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Kidnap in Crete by Rick Stroud
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general on the German-occupied island of Crete. In 1941 the German army invaded the strategically important Mediterranean island with the largest airborne ...Show more
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General by Rick Stroud
24.99 NZD
Category: Military
Rifleman : A Front Line Life by Rick Stroud
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself ...Show more
The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud
49.99 NZD
Category: History
On July 20th 1969, in one of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century, Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon. The distant object that had fascinated mankind for millennia suddenly got much closer. "The Book of the Moon" is an utterly original and absorbing account of all things lunar, ...Show more
The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel by Rick Stroud
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. Led by Major Geoffrey Barkas and including among their number the internationally renowned stage magician Jasper Maskelyne, the unit's projects became a crucial battlefield w ...Show more
The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel by Rick Stroud
24.99 NZD
Category: Military
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks two entire divisions were conjured ...Show more
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