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The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews
It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail...
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq
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When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts...
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta,
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for...
The Oxford Companion to Military History
An A-Z guide to warfare from the classical period to the present day, including the social, political, technological, and economic background of major conflicts. Entries cover people (military leaders, theorists,...
SWORDS OF LIGHTNING
Special operational forces have been used since war began, and great reliance is laid upon them in the modern era. This is an illustrated account of the evolution and modern...
American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms (Large Print)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER Join Chris Kyle on a journedy to discover "how 10 firearms changed United States history" ( New York Times Book Review...
Sampan Sailor: A Navy Man's Adventures in WWII China
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The author's adventures display the bonds of friendship forged between the Chinese people and a small band of AMericans who risked their lives with them against the brutal Japanese invaders.
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the...
The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day
In August 1942, the Allies launched a raid against the German-held port of Dieppe on the French channel coast. It was largely a disaster, with the Canadian forces bearing the...
Nuclear War: A Scenario
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
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Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the
Winning the war of the air and airwaves helped the Allies win World War II. This is the thrilling story of the maverick genius Reginald Jones who made that possible....
Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows
The explosive life story of Special Forces operative Jason Fox, star of Channel 4's 'SAS- Who Dares Wins' and 'Meet the Drug Lords'. Unflinchingly honest, Battle Scars is a breathtaking...
SAS: Rogue Heroes
The first ever authorised history of the SAS, now a major BBC series starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell and Dominic West In the summer of 1941, at the height of...
The Habit of Excellence: Why British Army Leadership Works
The official British Army book on how to become a better leader - whatever your field The Habit of Excellence is a unique insight into British Army leadership, explaining what...
The Art of War
For more than two thousand years, Sun-Tzu?sThe Art of Warhas provided military leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. For more...
Sniper One: 'The Best I've Ever Read' - Andy McNab
'One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I've ever read' Andy McNab We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went...
Rate of Climb: Thrilling Personal Reminiscences from a Fighter Pilot
Rick Peacock-Edwards has led different lives at different times, but through it all has used a bonus in life nowadays often overlooked: he has consistently enjoyed himself. One of three...
Shackleton Boys: Volume 2: True Stories from Shackleton Operators
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 Encyclopedia of Warships: From World War II to the Present Day
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Ahoy, Sea Dogs and Battleship Historians! Here's a book you're bound to love. The Encyclopedia of Warships is an exciting compendium of more than 300 of the finest battleships, aircraft...
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 2005-2006:
Internationally acknowledged as the best one-volume reference to the world's naval and paranaval forces, this popular Naval Institute guide is both comprehensive and affordable. Updated biennially since 1976, it has...
Submarines: Leviathans of the Deep
This fully illustrated volume tells the dramatic history of the submarine. Starting with the numerous and often catastrophic early effects to build a working submersible vessel, Submarines describes the developments...
Armies of the Vikings, AD 793 1066: History, Organization and
Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early...
Battlefields of the Second World War
This study of war skillfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War II military campaigns: El Alamein, Monte Cassino (Italy), Operation Market Garden (of which Arnhem formed a crucial...
Through the Wire: Action with the SAS in Borneo and the Special Forces
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The United States Special Forces, the Green Berets, were often regarded as the elite of the American forces and their mobile strike force, the 'Mike Force', was considered the elite...
199 DAYS BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD
The epic battle of Stalingrad will be remembered as one of history's most savage conflicts. Here world-renowned military historian Edwin P. Hoyt tells the full story of this bloody battle,...
Fields of Battle
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read...
Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War
Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorke's Drift to other fiercely...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL AND THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Richard...
America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution,
Drawing on previously untapped sources, Robert Shenk offers a revealing portrait of America's small Black Sea fleet in the years following World War I. In a high-tempo series of operations...
Wolfsangel: a German City on Trial: 1945-48
The dramatic World War II story of a US bomber crew's fateful mission, the airmen's lynching by an enraged mob in Russelsheim and the extrordinary war crimes trial that sent...
The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world's foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on...
Bombs Away! Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth
This is a unique selection of wide ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War II. Their endearing bravery and fortitude and sometimes their despondency and...
Seattle Stratotanker Veterans: Boeing Non-Tanker Variants
The C-135 series, along with its civilian counterpart, the Boeing 707, emerged on to the drawing boards of technical design teams at the end of the 1940s. Twenty years later,...
SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces
Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, accompanying the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins . Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I...
Find Fix Finish: From Tampa to Afghanistan - how Australia's special
The new book from the bestselling author of The Commando and Mosul. It was Australia's longest war, and also our most secretive. In the craggy mountains, green belts and digital...
The Vikings and their Enemies: Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
The Vikings had an extraordinary historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, colonizing - and their presence was felt as far...