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  • BLONDIE
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    BLONDIE
    EWEN SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR
    Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and trained the twelve men who made up this most secret team and led them on their daring mission, code name 'Operation Frankton', to attack enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbor. He was one of only two 'Cockleshell Heroes' who came back alive, the...

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  • HITLER'S TERROR WEAPONS
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    HITLER'S TERROR WEAPONS
    GEOFFREY BROOKS
    Hitler's plan for world dominance through terrifying weapons—from V-1 rockets to alien technology—is revealed in this WWII history. This is the story of the terror weapons developed by Hitler and Nazi Germany that were intended to be unleashed with devastating effect on the rest of the world. The book begins with a study of the V rockets, from early development to their success...

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  • THE PENINSULA YEARS
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    THE PENINSULA YEARS
    D. S. RICHARDS
    The Peninsular Campaign was conducted over terrain ranging from the sun scorched plains of Andalusia to the picturesque snow covered passes of the Pyrenees. Drawing on the experiences and observations of fifty-six officers and men who fought during the years 1808 to 1814, The Peninsula Years is a thrilling and fast moving narrative of the bloody campaigns in the Iberian Peninsu...

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  • THE BRITISH ARMY
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    THE BRITISH ARMY
    CHARLES HEYMAN
    Since its inception in 1984, The British Army: A Pocket Guide has established itself as the market leader in this particular sphere of defense publishing. This the eighth edition has been brought completely up to date to reflect the current situation of the British Army and all the changes being made to it. The book will include a new chapter focusing on the proposed Rapid Inte...

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  • THE PENDULUM OF BATTLE
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    THE PENDULUM OF BATTLE
    CHRISTOPHER DUNPHIE
    An account of the World War II clash between British and German forces, "the largest tank battle involving British armor ever fought" ( MQ Magazine). Operation Goodwood, the largest tank battle involving British troops ever to have taken place, has been a perpetual subject of controversy. Was it intended as a breakout from the Normandy Bridgehead, or not? Was it a success or fa...

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  • MARLBOROUGH'S SHADOW
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    MARLBOROUGH'S SHADOW
    J. N. P. WATSON
    Several writers have remarked that Marlborough could have never achieved his great military success during the War of the Spanish Succession without the support, industry and ingenuity of his Chief of Staff, Quartermaster General and Chief of Intelligence, General William Cadogan, who became the 1st Earl of Cadogan, and who, in 1722, succeeded Marlborough as Commander-in Chief ...

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  • SAVING BRITAIN'S ART TREASURES
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    SAVING BRITAIN'S ART TREASURES
    N. J. MCCAMLEY
    This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. At first the pictures and other artifacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures fro...

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  • THE FANY IN PEACE & WAR
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    THE FANY IN PEACE & WAR
    HUGH POPHAM
    The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War. As a mark of their outstanding service they remained in being between the wars. However, it is for their service during the Second World War that they are best known. They worked in a wide variety of roles both at home and overseas, both overt and covert and today are still making a vital contri...

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  • AIRFIELDS & AIRMEN: SOMME
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    AIRFIELDS & AIRMEN: SOMME
    MIKE O'CONNOR
    The latest volume in the Airfields and Airmen series covers the Arras area. It includes a visit to the grave of Albert Ball VC and the graves of Waterfall and Bayly, the first British fliers killed in action. There is a visit to the aerodrome from which Alan McLeod took off from to earn his VC and to the grave of Viscount Glentworth, killed while flying with 32 Squadron. The Ge...

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  • FLY NAVY
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    FLY NAVY
    CHARLES MANNING
    Ninety-five veterans of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm share gripping personal accounts of their service in the twentieth Century following World War II. The Fleet Air Arm has always had an elite status and an image of 'derring-do' and living on the edge. To mark the Millennium, ninety-five members of the Fleet Air Arm Officer's Association have recalled their experienc...

