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  • THE LAST CAVALRY SWORD
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    THE LAST CAVALRY SWORD
    ANTHONY C. BURKE
    This book tells the story of the last sword ever designed by a major power for its army to use as a weapon, not as an article of a dress uniform. The sword was the U.S. Model 1913 Cavalry Saber; the designer was George S. Patton, then a lieutenant on the staff of the Army chief of staff. Patton participated in the modern pentathlon in Stockholm in 1912, which included fencing, ...

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  • OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
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    OKINAWA: THE LAST NAVAL BATTLE OF WW2
    JOHN GREHAN
    Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics of the US Tenth Army and the US Marines, as well as the unrelenting defiance of...

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  • A PRISONER OF STALIN
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    A PRISONER OF STALIN
    CHRISTIAN HUBER / GERHARD EHLERT
    Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufklärungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe’s 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he came from a family that spoke out against Hitler and the Nazi regime, he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe. He went on to undertake combat patrols under the most extreme circumstances....

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  • FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE BIG SCREEN
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    FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE BIG SCREEN
    MELODY FOREMAN
    Look closely behind the lives of the stars who appeared in a host of legendary war films and discover how memories of their real-life experiences in the armed forces were haunted with heartbreak and yet filled with extraordinary heroism. Just what did America’s most decorated soldier Audie Murphy go through in battle which led him to star as himself in the classic war film, To ...

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  • BALDUR VON SCHIRACH
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    BALDUR VON SCHIRACH
    OLIVER RATHKOLB
    Though three of his four grandparents were from America and the first language he learned at home was English, Baldur von Schirach became one of the Third Reich’s most influential individuals. He joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925 at the age of eighteen and three years later became a member of its National Leadership. He also married Henriette, the daughter of Hitler’s pers...

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  • HITLER'S HENCHMEN
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    HITLER'S HENCHMEN
    HELMUT ORTNER
    Helmut Ortner reveals a staggering history of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in Hitler’s Germany. He explores the shocking evidence of a merciless era – and of the shameful omissions of post-war German justice. Johann Reichhart was a state-appointed judicial executioner in Bavaria from 1924 until the end of the war in Europe. During the Nazi era, he executed numerous peop...

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  • NAZI UFOS
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    NAZI UFOS
    S.D. TUCKER
    Nazi UFOs tells the strange tale of how, following the first alleged flying saucer sightings made in the USA in 1947, a series of fantasists and neo-fascists came forward to create a media myth that the Nazis may have invented these incredible craft as a means for winning the Second World War, a plan which was tantalisingly close to completion before the Allies conquered Berlin...

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  • QUEEN ELIZABETH I
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    QUEEN ELIZABETH I
    PAUL KENDALL
    The forty-four-year reign of Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and the last Tudor monarch, was considered a golden age. It saw the emergence of the great playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, while the exploits of Sir Francis Drake and other ‘sea-dogs’ helped establish England’s position among the great maritime powers. This book looks at Elizabeth’...

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  • HITLER'S NEST OF VIPERS
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    HITLER'S NEST OF VIPERS
    NIGEL WEST
    "...presents an excellent and concise narrative of the Abwehr's global intelligence network. West draws from hundreds of firsthand debriefing and summary reports including disclosed sources not previously available to scholars."—American Intelligence Journal Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent,...

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  • THE RUSSIAN AGENT
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    THE RUSSIAN AGENT
    FRANZ TAUT
    Lieutenant General Andrey Andreyevich Wlassow (or Vlasov) was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Soviet Union’s first, and at the time highest, military decoration. This was in recognition of his handling of the 37th Army when Hitler’s forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and for his efforts in the defence of Moscow. But during the siege of Leningrad in 1942 he was ta...

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  • MARCH PAST
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    MARCH PAST
    LORD LOVAT
    At the outbreak of war in 1940, Simon Frazer, the 15th Lord Lovat and a former Guards officer, was mobilized from the reserve list to join the Lovat Scouts, the British Army’s first sniper unit that had been formed by his father during the Boer War. The following year he volunteered for one of the new Commando units then being created. Lovat was personally involved in the train...

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  • THE MEN OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION
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    THE MEN OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION
    GARETH GLOVER / ROBERT BURNHAM
    Some of the most famous memoirs of Britain’s long war against Napoleon have come from the pens of members of Wellington’s Light Division, but many wonderful accounts were never published and have sat in archives, libraries, museums, and private collections, forgotten for 200 years. The regiments of the Light Division, and its predecessor, the Light Brigade, were involved in alm...

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  • SPIES WHO CHANGED HISTORY
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    SPIES WHO CHANGED HISTORY
    NIGEL WEST
    Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for selection have been the degree to w...

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  • THE RORKE'S DRIFT COMMANDERS
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    THE RORKE'S DRIFT COMMANDERS
    JAMES W. BANCROFT
    Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead and Lieutenant John Chard had fame thrust upon them, as did the place known as Rorke’s Drift, which before 1879 was an unknown homestead situated in the middle of the South African veld. Although both men came from families whose various members were highly distinguished for their military service and for their service to the church, they became rel...

