon Dunstan ...
    Serie Bok 2 - Raid
    The Israeli Special Forces' operation at Entebbe goes down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted.On 27 June 1976, four terrorists – two of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two of the German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group – highjacked a passenger jet and forced a landing in Entebbe, Uganda. Here they were met by reinforcements, and – ... Les mer

    174,22 kr

  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    av John Prados ...
    The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and ... Les mer

    80,48 kr

  • US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman

    Guadalcanal 1942–43

    Serie Bok 8 - Combat
    The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many ways came to typify the island-hopping war in the Pacific.This book not only explores the differing tactics and equipment used by the two combatants but also shows how the challenges of fighting in inhospitable tropical jungles impacted on soldiers on the ground, as combatants had to deal not only ... Les mer

    142,89 kr

  • Mosquito Mayhem

    de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

    "This is the book that puts the flesh on the bones of its reputation as one of the best aircraft of the Second World War." — Pennant MagazineThe flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous flash ... Les mer

    53,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Sherman's March

    av Burke Davis ...
    A New York Times–bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus