Kate
The next ten Raid titles announced - thanks for your help in choosing them!
September 3, 2009 12:00 AM
Thanks to all of you for your fantastic feedback on what titles we should be publishing in the Raid series. I thought you might like to know the confirmed list of Raid subjects for 2010.
They are:
Zeebrugge 1918
Gran Sasso 1943
Cockleshell Raid 1942
Operation Barras 2000
Bruneval Raid 1942
Pegasus Bridge 1944
Havana 1762
Grierson’s Raid 1863
Los Banos Prison Camp Raid 1945
Dambusters Raid 1943
As you can see we have taken on board a number of your ideas and suggestions with more of course to follow in 2011!
And don’t forget that the first Raid titles publish this September…
COMMENTS
..looks interesting ..but once again £12 for only 64 pages is not value for money..
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I fail to see how a siege performed by superior forces (Havana) -15000 soldiers, 10000 sailors & marines, and 53 ships- in a 5:1 proportion (3000 soldiers, 6000 sailors, 12 ships) for two months qualify as a "raid". What would you call a "siege", then? Troy?
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Havana, yes - really "Outnumbered, outgunned, and against the odds"? :-)
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These look interesting. Though like others I'm confused about Havana being in the Raid series. I would think it's more a campaign, unless there was some raid during the seige that I don't know about.
I would love to see Operation Jaywick as future raid title. Reading about it, it sounds like a movie script rather than actual history.
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Grierson's Raid sounds intriguing -- if you get the right author for the book.
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Operation Jaywick was actually made into an Australian television movie titled "The Heroes" in 1988. I saw it over ten years ago and it was quite good.
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Any chance of a book about the Son Tay Raid/Operation Ivory Coast in North Vietnam on November 21st 1970?
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Thanks for all the feedback everyone - keep the suggestions coming!
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Please, for 2011, a title on the german raid on Granville 1945!
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