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  • MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME 602–641
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    MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME 602–641
    ILKKA SYVÄNNE
    The Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a fresh analysis of the Roman Empire from the reign of Phocas (602-10) until the death of Heraclius (610-41). This was an era of unprecedented upheavals which is usually considered to have resulted in the end of antiquity. The usurpations of Phocas and Heraclius led to the collapse of the Roman defenses; The Persians conquered ...

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  • LAUGH OR CRY
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    LAUGH OR CRY
    PETER HART / GARY BAIN
    Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King’s Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in t...

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  • OPERATION HÖSS
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    OPERATION HÖSS
    IAN BAXTER
    Operation Höss or Aktion Höss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about 12,000 per day. On arrival some twenty-five percent were selected for forced labor while the remainder were immediately gassed. Th...

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  • VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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    VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    PAUL OLDFIELD
    In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Battles of the Hindenburg Line - Havrincour...

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  • SCI-FI SKIRMISH SCENARIOS
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    SCI-FI SKIRMISH SCENARIOS
    JOHN LAMBSHEAD
    Welcome to The Sprawl… Sci-fi skirmishes are an increasingly popular genre of war game but they are more dependent than most on good scenarios to keep them varied and exciting. John Lambshead has taken the work out of scenario building. He presents a selection of thirty-six missions of varying complexity, each with clear objectives and victory conditions, a map showing set-up z...

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  • THE WOLF CHILDREN OF THE EASTERN FRONT
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    THE WOLF CHILDREN OF THE EASTERN FRONT
    SONYA WINTERBERG / KERSTIN LIEFF
    If this doesn’t move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' –John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron...

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  • MASTERS OF WARFARE
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    MASTERS OF WARFARE
    ERIC G. L. PINZELLI
    In Masters of Warfare, Eric G. L. Pinzelli presents a selection of fifty commanders whose military achievements, skill or historical impact he believes to be underrated by modern opinion. He specifically does not include the household names (the "Gods of War" as he calls them) such as Alexander, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Napoléon, Rommel or Patton that have been covered in cou...

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  • SNIPER ON THE YPRES SALIENT
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    SNIPER ON THE YPRES SALIENT
    SUE BOASE / WILLIAM MCCRAE
    Just after midnight on 22 April 1916 on the Western Front, a sergeant from the 15th (1st London) Royal Welsh Fusiliers came sliding and stumbling along the dark, mud-filled trench towards the four men, huddled together and soaked-through, in the shallow dugout. He was clutching his postbag in which there were four parcels for one of them, William McCrae, whose twentieth birthda...

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  • THE GREEK VICTORIES AND THE PERSIAN EBB 480–479 BC
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    THE GREEK VICTORIES AND THE PERSIAN EBB 480–479 BC
    MANOUSOS E. KAMBOURIS
    The dramatic conclusion to this trilogy explains the reversal of fortunes and final defeat of Xerxes’ Persian invasion of Greece; not as unlikely as usually presupposed. The focus is on the successful repulse of the Persian massive armada at Salamis, a resounding naval victory with parallels to the English defeat of the Spanish Armada. Along with the backstage policies and cloa...

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  • DARLINGTON & TEESDALE AT WAR 1939–45
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    DARLINGTON & TEESDALE AT WAR 1939–45
    CRAIG ARMSTRONG
    During the Second World War, Darlington had a number of industries that were important to the war effort. With its historic links to the railway industry, the town possessed several engineering firms, as well as a number of companies that produced iron and steel products, and many of these companies switched some or all of their production over to wartime demands. The town also...

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  • LUCKY HITLER'S BIG MISTAKES
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    LUCKY HITLER'S BIG MISTAKES
    PAUL BALLARD-WHYTE
    Adolf Hitler’s Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command. Yet by July 1940, under his personal leadership the Third Reich’s armed forces had defeated Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and France. The invasion of Great Britain was a distinct reality following Dunkirk. Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania had become allies along w...

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  • PAKWAGEN SDKFZ 234/3 AND 234/4 HEAVY ARMOURED CARS
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    PAKWAGEN SDKFZ 234/3 AND 234/4 HEAVY ARMOURED CARS
    DENNIS OLIVER
    "...squeezes a lot of useful information into a modest 64 pages and is a useful addition to any library of German armored cars." — War Wheels Experience in the Polish and French campaigns had convinced the German high command of the value of fast-moving, armed reconnaissance vehicles. But it was realised that many of the early designs were too lightly-armed and development of a...

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  • PANZER III, GERMAN ARMY LIGHT TANK
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    PANZER III, GERMAN ARMY LIGHT TANK
    DENNIS OLIVER
    The Pzkpfw Ill was the most effective tank available to the German army in North Africa during the battles of 1941. It outnumbered all the other types in service with the Afrikakorps at that time and when compared to the Pzkpfw I and Pzkpfw II designs it was a potent, modern weapons system. Although less heavily armored than its British opponents it was sturdy and reliable and ...

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  • PANTHER GERMAN ARMY MEDIUM TANK
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    PANTHER GERMAN ARMY MEDIUM TANK
    DENNIS OLIVER
    The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defense consisted for the most part of armored units that were little different to those the British had faced in North Africa. But in early 1944, with the landings at Anzio and Nettuno and the attempt to bypass the German defensive line, the Wehrmacht’s high co...

