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  • THE GURKHA WAY
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    THE GURKHA WAY
    JOHN SADLER
    In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbors and the British. During the fighting his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partne...

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  • HOTSPUR
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    HOTSPUR
    JOHN SADLER
    On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed. Posthumously he was declared a traitor and his lands forfeited to the crown. This was an ignominious end to the brilliant career of one of the most famous me...

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  • THE RED ROSE AND THE WHITE
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    THE RED ROSE AND THE WHITE
    JOHN SADLER
    If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth, how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487, The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years, culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 148...

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  • BORDER FURY
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    BORDER FURY
    JOHN SADLER
    Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and mi...

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  • J A COMENIUS AND THE CONCEPT OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
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    J A COMENIUS AND THE CONCEPT OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
    JOHN EDWARD SADLER
    Originally published in 1966, this volume reappraises the educational philosophy of Comenius. Until recently the attention given to Comenius and his work concentrated on a narrow interpretation of his pedagogy which played down his pansophic theory. In the second half of the nineteenth century Germany led the way in pedagogical study and Comenius was widely accepted as having l...

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  • SPY OF THE CENTURY
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    SPY OF THE CENTURY
    JOHN SADLER / SILVIE FISCH
    This military biography reveals the secret life of a closeted Austro-Hungarian intelligence officer who became a double agent in pre-WWI Europe. On the night of May 24th, 1913, three high-ranking military officials waited outside a hotel in the center of Vienna. At around two am they heard a gunshot and knew that one of their own had just ended his life. Colonel Alfred Redl, th...

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  • TOWTON
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    TOWTON
    JOHN SADLER
    This medieval military history uses archeological research to shed new light on this significant and bloody battle in the Wars of the Roses. The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on March 29th, 1461, was a major turning point in the Wars of the Roses. It was also the largest, longest fought, and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, t...

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  • CROMWELL'S CONVICTS
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    CROMWELL'S CONVICTS
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    Cromwell's Convicts not only describes the Battle of Dunbar but concentrates on the grim fate of the soldiers taken prisoner after the battle. On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar – a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour – but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the batt...

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  • HOTSPUR
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    HOTSPUR
    JOHN SADLER
    On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed. Posthumously he was declared a traitor and his lands forfeited to the crown. This was an ignominious end to the brilliant career of one of the most famous me...

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  • OPERATION MERCURY
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    OPERATION MERCURY
    JOHN SADLER
    Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, the book contains numerous graphic personal anecdotes by participants...

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  • THE SECOND BARONS' WAR
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    THE SECOND BARONS' WAR
    JOHN SADLER
    For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in th...

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  • THE GURKHA WAY
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    THE GURKHA WAY
    JOHN SADLER
    In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbors and the British. During the fighting his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partne...

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  • KNIGHTS
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    KNIGHTS
    ROSIE SERDIVILLE / JOHN SADLER
    "A really informative book . . . It whets the appetite to learn more" of the medieval warriors, their training, armor, weapons, and chivalry ( Army Rumour Service).   Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularized in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honorably and be l...

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  • TOMMIES
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    TOMMIES
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    "Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb." — Books Monthly   British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I.   In August 1914, a small professional force of Br...

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  • CAESAR'S GREATEST VICTORY
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    CAESAR'S GREATEST VICTORY
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    "A good account of one of the most decisive battles of the ancient world. Who knows how world history would have proceeded had Caesar been defeated?" ( New York Journal of Books). Julius Caesar's campaign of 52 BC frequently hung in the balance. Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix was a far more formidable opponent than any he'd encountered in Gaul. The Romans were caught totally of...

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  • GHOST PATROL
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    GHOST PATROL
    JOHN SADLER
    From the author of D-Day: "an amazing tale of how the world's very first special force was created specifically for North Africa during WWII" ( Books Monthly). The origins of most of the West's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the De...

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  • BLOOD ON THE WAVE
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    BLOOD ON THE WAVE
    JOHN SADLER
    A history of combat in Scottish waters—from the Iron Age to the Cold War—and the changes in the technology and tactics of naval warfare.   Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eas...

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  • OPERATION MERCURY
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    OPERATION MERCURY
    JOHN SADLER
    Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, the book contains numerous graphic personal anecdotes by participants...

    $119.00

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  • THE SECOND BARONS' WAR
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    THE SECOND BARONS' WAR
    JOHN SADLER
    For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in th...

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  • BANNOCKBURN
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    BANNOCKBURN
    JOHN SADLER
    The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles of British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting characters of the opposing commanders Edward II and Robert the Bruce, the strategy of the campaign and the tactics of the battle itself—all these elements combine to make the event one of absorbin...

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  • FIGHTER ACES
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    FIGHTER ACES
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    A readable and entertaining introduction to aerial combat in the series that “would be excellent for someone with an early interest in military history” (Army Rumour Service).   Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aeri...

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  • ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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    ALEXANDER THE GREAT
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    An overview of Alexander’s life—from his early military exploits to the creation of his empire and the legacy left after his premature death.   Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In a dozen years, Alexander took the whole of Asia Minor and Egypt, destroyed the once mighty Persian Empire, and pushed his army eastwards as far as the Indus. No one in...

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  • CASTLES
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    CASTLES
    ROSIE SERDIVILLE / JOHN SADLER
    The authors of Knights: Chivalry and Violence let readers inside the walls of the medieval period’s most iconic structure.   In ancient and medieval times, the castle was the ultimate symbol of power, dominating its surroundings and marking the landscape with its imposing size and impregnable design. This concise and entertaining short history explores the life of the castle, o...

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