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THE RELENTLESS OFFENSIVE: War and Bomber Command 1939 - 1945 מאת Roy Irons During the years before World War II, the Royal Air Force, created amid the bloodshed of the Great War, saw salvation in the doctrine of a relentless offensive by a bomber force which would sail over trenches and then on to the enemy cities and annihilate the ability of the enemy to wage war. This ...

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THE MEN WHO FLEW THE MOSQUITO: Compelling Account of the 'Wooden Wonders' Triumphant WW2 Career מאת Martin Bowman The two-engined Mosquito was one of the classic aircraft of the Second World War. Famously wooden-built, its graceful lines and powerful performance have made it into an airborne icon. Its operational versatility as a fighter, low level bomber and reconnaissance aircraft was unsurpassed. In th...

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THE BATTLE OF NORTH CAPE: The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943 (Campaign Chronicles) מאת Angus Konstam On 25 December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out Altenfjord in Norway to attack Artic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst's mission before she sailed and the vulnerable convoy was protecte...

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RAF TOP GUN: The Story of Battle of Britain Ace and World Air Speed Record Holder Air Cdre E.M. 'Teddy' Donaldson CB, CBE, DSO, AFC*, LoM (USA) מאת Nick Thomas Edward 'Teddy' Mortlock Donaldson was one of three aviator brothers to win the D.S.O. during World War II. He joined his brother in the R.A.F. and was granted a sort-service commission. He quickly became both a stunt pilot and a crack-shot, winning the R.A.F.'s Gunnery Trophy One and leading the R.A...

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PRIVATE BEATSON'S WAR: Life, Death and Hope on the Western Front מאת Edited by Shaun Springer Until recently James Beatson was one of the millions of forgotten soldiers of the Great War. But after 90 years his diary has been rediscovered, perfectly preserved, and his story can now be told. It is a moving, intensely personal and beautifully written narrative by an extraordinary young man who...

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FLYING FREESTYLE: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot's Story מאת Squadron Leader Jerry Pook MBE DFC During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri-national Tornado Trainin...

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DIARY OF A BOMB AIMER: Flying with 12 Squadron in World War II מאת Campbell Muirhead Campbell Muirhead kept a meticulous diary of his wartime RAF service from the day that he set forth to train as a pilot in Canada and the USA in 1942 to the end of his wartime service with 12 Squadron Bomber Command. He was unable to pass the flying course and decided to retrain as a bomber because ...

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RED AIR FORCE AT WAR: AIR COMBAT OVER THE EASTERN FRONT AND KOREA, THE: A Soviet Fighter Pilot Remembers (The Red Air Force at War) מאת Sergei Kramarenko Sergei Kramarenko was a lucky man. As a Soviet fighter pilot, an ace, he fought in two wars - first against the Luftwaffe, then the US Air Force - and survived. This is his story. On the Eastern Front in the bitter conflict with the Germans, he dueled with Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s. The...

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WILD WEASEL FIGHTER ATTACK: The Story of the Suppression of Enemy Air Defences מאת Thomas Withington Detecting and destroying enemy Surface-to-Air Missiles (S.A.M.) and radar is arguably the most dangerous mission that any pilot can undertake. Tactics differ with air forces, but the general principal is to fly a formation of aircraft into an area where the enemy's air defenses are strong, wait for ...

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TRACING YOUR EAST ANGLIAN ANCESTORS: A Guide For Family Historians מאת Gill Blanchard Gill Blanchard's practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex - and it will give you a fascinating insight into their lives. As well as guiding the researcher to historical reco...

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THE PEGASUS DIARIES: The Private Papers of Major John Howard DSO מאת John Howard John Howard's name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. His men regarded him with awe and his courage and toughness were bye-words. However this book reveals the human side of the ma...

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IN THE SHADOW OF NELSON: The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood מאת Denis Orde Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer. The relationship is all the stranger as their temperament...

