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  • Target Rommel

    The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler's General

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "A compelling and revelatory account of one of the lesser known events of World War II . . . an inherently fascinating read." — Midwest Book ReviewFrom a German perspective, the highly decorated and well-respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets. His reputation had been gained early in the Second World War, whilst commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the ... Read more

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  • The Rise & Fall of Imperial Japan

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Nearly a century of Japanese Imperial rule, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the end of WWII, is explored in this sweeping history.Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan established itself as a world power through rapid industrialization and militarization. Aligned with the Entente Powers during the First World War, Japan made a proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ... Read more

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  • The Shetland 'Bus'

    Transporting Secret Agents Across the North Sea in WW2

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland's Shetland Islands.The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a route across the North Sea between Norway and the Shetland Islands, north-east of mainland Scotland. The first voyage was made by Norwegian sailors to help their ... Read more

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  • Holocaust

    The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "Trace[s] the developing Holocaust from the Odessa Massacre . . . a very good point to start into understanding this terrible genocide." — FiretrenchIn Holocaust, Stephen Wynn looks at the build up to the Second World War, from the time of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, as the Nazi Party rose to power in a country that was still struggling to recover politically, ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath of Dunkirk

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Series series Images of War
    Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome. There has been much debate in the years since the end of the war concerning the "Hitler Halt" order, which was given to German Panzer units waiting patiently on ... Read more

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  • Escaping Stalag Luft III

    From the Wooden Horse to the Great Escape

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Recounts the daring escapes from Stalag Luft III and the real stories behind their lasting fame.Stalag Luft lll was where Germany sent all its habitual Allied escapers, and the first British and Commonwealth POWs arrived there on 11 April 1942.The following year, on 29 October, what became known as The Wooden Horse Escape took place – the name deriving from the use of a gymnastic vaulting horse to ... Read more

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  • Joachim Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    A biography of one of Nazi Germany's most infamous and murderous SS officers.Joachim Peiper held the rank of Obersturmbannführer in Nazi Germany's fanatical Schutzstaffel, more commonly referred to as the SS. He spent the first two years of the war as an adjutant to the Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and leading member of the Nazi Party, Heinrich Himmler, where he would have witnessed at first ... Read more

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  • Against All Odds

    Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achieve what he did, during the time that he did, makes him even more remarkable. He was an orphan at just six years of age, and despite not wanting to, his step mother, Clara, had no choice but to place him and his elder brother, Edward, in to a children's home in the East End of London. As neither Walter ... Read more

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  • A History of Police Firearms Units

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    The role of the police firearms officers is possibly one of the most thankless jobs there is in a non-military environment. Home Office figures for March 2022 to March 2023 show there were 6,038 police officers throughout England and Wales who were authorised to carry firearms for operational purposes, out of a total of 149,572 officers overall - the culmination of a four-year decline in firearms ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.Seized by the Nazis on February seven, 1943, on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, Itter Castle was changed into a five-star prison for a number of high-ranking French dignitaries, both civilian and military in just ten weeks. In the final days of the war, in May ... Read more

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  • Women in the Great War

    by Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn ...
    A "superlative social history" of British women's efforts in WWI and how they led to the women's suffrage movement—includes photos ( Books Monthly).In this fascinating history, husband and wife coauthors Stephen and Tanya Wynn chronicle the effects of the Great War on the lives of women, and how those experiences shaped the women's suffrage movement. Before the war, women were employed as domestic ... Read more

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  • Disaster Before D-Day

    Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands

    by Stephen Wynn ...
    "An eye-opening exposé of the Pre-D-Day disaster and incident of friendly fire tragedy and cover up that was the Slapton Sands." —WorldWars.comThis is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named "Operation Tiger," on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of ... Read more

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