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  • THE FORTRESS KINGDOM
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    THE FORTRESS KINGDOM
    PAUL HILL
    In this the second part of his four-volume military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill follows the careers of Æthelflæd, Alfred the Great’s eldest daughter, and Edward the Elder, Alfred’s eldest son, as they campaigned to expand their rule after Alfred’s death. They faced, as Alfred had done, the full force of Danish hostility during the early years of ...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE BRITISH ARMY 1939–1945
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    ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE BRITISH ARMY 1939–1945
    DICK TAYLOR
    The second volume in Dick Taylor’s three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army covers the period of the Second World War, in which the tank came of age and developed into the principal land weapon of decision. He describes how, during the first half of the war, the British army came close to disaster from the armored warfare...

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  • BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE
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    BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE
    JOHN GORDON SMITH
    John Gordon Smith wrote one of the most vivid, honest and readable personal accounts of the Battle of Waterloo and the ensuing campaign, where he served as a surgeon in the12th Light Dragoons, but his classic narrative was only published in a limited edition in the 1830s and since then it has been virtually unknown. His warts-and-all depiction of the British army in Belgium and...

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  • THE WORKHORSE OF HELMAND
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    THE WORKHORSE OF HELMAND
    MICHAEL FRY
    As a RAF Chinook crewman, Mick Fry’s exposure to Afghanistan spanned over 10 years and countless deployments, from watching 9/11 unfold in Australia, leaving the deck of HMS Ocean off the coast of Pakistan under the cover of darkness all the way through numerous fighting seasons and the chaos of Helmand Province. The Chinook helicopter was the workhorse of the British Military ...

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  • BATTLE
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    BATTLE
    GRAEME CALLISTER / RACHAEL WHITBREAD
    What are the critical factors that determine the outcome of battles? Which is more decisive in a clash of arms: armies or the societies they represent? How important is the leadership of the commanders, the terrain over which the armies fight, the weapons they use and the supplies they depend on? And what about the rules of war and the strategic thinking and tactics of the time...

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  • MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME 565–602
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    MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME 565–602
    ILKKA SYVÄNNE
    A fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I.   It is often claimed that Justinian overstretched the Roman resources, but the analysis in Military History of Late Rome 565-602 proves that view wrong. It demonstrates that the initial troubles were largely the result of the mistakes of Justin II, and that his successors, Tiberius II and ...

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  • RED ARMY WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    RED ARMY WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    While the Red Army’s arsenal at the start of the Second World War included weapons dating back to the Great War or earlier, the 1930s’ modernization program had introduced the automatic Tokarev pistol and self-loading Tokarev rifle. Its small arms were soon replaced by mass-produced sub-machine guns, such as the PPSh 1941, nicknamed the ‘PePeSha,’. Supplementing the submachine ...

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  • IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
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    IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
    N.S. NASH
    The expansion of the Japanese Empire between 1931 until its defeat in 1945 is one of the most extraordinary yet shocking episodes in human history. Extraordinary in that a relatively non-industrialised island nation was prepared to go to war, concurrently, with China, the most populous country, Great Britain with its world-wide empire and the USA, the wealthiest and most powerf...

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  • GREAT ESCAPE FORGER
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    GREAT ESCAPE FORGER
    SUSAN HOLMSTROM KOHNOWICH
    Carl Holmstrom’s superb artwork depicts life as a ‘kriegie’ in a unique manner. But, more than that, he spent the major part of his captivity in Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp, famous for ‘The Great Escape’. The audacity of the 76 escapees was only matched by the callousness of the Nazis who murdered 50 after recapture. As well as skillfully recording camp life, Carl forg...

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  • THE FINAL CURTAIN: BURMA 1941–1945
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    THE FINAL CURTAIN: BURMA 1941–1945
    JEREMY ARCHER
    The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their own words, soldiers, sailors and airmen now aged between 95 and 101 vividly recount the experiences that they endured more than seventy-five years ago. This is oral history at its best, from officers and men of 14th Army, which compris...

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  • HITLER'S ARMED SS
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    HITLER'S ARMED SS
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    A history of Germany’s Waffen-SS from its origins to its evolution, featuring insights to its leading commanders, divisions, war crimes and more. The Waffen-SS was one of the most formidable German military formations of the Second World War—feared for its tenacity and ruthlessness in battle, notorious for the atrocities it committed. As a distinct fighting force derived from t...

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  • HEYDRICH
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    HEYDRICH
    IAN BAXTER
    Reinhard Heydrich along with Heinrich Himmler, whose deputy he was, will always be regarded as one of the most ruthless of the Nazi elite. Even Hitler described him as ‘a man with an iron heart’. He established his fearsome reputation in the 1930s, as head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence organization which neutralized opposition to the Nazi Party by murder and d...

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  • ARMIES OF PLANTAGENET ENGLAND, 1135–1337
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    ARMIES OF PLANTAGENET ENGLAND, 1135–1337
    GABRIELE ESPOSITO
    The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. During the rule of the Norman kings, the English armies had not completed the conquest of Wales and had establi...

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  • FORTS AND ROMAN STRATEGY
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    FORTS AND ROMAN STRATEGY
    PAUL COBY
    Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinn...

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  • ROMAN BRITAIN'S PIRATE KING
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    ROMAN BRITAIN'S PIRATE KING
    SIMON ELLIOTT
    A “fascinating and engaging” study of the naval commander who defied an emperor and ruled in Britain and northern Gaul for a decade (Midwest Book Review). In the middle of the third century AD, Roman Britain’s regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were overrun by Germanic pirates preying upon the east...

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  • CAPTURED AT SINGAPORE
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    CAPTURED AT SINGAPORE
    JAN SLIMMING / JILL ROBERTSON
    What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat? Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by ...

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