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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
    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 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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  • A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816-1919
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    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. ...

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  • STALINGRAD
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    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...

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  • GUNNER AT LARGE
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    GUNNER AT LARGE
    James Wood was one of the first trained at Woolwich and served successively as a Volunteer, Mattross, Cadet, Cadet Gunner and Fireworker in France, the Low Countries, Scotland and India. ...

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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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  • RUDE MECHANICALS
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    RUDE MECHANICALS
    A. J. SMITHERS
    In this sequel to "An New Excalibur", which examined the development of the tank during World War I and after, Smithers examines the role played by tanks in World War II. At the beginning of the war only the Germans and the Russians had realized the full power of the tank. The British and the Americans were forced to try to catch up. One difficulty was fundamentally a matter of...

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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 MARINE FROM MANDALAY
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    THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY
    JAMES LEASOR
    A real-life World War II tale of survival and perseverance against overwhelming odds from the international bestselling author of Passport to Oblivion. This is the true story of William Doyle, a Royal Marine wounded by shrapnel in Mandalay who undergoes a long solitary march through the whole of Burma to flee the Japanese. He then finds his way back through India and back to Br...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • BULLER: A SCAPEGOAT?
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    BULLER: A SCAPEGOAT?
    GEOFFREY POWELL
    A re-examination of Zulu War hero Redvers Buller, who was blamed for British defeats in the Boer War of 1899-1902. ...

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  • GREEN DEVILS–RED DEVILS
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    GREEN DEVILS–RED DEVILS
    EDMUND BLANDFORD
    World War II introduced a new chapter to the history of elite troops - the parachute and glider-borne soldiers of Germany and the Allies, whose story is told in this book. Despite their experimental nature, there is no doubting the successes achieved by both sides. The story of the German airborne corps is traced from its inception - the policemen co-opted into becoming Goering...

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  • I SURVIVED, DIDN'T I?
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    I SURVIVED, DIDN'T I?
    JOY CAVE
    4124 Private Byrne, C,. 2nd Battalion the Hampshire Regiment, latterly transferred to the Machine Gun Corps; served Egypt, 1915; France and Belgium, 1916–1918; Germany 1918–1919; honourably discharged, 1919. Behind that bold statement lies a remarkable account of en infantrymans service on the Western Front during the Great War. Charlie 'Ginger' Byrne was a typical young volunt...

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  • ONE MILLION MERCERNARIES
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    ONE MILLION MERCERNARIES
    JOHN MCCORMACK
    The white mercenaries who attracted the world's attention in the Congo during the early 1960s were never more than a few hundred in number. In contrast, no fewer than a million Swiss troops served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe during the preceding 500 years. Swiss mercenaries form a significant strand in the rope of European military history, and this book draws on man...

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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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  • 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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  • TOWERS OF STRENGTH
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    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...

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  • ONCE A GRENADIER
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    ONCE A GRENADIER
    OLIVER LINDSAY
    'An eminent writer has said that regiments great in history have this in common with mortals- through old in glory and honour, they have yet the vigour of youth. To none may the remark be more truthful applied then the Grenadier Guards...' Thus wrote Chichester and Burges-Short in 1900 and, judging by the Regiment's history over the last fifty years, the words ring as true as e...

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