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  • DIEPPE – 1942
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    DIEPPE – 1942
    STEPHEN WYNN
    On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy under a blanket of cover provided by the RAF. The official reason for the raid was to capture the town's port, gather relevant int...

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  • LIBERATION OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
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    LIBERATION OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
    IAN BAXTER
    "A very nice reference book that contains a well written informative text, many subject specific photographs, well detailed captions and more, all detailing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by allied forces during World War II." —Armorama As the Allies closed in on Hitler's Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too a...

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  • ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
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    ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
    JON DIAMOND
    "Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." — IPMS/USA In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies' favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advance...

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  • WEAPONS, WARRIORS AND BATTLES OF ANCIENT IBERIA
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    WEAPONS, WARRIORS AND BATTLES OF ANCIENT IBERIA
    FERNANDO QUESADA-SANZ / ELIZABETH CLOWES
    Winner of Hislibris Award for the 'Best Historical Book', faithfully translated into English for the first time, this book details the equipment, weapons, armor, horse tack, fortifications, tactics and cultures of the units that served as the backbone of the Carthaginian army. In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Ibe...

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  • DAY FIGHTER ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE
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    DAY FIGHTER ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE
    JEREMY DIXON
    The second of two comprehensive directories of all the Luftwaffe's single-seater fighter pilots who were awarded the Knight's Cross during the Second World War. The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn't diminished or been clouded by ...

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  • A HERO FOR ALL TIMES
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    A HERO FOR ALL TIMES
    PETER LEES
    In September 1914 Neville Marshall gave up a successful horse treatment practice to join first the Belgian and then the British Army. His diary, dormant in family archives for 105 years, and letters describe his tumultuous war service. An Irish Guardsman, who was seconded to three Lancashire battalions, he rose in rank from Lieutenant to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel. Wounded at le...

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  • THE BRITISH WEST INDIES REGIMENT
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    THE BRITISH WEST INDIES REGIMENT
    DOMINIEK DENDOOVEN
    This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, color and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers - NCOs and private soldiers - and a growing grasp of political ideas and liberal democracy. And the loyalty to the British crown...

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  • HEAD HUNTERS IN THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY
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    HEAD HUNTERS IN THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY
    DAN POOLE
    Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press. These photographs depicted British forces and their allies in Malaya scalping corpses and posing with decapitated human heads. The subsequent scandal, involving British generals, police,...

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  • GUERRILLA WAR IN THE EASTER RISING
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    GUERRILLA WAR IN THE EASTER RISING
    JOSEPH MCKENNA
    An account of a little-known yet crucial development in the Irish War of Independence On Easter Monday 1916, Irish rebels seized a number of strategic buildings in Dublin, including the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, and declared an Irish Republic. Within a week they had been bombarded into surrender. Out in the countryside, amidst chaos and confusion over counter ord...

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  • THE GURKHA WAY
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    THE GURKHA WAY
    JOHN SADLER
    In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbors and the British. During the fighting his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partne...

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  • THE EVACUATION OF SINGAPORE TO THE PRISON CAMPS OF SUMATRA
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    THE EVACUATION OF SINGAPORE TO THE PRISON CAMPS OF SUMATRA
    JUDY BALCOMBE
    The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of detailed historical research, interviews with camp survivors and personal experiences discovering and locating the former Japanese ...

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  • VOLUNTEERS
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    VOLUNTEERS
    RICHARD VAN EMDEN
    What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that drew their strength from the local community, from amongst factory workers, miners, shop-workers and tradesmen. In August 1914, what more fitting role was there to play than to ans...

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  • FROM SOE HERO TO DRESSING THE QUEEN
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    FROM SOE HERO TO DRESSING THE QUEEN
    LYNDA ROWLAND
    The biography of one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Sir Hardy Amies was one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Sir Hardy's work for the Belgian resistance...

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  • THE GERMAN LIBERATION WAR OF 1813
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    THE GERMAN LIBERATION WAR OF 1813
    ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE / PETER G. PHILLIPS
    "…may appeal to select scholars and readers interested in the era's social history, as it ranges from social morays to different styles of flirtation, general entertainment, the theater, architecture and labor." - Journal of Military History The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napole...

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  • SECRET AGENT, UNSUNG HERO
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    SECRET AGENT, UNSUNG HERO
    PETER DOWDING / KEN SPILLMAN
    Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowding helped exfiltrate hundreds of Allied servicemen from occupied France and ...

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  • GUDERIAN 1941
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    GUDERIAN 1941
    DAVID R. HIGGINS
    An in-depth account of the advance of Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group across the central Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group played a leading role, cutting through the defenses on the border, then taking part in the massive encirclem...

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  • GREAT BATTLES OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
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    GREAT BATTLES OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
    SIMON ELLIOTT
    From renown Roman historian, Dr. Simon Elliott presents eight of the greatest, most significant battles from the first two and a half centuries of Rome's Imperial period. Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany t...

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  • THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS TOY FIGURINES
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    THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS TOY FIGURINES
    LUIGI TOIATI
    "This eye-opening book deserves a spot on the bookshelves of anyone who not only enjoys collecting, but also has a great interest in all facets of the history of our hobby." — Toy Soldier Collector Science fiction, as the name suggests, is the combination of science and fantasy. In addition to a literary form, it also encompasses film, TV, comics, toys and our beloved toy astro...

