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Battle of Britain (Duty Calls #2) by James Holland
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Duty Calls
Pilot officer Archie Jackson, 19, is in control of the RAF's newest fighter aircraft, a Supermarine Spitfire. Now he has the Luftwaffe in his sights and only one thing matters: defending Britain. Suddenly planes are falling from the sky, exploding and spiraling into the English Channel. France has falle ...Show more
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
Big Week by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all . . .During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the m ...Show more
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
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. From the bestselling author of Normandy ...Show more
Burma '44 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
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: History
"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
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
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
Italy's Sorrow by James Holland
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 to the stalemate of the Gothic line and a segment of Italian history that has been la ...Show more
Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Normandy 44: D-Day and the Liberation of Europe by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
________________Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents anentirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign, it's time to draw someradically different conclusions.___________ ...Show more
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
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
Sicily '43: The First Assault On Fortress Europe by James Holland
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A major new history of one of World War II's most crucial campaigns-the first Allied attack on European soil-by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44 and a rising star in military history On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion ele ...Show more