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WOODEN HORSE (Military Classics) מאת Eric Williams Two officers made home runs via a tunnel dug in the open air beneath a wooden vaulting horse from Stalag Luft III. The author, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag-Luft III (site of the 'Great Escape' later in the war). He escaped after 10 mon...

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U-BOAT WAR, THE (Images of War) מאת Ian Baxter The U-Boat war is a unique visual record of Hitler`s infamous submarine fleet and a grim account of those that lived, worked and risked their lives stalking the depths of the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas. The book analyses the development of the U-boat, the recruitment and training, and re...

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THE CRUSHING OF POLAND (Images of War) מאת Ian Baxter Hitler's decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics - the ruthless use of armor, mobile infantry and air support. The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was ov...

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PROFILES OF FLIGHT SERIES: V BOMBERS: Vulcan, Valiant and Victor מאת Dave Windle Britain's desire to stay at the leading edge in the design and development of modern jet powered aircraft was born in the later stages of World War Two. The RAF sent requests to the leading aircraft manufactures for a variety of specifications, amongst which was one for a long-range heavy bomber. Th...

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HITLER'S SECRET COMMANDOS: Operations of the K-Verband מאת Helmut Blocksdorf Hitler's Secret Commandos is the history of the K-Verband naval commando unit, established in 1943 to reek havoc amongst invading allied forces involved in amphibious landings or actions, against German-occupied coasts. Following the Italian and British example, the basic idea was for a small,...

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VIMY (Pen & Sword Military Classic) מאת Pierre Berton On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best defended German bastion on the Western Front - the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000...

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LAST STAND AT LE PARADIS: The Events Leading to the SS Massacre of the Norfolks 1940 מאת Richard Lane In early September 1939, the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment were one of the first complete infantry units of the BEF to land in France. The first months of World War Two were relatively quiet but after deploying to the Maginot Line sector during January 1940 they came into contact with t...

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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross מאת Albrecht Wacker Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front...

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SIEGES OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR מאת John Barratt Sieges determined the course of the English Civil Wars, yet they receive scant attention. In contrast, the major set-piece battles are repeatedly analyzed and reassessed. As a result our understanding of the conflict, and of its outcome, is incomplete. John Barratt, in this lucid and percepti...

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A BRITISH ACHILLES: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe KBE DSO MC FRS 20th Century Soldier, Politician, Statesman מאת Lorna Almonds Windmill Son of the victor of Jutland, George Jellicoe has enjoyed power and privilege but never shirked his duty. His war exploits are legendary and, as a founder member of Stirling's SAS and first Commander of the Special Boat Service, he saw action a-plenty. A brigadier at 26 with a DSO and MC he libera...

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TARGET LEIPZIG: The RAF's Disastrous Raid of 19/20 February 1944 מאת Alan Cooper Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of 19/29 February 1944. Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time by far the RAF's most costly raid of World War II. The town was at...

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JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER: Design and Development of the International Aircraft מאת Gerard Keijsper The Joint Strike Fighter is being developed and the aircraft has been ordered for the Royal Air Force/Navy, the US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps. This book looks at all the many research programs that are taking place in the fields of airframe and engine design, avionics, weapons, radar, co...

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RAF TANKER NAVIGATOR מאת Peter Bodle and Tony Golds This book gives a rare insight into the life inside the tanker squadrons of the Royal Air Force, viewed through the eyes of Tony Golds, one of the R.A.F. tanker fleet's longest serving Navigator/Plotters. During his service career which spanned four decades, he flew in dozens of airplanes, for liter...

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The Wehrmacht In Russia מאת Bob Carruthers On June 22nd 1941 three huge German army groups launched a surprise attack on Soviet Russia. The most barbaric and brutal struggle in history was about to be played out to the death. History is always written by the victors, but this is the other side of the coin. Here is the German experience of the war in Russia, a powerful study of that titanic conflict as seen through the eyes of and told in the words of the men who fought and died for Hitler. Included in this volume are extensive extracts from post-war debriefings of captured German officers concerning the experience of combat on th...