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  • FLYING IN WALKING OUT
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    FLYING IN WALKING OUT
    EDWARD SNIDERS
    Edward Sniders'' experiences of World War Two make compelling reading. As a Mosquito pilot, he led a charmed life until his luck ran out in dramatic fashion.' ...

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  • HONOURABLE CONQUESTS
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    HONOURABLE CONQUESTS
    A. J. SMITHERS
    The origin of the Corps of Royal Engineers, now affectionately known as The Sappers but then as the King's Military Engineers, has been traced as far as 1414, though it was not until 1716 that a permanent officer corps of engineers was established by the Board of Ordnance with the title Corps of Engineers.. Being part of the Regular Army it is hardly surprising that the Corps s...

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  • HE WHO DARES
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    HE WHO DARES
    DAVID SUTHERLAND
    A British Army veteran offers a glimpse of the action undertaken by special forces during World War II in this memoir. With so few survivors of the Second World War military generation alive today, it is extremely fortunate that men like David Sutherland recorded their experiences for posterity. There can be few veterans whose contribution to victory can rival Sutherland's as r...

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  • COURSE FOR DISASTER
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    COURSE FOR DISASTER
    RICHARD POOL
    This is the story of the life at sea, by Naval Officer Richard Pool. He saw the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Fall of Singapore, was sunk of the coast of Malaya and was stranded on a desert island for four months. ...

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  • COLLECTING METAL SHOULDER TITLES
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    COLLECTING METAL SHOULDER TITLES
    RAY WESTLAKE
    A revised and updated collector's reference guide to British Army metal shoulder titles from all the various units. Newly revised and updated, Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteer, Territorial and Cadet forces. Details of some two thousand patterns are set out in the text and i...

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  • FEW SURVIVED
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    FEW SURVIVED
    EDWYN GRAY
    A revised edition of an account of peacetime submarine disasters from 1774 to the present day, previously published in 1991. Examines the development of the submarine from experimental stages in the late 18th century to the present day, and provides details of all disasters ever reported. ...

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  • THE NATURE OF FUTURE CONFLICT
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    THE NATURE OF FUTURE CONFLICT
    RICHARD CONNAUGHTON
    Whilst the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with it, the associated Warsaw Pact, has greatly reduced the threat of a major conflict with Europe, the story of the involvement of the United Nations in so-called 'peace' operations over the past six years makes it abundantly clear that the world-wide incidence of low intensity, intra-state conflict will remain for us as far ahead ...

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  • FAMOUS SCOTTISH BATTLES
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    FAMOUS SCOTTISH BATTLES
    PHILIP WARNER
    The author gives a vivid account of Scottish military history from the coming of the Romans to Scotland to the Battle of Culloden in 1746. There are detailed descriptions of sixteen of the most important battles with up-to-date maps which enable the reader and visitor to find and understand the sites. ...

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  • SIGNALS FROM THE FALKLANDS
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    SIGNALS FROM THE FALKLANDS
    JOHN WINTON
    A naval historian presents a collection of personal accounts from British naval servicemembers who contributed to victory in the Falklands. Fearing that the achievements of Britain's Navy in the Falklands War would go unrecognized, John Winton let it be known that he was compiling a book of personal, firsthand accounts on the subject. The response was overwhelming, and Signals ...

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  • ARISTIDE
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    ARISTIDE
    DAVID NICOLSON
    This is the story of Roger Landes - "Aristide" of F Section, Special Operations Executive - who was born in Paris of British parents and came to London in 1938, to work in the LCC's Architects Department. After being trained as a wireless operator in the Royal Signals, he was recruited into SOE, where he trained with figures such as Claude de Baissac and Harry Pueleve. Although...

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  • REFLECTED GLORY
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    REFLECTED GLORY
    CARNEY LAKE
    Carney Lake served for six years in a Royal Marines Commando Unit and in this book tells his story - the names of those men involved have been changed to protect their identities, but the events happened as described. The result is arguably as vivid and accurate a depiction of Britain s fighting men as has ever appeared in print. What we can see from the television screen of wa...

