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In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't

In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't

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Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
Hitler's French Volunteers

Hitler's French Volunteers

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Author: Christopher Leguerandais Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 From 1941 to 1945, a large number of foreign soldiers were incorporated into the ranks of the German army in order...
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949

Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949

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Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...
The South Irish Horse in the Great War

The South Irish Horse in the Great War

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Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 211 On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London

Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London

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Author: Nigel Walpole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and night-time...
James Monroe

James Monroe

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Author: Tim Mcgrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary life of James Monroe- soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who...
A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy

A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy

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Author: Ellie Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Carefully and sensitively researched, A Cruel Captivity describes the ordeals of, and lasting impact on, survivors of Japanese captivity. Differing in...
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

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Author: Leslie Edwards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of...
Battle of Jutland: History's Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports

Battle of Jutland: History's Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports

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Author: Richard H. Osborne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime...
Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East

Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East

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Author: Bob Carruthers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 276 This is the fascinating account of the massive German attack on Soviet Russia and the fierce fighting which took place from...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274

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

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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires

Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires

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Author: Erich B. Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 188 Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in...
The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18

The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18

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Author: Peter Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon...
In the Name of Lykourgos

In the Name of Lykourgos

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Author: Miltiadis Michalopoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and...
Caesar'S Greatest Victory: The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 Bc

Caesar'S Greatest Victory: The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 Bc

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Author: John Sadler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An exciting, readable new account of the Alesia campaign, incorporating the latest research, to illuminate the tactics of both Caesar and...
At Rommel's Side: The Lost Letters of Hans-Joachim Schraepler

At Rommel's Side: The Lost Letters of Hans-Joachim Schraepler

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Author: Hans-Joachim Schraepler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Erwin Rommel, Hitler's so-called 'Desert Fox', is possibly the most famous German Field-Marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as the...
Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942

Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942

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Author: Clayton Donnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups...
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, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

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Author: Natale Barca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their...
Heavyweights: The Military Use of Massive Weapons

Heavyweights: The Military Use of Massive Weapons

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Author: Stephen Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delivering the heaviest possible munitions onto the enemy and his strongpoints serves a number of military functions: it destroys protective positions...
Two Deaths at Amphipolis

Two Deaths at Amphipolis

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Author: Mike Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Cleonvs Brasidas in the Peloponnesian War This original book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either...
Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World

Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World

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Author: Owen Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees...
The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices

The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices

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Author: William Shepherd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve... this book should find its way into...
Spies of the First World War: Under Cover for King and Kaiser

Spies of the First World War: Under Cover for King and Kaiser

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The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel

The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel

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Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich

Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich

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Killer Elite: America's Most Secret Soldiers

Killer Elite: America's Most Secret Soldiers

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Author: Michael Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 America's most secret Special Forces unit does not even have a name. Formed as the 'Intelligence Support Activity', it has had...
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: Hardback 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...
25 Days to Aden: The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War

25 Days to Aden: The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War

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Author: Michael Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 25 Days to Aden is the story of how in a week in 2015 the Gulf States pulled together a ten-nation...
From Mons to Mali: Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914

From Mons to Mali: Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914

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Author: Andrew Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and...
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

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Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second...
Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

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Author: Bret Baier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

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The Australian Light Horse

The Australian Light Horse

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The Generals

The Generals

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Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

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Author: Catherine Musemeche, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to...
History of War in Maps

History of War in Maps

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Author: Philip Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

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Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
What's wrong with ANZAC?

What's wrong with ANZAC?

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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

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Sixpenny Soldier

Sixpenny Soldier

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The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide

The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide

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Author: Matthew Schroeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 177 Small Arms are responsible for over half a million deaths each year. Despite this terrifying statistic, millions of guns flow into...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory

The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory

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Author: Brian Cathcart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century....
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
A Brief History of the British Army

A Brief History of the British Army

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Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of...
The Art of Air Power

The Art of Air Power

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