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Big Week by James Holland
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle ...Show more
Brothers in Arms - One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Through compelling eye-witness testimony and renowned historian James Holland's expert analysis Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe from the powerful perspective of one of the greatest tank regiments- the Sherwood Rangers.It took a certain type of courage to ser ...Show more
Burma '44 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was one of the most astonish ...Show more
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then ...Show more
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries sup ...Show more
Fortress Malta: An Island under seige 1940-1943 by James Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In just two months in 1942 - March and April - more explosives were dropped on this 17 x 9-mile Mediterranean island than on the whole of Britain during the entire first year of the Blitz. In 1942 Malta was the most important strategic piece of land in the w ...Show more
Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance and a segment of Italian history that has been largely neglected. The war in Italy wa ...Show more
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American an ...Show more
The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943 by James Holland
$48.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\War in the West Ser.
By June 1941, Germany's war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London, while German U-boats wrought havoc on Allied shipping on the Atlantic. And yet, as James Holland shows at the start of The Allies ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression that no-one could counter. Within weeks the German armies were at the French coast and looking across at Britain, a country still reeling from the opening salvoes of the war. It seemed impossib ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom, propaganda and an interpretation skewed by the information available. ...Show more