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  • WILL WE SEE TOMORROW?
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    WILL WE SEE TOMORROW?
    MAX KUHNERT
    This memoir of a Nazi cavalryman offers a rare glimpse at the frontlines of WWII—in Poland, France, and Russia—from the perspective of a German soldier.   Throughout the Second World War, the German Army was regarded as the most organized and technologically advanced fighting force in the world. And yet, while much is written about its Luftwaffe and Panzer tanks, the German mil...

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  • OPERATION PACIFIC
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    OPERATION PACIFIC
    EDWYN GRAY
    A history of the United Kingdom's contribution to the Pacific theater of the Second World War, by the author of Disasters of the Deep. Hollywood's version of the World War II in the Pacific has led many people to believe that it was an all-American affair, and that Britain took no part in it. But, as Edwin Gray shows in Operation Pacific, that is false. The British Royal Navy a...

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  • STEADY, OLD MAN!
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    STEADY, OLD MAN!
    DEREK BOND
    Derek Bond is better remembered as an actor then a soldier and certainly deserves a measure of immortality for his portrayal of Nicolas Nickleby. His career as an actor, however, was very much in its infancy when Hitler invaded poland, and Bond abandon the boards for the drill square. His height naturally propelled him towards the Brigade of Guards and he was soon bulling his b...

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  • QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S ROYAL ARMY NURSING CORPS
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    QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S ROYAL ARMY NURSING CORPS
    JULIET PIGGOTT
    This history of the QARANC records the role that nursing has played in the army from the 17th century until the present day. The author describes the rise of the early army nursing organizations and the genesis of QARANC. Her picture of Florence Nightingale is revealing in that it puts aside the conventional myths and shows us a woman of powerful influence and fierce determinat...

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  • THE DOOMED EXPEDITION
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    THE DOOMED EXPEDITION
    JACK ADAMS
    A gripping account of the disastrous first significant land encounter of WWII, focusing on the areas of Narvik and Bodö-Mosjöen, Namsos and Aandalsnes. In the early hours of 9 April 1940, the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway. Within twenty-four hours, Denmark was overwhelmed and the main Norwegian airfields and seaports were under German control. Thus started the first confro...

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  • MAKE FOR THE HILLS
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    MAKE FOR THE HILLS
    ROBERT THOMPSON
    When Robert Thompson left Cambridge to join the Malayan Civil Service in 1938 the sun still shone on the British Empire for 24 hours a day. The outbreak of war in the Pacific found him in Hong Kong from which he was obliged to make a hurried and dramatic exit. From that point most of his working life was spent in military and political circles as one of the world's leading expe...

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  • THE JOYOUS PATRIOT
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    THE JOYOUS PATRIOT
    DAVID VERNEY
    Ralph Verney was born in 1879. His grandfather, Sir Harry Verne, had married as his second wife, Parthenope, Sister of Florence Nightingale, who was Ralph's Godmother. In 1900 he joined the Riffle Brigade and was sent to South Africa where the Boer War was then in progress. A dutiful son, he wrote regularly to his parents, describing every detail of his daily life. Fortunately ...

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  • A WOOD CALLED BOURLON
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    A WOOD CALLED BOURLON
    WILLIAM MOORE
    After the great victory in the famous tank battle at Cambrai in 1917 the church bells, having been silent for three years, rang out joyously all over Britain But within ten days triumph turned to disaster. How did this hapPen & why?William Moore, a distinguished First World War historian, attempts to explain what went wrong. All the advantages gained were thrown away; thousands...

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  • THE VITAL LINK
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    THE VITAL LINK
    PHILIP WARNER
    To maintain the link of communication between battlefields and HQ, between commanders and soldiers, between physically distant Corps is the vital job of the Royal Signal. But the responsibility of the Signals extends beyond the logistical requirements of inter-personal contact Electronic Intelligence and Electronic Warfare are major departments within the organisation, each of ...

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