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Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign

Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign

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On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off...
British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807

British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807

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In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards...
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals

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He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...
World Air Power Guide

World Air Power Guide

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Compiled by the author of Jane s Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for aviation experts.In one volume the reader will find the composition and details...
Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying

Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying

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Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and interest was stirring in naval circles...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

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The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Star Shell Reflections 1916

Star Shell Reflections 1916

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The Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid As the centenary of the Great War approaches, this book offers a unique perspective told in the words and illustrations of someone who...
The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and Britain's New Model Army 1941-1946

The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and Britain's New Model Army

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Britaina s great battlefield generals of the Second World War like Montgomery and Slim would have failed had not General Sir Ronald Adam been appointed Adjutant-General in 1941. As the...
Airways to the East 1918-1920 and the Collapse of No.1 Aerial Route RAF

Airways to the East 1918-1920 and the Collapse of No.1 Aerial Route

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The origins of what became officially known as No 1 Aerial Route lay in the newly formed Royal Air Force's desire to move several squadrons of the then recently designed...
Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico 1851-1862

Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico

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Fort Millard Fillmore, named for the thirteenth President of the United States, was the first U.S. Army fort established in southern New Mexico Territory. Its primary purpose was to control...
Back from Tobruk

Back from Tobruk

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In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Burgoyne Diaries

Burgoyne Diaries

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These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...
Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges

Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges

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The Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and breakout inland. Simultaneously other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire

Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire

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In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Air Raid Book Club: The most uplifting, heartwarming story of war, friendship and the love of books

The Air Raid Book Club: The most uplifting, heartwarming story of war,

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'Touching and heartwarming . . . get those tissues ready' - Jill Mansell'A warm and tender tale about the power of books' - Ruth HoganAs the bombs began to fall,...
D-Day: Dawn of Heroes

D-Day: Dawn of Heroes

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Journeys into Night

Journeys into Night

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Thirties and the Nineties

Thirties and the Nineties

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Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Four: A Lifetime of Reminiscences from the Flight Deck

Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Four: A Lifetime of Reminiscences from the

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Steve Bond is back with the final volume in this popular series. Unlike his previous three tomes, with their focus on air/rotorcraft, this book is uniquely dedicated to the personnel...
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...
Voices of Colditz: The YMCA Notebook  from Oflag Ivc

Voices of Colditz: The YMCA Notebook from Oflag Ivc

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Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

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UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
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...
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944

11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944

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A true World War II Christmas story from the bestselling author of Silent Night.It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort...
An Ancient Air

An Ancient Air

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Examines the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable. It reveals his lifelong obsession with aviation and seeks to shed...
Back from Tobruk

Back from Tobruk

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In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht

Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht

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This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
London: the Autobiography

London: the Autobiography

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In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to...
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

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In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by...
Churchill's Spearhead

Churchill's Spearhead

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This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored...
Brutus of Troy

Brutus of Troy

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Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

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The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945

Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945

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In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

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In her fascinating new book, Pitman has written an enthralling micro history of Raphael's painting St. George and the Dragon--as well as the colorful rogue's gallery of historical characters who...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare

A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever

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Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
Churchill and Sea Power

Churchill and Sea Power

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Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
Gandhi Before India

Gandhi Before India

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The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra Guha The life of Mohandas Gandhi...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders Campaign

The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders

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Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the

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"Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
For the Love of a Soldier: Australian War-Brides and Their Gi'S

For the Love of a Soldier: Australian War-Brides and Their Gi'S

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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape

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The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War

The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War

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The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set

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The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, to Queen of Scots to Quantum Crytography

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, to Queen of Scots to Quantum Crytography

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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage

Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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