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  • STOUT HEARTS
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    STOUT HEARTS
    BEN KITE
    "At last a book has been written that forensically examines how the British Armed Forces fought its way through Normandy . . . utterly absorbing." —James Holland, bestselling author of Brothers in Arms Stout Hearts is a book which offers an entirely new perspective on the British Army in Normandy. This fresh study explores the anatomy of war through the Army's operations in the...

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  • NORTHERN IRELAND: AN AGONY CONTINUED
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    NORTHERN IRELAND: AN AGONY CONTINUED
    KEN WHARTON
    This book is called 'An Agony Continued' because it was simply that: an agony. It was an agony which commenced at the end of the 1960s and as the new decade of the 80s arrived, so the pain, the grief, the loss and the economic destruction of Northern Ireland continued. Little did any of us know at the time, but it was to do so for almost a further two decades. Between January 1...

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  • ON THE DEVIL'S TAIL
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    ON THE DEVIL'S TAIL
    PAUL MARTELLI / VITTORINO DAL CENGIO
    A collaborationist who fought for Germany during WWII and later for the French in Vietnam tells his eventful life story in this military memoir.   This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli who fought on the Eastern Front in 1945 as a fifteen-year-old member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS Charlemagne, and later, as a soldier with French forces in the Tonk...

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  • BATTLE ON THE LOMBA 1987
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    BATTLE ON THE LOMBA 1987
    DAVID MANNALL
    A South African national serviceman recounts becoming a soldier and an ensuing David-and-Goliath face-off against Angolan armed forces in 1987. The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in southern Africa. Channeled through Castro's Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions o...

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  • BUSH WAR OPERATOR
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    BUSH WAR OPERATOR
    A. J. BALAAM
    "The finest account I've read on the Selous Scouts . . . Andy Balaam tells it like it was—the fear, the terror, the adrenaline highs of combat in the bush." —Chris Cocks, bestselling author of Fireforce From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Moun...

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  • UNDERSTANDING THE SOMME 1916
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    UNDERSTANDING THE SOMME 1916
    THOMAS SCOTLAND / STEVEN HEYS
    This is a guidebook with a difference. It is not a list of memorials and cemeteries. Its aim is to provide the reader with an understanding of the Battle of the Somme. There were some partial successes; there were many disastrous failures. In 17 concise chapters dealing with different areas of the battlefield and various aspects of strategy, this book explains what happened in ...

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  • WASTED YEARS, WASTED LIVES, VOLUME 2
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    WASTED YEARS, WASTED LIVES, VOLUME 2
    KEN WHARTON
    Volume 2 does what it says on the can - it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who were living in the troubled province at the time. There are accounts from the IRA atrocity at the la Mon Restaurant when the terr...

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  • FLAKHELFER TO GRENADIER
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    FLAKHELFER TO GRENADIER
    KARL HEINZ SCHLESIER
    The story of a German boy drafted into military service during WWII is vividly recounted in this memoir of combat and survival.   On January 7, 1943, the German Government ordered that boys as young as fifteen be drafted into anti-aircraft service, the Reich Labor Service, and the armed forces. Throughout the war, about 200,000 boys became Flakhelfer and served in batteries of ...

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  • RAYS OF THE RISING SUN
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    RAYS OF THE RISING SUN
    JOHN BERGER / PHILIP JOWETT
    The first of a three-volume series examining the history of Chinese "puppet" soldiers fighting for the Japanese before and during World War II. When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941. it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time, it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to...

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  • BLACK TUESDAY OVER NAMSI
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    BLACK TUESDAY OVER NAMSI
    EARL. J. MCGILL
    A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat.   On October 23, 1951, an hour and a half before sunrise, nine B-29s of the 307th Bombardment Wing took off from Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan, on a bombing mission against Namsi—a North Korean airfield under constructi...

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  • BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941
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    BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941
    DAVID GLANTZ
    The second half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong. At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed woul...

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  • FALL OF THE RED BARON
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    FALL OF THE RED BARON
    LEON BENNETT
    Fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) lacked innate aerobatic ability. As a tyro, he attempted to solve this problem through denial, going so far as to sneer at stunting as pointless. Great War air combat experience proved quite the reverse, and so we would anticipate a short and sad fighting life for the fellow. Yet the Red Baron became the Great War's single gr...

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  • FRANCE IN CENTRAFRIQUE
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    FRANCE IN CENTRAFRIQUE
    PETER BAXTER
    This military history of French Equatorial Africa examines the key players and operations from WWII to post-colonial conflicts. France in Centrafrique explores the history of French Equatorial Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of the Central African Republic in the Second World War and the Free French Movement. One of the key figures to emerge from this period was J...

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  • BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941
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    BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941
    DAVID GLANTZ
    The first half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong. At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would...

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  • OVER FIELDS OF FIRE
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    OVER FIELDS OF FIRE
    ANNA TIMOFEEVA-EGOROVA
    During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force. That process required training tens of thousands of pilots. Among those pilots were larger numbers of young women, training shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts. A common training program of the day involved studying in 'flying clubs' during leisure hours, first using gliders an...

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  • PENALTY STRIKE
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    PENALTY STRIKE
    ALEXANDER V. PYL'CYN
    From a decorated officer, an extremely rare account of a World War II Soviet military unit comprised of prisoners of war. Made up of soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners, the Red Army's penal units carried out some of the most terrifying assignments on the Eastern Front, such as storming German machine-gun nests. ...

