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Stephen Dando-Collins

Biography

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins is an award-winning military historian with numerous highly praised books on ancient history ranging from Imperial Rome to the American west to Australia, some of which include LEGIONS OF ROME and CAESAR'S LEGION. Today, Stephen’s books appear in many languages and he has an army of loyal readers wherever his books are published around the world, in countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Poland, Albania and Korea.

Stephen Dando-Collins

Books by Stephen Dando-Collins

Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
by Stephen Dando-Collins - History, Nonfiction

Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. Author Stephen Dando-Collins takes the reader into the rooms where Operation Chowhound was born, into the aircraft flying the mission, and onto the ground in the Netherlands with the civilians who so desperately needed help.

Rise of an Empire: How One Man United Greece to Defeat Xerxes's Persians
by Stephen Dando-Collins - History, Nonfiction

RISE OF AN EMPIRE tells the story of the real men and events depicted in the movie, 300: Rise of an Empire --- focusing on the Athenian general Themistocles, one of the world's greatest warriors. He became warlord of Greece, built their navy and, by uniting Greece to defeat Xerxes' fleet, enabled what we call western civilization.