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Book serial number Osprey 72. Price £12.99. Post UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books £6.00). For Europe £4.00 (each) plus a one off charge of £3 recorded airmail charge) Rest of World £6.00 (each) To order your copy: secure order form Jutland 1916, Clash of the Dreadnoughts
by Charles London
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The only major fleet engagement of World War 1, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed - a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult' (a conviction that anything short of a Trafalgar-style annihilation was letting the side down). True, the German Fleet had sunk more ships and suffered fewer casualties, but the British had forced them to disengage and run for port and were still cruising off Denmark, spoiling for a fight. The careers of both Jellicoe and Scheer suffered little in consequence, though criticisms persist. The key question remains though: on the high seas, in this head-to-head, who fared worse? 'The truth', as they say, 'is down there'.
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Book serial number Osprey 58. Price £12.99. Post UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books £6.00). For Europe £3.00 (each) Rest of World £6.00 (each) To order your copy: secure order form First Ypres 1914
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The Graveyard of the Old Contemptibles In the Autumn of 1914 the professional BEF fought its last battle, aided by French troops under Foch, against a heavily reinforced German drive for the Channel ports. Although the German's failed to break through, the death knell had rung for the 'Old Contemptibles' as they were virtually wiped out in this brave defence. The names of the towns of La Brassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres first became known in this campaign and their echoes would be heard for the next four years.
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Book serial number Osprey 49. Price £12.99. Post UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books £6.00). For Europe £3.00 (each) Rest of World £6.00 (each) To order your copy: secure order form
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Mons 1914 The BEF's Tactical Triumph The first major clash of the Great War, Mons came as a nasty shock to the Imperial German Army. Assured by their command that they would sweep the French and their British allies in the BEF - 'that contemptible little army', into the sea in a matter of weeks; they were stopped in their tracks at Mons by a numerically inferior British force. Eventually forced to fall back by overwhelming German numbers, the British carried out a masterful fighting retreat across Belgium and northern France.
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Book serial number Osprey 61. Price £12.99. Post UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books £6.00). For Europe £3.00 (each) Rest of World £6.00 (each) To order your copy: secure order form Megiddo 1918, The Last Great Cavalry Victory
by Bryan Perrett
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In a spectacular campaign General Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force achieved breakthrough in Palestine that commanders on the Western Front had only dreamed of. Supported by Lawrence and his Arab irregulars, the Desert Mounted Corps swept across the Turkish rear destroying three armies in the process. Turkey's war was over and the days of the tottering Ottoman Empire were numbered. This was a British 'Blitzkrieg' with a speed of advance that stunned the world twenty years before Germany's Panzers rolled across Europe.
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Book serial number Osprey 11. Price £12.99. Post UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books £6.00). For Europe £3.00 (each) Rest of World £6.00 (each) To order your copy: secure order form Kaiserschlacht 1918
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The Final German Offensive The entry of the United States into World War 1 in April 1917 spelt disaster for Imperial Germany. The massive superiority in men and materials which the Americans could provide meant that if Germany had any chance of winning the war she must do so quickly. Randal Gray describes how, using special 'Stormtrooper' units and high-mobility tactics, the Germans shattered the front line broke into open country and came within a hair's breadth of winning the war.
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