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  • THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
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    THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
    PATRICK DELAFORCE
    By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counter-offensive.So the major December attack through the mountainous Ardennes by massed Panzers and infantry took ...

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  • FINAL WICKET
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    FINAL WICKET
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Wes...

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  • DEFIANCE!
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    DEFIANCE!
    G.H.F. NICHOLS
    George Nichols was an artillery officer serving with the 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded in 1917, and returned to the guns in March 1918, just in time to experience the fury of the Kaiserschlacht, the great German offensive designed to knock the British army out of the war.Nichols wrote a powerful account of the Kaiser's last great offensive battle from insi...

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  • MONT PINÇON
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    MONT PINÇON
    ERIC HUNT
    In late July 1944 the Allies began their breakout from the Normandy beachheads. The Americans in Operation COBRA and the British in Operation BLUECOAT. VIII and XXX British Corps were to seize the dominating ground running north west from Mont Pincon and exploit towards Vire. Mont Pincon is the highest hill in Normandy and is a formidable obstacle as well as magnificent observa...

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  • BATH IN THE GREAT WAR
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    BATH IN THE GREAT WAR
    DEREK TAIT
    When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Bath for the changes that would envelop their city over the next four years. The story of Bath in the Great War is both an interesting and intriguing one. This book covers this historic city's involvement from the commencement of the Great War in July 1914, to the Armistice in November 1918, describin...

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  • MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME, 284–361
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    MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME, 284–361
    ILKKA SYVÄNNE
    This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned) gives a detailed account of the changes in organization, equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant period, while also giving a detailed but accessible account of the campaigns and battles. Vol...

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  • PATRICIANS AND EMPERORS
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    PATRICIANS AND EMPERORS
    IAN HUGHES
    This engaging historical narrative of the fall of the Western Roman Empire focuses on the individuals in power during its final forty years.   The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a chaotic but crucial period of European history. To bring order to our understanding of this time, Patricians and Emperors offers a concise chronology with comparative biographies of the individu...

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  • SERVANTS' STORIES
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    SERVANTS' STORIES
    MICHELLE HIGGS
    True accounts by domestic servants though a century and a half of British history revealing what their lives were really like—includes illustrations.   Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically, but they remained the people wit...

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  • WEYMOUTH, DORCHESTER & PORTLAND IN THE GREAT WAR
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    WEYMOUTH, DORCHESTER & PORTLAND IN THE GREAT WAR
    JACQUELINE WADSWORTH
    When war was declared in 1914, the people of South Dorset were taken by surprise. Initially, there was excitement as the garrison town of Dorchester sprang to life, and Britain's Grand Fleet steamed from Portland Harbour to its war stations in the North Sea. But when the fervour subsided, what was it like for ordinary people? This book describes how they settled down with purpo...

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  • COMBAT BIPLANES OF WORLD WAR II
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    COMBAT BIPLANES OF WORLD WAR II
    PETER C. SMITH
    The era of the combat biplane is usually thought to have been between 1914 and 1938. By the outbreak of World War II, most of the advanced air forces of the world had moved on to monoplane aircraft for their front-line battle forces, both in bomber and fighter capacities. Yet despite this, many biplanes did still survive, both in front-line service and in numerous subsidiary ro...

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  • WHITEHAVEN IN THE GREAT WAR
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    WHITEHAVEN IN THE GREAT WAR
    RUTH MANSERGH
    Whitehaven in the Great War covers Whitehaven's immense contribution to the Great War effort; it is thought that 625 Whitehaven men from a town that, in 1901, had a population of around 21,000 lost their lives fighting in the war. Meanwhile, on the home front, military service deprived many businesses of their established male workers, and women went to work in what had previou...

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  • THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, 1701–1714
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    THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, 1701–1714
    JAMES FALKNER
    How the death of a childless monarch sparked a bloody conflict that raged across Europe and beyond.   The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas, and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and lit...

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  • VISITING THE FALLEN: ARRAS SOUTH
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    VISITING THE FALLEN: ARRAS SOUTH
    PETER HUGHES
    This companion volume to Visiting the Fallen: Arras North provides in-depth information of the WWI battlefield, its significance, and its cemeteries. Arras, France, was a frontline town throughout the Great War. In 1916, it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory. The area around Arras is as rich in Commonwealth War Graves Commission ceme...

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  • IRISHMEN IN THE GREAT WAR
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    IRISHMEN IN THE GREAT WAR
    TOM BURNELL
    In a quest to to discover the forgotten Irishmen in twenty-seven Irish newspapers, many of which are now obsolete, the author uncovered unbelievable and forgotten newspaper articles, cast aside since the 1920s until now. Following the success of the first book in the series covering 1914, Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1915 is a labour of love from author Tom...

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  • THE LIFE AND FATE OF VASILY GROSSMAN
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    THE LIFE AND FATE OF VASILY GROSSMAN
    JOHN GARRARD / CAROL GARRARD
    “A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union’s most significant writers.”—The Russian Review   Vasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report “The Hell of Treblinka,” was th...

