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Shackleton Boys: Volume 2: True Stories from Shackleton Operators Based Overseas

Shackleton Boys: Volume 2: True Stories from Shackleton Operators

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After World War II the Royal Air Force went through a considerable downsizing, but retained an essential maritime reconnaissance role for the protection of British interests overseas. These areas were...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem"A...
Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final Victory

Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final

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A fascinating illustrated account of a crucial but less well-known aspect of the Third Reich. The story of the weapons that could have won the war: Nazi flying saucers, the...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret

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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

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'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the Trucial States and United Arab Emirates 1951-1980

The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the

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This book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected States, resulting in their armed forces being heavily influenced...
The 1989 Coup d'Etat in Paraguay: The End of a Long Dictatorship, 1954-1989

The 1989 Coup d'Etat in Paraguay: The End of a Long Dictatorship,

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The year 1989 was crucial for Paraguay. After a long period of 35 years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was finally overthrown by a violent coup d'etat. In a sort...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274

Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274

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The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought...
German Naval Guns 1939-1945

German Naval Guns 1939-1945

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From the huge 15-inch guns carried by the Bismarck to the smallest machine gun used by coastal forces, this comprehensive encyclopedia covers every German artillery piece mounted afloat during World...
Black Box Canberras: British Test and Trials Canberras 1951-1994

Black Box Canberras: British Test and Trials Canberras 1951-1994

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English Electric's Canberra saw an unbroken 46 years of service in the UK as a test and trials aircraft from 1951 until final retirement in 1994. Flown by Government research...
Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943

Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943

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Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town against fierce resistance. Defeated, and...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]

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In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

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Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

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Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

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Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

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Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Mayday

Mayday

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

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Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
The Way Back

The Way Back

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Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The sequel to one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a keystone title...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

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Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

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Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
The Origins of the Second World War

The Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Of Love and Other Wars

Of Love and Other Wars

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 385 The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII. London, 1939...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

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Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Our Woman in Moscow

Our Woman in Moscow

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Author: Beatriz Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Don't miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in...
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

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Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

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Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner...
Somme: Into the Breach

Somme: Into the Breach

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Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

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Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
The Regeneration Trilogy

The Regeneration Trilogy

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Author: Pat Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction and a devastating portrait of the effects of WWI Pat Barker's award-winning...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

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Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...