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  • BLOOD AND STEEL 2
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    BLOOD AND STEEL 2
    DONALD E. GRAVES
    Overwhelmed by the strength of the Allied air and ground forces, following the D-Day landings and subsequent bitter fighting in Normandy, the Germans were compelled to abandon their efforts to hold France and much of the Low Countries and retreat to the Rhine.The Wehrmacht Archive helps reveal the experience of German soldiers and armed forces personnel as they withdrew through...

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  • STUKAS OVER THE STEPPE
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    STUKAS OVER THE STEPPE
    PETER C. SMITH
    This new edition to the Luftwaffe at War ser ies captures the many roles adopted by the Ju 87 in this dem anding theatre - from dive bomber to tank buster and the var ieties of plane type. The illustrations show the planes'' cou rageous contribution to war. ...

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  • LETTERS FROM LADYSMITH
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    LETTERS FROM LADYSMITH
    Edward Spiers, a leading authority on the Victorian British army, presents here a select edition of letters from the siege of Ladysmith (18991900) that have not been seen since their original publication in metropolitan and provincial newspapers. The 250 letters were published in different British newspapers and provide crucial insights into contemporary perceptions of the batt...

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  • A SOLDIER OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST
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    A SOLDIER OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST
    JOSEPH SINCLAIR
    The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans de...

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  • ZULU VICTORY
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    ZULU VICTORY
    RON LOCK / PETER QUANTRILL
    “A densely detailed account of the 1879 Zulu defeat of the British . . . portrays a complex and interesting segment of British/African history.”—Library Journal   The battle of Isandlwana—a great Zulu victory—was one of the worst defeats ever to befall a British Army. At noon on 22 January 1879, a British camp, garrisoned by over 1700 troops, was attacked and overwhelmed by 20,...

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  • TOBRUK COMMANDO
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    TOBRUK COMMANDO
    GORDON LANDSBOROUGH
    "Gentlemen, we are going to capture Tobruk and destroy it."'Operation Agreement' started as a fairly simple plan to destroy Rommel's bomb-proof oil-storage tanks at Tobruk on the eve of Alamein. But, catching the imagination of GHQ, the plan snowballed alarmingly. As well as a commando unit led by the plan's originator, Colonel Haselden, it came to include the RAF, the Royal Na...

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  • AT HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE
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    AT HER MAJESTYS SECRET SERVICE
    NIGEL WEST
    In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as ‘C – of what has become ...

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  • THE GREAT WAR
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    THE GREAT WAR
    Revered as the epitome of German militarism and moral decency, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular and dominant figures of the Great War and of 20th - century Germany. Alongside Erich Ludendorff he secured a crucial victory over ...

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  • THE SCOURGE OF THE SWASTIKA
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    THE SCOURGE OF THE SWASTIKA
    LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL
    “Lord Russell rises above the well-known abuses of the Holocaust to highlight Nazi abuses on a broader and more savage scale.” —Military Review This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous organization which so terrorized occupied Europe and murdered at least 12 million civilians. Along with The Knig...

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  • BATTLES OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
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    BATTLES OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
    JOHN DROGO MONTAGU
    “Exciting and vivid . . . an excellent single-volume reference for classical battles” from the author of Greek & Roman Warfare (HistoryNet.com). This comprehensive reference book on the battles of the ancient world covers events from the eighth century BC down to 31BC, when Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium. The author presents, in an exciting and v...

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  • FIGHTING IN NORMANDY
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    FIGHTING IN NORMANDY
    DAVID C. ISBY
    The Allied landings on the Normandy beaches in June 1944 were brilliantly executed but proved to be just the opening phase of a desperately fought battle. The German Army responded to the invasion with as much ferocity and force as it could muster, and turned the struggle into a brutal and prolonged campaign. These in-depth reports by German commanders given the task of turning...

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  • MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
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    MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
    IAN JONES
    An examination of the uses of explosive traps in a military context and the measures that have been taken to negate their effects and to neutralize them. War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce increasingly deadly and malicious types of explosives in the form of booby trap...

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  • HISTORY OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN
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    HISTORY OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN
    H.T. SIBORNE
    Captain William Siborne became an ensign in the 9th Foot in 1813 and was sent to France in 1815 as part of a battalion despatched to reinforce Wellingtons army. A notable topographer, after the events that year he was commissioned to create a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo, for which he carried out extensive research, writing to officers in the allied forces present to o...

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  • WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE FRONT
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    WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE FRONT
    ANDREW DEWAR GIBB
    A unique and absorbing account of Churchill’s life during World War I, as written by his battalion’s adjutant who would later become his friend. Following his resignation from the Government after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill’s political career stalled. Never one to give in, Churchill was determined to continue fighting the enemy. He was already a Major ...

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  • THE VICTORIA CROSSES THAT SAVED AN EMPIRE
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    THE VICTORIA CROSSES THAT SAVED AN EMPIRE
    BRIAN BEST
    The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies was in jeopardy. Everything was at stake, Britains leading role in the word, its international commerce and the reputation of its armed forces. Across the globe Britain ruled only through the compliance of the subordinate nations but if...

