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  • POZIERES
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    POZIERES
    GRAHAM KEECH
    The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it. ...

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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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  • KIMBERLEY
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    KIMBERLEY
    LEWIS CHILDS
    Who were the underdogs who took on British Imperial forces - and beat them? How could an old farmer who had beaten them before (Piet Cronje), and a middle-aged farmer, who did not want to fight them anyway (De La Rey), embarrass Queen Victoria's high officers like Lord Methuen? When did the most powerful man in Africa enable the capable commandant to hold out - while blighting ...

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  • BURNSIDE'S BRIDGE
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    BURNSIDE'S BRIDGE
    JOHN CANNON
    The stone bridge on the southern flank of the Antietam battlefield became one of the Civil War's most powerful symbols of courage and sacrifice. Each stage of the battle is described by extracts from memoirs and diaries of the time, with details of the area as it was in 1862 and as it is today. ...

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  • DARK VALLEYS
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    DARK VALLEYS
    GARY DOBBS
    Dark Valleys collects together more than a century of murders that took place in and around the valleys of South Wales. These horrific crimes shocked not only Wales, but also made national headlines. Although treated with compassion and sensitivity by the Welsh author and crime historian Gary M. Dobbs, these true stories are often gruesome and harrowing, with no details spared ...

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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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  • BAZENTIN RIDGE
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    BAZENTIN RIDGE
    EDWARD HANCOCK
    The book covers in detail the attacks of 14–18 July 1916 against the Bazentin Woods and villages and beyond. Walks and tours of the surroundings areas are included with detailed action maps. ...

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  • ADVANCE TO VICTORY, 1918
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    ADVANCE TO VICTORY, 1918
    MICHAEL STEDMAN
    The Battleground series is designed for both the battlefield visitor and the reader at home. For the former, this book is an invaluable guide and each site is described in detail. For everyone there are graphic descriptions of action, often through first-hand accounts, supported by illustrations, diagrams and maps. ...

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  • FLERS & GUEUDECOURT
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    FLERS & GUEUDECOURT
    TREVOR PIDGEON
    Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army in this slogging match that was the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ...

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  • BASTOGNE
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    BASTOGNE
    MICHAEL TOLHURST
    By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of "The Fatherland". The, the shock of a massive Nazi counter-attack through the Ardennes in the depth of winter threw the Allies into confusion. Bastogne was at the very centre of this dramatic and most dangerous setback. ...

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  • THE LOST STORY OF THE WILLIAM AND MARY
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    THE LOST STORY OF THE WILLIAM AND MARY
    GILL HOFFS
    The emigrant ship William and Mary departed from Liverpool with 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853. Captained by young American Timothy Stinson, the vessel was sailing for New Orleans when the ship wrecked in the Bahamas in mysterious circumstances. Instead of grounding the ship on a nearby shore or building rafts for the passengers, Stinson and the majority ...

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