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Jon Cooksey”s previous books include Harry”s War – The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater and Blood & Iron – Letters from the Western Front. As well as writing books, Jon has contributed feature articles to national newspapers and history magazines.Graham Mc Kechnie studied modern history at Queen”s College, Oxford before pursuing a career in sports journalism. He is currently Sports Editor at BBC Radio Northampton. He has produced and presented several radio documentaries for the BBC, including the stories of Reading Football Club in the First World War and Ronald Poulton Palmer the England rugby captain.




24 Ebooks by Jon Cooksey

Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to …
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€18.68
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to …
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€6.22
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Retreat from Mons 1914: South
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen …
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€6.20
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Retreat from Mons 1914: South
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen …
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€6.20
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: First Day of the Somme
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the …
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€4.96
Jon Cooksey & Brigadier Davies-Scourfield: Calais
This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and …
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€6.24
Harry Drinkwater: Harry’s War
‘I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and drop …
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€12.99
Jon Cooksey: Falklands Hero
At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War , 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiments assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up …
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€5.00
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Ypres
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the …
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€5.00
Jon Cooksey: Flanders 1915
By Christmas 1914 Britain’s Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers …
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€18.71
Jon Cooksey: Operation Chariot
By March 1942, mainland France had been under German occupation for almost two years. Every month that passed saw Germany bolster her defenses against an expected allied invasion. Every month that …
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€18.65
Jon Cooksey: Barnsley Pals
The true World War I story of one British town’s remarkable response to the message “Your Country Needs You.”   The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never …
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€11.15
Hugh Montagu Butterworth: Blood & Iron
Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent home from the Western Front have been forgotten. But after more than …
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€6.20
Jon Cooksey: 3 Para Mount Longdon
The author of Falklands Hero follows the Third Parachute Battalion through a ferocious battle to secure a key strategic position during the Falklands War.   This, the first in a series on …
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€6.21
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of French Flanders
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed …
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€6.26
Jon Cooksey: Boulogne
As German armored columns moved to seal off French ports from retreating British troops in 1940, Winston Churchill had few reserves he could commit. In an attempt to delay the Germans at Boulogne, …
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€6.26
Jon Cooksey: Barnsley Pals
The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derbys scheme, and in response to Kitcheners famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised …
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€6.24
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of Arras: North
A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War. The First World War battlefields to the north of Arrasincluding Vimy Ridgeare among the most famous and most …
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€6.23
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of Arras: North
A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War. The First World War battlefields to the north of Arrasincluding Vimy Ridgeare among the most famous and most …
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€6.24
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of Arras: South
An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917.Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields …
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€6.17
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of Arras: South
An illustrated and informative guide to the WWI battlefields south of Arras, France, including some of the most significant battles of 1917.Some of the most famous and frequently visited battlefields …
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€6.23
Jon Cooksey: Flanders 1915
By Christmas 1914 Britain’s Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers …
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€18.76
Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland: Battles of French Flanders
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed …
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€6.26
John Cooksey: Kelly’s War
Impeccably detailed and beautifully written, The Lost Olympian of the Somme is the story of an Olympic gold medallist and forgotten war hero. Frederick Kelly’s first-hand account offers a startling …
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€16.99