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  • THE NAPOLEONIC ‘DAD’S ARMY’
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    THE NAPOLEONIC ‘DAD’S ARMY’
    PAUL L DAWSON
    During the crisis year of 1792 when war against France was at its closest, a variety of societies and associations of ‘Loyal Britons’ were set up throughout Britain. Their aim was to organise patriotic, anti-French forces in defense of king and country, and to help maintain the established order. The need to provide an internal defense force resulted in the Volunteer Act of 179...

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  • NAPOLEON’S HEAVY CAVALRY
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    NAPOLEON’S HEAVY CAVALRY
    PAUL L DAWSON
    Created during the Peace of Amiens, the nineteen regiments of cuirassiers that existed during the course of the 1e Empire were, after the Imperial Guard, perhaps the most famous and recognisable soldiers of the epoch. This book explores the long gestation of clothing and equipping the cuirassiers, the development of the arm from twelve regiments to twenty-one – if we include th...

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  • THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    THE PENINSULAR WAR
    J J HERRERO GIMÉNEZ
    The Peninsular War has been extensively studied by British historians for decades, even centuries, but the Spanish contribution to the conflict, which was fundamental to the defeat of Napoleon’s armies, has been largely relegated to minor role. This book is an attempt to rebalance our understanding of the campaign in Iberia, written by a Spanish historian and translated into En...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR KYIV
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    THE BATTLE FOR KYIV
    CHRISTOPHER A LAWRENCE
    The story of the heroic resilience of the Ukrainians against the military forces of a country which has more than three times its population. On 24 February 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, unleashed an attack on Ukraine that developed into the most significant conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Fought over the same ground that the Germans and the Sovi...

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  • HITLER AND POLAND
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    HITLER AND POLAND
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. With their diametrically opposed political philosophies, both of Poland’s neighbours plotted continuously to reclaim its lands that had up until recently been part of the once great but now defunct German and Rus...

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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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  • 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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  • RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
    GARETH GLOVER
    No other regiment in Wellington’s Peninsular army can compare with the 95th Rifles. Even before Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels and television series, the Rifles were the most famous of all the British Army’s fighting formations. Unlike the red-coated regiments of the Line, the Riflemen were trained to act with a degree of independence, selecting their own targets in battle. A...

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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 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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  • 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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  • THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
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    THE REDCOATS OF WELLINGTON’S LIGHT DIVISION IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
    GARETH GLOVER
    The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington’s army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle and the last to withdraw, the men of the Light Division were trained to act independently and think for themselves as well as operating in their battalion formations. The regiments which comprised the Light Division were present at al...

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  • THE SECRET WAR AGAINST RED RUSSIA
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    THE SECRET WAR AGAINST RED RUSSIA
    BRIAN BEST
    The Armistice of November 1918 ended four years of slaughter that left armies exhausted and populations weary of war – but the fighting was not over. In Russia, civil war and revolution had divided the nation and the Allies sought to intervene on behalf of the ‘White’ Russians against the Bolsheviks and this conflict continued long after the war had finished elsewhere in Europe...

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  • THE SAMURAI CASTLE MASTER
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    THE SAMURAI CASTLE MASTER
    CHRIS GLENN
    When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of his body not scarred or disfigured by sword, spear, glaive or matchlock gun wound. Todo Takatora lived a life that unfolds like a drama. Born to a small landholding samurai family, ...

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  • THE BATTLES THAT CREATED ENGLAND 793-1100
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    THE BATTLES THAT CREATED ENGLAND 793-1100
    ARTHUR C WRIGHT
    In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the ‘Romans’ and the ‘Normans’, which saw the country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a considerable amount of information at our fingertips and the picture that should emerge is one of English ability in the face ...

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  • COMBINED OPERATIONS
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    COMBINED OPERATIONS
    JOHN GREHAN
    From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway’s Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler’s Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and other personnel, the headquarter...

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  • SAIPAN 1944
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    SAIPAN 1944
    JOHN GREHAN
    A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defe...

