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  • ROCKETS AND MISSILES OVER UKRAINE
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    ROCKETS AND MISSILES OVER UKRAINE
    MIHAJLO S. MIHAJLOVIC
    A comprehensive guide to the missiles and rockets used by both Russia and Ukraine along with their effect on both military and civilian targets. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, both sides depended heavily on rockets and missiles. Some of these date from Soviet times and some are very modern, being deployed in warfare for the first time. The outbreak of the civil war in the east o...

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  • HITLER'S AND STALIN'S MISUSE OF SCIENCE
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    HITLER'S AND STALIN'S MISUSE OF SCIENCE
    S. D. TUCKER
    S.D. Tucker delves into the Nazi and Soviet historical hijacking of science by extreme ideologies, revealing the dangerous consequences of pseudoscientific narratives in today's world. In today's world, science itself, which we are constantly being told is a neutral vehicle for wholly objective ideas and theories, is increasingly being hijacked and abused by the toxic modern cu...

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  • HITLER AND POLAND
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    HITLER AND POLAND
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    This book explores the tumultuous period following the First World War, where Poland, caught between the competing ambitions of Germany and the Soviet Union, navigates political upheaval, territorial disputes, and the emerging threat of Hitler. Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations ...

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  • FACES OF HMS ROYAL OAK
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    FACES OF HMS ROYAL OAK
    DILIP SARKAR
    On 14 October each year, a White Ensign is placed on the stern of an upturned warship by Royal Navy divers. This act commemorates the 835 men of HMS Royal Oak who died in 1939 when the battleship was sunk at anchor in Scapa Flow by the German U-boat U-47. The sinking of the veteran First World War Revenge-class Royal Oak shocked not only the Admiralty, but the whole nation. Tho...

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  • THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
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    THE BATTLE OF TINIAN
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific." — National Maritime Historical Society At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Oce...

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  • HITLER'S GOLD
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    HITLER'S GOLD
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The whereabouts and disposal of the Nazi's remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories. Norman Ridley uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding this continuing search for the missing millions. War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler neede...

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  • FROM DIEPPE TO D-DAY
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    FROM DIEPPE TO D-DAY
    JOHN 'JOCK' HUGHES-HALLETT
    When studying the planning behind the Combined Operations cross-Channel raids that harassed the Germans along the coast of Occupied France during the Second World War, one name appears repeatedly – that of Captain John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett. Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local defense Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at Combi...

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  • THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN IN 100 LOCATIONS
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    THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN IN 100 LOCATIONS
    JOHN GREHAN
    In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analyzed, apart from one – that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign. From Napoleon's landing on the Golfe Juan on France's Côte d'Azur, along the Route Napoleon and through Grenoble, the Emperor's journey back to ...

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  • DEFENDING PUTIN'S EMPIRE
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    DEFENDING PUTIN'S EMPIRE
    MIHAJLO S. MIHAJLOVIC
    Compiled from various sources, some still classified, and many of which have never previously been published, this book clearly portrays the development of the Russian air and ballistic missile defense systems. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested heavily in its air defense systems. As a result, Russia now possesses the most advanced air and ballistic missile defense ...

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  • FRENCH INVASIONS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1797–1798
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    FRENCH INVASIONS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1797–1798
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    Not since 1066 – at least in popular myth – has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and like-minded radicals in England. The scene was set for the most dangerous period in British history since William the Conquer...

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  • THE DIEPPE RAID
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    THE DIEPPE RAID
    JOHN GREHAN / ALEXANDER NICOLL
    A stunning collection of photos providing rare insight into the death and destruction inflicted upon Allied forces during the Dieppe Raid. As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that f...

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  • THE BATTLE AGAINST THE LUDDITES
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    THE BATTLE AGAINST THE LUDDITES
    PAUL L. DAWSON
    As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy. This was not the first time the Greys had drawn their swords during the Napoleonic Wars – but it was their first against Napoleon's troops. Three years earlier they had attacked workers...

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  • HITLER'S MOTORCARS
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    HITLER'S MOTORCARS
    JOHN STARKEY
    As well as providing photographs of Hitler's cars and the men who became his chauffeur, John Starkey lists the technical specifications of those cars, and describes many of the journeys undertaken by the German leader over the course of two dramatic decades. Many are the photographs of Hitler standing proudly in the passenger seat of a midnight blue Mercedes, arm outstretched i...

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  • BLINDING FLASH
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    BLINDING FLASH
    JOHN FRAYN TURNER
    Ken Revis was training to be a structural engineer, and had almost qualified, when war broke out in September 1939. He promptly enlisted and, at the age of 23, was commissioned in the Royal Engineers. Training complete, it was during the Christmas festivities of 1940, such as they were in the Army in wartime Britain, that Ken glanced at a typewritten sheet pinned to a noticeboa...

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  • STORMING HITLER'S BRITISH FORTRESS
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    STORMING HITLER'S BRITISH FORTRESS
    SIMON HAMON / JOHN GREHAN
    In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory. Hitler was determined to hold onto what he saw as a valuable prize, and the islands were heavily fortified. However, despite being extensively defended, the occupied Channel Islands remained vulnerable to commando-style raids. Indeed, a total of nine such operations...

