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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
Putin Takes Crimea 2014 - Grey-Zone Warfare Opens the Russia-Ukraine Conflict by Mark Galeotti; Irene Cano Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was almost bloodless - fought as much through propaganda, cyber ...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
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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