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Operation Archery - the Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1942 by Ken Ford
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Category: War/Military | Series: Raid 21
Operation Archery was the first true combined operation by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast were selected because they offered a perfect opportunity to damage German installations and morale. The raiding force ...Show more
Operation Crusader 1941 by Ken Ford
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Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign
On 18 November 1941, the British launched Operation Crusader against the Axis positions in Africa. The plan was to bring the armour of the German Afrika Korps to battle and to beat it in open warfare with the now superior strength of Eighth Army, and to relieve the isolated British garrison at Tobruk. I ...Show more
Run The Gauntlet : The Channel Dash 1942 by Ken Ford
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Category: War/Military | Series: Raid 28
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen - stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the ...Show more
The Cockleshell Raid - Bordeaux 1942 by Ken Ford
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Category: War/Military | Series: Raid
On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was e ...Show more
The Mareth Line 1943 - The End in Africa by Ken Ford; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
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Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
The battle of El Alamein in World War II saw the shattering of Germany's hopes for victory in North Africa. From this point on the end was inevitable, as Rommel's forces began the long retreat that was to end in Tunisia in May 1943 when, hemmed in by British and American forces on all sides, over 250,00 ...Show more
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