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  • AIR FORCE LIVES
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    AIR FORCE LIVES
    PHIL TOMASELLI
    Discover what life was like for members of the British Royal Air Force from WWI to the 1970s, plus how to find out about an ancestor’s service career. What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World War, or serve as a Wren fitter in the Fleet Air A...

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  • TRACING YOUR LANCASHIRE ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR LANCASHIRE ANCESTORS
    SUE WILKES
    If you want to find out about Lancashires history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and ...

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  • FAMOUS CHARACTER DOLLS
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    FAMOUS CHARACTER DOLLS
    SUSAN BREWER
    Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, ...

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  • WINGED SCALPEL
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    WINGED SCALPEL
    RICHARD VILLAR
    An ex-SAS surgeon’s gripping memoir of trying to save lives in disaster areas and war zones around the globe.   In this fast-paced narrative, ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides a very personal insight into the difficulties, dangers, and occasional virtual impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas and war zones.   He shares his remarkable experiences in the af...

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  • BOOM RAVINE
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    BOOM RAVINE
    TREVOR PIDGEON
    The principal action that took place here in February 1917 was of short duration and failure but with fascinating overtones. This is the dramatic story of the events on the Somme after the great battle of 1916 ended and before the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line. Its focus is on a ravine easily as impressive as that at Beaumont Hamel. ...

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  • SHOT AT DAWN
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    SHOT AT DAWN
    JULIAN PUTKOWSKI / JULIAN SYKES
    The issue of military executions during the war has always been controversial and embargoes have made it difficult for researchers to get at the truth. Now these two writers give us a vast amount of information. They show that trials were grossly unfair and incompetent. Many of the condemned men had been soldiers of exemplary behaviour, courage and leadership but had cracked un...

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  • CALAIS
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    CALAIS
    JON COOKSEY / BRIGADIER DAVIES-SCOURFIELD
    This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the channel port now known to millions of Britons as a gateway to the Continent. The guide will take the visitor beyond the ferry terminal and...

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  • COURCELETTE
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    COURCELETTE
    PAUL REED
    A battlefield guide that follows the Canadian attack from the first tank assault to the fighting for Regina Trench to the final push on Desire Trench. Courcelette is one of the many Somme villages that became a German stronghold in their tenacious fight to keep the British armies at bay. Well behind the lines on 1 July, it came into prominence on 15 September when it fell to an...

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  • BLENHEIM 1704
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    BLENHEIM 1704
    JAMES FALKNER
    A detailed and easily followed guidebook that tells the story of the Duke of Marlborough's victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 and takes the reader across the Bavarian battlefield, rediscovering the lanes and by-ways tramped by the soldiers of 300 years ago. The author's skilful use of maps, his detailed knowledge of the ground, and his deep military understanding combine...

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  • FROM HORSE TO HELICOPTER
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    FROM HORSE TO HELICOPTER
    JOHN SUTTON / JOHN WALKER
    This is a pictorial history of Army transportation. The book outlines the development of the three modes of transport used in supporting the British Army on land, in water and in air, from the horse to the helicopter. Both the authors are retired officers who served in the Royal Corps of Transport. ...

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  • THE DEVIL'S BIRTHDAY
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    THE DEVIL'S BIRTHDAY
    GEOFFREY POWELL
    Arnhem was the heaviest Allied defeat of 1944 and was the subject of the famous film A Bridge Too Far. Casualties during the battle were appalling; the brave and enduring Dutch people suffered catastrophically in the aftermath and German morale was strengthened at a time of otherwise ebbing fortunes. This new revised edition besides being a superb history is, above all, a recor...

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  • TRACING YOUR ARISTOCRATIC ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR ARISTOCRATIC ANCESTORS
    ANTHONY ADOLPH
    Do you believe you are descended from the aristocracy, or even from royalty? Or do you have a line of descent from a blue-blooded family, but want to know more? How far back do noble and royal lines go? How do coats of arms work, and how can heraldic records tell you more? How can genetics help you find your aristocratic origins?In Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors leading Br...

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  • OUTRAGE AT SEA
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    OUTRAGE AT SEA
    TONY BRIDGLAND
    This, the follow-up to Naval Atrocities in World War 2, is an anthology of shameful incidents at sea, causing outrage on both sides. The sinking of the Lusitania was the trigger of these events, which were played out, at least initially, while an anguished and undecided America looked on. Later in the War, the Hospital Ships, carrying wounded troops home from the theatres of wa...

