Cawthorne Nigel: 90 books
A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien
A comprehensive introduction to the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
A very readable overview of Tolkien and his work, incorporating a brief biography, an examination of the books and a look at the process of filming his work, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga. It explores how Tolkien's background as a medievalist and linguist informed the languages...
Warrior Elite
31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In the bunker, the Führer still believed he could win the war. The Russian Red Army was ruthlessly rolling from the east towards the gates of Berlin. Overhead, British and American bombers were attacking in force. While outside, the corpses of dead German deserters were hanging from the lamp-posts....
Confirmed Kill
Heroic Sniper Stories from the Jungles of Vietnam to the Mountains of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, nothing like it had ever been seen before. Heralded by the insidious whine of Stuka dive-bombers, seven divisions of Panzers rolled across the border supported by motorized infantry. While tanks were punching gaping holes through Polish lines and racing...
A Short History of World War II
The Greatest Conflict in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths. This book covers war in Europe, war in the Pacific and war across a number of other fronts between 1939 and 1945. - Features...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In the heat and dust of the North African desert, British and Australian troops led by General Montgomery were waiting for an attack by Rommel’s Afrika Korps. The defences they had prepared required the Germans to run the gauntlet between six pounder anti-tank guns and dug-in tanks. Montgomery...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Just sixteen minutes into D-Day and their glider had already crash-landed onto the field. Scrambling out to storm the bridge, the young British soldiers began the fight of their lives. Five miles inside enemy territory, they ran headlong into the day that shaped the twentieth century, paving the...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel,...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the ruined houses, streets and sewers of Stalingrad there raged a ferocious hand-to-hand battle. The advancing Panzers proved vulnerable in the close quarter combat. Resistance was to the death as Stalin ordered that the city that bore his name must be held at all costs. For the Germans,...
Stalin
The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and 1913 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia eight times, escaping on seven...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Vietnam was the longest war in American history. US ground troops and their Australian, New Zealand and Korean allies were committed there for eight long years. In all, the American commitment in Southeast Asia lasted 15 years. During that time over 46,000 US servicemen died in battle. The Australian...
Fighting them on the Beaches
The D-Day Landings - June 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Fighting Them on the Beaches tells the story of one of the largest and most meticulously organized seaborne invasions in the history of warfare - the Allied Landings of June 6, 1944: D-Day. As the parachutists and glider troops of the US and British airborne divisions went in on the night of June 5,...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The air war waged by the Luftwaffe agaon the RAF in the summer and autumn of 1940 was the key event of the World War II. If it had been lost, Hitler would have added the British Isles to his portfolio of subject nations. It was Churchill who coined the phrase 'Battle of Britain' to underscore the peril...