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Operation Archery - the Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1942 by Ken Ford
Category: Military | Series: Raid 21
Operation Archery was the first true combined operation by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast were selected because they offered a perfect opportunity to damage German installations and morale. The raiding force ...Show more
Pixel Raiders #5: Lava Island by Bajo & Hex
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Pixel Raiders Ser.
Welcome to LEVEL 5: Lava Island A game of puzzle solving, boss battles and flaming balls of lava... In the final level, tricky puzzles lead Rip and Mei up a dangerous path to the volcano at the centre of Lava Island. There they must outsmart the game AND survive their toughest battle yet. But first, how ...Show more
Ride Around Missouri: Shelby's Great Raid 1863 by Sean McLachlan
Category: Military | Series: Raid 25
In July 1863, with the Confederacy still reeling from the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Union forces pushed deep into Arkansas, capturing the capital of Little Rock. In response, Colonel Joseph O. Shelby launched a daring raid to disrupt the advance. Taking 600 men and a section of light artiller ...Show more
Run The Gauntlet : The Channel Dash 1942 by Ken Ford
Category: Military | Series: Raid 28
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen - stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the ...Show more
Space Fortress (Pixel Raiders #4) by Bajo and Hex
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Pixel Raiders
Welcome to Level 4: SPACE FORTRESSa game of exploration, aliens and angry robots with lasers! After only just managing to escape Level 3, gaming heroes Rip and Mei now find themselves drifting through the galaxy in a leaky spaceship! Their only chance of escape is to follow kooky Georges impossible spac ...Show more
Speed Zone (Pixel Raiders #3) by Bajo and Hex
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Pixel Raiders
Welcome to LEVEL 3: Speed Zone A game of racing, powerups and dodging snarling GATORS... Rip and Mei find themselves driving a REAL car in a land where race tracks appear from nowhere! Pitched against the evil, cheating Gators, Rip and Mei have to drive to win, because if they don't get the Speed Zone C ...Show more
Stirling's Desert Triumph: The SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids 1942 by Gavin Mortimer
Category: Military | Series: Raid
The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. In North Africa, a convoy of 18 Allied jeeps carrying Special Air Service personnel appeared out of the early-morning darkness and drove onto the Axis landing strip a ...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
The Cockleshell Raid - Bordeaux 1942 by Ken Ford
Category: Military | Series: Raid
On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. Only two of the canoes made it to the target, but it was e ...Show more
The Fall of Eben Emael - Belgium, 1940 by Chris McNab
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Raid
In early May 1940, the fortress of Eben Emael was a potent sentinel over the Belgian-Dutch borderlands. The fortress covered 75 hectares on the surface, had 5km of tunnels underground and was studded with bunkers, gun turrets and casemates. Add a garrison of 1,200 men and the natural protection of 60m-h ...Show more