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Kill Hitler - Operation Valkyrie 1944 by Neil Short; Peter Dennis (Illustrator); Mark Stacey (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
At the end of 1943 the SS and the Gestapo arrested several prominent Germans involved in plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, including Dietrich Bonhoffer, Klaus Bonhoffer, Josef Muller and Hans Dohnanyi. Others under suspicion, such as Wilhelm Canaris and Hans Oster, were dismissed from office in Januar ...Show more
Kill Rommel! - Operation Flipper 1941 by Gavin Mortimer; Peter Dennis (Illustrator); Johnny Shumate (Illustrator); Alan Gilliland (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
British Commandos attempted to assassinate Rommel, the Desert Fox, in a daring special forces raid in North Africa during World War II. On the night of 13 November 1941 two British submarines surfaced off the Libyan coast 250 miles behind German lines. It was dark and stormy, and the 28 commandos on boa ...Show more
Killing Bin Laden - Operation Neptune Spear 2011 by Peter Panzeri; Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
Category: Political SPECIALS | Series: Raid Ser.
On May 2, 2011 a ten-year manhunt drew to a deadly end as the men of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (a.k.a. SEAL Team Six) closed in on their prey, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Flown from Afghanistan by Army Special Operations Co ...Show more
Storm-333 - KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 by Mark Galeotti; Mark Stacey (Illustrator); Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely symbolic show of force, yet which quickly devolved into ...Show more
Storming Flight 181 - GSG-9 and the Mogadishu Hijack 1977 by Chris McNab
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
In 1977, Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, members of the German special missions group, GSG-9, stormed the plane, killing three of the terrorists and wounding the fourth, while avoiding any major harm to the hostages. This book details the backgroun ...Show more
Takur Ghar - The Seals and Rangers on Roberts Ridge, Afghanistan 2002 by Leigh Neville; Johnny Shumate (Illustrator); Alan Gilliland (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
In the early morning hours of March 4, 2002, a reconnaissance team of US Navy SEALs from the Tier One Naval Special Warfare Development Group attached to Joint Special Operations Task Force 11 attempted to infiltrate onto an Afghan mountain peak in support of what was then the largest operation conducte ...Show more
Tirpitz in Norway - X-Craft Midget Submarines Raid the Fjords, Operation Source 1943 by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator); Edouard A. Groult (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Raid Ser.
This study explores, in detail, the gripping tale of a handful of British X-Craft submarines which stole into one of the best-protected anchorages of World War II and crippled the great German battleship Tirpitz.In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the ...Show more
Who Dares Wins - The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes; Howard Gerrard (Illustrator); Mariusz Kozik (Illustrator); Pete Winner
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London. Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as "a brilliant operation'' the raid was a huge success for the SAS, rescuing 19 hostages with near-perfect military execution, although 2 hostages were killed by te ...Show more
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