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  • ALBUERA EYEWITNESS
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    ALBUERA EYEWITNESS
    GUY DEMPSEY
    On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. Howe...

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  • LEADERSHIP IN MODERN WAR
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    LEADERSHIP IN MODERN WAR
    JAMES STUART BROOKS
    How would you react under fire? Fight or flight? What if you were in charge of a squad of men, with their lives in your hands? The next decision you make could be fatal for you and your comrades or could be devastating to your enemy. The wrong decision could haunt you for the rest of your career and beyond. The decisions taken by commanders in the field are analyzed in a detach...

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  • THE FALKLANDS GUNS
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    THE FALKLANDS GUNS
    MIKE FONFÉ
    The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armory which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, transient Argentine Governor of Las Islas Malvinas, proudly boasted that: 'The anti-aircraft gunners were the only Argentine forces on the Malvinas not to be beate...

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  • THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE
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    THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE
    BORIS VOLODARSKY
    This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any language. In this volume, the author deals with the origins of the KGB from the Tsarist Okhrana (the first Russians secret political police) to the OGPU, Joint State Political Directorate, one of the KGB...

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  • PEARL HARBOR'S REVENGE
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    PEARL HARBOR'S REVENGE
    ROD MACDONALD
    "...informative and detailed with some interesting and little-known anecdotes as well." — National Maritime Historical Society. Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared "will live in infamy". During the strike, Japanese planes a...

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  • HITLER'S LAST CHANCE
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    HITLER'S LAST CHANCE
    KEVIN PRENGER
    The war in Europe was reaching its cataclysmic final months with Germany surrounded on all sides. Hitler's forces had been driven from Poland by the Red Army and the Soviets were poised a short distance from Berlin, while the Western allies, having repulsed the Führer's Ardennes offensive, were preparing to cross the Rhine. More than ever, Hitler needed his people to stiffen th...

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  • PLASTIC SURGERY IN WARS, DISASTERS AND CIVILIAN LIFE
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    PLASTIC SURGERY IN WARS, DISASTERS AND CIVILIAN LIFE
    ANTHONY ROBERTS
    The specialty of plastic surgery was developed and named by Sir Harold Gillies following his work between the two world wars reconstructing severely damaged servicemen from the First World War. Sir Harold went on to inspire and train other surgeons from around the world. Among them was his cousin Sir Archibald McIndoe, who in the Second World War set up the unit at East Grinste...

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  • THE TITANIC DISASTER
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    THE TITANIC DISASTER
    JAMES W. BANCROFT
    It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage. By all accounts, the liner was at the time the largest man-made object ever to move on water. The space her decks created allowed her designers to introduce previously unseen levels of luxury. In fi...

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  • THE MAN WHO KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING
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    THE MAN WHO KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING
    MEL AYTON
    Doubts about James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's lone assassin, arose almost immediately after the civil rights leader was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on 4 April 1968. From the start, his aides voiced suspicions that a conspiracy was responsible for their leader's death. Over time many Americans became convinced the government investigation...

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  • THE GREAT REDAN AT SEBASTOPOL
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    THE GREAT REDAN AT SEBASTOPOL
    JAMES W. BANCROFT
    On 18 June 1855, the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, British assault troops moved out of their trenches before Sebastopol in the Crimea, and attacked the formidable Russian bastion known as the Great Redan. They came under such a murderous fire from the Russian defenders that the attack faltered, and the British were eventually forced to fall back. As they did so, t...

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  • THE ALLIED ASSAULT ON HITLER'S CHANNEL ISLAND FORTRESS
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    THE ALLIED ASSAULT ON HITLER'S CHANNEL ISLAND FORTRESS
    JOHN GREHAN
    Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially 'severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens. Under the codenames Constellation, Condor, Concertina, and Coverlet, the islands of Jersey, G...

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  • THE RACE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB
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    THE RACE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    On 19 December 1938, Otto Hahn, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, conducted an experiment the results of which baffled him. It took his émigré collaborator Lise Meitner to explain that he had split an atom of uranium, which at the time seemed to defy all known laws of physics. When Neils Bohr took this news to the United States it became clear to ...

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  • THE PLOT OF SHAME
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    THE PLOT OF SHAME
    PAUL JOHNSON
    The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is the last resting place of 6,012 American soldiers who died fighting in a small portion of Northern France during the First World War. The impressive cemetery is divided into four plots marked A to D. However, few visitors are aware that across the road, behind the immaculate façade of the superintendent's office, unmarked and completely surro...

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  • WARS OF THE ROSES
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    WARS OF THE ROSES
    PAUL KENDALL
    The Wars of the Roses, which saw England and Wales ravaged by warfare for three decades and dynasties rise and fall, decimated the nobility of an entire generation, and saw the rise of the merchant class, the decline of medieval feudalism and opened the country to the enlightened ideals of the Renaissance. Such has been its lasting effects the red and white rose of the Tudors i...

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  • THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
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    THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and fascism represented the opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Despite this, in time the governments and military establishments in both countries were able to create an environmen...

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