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  • BLOOD CLOT
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    BLOOD CLOT
    JAKE SCOTT
    "As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair. The Parachute Regiment's 'blood clot' acts the same, whether downtown scrapping or in some far away country fighting alongside each other. Our maroon berets come together, they stick together, they close ranks forming t...

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  • DIARY OF A RED DEVIL
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    DIARY OF A RED DEVIL
    ALBERT BLOCKWELL
    Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit. Individual accounts are certainly in a minority and those from the lower ranks even more scarcer. Helion and Co Ltd are therefore pleased to announce the publication of Diary of A Red Devil. It relates the war time experiences of a young ...

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  • A LONG LONG WAR
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    A LONG LONG WAR
    KEN WHARTON
    The author of Bloody Belfast delivers "a vivid and unforgettable record" of the Northern Irish conflict that captures the "true horrors of war" ( Best of British).   There are stories from some of the most seminal moments during the troubles in Northern Ireland—the Crossmaglen firefights, the 1988 corporals killings, the Ballygawley bus bombing, and more—told from the perspecti...

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  • HANDBOOK OF WWII GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS & ABBREVIATIONS 1943-45
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    HANDBOOK OF WWII GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS & ABBREVIATIONS 1943-45
    TERRENCE BOOTH
    A comprehensive reference guide to German military symbols used on documents, maps, orders of battle and elsewhere. To the uninitiated, German military symbols can appear indecipherable. Yet understanding their meaning is essential to any serious research of the WWII German Armed Forces. This book provides a clear and comprehensive reference to these symbols, as seen in photos,...

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  • FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870–1871, VOLUME 2
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    FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870–1871, VOLUME 2
    QUINTIN BARRY
    The second volume of this comprehensive military history examines the fall of the Second French Empire and the founding of a unified Germany. Helmuth von Moltke's victory over France in the Battle of Sedan resulted in the capture of Napoleon III. But the war against the Government of National Defense presented quite different problems to von Moltke and his staff. Although the S...

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  • FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870–1871, VOLUME 1
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    FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870–1871, VOLUME 1
    QUINTIN BARRY
    The first volume of this comprehensive study of the Franco-Prussian War presents a detailed account of Germany Confederation's decisive victory over France.   In the first part of this two-volume military history, Quintin Barry examines the war against the French Imperial Army waged by the armies of the German Confederation, directed by that supreme military mind, Helmuth von M...

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  • HITLER'S LAST LEVY
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    HITLER'S LAST LEVY
    HANS KISSEL
    An in-depth account of the formation Nazi Germany's militia army as a desperate attempt to delay its defeat during the waning days of WWII.   A companion volume to the very successful In a Raging Inferno—Combat Units of the Hitler Youth, Hans Kissel's study offers a highly detailed account of the German Volkssturm, or Home Guard. Formed from men unfit for military service, the ...

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  • TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
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    TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
    THOROLF HILLBLAD
    A rare, first-hand account from a Swedish Waffen-SS soldier who fought against the Red Army on the Eastern Front during World War II. Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion of this service's manpower. Twilight of the Gods was originally w...

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  • MEXICANS AT WAR
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    MEXICANS AT WAR
    SANTIAGO A. FLORES
    The untold story of Mexican aviators in WWII, including their role in the Battle of the Philippines, is revealed in this illustrated military history.   When Mexico's neighbor to the north entered World War II, German U-Boats began haunting the North American coastline. And when the Kriegsmarine torpedoed Mexican tankers, the young republic was drawn into the global conflict. A...

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  • OPENING THE BLACK BOX
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    OPENING THE BLACK BOX
    METIN GURCAN
    A scholarly analysis of the Turkish military in the 21st century by the Near East policy expert and author of  What Went Wrong in Afghanistan.   On July 15th, 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d'état against sitting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Though the attempt was unsuccessful, the TAF would never be the same. In  Opening the Black Box, form...

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  • NICARAGUA, 1961–1990
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    NICARAGUA, 1961–1990
    DAVID FRANCOIS
    A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.   In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the country came under the rule of the Somoza family, which imposed a brutal, corrupt military dictatorship. A low-scale insurgency of students, supported by peasants and other ...

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  • THE HALL OF MIRRORS
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    THE HALL OF MIRRORS
    JIM STORR
    The military scholar and author of The Human Face of War analyses the nature of 20th-century war and warfare in this wide-ranging study.   The 20th Century was possibly the most violent and turbulent century in history. The wars waged in those ten decades reshaped the globe and wreaked an incalculable toll on human life.  In The Hall of Mirrors, military analyst and historian J...

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  • DOING THEIR BIT
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    DOING THEIR BIT
    KIMBERLY BRICE O'DONNELL
    The first in-depth study of the role of canines in WWII Britain, an "important but hitherto under-represented subject,"  with photos included ( Society of Army Historical Research).   The Second World War allowed for the use of an unprecedented number of dogs for military duties, both internationally and among the British Armed Forces. On the British Home Front, civilians respo...

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  • THE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES OF THE GULF STATES
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    THE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES OF THE GULF STATES
    CLIFF LORD / ATHOL YATES
    This comprehensive guide offers a detailed overview of the armed forces in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE—fully illustrated with photos and maps.   This volume provides a complete picture of Gulf State armed forces, including historical information on each state describing how the various militaries developed. Maps are provided, along with a glossary of terms and diag...

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