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  • PARAS IN ACTION
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    PARAS IN ACTION
    JASON WOODS
    The date is the 6 June 1944. The paratroopers on board the aircraft are crammed together, joking and singing over the drone of the engines, none of them dwelling on the gnawing fear in their guts. They reach the French coastline, and everyone goes quiet when loud explosions and flashes erupt around the aircraft. Pilots desperately dodge and swerve through the cool night air whi...

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  • SOE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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    SOE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
    F.E. KEARY
    The majority of the successful SOE operations in Europe took place in countries occupied by the Germans after the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitler’s forces being regarded as foreign invaders. In Czechoslovakia it was different. The country, which had large numbers of ethnic Germans living within its borders, had been occupied since 1938, allowing the Germans to establish a stron...

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  • THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
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    THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to ...

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  • MYSTERIES OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST
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    MYSTERIES OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST
    ROBERT ALLRED
    Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England’s most famous battle. This, in turn, has increased speculation that the titanic struggle for the English crown in 1066 did not take place on the slopes of what is today Battle Abbey, with a number of highly plausible alternative locations being p...

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  • THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONS
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    THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONS
    MEL AYTON
    Few events have been the subject of more conspiracy theories than the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Indeed, a great many people consider that there were other individuals than Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan involved in both murders. Was a shot fired from Dealey Plaza’s grassy knoll? Why did Jack Ruby shoot Oswald? Was it the CIA, the Soviets, Cuban nationalis...

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  • GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR
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    GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR
    JOHN GREHAN
    This volume of U.S. Navy reports offers an authoritatively detailed, refreshingly immediate perspective on the major battles of WWII in the Pacific. Scores of historians have chronicled the naval battles fought against Imperial Japan during the Second World War. But as we know, hindsight gives us 20/20 vision. The accounts collected in this volume were written during or immedia...

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  • ZEPPELIN INFERNO
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    ZEPPELIN INFERNO
    IAN CASTLE
    At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come and gone at will, their most testing opposition provided by the British weather as the country’s embryonic defences struggled to...

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  • THE HITLER MYTHS
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    THE HITLER MYTHS
    SJOERD J. DE BOER
    Adolf Hitler remains one of the most discussed figures in world history. Every year, an untold number of articles and books are published, and television programs and internet pages are produced, by respected historians through to amateur conspiracy theorists. One of the consequences of this continuous flow of stories is that, over time, increasing numbers of falsehoods and fab...

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  • THE HITLER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
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    THE HITLER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
    JOHN GREHAN
    Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie attempt carried out at the Wolfsschanze on 20 July 1944, many others have received far...

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  • THE SAS ‘DENIABLES’
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    THE SAS ‘DENIABLES’
    TONY MAY
    With names changed for security reasons, this book reveals the true story of Australian SAS soldiers acting in secret across the globe. During the Vietnam war, the Australian Army sent a team of Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers to conduct covert missions into Cambodia. They were co-opted into the Defense Intelligence Organization (DIO) repertoire of Plausibly Deniable assets...

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  • WHY DID HITLER HATE THE JEWS?
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    WHY DID HITLER HATE THE JEWS?
    PETER DEN HERTOG
    This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the ...

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  • FIGHTING THE BOMBERS
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    FIGHTING THE BOMBERS
    ADOLF GALLAND / JOSEF KAMMBUBER / WILLI MESSERSCHMITT
    Fighting the Bombers is an unrivaled look at the Allied bombing campaign from the point of view of the Luftwaffe establishment and command. The contributing authors were involved in all aspects of German attempts to stem the unrelenting bombardment from the RAF and USAAF; from tactics in the sky and development of the planes themselves, to long term strategy and planning on the...

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  • THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
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    THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
    GORDON LANDSBOROUGH
    A riveting and revelatory history of the first naval battle of the Second World War, when British and German forces clashed off the coast of South America.   At dawn on December 13, 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon in the River Plate, an estuary near the shorelines of Argentina and Uruguay. Ordered to investigate, Britain’s HMS Exeter reported a chilling discovery by lamp si...

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  • THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID 1918
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    THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID 1918
    PAUL KENDALL
    Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918 it was feared that Britain would be starved into surrender unless the enemy raiders could be stopped. A daring plan was therefore devised to sail directly into the heavily defended port of Zeebrugge an...

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  • SAS: SECRET WAR IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
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    SAS: SECRET WAR IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
    PETER DICKENS
    From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno's Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service the SAS an elite branch of the British military whose essence is secrecy and whose tools are boldness, initiative, surprise, and high skill.W...

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  • LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP
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    LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP
    W. B. KENNEDY SHAW
    A “moving, exciting and authentic” chronicle of the British Army’s legendary recon and raiding unit in the desert of North African during WWII (The Observer). During its two-and-a-half years fighting in North Africa, from 1940 to 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the desert. This small, highly mobile force made a name for itself through daring ...

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