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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. ...

    $165.99

  • 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. ...

    $165.99

  • 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. ...

    $140.99

  • 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. ...

    $140.99

  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919
    LORD ANGLESEY
    In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period. ...

    $127.99

  • STALINGRAD
    V.E TARRANT
    By November, 1942, the empire of Adolf Hitler had reached its zenith. It stretched from North Africa to the Arctic, from the English Channel to Stalingrad deep inside the Russian interior. The German Army seemed invincible, but then in a matter of only five days, from 19th to 23rd November, 1942, the seemingly impossible happened. During a massive Russian counter-offensive invo...

    $114.99

  • 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...

    $127.99

  • POLITICIANS AT WAR
    HENRY BUCKTON
    A fascinating collection of wartime memories from major political figures, many who are still household names today. Drawn from a political cross section, representing all major parties, these delightfully evocative accounts cover experiences in all three of the British armed services and across the ranks. This work is full of surprises with former prime ministers and other sen...

    $119.00

  • THE WOMEN'S ROYAL ARMY CORPS
    SHELFORD BIDWELL
    When the history of the Twentieth Century is written let us hope that the few nobel ideals of our era are not entirely submerged by the scientific miracles and horrors which increasingly dominate our lives. High among such ideas must rank the recognition of women in more and more walks of life as equal partners with men, and in no area was the battle for recognition fought with...

    $119.00

  • TOWERS OF STRENGTH
    W. H. CLEMENTS
    Martello towers were built in the early part of the nineteenth century to defend the coast of England against Napoleonic invasion. Almost 200 years later forty-one of these handsome brick towers still stand along the coast of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk. The chest of their construction was comparable in relative terms to that of of today's Trident missile system. The line o...

    $119.00

  • SIX FACES OF COURAGE
    M. R. D. FOOT
    Professor Michael Foot is indisputably the greatest authority on the activities of SOE in Europe during WW2. In Six Faces of Courage he selects six of the bravest of the brave agents and describes their backgrounds, activities and characters. Truly inspiring reading complemented by an updated introduction that sets the scene superbly. This excellent and successful book gives th...

    $119.00

  • SIR JOHN GORMAN: THE TIMES OF MY LIFE
    JOHN GORMAN
    The Northern Ireland politician and British Army veteran chronicles his storied life in this memoir. After serving in the Irish Guards in northwest Europe (where he won a legendary MC for ramming a King Tiger tank), John Gorman’s career included being Head of Security with BOAC, and closely involved with Royal visits. Later he was Europe’s largest landlord running the Northern ...

    $119.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY'S RESERVES IN WAR & PEACE, 1903–2003
    STEPHEN HOWARTH
    The official volume marking the centenary of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, known as the 'Wavy Navy' because of the distinctive wavy gold stripes on the reservists' uniforms, from its formation in 1903 through its unification with the mercantile Royal Reserve in 1958, and on to its present complete integration with the Royal Navy as 'the part-time element of a single naval ...

    $119.00

  • THE ROAD TO ST. JULIEN
    WILLIAM ST. CLAIR
    William St Clair is perhaps the only soldier to have left a continuous account of his experiences day by day from the moment of joining up in 1914, through the years of horror in the trenches, to the march into Germany in 1919 and the long aftermath of trying to make sense of what had happened. A private in the medical corps, St Clair wrote daily letters, sometimes more, to his...

    $129.00

  • TUNNEL-MASTER & ARSONIST OF THE GREAT WAR
    TONY BRIDGLAND / ANNE MORGAN
    "Sir John Norton-Griffiths was one of a breed of adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur and soldier whose like is very seldom seen. Having learnt his trade and made his fortune mining the rich seams of south Africa, he turned his expertise to more deadly use in the Great war. He led the gallant miners who burrowed deep under enemy lines with devastating effect.He went on to wreak ha...

    $129.00

  • SHAN HACKETT
    ROY FULLICK
    'Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes. A superb fighting soldier, he served with the Trans-Jordan Force, had fought through North Africa and was involved in the formation of the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS and Popski's Private Army. He went on to raise 4th Parachute Brigade which he commanded with fl...

    $119.00

  • MIST ON THE RICE-FIELDS
    JOHN SHIPSTER
    This is the story of a young officer in the Indian Army who commanded a company in the Burma Campaign of 1943 to 1945. It covers the part played by the author and his unit in the long campaign to recover Burma, starting with the fierce close-quarter fighting in the jungles and rice-fields in the Arakan in which the Japanese suffered their first major defeat. The story moves on ...

    $119.00

  • COLLECTING ANODISED CAP BADGES
    PETER TAYLOR
    Anodised cap badges were first produced in 1 948. This guide provides an illustration and listing for over 400 badges used by the British Forces. ' ...

    $119.00

  • MARCHING WITH WELLINGTON
    MARTIN CASSIDY
    Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there. ...

    $119.00

  • 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...

    $119.00

  • A FIERCE QUALITY
    JULIAN JAMES
    Alastair Pearson is one of the very small band of men to have achieved the distinction of winning the DSO and three bars. Add to this fact that he also won the Military Cross and is further entitled to the post-nominal letters CB, OBE, TD and HML and it will be readily understood that this is a book about a very remarkable man. Includes 12 black and white plates. ...

    $119.00

  • 'ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA'
    E.E. BARRINGER
    This is the story of 835 Naval Air Squadron as told by one of its surviving officers. It tells the story of the outstanding fleets of flying and the importance of the Merchant Navy in the Second World War. ...

    $119.00

  • FOUR MEN WENT TO WAR
    BRUCE LEWIS
    This book tells of the adventures of four men of different nationalities who found themselves caught up in the maelstrom of the Second World War. ...

    $119.00

  • 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 ...

    $119.00

  • A DROP IN THE OCEAN
    JOHN FRENCH / JIM BURTT-SMITH
    In the summer of 1942 a Wellington bomber, operating with 115 Squadron from Marham in Norfolk was forced to ditch in the North Sea returning from a raid on Hamburg. Two members of the crew, who were picked up by the Luftwaffe, have written this book. ' ...

    $119.00

  • AIRCREW
    BRUCE LEWIS
    Bruce Lewis brings this book together to tell the story of the men who flew the bombers. The different roles within the aircraft are covered and each of their unique experiences discussed through first hand accounts. ...

    $119.00

  • FIELD GUN JACK VERSUS THE BOERS
    TONY BRIDGLAND
    War broke out in 1899 between the British and South African settlers of Dutch descent, the Boers, or Afrikaners as they are usually called today. Despite previous clashes, the British seriously underestimated their opponents. Although dressed in battered civilian clothes and made up entirely of volunteers, Boer troops were all mounted on horses and had very up-to-date German ri...

    $119.00

  • FINAL DESCENT
    TERENCE HILL
    Final Descent presents detailed information on the loss of allied aircraft in the forbidding hills of Wales and the often tragic consequences. ...

    $119.00

  • TOWERS OF STRENGTH
    W. H. CLEMENTS
    Martello towers were built in the early part of the nineteenth century to defend the coast of England against Napoleonic invasion. Almost 200 years later forty-one of these handsome brick towers still stand along the coast of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk. The chest of their construction was comparable in relative terms to that of of today's Trident missile system. The line o...

    $119.00

  • WALKING THE SALIENT
    PAUL REED
    Following on from Walking on the Somme, Reed has produced this remarkable voyage around the Ypres Salien t, which saw some of the most memorable campaigns of WW1. Il lustrated throughout, this book gives an insight for visitor s & armchair travellers. ' ...

    $119.00


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