Boulogne by Jon Cooksey
Boulogne - May 23 1940. A town under siege. A rampant German panzer division hammers at its gates. Panic in the street and chaos on the docks. Air Raids. Frightened refugees and dispirited Allied soliers scramble to escape. Churchill sends the Guards: the Irish and the Welsh, to help the French garrison stem the German tide. Two fine battalions with no support against an armoured division. A hopeless task. Hours later he pulls them out but some are left. The final act-riffles against tanks across the Bassin Napoleon. The last bullet. The bitter taste of surrender.-
Walking the Salient: Ypres
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Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge
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Rorke's Drift: Zulu War
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La Boiselle: Somme
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Bullecourt: Arras
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Arnhem: 2nd Parachute Battalion at the Bridge
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Walking the London Blitz: Battleground Special
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Neuve Chapelle: La Bassee
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Anzio: Italy 1944
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Accrington Pals Trail: Home and Overseas
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Loos - Hill 70: French Flanders
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Delville Wood: Somme
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Thiepval: Somme
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Sanctuary Wood and Hooge: Ypres
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Hill 60: Ypres
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Epehy: Hindenburg Line
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St Nazaire Raid : Operation Chariot - 1942
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Island: Nijmegen to Arnhem
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Aubers Ridge: Battleground Europe
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Gommecourt: Somme
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Fricourt-mametz: Somme
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Utah Beach: Vii Corps & 82nd and 101st Aitborne Divisions
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Cambrai: the Hindenburg Line
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Riqueval: Hindenburg Line
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Crete: the Airborne Division 1941 Battleground Mediterranean WWII
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Airfields & Airmen of the Somme
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Villers Bretonneux: Somme Battleground Europe WWI
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Guillemont: Somme
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Oppy Wood
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Gallipoli
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Operation Goodwood
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Edmund Blunden: Trails
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Monchy Le Preux: Arras
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1914: Mons
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Montauban: Somme
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Hamel: Somme
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Gold Beach: Jig Sector and West
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Fromelles: French Flanders
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Nijmegen: US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division
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Asiago: Italy
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Bourlon Wood
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Serre: Somme
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Gully Ravine: Gallipoli
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Airfields & Airmen of Cambrai: Battleground
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Juno Beach: Canadian 3rd Infantry Division
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In the Footsteps of the Red Baron
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Helles Landings: Gallipoli
Jon Cooksey was born in the village of Havercroft, near Royston and attended secondary school in Grimethorpe. During that time, he represented South Yorkshire as the Captain of the South Yorkshire Schools Rugby Football Union under 15 and under 16 teams. He later studied at Leeds Polytechnic where he gained an Honours Degree in Education.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780850528145 |
| ISBN 10 | 0850528143 |
| Title | Boulogne |
| Author | Jon Cooksey |
| Series | Battleground Europe Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |