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• The Mean Machine (aka The Longest Yard) | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £19.19   |  Saving you £3.79 (23.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First Down...And Ten Years To Go. In this rough-and-tumble yarn actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship. Reynolds plays one time pro quarterback Paul Crewe now behind bars for leading State Police on a wild chase in a ""borrowed"" car. He agrees to organize a prisoners'

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 4 | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The climax of the battle is covered in the fourth and final disc in the series, with programmes on the final attack and defeat of the Imperial Guard and the Pursuit by the Prussians in the immediate aftermath of the battle to Genappe. The final programme in the collection covers the last battle of the Napoleonic era fought at Wavre, the day after Waterloo and the Allied pursuit to Paris. This disc also contains programmes that detail the clothing and equipment of a Highlander and a soldier of the 95th Rifles.

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 3 | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This series of documentaries is a major project that will chart the entire 1815 Waterloo Campaign in detail from Napoleon s return to France through the various battles and engagements to the pursuit to Paris and Napoleon s final abdication. The whole suite will total over five hours of programmes. Each of the four disks will contain three separate programmes that concentrates on aspects of the campaign or phases of the great battle itself. Each programme is filmed on the ground where the particular phase of battle was fought making this a unique project that fuses tactics and ground in a readily understood way with re-enactment and lavish use of both maps and diagrams.Vignettes provided by living historians illustrate the life of the Napoleonic soldier, along with his weapons and tactics. The period from mid afternoon until early evening on that terrible Sunday was the time, as Wellington described it, of hard pounding. The three programmes on this disc cover the Massed French Cavalry Attacks led by Marshal Ney, the battle fought by the Kings German Legion and the 95th Rifles to hold La Haie Sainte and the adjacent sand pit. The Prussian march to Plancenoit and the bloody battle fought in and around the village is the subject of the third programme.

• Market Garden Collection - Arnhem Part 1 | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £12.16   |  Saving you £4.83 (39.72%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle of the North West European Campaign, both then and now. From its inception in the sixteen cancelled airborne operations during August, we will chart the problems, many of which were ignored by men desperate to get into battle, the compromises and mistakes that pitched lightly armed and ill equipped paratroopers and glider infantry into an unequal struggle against an SS panzer troops. We follow the eight mile route that 2 Para took to reach the bridge at Arnhem, slipping through the German defences.

• Still Burning - Stiff Little Fingers | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Formed in 1977 Stiff Little Fingers are one of the seminal punk bands. Formed in Belfast their lyrics melded the personal and political with infectious hooks to create a unique sound that has influenced a generation. Celebrating their 30th Anniversary in 2007 and shot during their successful March 2007 tour 'Still Burning' presents the band's definitive story. Directed by Don Letts and with contributions from many of the members through the years and other punk luminaries including Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks) and Mike Peters (The Alarm) it charts the ups and downs the splits and reformations.

• The Waterloo Collection DVD Part 2 | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hougoumont & D'Erlon's Attack is the second part in the explosive four part series, The Waterloo Collection, which covers the entire Waterloo Campaign from Napoleon's return to France and ensuing battles to his final pursuit and eventual surrender to the British. Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of the opposing armies. While the guns of the Grand Battery thundered in the centre, French columns bore down on the Hougoumont chateau and farm complex, which protected Wellington's flank held by the Guards and their German allies. Thus began an epic 'battle within a battle' that sucked away valuable troops from Napoleon's main attack, causing Wellington to declare that 'the battle turned on the closing of the gates at Hougoumont'.

• Arnhem: Battle of the Woods - Market Garden Collection | DVD | (31/08/2012) from £19.76   |  Saving you £-2.77 (-16.30%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Jumping in to Drop Zones eight to ten miles from Arnhem on the second day of Operation Market Garden was always going to be difficult for Brigadier Shan Hackett's 4th British Parachute Brigade. With little information on how 1 Para Brigade's battle went the day before or what faced them on the ground the stage was set for an epic battle. Author John Waddy, veteran company commander in 156 Para Battalion and a team of some of the best Arnhem experts take the viewer to the ground where 4 Para Brigade tangled with the SS troopers of the Hohenstaufen Panzer Division in the woods to the west of Arnhem in what was to be an unequal but heroic battle; the result of a flawed concept and plan.

• Market Garden Collection - Hell's Highway | DVD | (21/06/2012) from £20.85   |  Saving you £-3.86 (-22.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Montgomery’s brainchild, Operation Market Garden, was designed to end the war by Christmas 1944 and clear away Hitler’s V weapons from the North Sea Coast. Following the collapse of the German Army in Normandy and its flight back across northern France, it seemed that a bold move to seize the three major and numerous other waterways across Holland would place the Second British Army beyond the Rhine. This would deliver Germany’s powerhouse the Ruhr, put the Allies on the North German Plain and the road to Berlin. The Allies had, however, outran their supplies and the Germans were staging an amazing strategic recovery. The BHTV team, made up of leading historians and battlefield guides, probe the controversial background to Operation Market Garden. Early afternoon on 17 September 1944 the 101st US Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), who parachuted onto Drop Zones dictated by the air planners wish to avoid ‘unnecessary casualties from flak’ around Eindhoven, had been denied a coup de main against the first significant canal bridge at Son. With plenty of warning of the approach of the US paratroopers, the Germans blew the bridge arguably dealing Market Garden a potentially mortal blow. Meanwhile, XXX Corps were having trouble of their own after a start at 1430 hours. A mixture of SS and Fallschirmjger troops despite a bombardment halted the breakout of the Guards Armoured Division in its tracks! However, by nightfall the Irish Guards were through the German defences and had reached Valkensward 10 miles along the 60 mile route to Arnhem. The delay in reaching and bridging the canal at Son was significant but German resistance was hardening as troops were rushed to attack the airborne carpet and single route the British intended to use across Holland. With the bridging operation complete the Grenadier Guards Group covered the next 30 miles to Nijmegen in little over three hour. Market Garden looked as if it were back on schedule despite the setbacks and Arnhem was only ten miles further on. It was one thing to reach Nijmegen in forty hours but for the American Paratroopers holding the route open proved to be a different matter! The road north across Holland quickly earned the well deserved nick name ‘Hell’s Highway’. The paratroopers had to constantly fend of the growing number of enemy troops who were mounting increasingly strong attacks from east and west. Lacking numbers on the ground and transport it was an unequal battle to keep the road open. The Germans only had to get within firing range of the road elevated across the surrounding flat terrain to effectively close the vital highway and starve the troops fighting to reach Arnhem of all kinds of combat supplies. The team will examine successes and failures on Hell’s Highway to find out whether the reasons for failure can be found on here or was it soldiers of two nations fighting alongside each other to execute a fatally flawed plan?

• Nijmegen - Market Garden Collection | DVD | (19/07/2012) from £15.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.92%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Documentary which looks at the attempts by allied forces in WWII to gain control over a bridge in Nijmegen. With the help of archive footage as well as newly filmed re-enactments, the film gives a detailed account of the battle, drawing on information from historians and an eyewitness account from Lord Peter Carrington who crossed the Nijmegen bridge with British tanks.

• Glider Pilot Regiment | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £16.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (21.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Selection and training for the Army's Glider Pilot Regiment was both vigorous and thoroughly demanding. GPR veterans recall their experience of training to be members of one of the British Army's new elite regiments. Once they had survived the initial toughening up it was on to elementary fixed-wing flying with the RAF and then on to gliding in a variety of aircraft including the Horsa Glider. Using an exact full-size replica of the Horsa Glider built at RAF Shawbury the team gain an insight into the construction size and flying characteristics of this iconic airplane. Veterans explain how the aircraft handled and the controls they used in their five mile glide from six thousand feet. The operations of the Glider Pilot Regiment are covered from the first small scale attempt to destroy the German Heavy Water plant in Norway through to the near disasterous first major commitment at night to the invasion of Sicily in July 1943

• Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge | DVD | (30/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This DVD charts the slow development of British airborne forces and the directive given by Churchill in June 1940 to form both the Parachute Regiment and the glider air-landing brigades. We follow the plan to capture the two bridges over the canal and river between Caen and the sea from a germ of an idea through preparations for it's delivery as one of the most successful small-unit actions of all time in the opening hours of D-Day.

• Le Cateau | DVD | (30/05/2014) from £11.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (29.40%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Having temporarily checked the Germans at Mons the BEF had no alternative but to withdraw as they were outnumbered by the enemy and Lanrezac's Fifth French Army was falling back. The Germans however were soon in hot pursuit sensing the BEF were at their mercy. In a series of rear guard actions the BEF managed to hold – just. Despite Field Marshal French's instructions General Smith-Dorrien knew that he had to turn and fight on the open chalk hills above the town of Le Cateau. Here II Corps stood as the German pressure mounted and a desperate battle resulted as more and more German troops came into action; men fell guns were lost and saved but again the BEF were able to escape. The retreat now began in earnest and repeated torturous marches followed with little food and rest testing even the sternest of constitutions; blisters burst and blood oozed from the boot. The Germans found the march equally challenging and at Nery once again the British Cavalry turned on the enemy and checked them. The retreat continued ever closer to Paris. Little did the Allies know that the German Schlieffen Plan was unraveling … The BHTV team again take the viewers to the heart of the action to examine weapons tactics and raw heroism as they tell the story. Illustrated with maps and location scenes they make this most complicated of British battles easily understandable.