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  • SAS ZERO HOUR
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    SAS ZERO HOUR
    TIM JONES
    The historian and author of Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS reveals the full story of how the Special Air Service Regiment began during WWII. Britain’s elite Special Air Service Regiment is one of the most revered special-ops units in the world. Its high-profile operations include the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 and the hunt for Osama bin Laden in so...

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  • THE FORGOTTEN VCS
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    THE FORGOTTEN VCS
    BRIAN BEST
    Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theater during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the unyielding Japanese that resulted in the awarding of more than forty Victoria Crosses greater than a fifth of all the VCs of the war.Such actions include that of Major Frank Blaker, whose battalion of the Gurkha Rifles was held up by J...

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  • WITH WELLINGTON'S HUSSARS IN THE PENINSULA AND WATERLOO
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    WITH WELLINGTON'S HUSSARS IN THE PENINSULA AND WATERLOO
    George Woodberry was commissioned into the 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) as a cornet on 16 Jan 1812, and joined Wellingtons army as a lieutenant, seeing action in the key battles of 1813 and 14 Moralles, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Croix dOrade and the final battle of the war at Toulouse. He was wounded at Mendionde in a clash with French cavalry as Wellington advanced int...

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  • THE DESERT VCS
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    THE DESERT VCS
    BRIAN BEST
    It was not just the searing heat of the day, hot enough to boil an egg on the bonnet of a lorry, or the sand that nestled in every crevice of the body, or the shivering cold of the starlit nights, that the British and Commonwealth troops had to battle in the North African desert it was also the tough and determined Axis forces under their brilliant leader, Erwin Rommel.The acti...

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  • THE VICTORIA CROSSES OF THE CRIMEAN WAR
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    THE VICTORIA CROSSES OF THE CRIMEAN WAR
    JAMES W. BANCROFT
    The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related many times, never before have the stories of those individuals who were awarded the VC been told. In this, the result of four decades of accumulated research, renowned historian James Bancroft describes who the men were, how they gaine...

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  • ZEPPELIN ONSLAUGHT
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    ZEPPELIN ONSLAUGHT
    IAN CASTLE
    A riveting account of the first sustained, strategic aerial bombing campaign in history—by German airships on Britain in the First World War.   At the outbreak of the Great War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defense capability worthy of the name. Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country, with all but five of these considered of dubious value. So when raiding...

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  • ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS
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    ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS
    AIR MINISTRY PERSONNEL
    The key roles played by the Royal Observer Corps in the Second World War have, all too often, been overshadowed by more glamourous arms of the defense forces. The teams in the Sector Stations, plotting the battles raging above, and the Spitfires and Hurricanes swooping upon the formations of enemy fighters and bombers, present easily imagined and dramatic scenes. Yet between th...

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  • WITH THE GUNS IN THE PENINSULA
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    WITH THE GUNS IN THE PENINSULA
    WILLIAM WEBBER
    This British artillery officer’s journal vividly depicts life on the frontlines in the war against Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. In August 1812, Second Captain Webber of the Royal Artillery joined Captain Maxwell’s 9-pounder Brigade at Zafra, Spain. His journal offers a detailed chronicle of the period up June 16th 1813, just before the Battle of Vitoria. Webber records event...

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  • HITLER WAS MY FRIEND
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    HITLER WAS MY FRIEND
    HEINRICH HOFFMANN
    “Here’s Adolf Hitler in a series of bizarre photographs which he kept hidden from the world . . . They have now been published in this memoir.”—Daily Express   Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following ...

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  • NINJA
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    NINJA
    STEPHEN TURNBULL
    This history of the ninja uncovers the truth behind the image—from the exploits of medieval ninjas to their modern incarnation as pop culture icons.   The ninja is a legendary figure in Japanese military culture, a fighter widely regarded as the world’s greatest expert in secret warfare. The word alone conjures the image of a masked assassin dressed in black, capable of extraor...

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  • DUNKIRK: NINE DAYS THAT SAVED AN ARMY
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    DUNKIRK: NINE DAYS THAT SAVED AN ARMY
    JOHN GREHAN
    The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in th...

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  • U.S. MARINE CORPS UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT IN WORLD WAR II
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    U.S. MARINE CORPS UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT IN WORLD WAR II
    JIM MORAN
    The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its prewar order of battle of scattered defense battalions, overseas garrisons and ship detachments, it became a multi-division force bearing the brunt of the hardest fighting across the whole vast expanse of the Pacific theater of operations. In August 1942 Marines were among...

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  • WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
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    WATERLOO: THE TRUTH AT LAST
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the material he examined had never been accessed by researchers or historians before, the files involved having been sealed in 1816. These seals remained unbroken until Paul was given permission to break them to read the contents.Forge...

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  • NUREMBERG'S VOICE OF DOOM
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    NUREMBERG'S VOICE OF DOOM
    WOLFE FRANK
    The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg the greatest trial in history seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily explicit life story, Frank ...

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  • ZULU WAR VCS
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    ZULU WAR VCS
    JAMES W. BANCROFT
    The Anglo-Zulu War lasted only six months in 1879, but in that relatively short time twenty-three men were awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry under most trying and dangerous circumstances. Zulu warriors gave no mercy and expected none in return, yet half of the awards were given to men who went back into the midst of fierce fighting to rescue stranded comrades, well-aware...

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