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  • WHAT'S THA PLAYING AT NAH?
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    WHAT'S THA PLAYING AT NAH?
    MARTYN JOHNSON
    Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID', once again Martyn enthralls, surprises and shocks his readers with tales set in an almost forgotten era: a veritable Lost World of people, places and phrases in his beloved Sheffield. Steven Spielb...

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  • THE GERMAN 88
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    THE GERMAN 88
    TERRY GANDER
    The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns, including several self-propelled platforms. Although primarily anti-aircraft guns they gained an awesome reputation as anti-tank weapons, a reputation that remains to this day. Terry Gan...

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  • THEY SHALL NOT PASS
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    THEY SHALL NOT PASS
    IAN SUMNER
    “Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online   This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilia...

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  • ATTACK ON LONDON
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    ATTACK ON LONDON
    JONATHAN OATES
    Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital—and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan Oates recalls in vivid detail the perils Londoners have faced and describes how th...

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  • HERITAGE OF THE SEA
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    HERITAGE OF THE SEA
    PETER C. SMITH
    The 21st century saw the naval power of Great Britain rise from that of an obscure island to that of a world-wide empire. British shipping and seamen dominated the globe for four centuries and the ships that explored the world and those which guarded them represent a unique treasure-trove of maritime history, unrivaled anywhere in the world. This book serves as an enthralling t...

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  • THE KILLING FIELDS OF SCOTLAND
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    THE KILLING FIELDS OF SCOTLAND
    R.J.M PUGH
    Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby and soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign 1314 held up by Scottish fans and not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The battle is also commemorated i...

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  • ADVENTUROUS EMPIRES
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    ADVENTUROUS EMPIRES
    PHILLIP E. SIMS
    This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and ...

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  • BLACKBEARD
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    BLACKBEARD
    CRAIG CABELL / GRAHAM A. THOMAS / ALLAN RICHARDS
    Edward Teach Blackbeard-is one of the legends of the so-called golden age of piracy. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and it gives a vivid insight into the nature of piracy and the naval operations that were launched against it.Th...

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  • TRACING YOUR PAUPER ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR PAUPER ANCESTORS
    ROBERT BURLISON
    Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about, and no previous book has provided a guide to documents and records that family researchers can use to their trace their pauper ancestors. In this accessible an...

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  • THE MILITARY IN BRITISH INDIA
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    THE MILITARY IN BRITISH INDIA
    T. A. HEATHCOTE
    T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater underst...

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  • SALAMANCA 1812
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    SALAMANCA 1812
    PETER EDWARDS
    1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadu...

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  • MONITORS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
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    MONITORS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
    JIM CROSSLEY
    Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on enemy coasts with pin point accuracy and on...

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  • ONCE A HUSSAR
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    ONCE A HUSSAR
    RAY ELLIS
    This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp. When the Second World War broke out, Ray Ellis was a patriotic teenager eager to serve his country. Once a Hussar is Ellis’s gripping account of his wartime experiences. A gunner for the 107th RHA, South Notts Hussars, he fought in the ...

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  • NELSON'S BATTLES
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    NELSON'S BATTLES
    OLIVER WARNER
    Horatio Nelson was a hero from the time when his dramatic initiative won the battle of St Vincent in 1797, while his last battle, at Trafalgar, reduced the enemy naval forces so thoroughly that they were no longer able to have any bearing on the outcome of the war. As well as being a brilliant study of those naval battles which played such an important role in Napoleon's defeat...

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  • THE BATTLES OF ST ALBANS
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    THE BATTLES OF ST ALBANS
    PETER BURLEY / MICHAEL ELLIOTT / HARVEY WATSON
    St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the tw...

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  • BLOODY ANGLE
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    BLOODY ANGLE
    JOHN CANNON
    Dawn was breaking in the hard rain on the morning of 12 May 1864. It was then that tired Union soldiers under General Hancock's command launched a daring assault on the apex of heavily defended Confederate line outside Spotsylvania. ...

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  • BEAUMONT HAMEL
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    BEAUMONT HAMEL
    NIGEL CAVE
    Designed to act as a diversion to the 'big push', Gommecourt was an attempt to force the Germans to commit their reserves to the front line before the main battle took place. This Battlefield Guide tells the reader what happened and relates it to the ground as it now stands today. ...

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