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  • KINGS OF BATTLE US SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZERS, 1981-2022
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    KINGS OF BATTLE US SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZERS, 1981-2022
    DAVID GRUMMITT
    Delves into the history and use of M107, M109, and M110 howitzers, while also offering comprehensive information on modeling kits for enthusiasts. It is for good reason that artillery is known as the 'king of battle'. In World War II the United States made good use of self-propelled howitzers, including those based on the chassis of the M4 Sherman tank. After 1945 the US develo...

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  • THE HAN-XIONGNU WAR, 133 BC–89 AD
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    THE HAN-XIONGNU WAR, 133 BC–89 AD
    SCOTT CRAWFORD
    Through a series of novelistic biographies that showcase the pivotal roles and actions of those involved, dive into a centuries-long fight for survival for the Han empire that resulted in a golden age for China. The Han-Xiongnu War (133 BC – AD 89) pitted the Han dynasty of China against a confederation of nomadic steppe peoples, the Xiongnu Empire. In campaigns waged on a huge...

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  • HITLER'S OIL BROKER
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    HITLER'S OIL BROKER
    JOHN WM CHAPMAN
    The biography of Thomas Brown,who provided the template for a successful search by the German navy for oil access. Thomas Brown is an unknown figure of Scottish origin who played a significant role in the onset and development of both world wars in the first half of the 20th century. In the First World War he contributed to the Anglo-German conflict in the Middle East particula...

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  • NAPOLEON'S CAVALRY, ARTILLERY AND TECHNICAL CORPS 1799–1815
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    NAPOLEON'S CAVALRY, ARTILLERY AND TECHNICAL CORPS 1799–1815
    GABRIELE ESPOSITO
    The French Army of Napoleon could count on a brilliant mounted arm, consisting of three main types of cavalry: heavy, medium and light. The first, consisting of carabiniers and cuirassiers, was tasked with conducting frontal charges; the second, consisting of dragoons and lancers, could perform a variety of different duties; the third, consisting of hussars and mounted chasseur...

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  • CARTHAGINIAN ARMIES OF THE PUNIC WARS, 264–146 BC
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    CARTHAGINIAN ARMIES OF THE PUNIC WARS, 264–146 BC
    GABRIELE ESPOSITO
    The Carthaginians were undoubtedly the most formidable enemies of the ever-expanding Roman Republic, due to their sophisticated and often well-led military forces. Although the citizens of Carthage itself, a seafaring, mercantile state by tradition, may not have had the same military ethos as the Romans, they compensated by fielding varied multinational armies consisting of sub...

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  • DEFENDING CRETE FROM THE FALLSCHIRMJAGERS
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    DEFENDING CRETE FROM THE FALLSCHIRMJAGERS
    ANDREW G. TAYLOR / JACK SEED
    By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis it stood to dominate. The powerful British Naval Fleet and the amassed allied infantry of Britain, New Zealand, Australia, disposed Greeks, and the good people of Crete stood between the Axis powers and total control of the Mediterranean. This is...

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  • SS PANZER BATTALION 501
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    SS PANZER BATTALION 501
    HUGUES WENKIN / CHRISTIAN DUJARDIN
    This study, carried out by a duo of Ardennes authors experienced in this episode of the Second World War, examines why the Tiger tank battalion N°501 (schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 501) was able to survive the Battle of the Bulge. The Peiper Kampfgruppe was the spearhead of the 6th Panzer Army. Most often mentioned for its actions on Ardennes soil, today the Gepanzerte Kampfgrupp...

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  • WEAPONS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
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    WEAPONS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
    DARREN NEELY
    "This book is highly recommended for modelers, and anyone interested in a very detailed photographic history of the Battle of the Bulge." — IPMS/USA The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The offensive was carried out from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was la...

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  • FACING THE RED ARMY IN FESTUNG POSEN
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    FACING THE RED ARMY IN FESTUNG POSEN
    HANS KLAPA / ALFRED KRIEHN
    The stories of two German soldiers who took part in the battles for Festung Posen (Poznań Fortress) in January and February 1945. Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen features the stories of two German soldiers who took part in the battles for Festung Posen (Poznań Fortress) in January and February 1945. Never before published in English, the accounts of Hans Klapa, written imm...

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  • HUNGER
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    HUNGER
    N. S. NASH
    Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary's access to food. The starvation that followed led to mi...

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  • HITLER'S LAST DAYS
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    HITLER'S LAST DAYS
    MEL KAVANAGH
    Studies Hitler's final days in the Fuhrerbunker looking at the Nazi leader's state of mind during the war and the effect if had on his physical state. Berlin, April 1945. After almost six years of war, the end is nigh for the Nazi's. The Russians are closing in on the German capital and Hitler is holed up in the Fuhrerbunker in the city. There was an eclectic mix of individuals...

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  • FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT
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    FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT
    DAVID ALLISON
    In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian Parachute Brigade training in the jungle around Manipur. After a series of brutal encounter battles, the Paratroopers consolidated on the isolated Naga village of Sangshak high in the...

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