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  • THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN MOORE
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    THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN MOORE
    ROGER DAY
    Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's upbringing and the shaping of his revolutionary approach to the art and sci...

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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 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 fai...

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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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  • 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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  • SECOND TO NONE
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    SECOND TO NONE
    JULIAN PAGET
    Familiar to tourists at Buckingham Palace, the Coldstream Guards are also a fully operational combat unit. The regiment played a key role at Blenheim and Waterloo, fought at Monmouth in the American Revolution, served in both World Wars and is frequently deployed on short notice to the world's trouble spots even today. This lavishly illustrated volume has been produced to mark ...

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  • MALTA CONVOYS
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    MALTA CONVOYS
    DAVID A. THOMAS
    In Malta Convoys David Thomas, the distinguished naval historian, gives a fascinating account of the vital battles fought by sea and air to ensure that essential supplies got through. He vividly describes the appalling cost in men and ships. Here is an important contribution to naval history in the Second World War and, at the same time, a rattling good read. ...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • IMPERIAL ECHOES
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    IMPERIAL ECHOES
    ROBERT GIDDINGS
    The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', the there were in fact British Soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in some far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set.' Although these campai...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY
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    A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY
    LORD ANGLESEY
    Volume V covers the last glory days of cavalry in World War I's Middle Eastern theater, as British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand cavalry conducted some of the most brilliant mounted operations of all time. ...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY
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    A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY
    LORD ANGLESEY
    Volume V covers the last glory days of cavalry in World War I's Middle Eastern theater, as British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand cavalry conducted some of the most brilliant mounted operations of all time. ...

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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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  • FRIEND OR FOE
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    FRIEND OR FOE
    PAUL KEMP
    During the Second World War, there were over 100 instances of naval engagements between ships, submarines and aircraft of the same side. In the past there has often been a reluctance by the authorities to admit to these losses but with operational records now available, it is possible for historians to explain how a good number of ships and submarines were attacked, damaged or ...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY, 1899–1913 VOLUME 4
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    A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY, 1899–1913 VOLUME 4
    THE MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY
    In the seventh, and second last, volume in t his historical work, Lord Anglesey shows how superior the Br itish cavalry was compared to those of the French and German s. He concentrates on the first five months of the War. ' ...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919: VOLUME 3: 1872-1898
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    A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919: VOLUME 3: 1872-1898
    LORD ANGLESEY
    This volume covers the high noon of the British Empire, beginning with the Zulu War of 1879 and ending with Kitchener's River War of 1898. Between these came the 2nd Afghan War, the first Boer War, and Wolseley's Egyptian and Nile campaigns. Also described in some detail is the Cavalry's part in the campaigns against Osman Digna in the Eastern Sudan. ...

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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919
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    A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919
    LORD ANGLESEY
    This volume covers the high noon of the British Empire, beginning with the Zulu War of 1879 and ending with Kitchener's River War of 1898. Between these came the 2nd Afghan War, the first Boer War, and Wolseley's Egyptian and Nile campaigns. Also described in some detail is the Cavalry's part in the campaigns against Osman Digna in the Eastern Sudan. ...

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  • CAMBRAI
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    CAMBRAI
    A.J SMITHERS
    It is probably true to say that no land battle of this century passes Cambrai in importance. Up to the winter of 1917 warfare had changed only in degree since the coming of gunpowder. The scenario, with parts for horse, foot and guns, remained essentially the same. All this was part of a world about to disappear for good with the introduction of the tank. The British Army, hamm...

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  • LAHORE TO LUKNOW
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    LAHORE TO LUKNOW
    DAVID BLOMFIELD
    Had the camp been allowed to award one VC, the recipient of that honour would have been Arthur Lang, and that by universal acclamation... In September1857, an inexperienced young Engineer officer, was given what turned out to be a key role at the turning point of the Indian Mutiny. He had to decide weather the breaches at the Kashmere bastion were wide enough to allow for the a...

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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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  • TESTIMONY TO COURAGE
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    TESTIMONY TO COURAGE
    JOHN POTTER
    The story of the British regiment created in Northern Ireland after the Troubles erupted in 1968, and the members who were killed amid the violence.   The outbreak of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1968 found many of the local police and army auxiliary units outmoded or discredited. A new and unique force of part-time soldiers was created: The Ulster Defence Regiment.   ...

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  • UNDERCOVER OPERATOR
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    UNDERCOVER OPERATOR
    SYDNEY HUDSON
    Memoirs of SOE agents have always been rare - so many were either killed in action or executed - and today they are almost unheard of. But Sydney Hudson's story, which he has waited nearly sixty years to tell, is just about as dramatic and thrilling as any to have ever appeared. After volunteering for guerilla operations should the Germans occupy Britain, he transferred to SOE....

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  • BRITISH BATTALIONS ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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    BRITISH BATTALIONS ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    RAY WESTLAKE
    The author's previous three books in this series—British Battalions on the Somme, 1916, British Regiments at Gallipoli andBritish Battalions in France and Belgium, 1914 have achieved all that they set out to do. On the historical side it is now agreed by a large number of grateful historians, researchers, museum curators, librarians etc. that for the first time they are able to...

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  • RED SNOW
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    RED SNOW
    TELESFOR SOBIERAJSKI
    This is a unique personal story of the horrors of Stalin''s invasion of Poland, through the eyes of 14 year old Telesfor Sobierajski. He tells of his epic journey the rough Siberia in search of his family and their flight from Stalinist Russia. ...

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  • WAR CORRESPONDENT
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    WAR CORRESPONDENT
    MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
    The offhand admission to the doctor at the recruiting centre that he suffered from asthma as a boy was enough to put an end to Michael Moynihan's military career even before it started. However, this unpropitious beginning was eventually to lead to a wartime career far more dramatic than anything he could have imagined had he been allowed to don the King's uniform. For, after a...

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  • COUNTDOWN TO CASSINO
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    COUNTDOWN TO CASSINO
    ALEX BOWLBY
    In the autumn of 1943 the German Bernhardt Line ran through Mignano Gap, 12 miles south-west of Cassino. XIV Panzer Korps was to make a stand there, holding up the advancing US 5th Army - two thirds American, one third British - whilst Cassino was being fortified. If the 5th Army broke through Mignano Gap before Cassino's fortifications were really strong, Allied armour would s...

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  • JAI SIXTH!
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    JAI SIXTH!
    JAMES LUNT
    This is the story of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles from the Regiment raising in 1817 as the Cuttack Legion in the service of the Honourable East India Company until it's amalgamation with the 2nd King Edward VII's Gurkha Rifles ( The Sirmoor Rifles) to form the First Battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994. In the course of its 177 years' existence the Regime...

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