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  • HITLER'S 'WONDER' U-BOATS
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    HITLER'S 'WONDER' U-BOATS
    JAK P MALLMANN SHOWELL
    Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of these revolutionary Electro-U-boats never saw action. Instead they became the forebears of the Cold War’s much dreaded hunter killer submarines. The massive Type XXI was planned to replace the conventional ‘Atlantic’ U-boat that had seen service so far in the wa...

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  • THE AMERICAN SHARPE
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    THE AMERICAN SHARPE
    GARETH GLOVER
    Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but he was sent back to the ‘Old Country’ for his educa...

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  • WITH WELLINGTON'S OUTPOSTS
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    WITH WELLINGTON'S OUTPOSTS
    JOHN VANDELEUR
    'The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.' Philip Haythornthwaite

John Vandeleur's letters home to his mother are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to...

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  • OVER THE TOP
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    OVER THE TOP
    SPENCER JONES / PETER TSOURAS
    Although separated from the modern reader by a full century, the First World War continues to generate controversy and interest as the great event upon which modern history pivoted. Not only did the war cull the European peoples of some of their best and brightest, it also led to the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian empires, and paved the way for...

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  • THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE
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    THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE
    GARETH GLOVER
    So much has been written on the subject of the Battle of Waterloo and the campaign that surrounds it that the reader might think that there is simply nothing new to tell. However, the archives of Europe are teeming with fascinating documents personal letters to family and friends, private journals and official reports that have been virtually ignored in many standard histories ...

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  • DEAD WAS EVERYTHING
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    DEAD WAS EVERYTHING
    KEITH SMITH
    The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napoleonic line of France. And all this in less than one year.

Reflecting on several ...

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  • THE SECRET BATTLE
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    THE SECRET BATTLE
    A. P. HERBERT
    In The Secret Battle A. P. Herbert tells the story of an idealistic, young officer called Harry Penrose. First in Gallipoli, then in the trenches of France, he is tested and brought to breaking point as he battles to retain the ideals of military glory, duty and courage amidst the daily grinding miseries of the trenches. It lays bare the real horrors of the First World War with...

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  • THE SAMURAI SWORDSMAN
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    THE SAMURAI SWORDSMAN
    STEPHEN TURNBULL
    Samurai tells the story of the courageous and highly disciplined fighting men of this time, showing how they evolved from the primitive fighters of the seventh century into an invincible military caste with a fearsome reputation. In the early seventh century, the samurai rose to prominence during the struggles between the emperor and the military leaders (shogun). They took par...

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  • THE DISTANT DRUM
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    THE DISTANT DRUM
    F.E. NOAKES
    “We waited in silence, each man occupied with his own secret thoughts and no doubt wrestling with his own secret fears. I think that half-hour was probably the worst I have ever spent. Slowly and inexorably the minutes passed, second by second, and the time approached which might be the end of everything for me. All my efforts to screw up my courage, all my fatalistic self-assu...

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  • LETTERS FROM MAFEKING
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    LETTERS FROM MAFEKING
    EDWARD SPIERS
    Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practices.While of little military significance, the relief of Mafeking produced unprecedented celebrations across Britain and much of its...

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  • THE AGINCOURT WAR
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    THE AGINCOURT WAR
    ALFRED H. BURNE
    Henry V's stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare.

In this exciting and readable account Colonel Burne recreates the years leading up to Agincourt and its bitter aftermath. He also puts the battle in the perspective of the other important, yet less well...

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  • GALLIPOLI SNIPER
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    GALLIPOLI SNIPER
    JOHN HAMILTON
    'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.'
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Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed the terrible effects of the Turkish snipers and decided to fight fire with fire. U...

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  • CHANNEL ISLANDS INVADED
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    CHANNEL ISLANDS INVADED
    SIMON HAMON
    In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of the English Channel held back Hitler's armies, and his ambition. Not so for the Channel Islands which stand just a few miles fr...

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