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  • WANTON TROOPERS
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    WANTON TROOPERS
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    The causes of the three English Civil Wars (1642 to 1645, 1648, and 1651) are complex and controversial clashes of conviction, belief, and personality, and a struggle between opposing social groups and economic interests. But, whatever the focus of scholarship, many answers can be sought at the local level, among county communities that were far more outward-looking than once s...

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  • VERDUN
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    VERDUN
    CHRISTINA HOLSTEIN
    A Battle of Verdun specialist explores the lesser-known events of the left bank in this illustrated WWI history and battlefield guide. This fascinating study explores the background of the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It also explains fateful decision to change the original German offensive plan, extending the action to the Left B...

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  • LEICESTER IN THE GREAT WAR
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    LEICESTER IN THE GREAT WAR
    MATTHEW RICHARDSON
    Leicester had a strong radical tradition, and was represented in Parliament during the Great War by the outspoken Labour MP Ramsay MacDonald. MacDonald's anti-war views divided opinion in Leicester sharply, but whilst it was slow to provide troops for Kitchener's Army, this was not through lack of patriotism. Instead, Leicester's three main industries footwear, hosiery and engi...

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  • YORK IN THE GREAT WAR
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    YORK IN THE GREAT WAR
    KARYN BURNHAM
    The Great War touched every single town and city in Britain, barely a community escaped unscathed and the city of York was no different. Despite a long and tumultuous history, the seemingly brief period between 1914 and 1918 left as indelible a mark on York and its people as any period in the preceding millennium.Karyn Burnham explores what everyday life was like in York during...

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  • ISLE OF MAN IN THE GREAT WAR
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    ISLE OF MAN IN THE GREAT WAR
    CAROLINE SMITH
    In August 1914, the Isle of Man was in the middle of a very successful summer season. The tourist industry was crucial to the island, but suddenly holiday-makers left and the Steam Packet vessels that normally brought them were requisitioned. The future was uncertain for those who relied on the season and their pleas for assistance were ignored. For some, the cost of living bec...

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  • I ESCAPE!
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    I ESCAPE!
    J. L. HARDY
    Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of the most remarkable. A PoW for three-and-a-half years, Hardy made no less than twelve escape attempts while imprisoned by the Germans in the First World War, five of which being successful.In ...

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  • VISITING THE FALLEN: ARRAS NORTH
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    VISITING THE FALLEN: ARRAS NORTH
    PETER HUGHES
    Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under way. In 1917 the Battle of Arras came and went. It occupied barely half a season, but was then largely forgotten; the periods before and after it have been virtually ignored, and yet the Arras sector ...

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  • FIX BAYONETS!
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    FIX BAYONETS!
    JOHN NORRIS
    The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that The bullet misses, the bayonet does not. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being ...

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  • FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
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    FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
    JASON R. ABDALE
    The author of The Great Illyrian Revolt examines one of the Roman Empire's most pivotal defeats—a surprise attack by Germanic barbarians in 9 AD. For twenty years, the Roman Empire conquered its way through modern-day Germany, claiming all lands from the Rhine to the Elbe. However, when at last all appeared to be under control, a catastrophe erupted that claimed the lives of 10...

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  • SOUTH DEVON IN THE GREAT WAR
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    SOUTH DEVON IN THE GREAT WAR
    TONY REA
    South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 100 years. The author's succinct and engaging text is further enhanced by a unique set of then and now photographs, and provides readers with an incomparable pictorial overview of events on the Home Fr...

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  • BRITISH SUBMARINES AT WAR
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    BRITISH SUBMARINES AT WAR
    EDWYN GRAY
    Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an international reputation for being second-to-none in evoking the claustrophobic horror of war beneath the waves. Accurate in detail, yet written with humanity and humour, it tells the story of Britains pioneer subma...

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  • LANCASTER IN THE GREAT WAR
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    LANCASTER IN THE GREAT WAR
    JOHN FIDLER
    Although Lancaster was the ancient County town, it had a population of only 40,000 in 1914. Of these, it is thought that some 5,000 men saw war service between 1914-18, and over 1,000 did not return. In consequence, the recruiting drives, the tribunals to consider exemption from 1916, and the ever-growing casualty lists provide the main theme for this book.Some 3,000 men had vo...

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  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR THROUGH SOLDIERS' EYES
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    THE SECOND WORLD WAR THROUGH SOLDIERS' EYES
    JAMES GOULTY
    'What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War?Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women who made up the 'citizen's army'. Find out about the weapons and equipment they used; the ...

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  • HITLERS FRENCH VOLUNTEERS
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    HITLERS FRENCH VOLUNTEERS
    CHRISTOPHE LEGUÉRANDAIS
    From 1941 to 1945, a large number of foreign soldiers were incorporated into the ranks of the German army in order to compensate for the enormous losses suffered by the Wehrmacht, including thousands of French. Whether fighting against the Soviets on the Eastern Front, with the Afrika-Korps in Tunisia or fighting with the occupying army in France, these volunteers generally too...

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  • THE EXTINGUISHED FLAME
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    THE EXTINGUISHED FLAME
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    In August 2016 the world will be spellbound by the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as 10,500 athletes from 206 countries compete in 306 events. Tracing their origins back to the Greeks in 776 BC, the history of the Olympics is a glorious one but it has had its darker moments.During the First World War no fewer than 135 Olympians perished. Many had won Gold, Silver and Bronze me...

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