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A War of Empires - Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took pla ...Show more
A War of Empires - Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Drawing on over 30 years of ground-breaking research, best-selling author Robert Lyman expertly re-examines the so-called 'Forgotten War' in Burma, revealing it to be a ferocious clash of competing visions of empire, which would irrevocably change the future of both Britain and the Indian subcontinent f ...Show more
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire by Robert Lyman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Second World War. The plan is simple: to drive an old destroyer, packed with three tons of explosive, at full s ...Show more
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On the night of 28 March 1942 the Royal Navy and British commandos assaulted the German-held French Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire in one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War. Their plan was simple: to drive an old destroyer packed with three tons of explosive at full speed into the outer ...Show more
Operation Jericho - Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo Jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Raid Ser.
This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World ...Show more
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink Germ ...Show more
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho by Robert Lyman
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr had put many of its best operatives in prison, or worse. But in the lead up to Operation Overlord, 'D Day', the Resistance had neve ...Show more
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho by Robert Lyman
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
In February 1944, the French Resistance in the Amiens area was in turmoil. Its strength had been decimated by German aggression and the work of a number of traitors in their midst, and hundreds of its members languished in the city's formidable jail, awaiting an almost certain death at the hands of thei ...Show more
The Longest Siege : Tobruk - The Battle That Saved North Africa by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Beginning on 10th April, 1941, and lasting 240 days, the siege of Tobruk is a mesmerising tale of human endurance and heroism, as the Libyan port's 24,000 defenders met increasingly desperate attempts by Rommel's Panzer divisions to break through the hurriedly thrown-up defences. It was a battle of bayo ...Show more
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945 by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines in British naval service during WWII, and of the extraordinary men who crewed these dangerous vessels. The commando frogmen who rode the Chariots and operated as d ...Show more
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