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Allied Assault on Normandy, June 1944
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Canadian Dream of an English Country Boy

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World War I Book The Canadian Dream of an English Country Boy This book is about my Grandfather prior to World War I. How he emigrated in 1912 into the middle of Canada where there was nothing – just indigenous people; how he helped build up Canada, joined the Canadian Army in 1917, and was […]

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French Resistance & SOE (2nd Edition)

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This edition includes SAS operations and the Jedburgh teams sent into France before D-Day.
It includes a write-up of many of the agents that went into occupied France.  Find out why so many networks were compromised and learn who the four double agents working for the Gestapo were. It also includes all the training schools and gives more detail of the networks set up in France.

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RAF Airfields – Ground Attacks

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In 2019 I attended a military event at the WWII Airfield of RAF Detling in Kent and somebody told me about the air attack on the 13th of August 1940 (Aldertag – Eagle Day) on this airfield where a control tower was destroyed and 43 WAAFs were killed and blown apart. Their Grandfather had to dig a trench for their bodies. Their deaths had not been recorded and the personal records were destroyed.

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United States Beaches

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US Beaches and US Operations in Normandy June 6th 1944 to D-Day plus 8.
This book absorbs the three current books I have previously written into one book. It is a consolidated book, with more information on the landings.

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British & Canadian Beaches

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A Consolidated Book combining the first 4 Books in the Series: 6th British Airborne Division; British 3rd Army Deployments at Sword Beach; Canadian 3rd Army Deployments at Juno Beach; British 50th (Northumbrian) Division Deployments at Gold Beach on June 6th 1944.

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Why I Wrote These Books

The “D-Day War Diaries” Project I visited the Normandy beaches in May 2014, and decided to write a book on each beach, being emotionally moved when I visited the beaches. This project is not just only to raise money for the Royal British Legion, but to honour the men who are buried in Normandy. I […]

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Background to D-Day

D-Day Preparations In 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed the overall strategy to win the war at the Tehran conference. The plan was to attack the Germans from the East and open a second front in the west either at the Pas de Calais or Normandy.  A commander had to be appointed. Eisenhower was appointed […]

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Operation Overlord

Allied Operation to Recover Europe The Allied Operation to recover Europe from German Occupation, decided at Casablanca Conference from 14-24 January 1943, between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. The landings date were forced by Stalin at the Tehran Conference (EUREKA) in December 1943 to relieve the pressure on Russia from the Axis troops. It took three […]

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