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MALTA - ISLAND UNDER SIEGE (Battleground Europe Mediterranean) מאת Paul Williams Malta: Island Under Siege not only relates the decisive military action from World War II but also details the religious, historical and political events that led to the Axis forces' attempts to conquer and occupy Malta, putting the reader in the meeting rooms of the military leaders and politicians...

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DROP ZONE BURMA: Adventures in Allied Air-Supply 1943-45 מאת Roger Annett Air-dropped supplies were a vital part of the Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. The transportation of munitions, food and medical supplies was undertaken in the most difficult situations, both on the land where the air bases were often situated in remote tropical jungle terrain and in t...

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LANDMINES IN WAR AND PEACE: From Their Origin to the Present Day מאת Mike Croll Land mines and their antecedents have been used on the battlefield from ancient times, through the world wars, to the modern conflicts in the developing world. Their use in the developing world caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties, and the resulting international outrage transformed rapi...

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FREE TO FIGHT AGAIN: RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945 מאת Alan Cooper To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers. ...

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REDCOATS AGAINST NAPOLEON: The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars מאת Carole Divall Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers - the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstak...

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THE AGE OF INVINCIBLE: The Ship that defined the modern Royal Navy מאת Nick Childs The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various deployments (including the Falklands) and her evolving role and tech...

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OPERATION BANNER: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1969 - 2007 (Pen & Sword Military Books) מאת Nick Van der Bijl The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles. In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderry which spread rapidly. After three days of violence the British Government deployed troops in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Initially...

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GREAT WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT, THE: A Short History מאת Paddy Griffith The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century. Most people hold it in their minds as a milestone in modern history, yet many of them know less about this devastating clash of nations than they would like - and they would be interes...

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AIR GUNNER: The Men who Manned the Turrets מאת Alan Cooper There have been several books published about the wartime experiences of individual air gunners but there is no general history of Air Gunners, their equipment, training or service in the various RAF Commands in which they served. This book explains in great detail how and why the trade of air gunne...

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AIR WAR IN EAST AFRICA 1940-41 מאת Jon Sutherland This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds. This, against a backdrop of Britain's meager assets being in demand in the much more prominent and important theat...

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PRISONER OF THE RISING SUN מאת Stanley Wort This is the story of a young man thrust into the Royal Navy in distant Hong Kong. He relates some of the humorous situations in which he found himself and provides a realistic account of what life was like for servicemen in pre war Hong Kong. It describes the prelude to war from his point of ...

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A SALUTE TO ONE OF 'THE FEW': The Life of Flying Officer Peter Cape Beauchamp St John RAF מאת Simon St John Beer In a quiet churchyard in Amersham is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave in 1998 and after some initial enquiries discovered that nobody in the town was aware that 'One of the Few' Battle ...

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GERMAN OFFENSIVES OF 1918, THE: Campaign Chronicle Series - The Last Desperate Gamble מאת Ian Passingham Few pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918. It was a momentous period, which began with Germany's desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. Ian Passingham's graphic new study draws on a wide range of original German, British ...

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YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS: A Guide for the Family Historian מאת Ian Maxwell Your Irish Ancestors provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many ...

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THE GERMAN 88: The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War מאת Terry Gander The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns, including several self-propelled platforms. Although primarily anti-aircraft guns they gained an awesome r...

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TRACING YOUR POLICE ANCESTORS מאת Stephen Wade Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, ...

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LADYSMITH: COLENSO/SPION KOP, BOER WAR (Battleground South Africa) מאת Lewis Childs In a similar format to the popular Battleground Europe series (covering World War I), a Battleground South Africa series is now being launched. With the hundredth anniversary of the Boer War of 1899-1902 fast approaching, the siege of Ladysmith has been chosen as the first subject in the series. ...

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GHOSTS ON THE SOMME: Filming the Battle, June-July 1916 מאת Alastair Fraser The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army - 1 July 1916 - and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so o...

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MAGNIFICENT BUT NOT WAR (Pen & Sword Military Classics) מאת John Dixon The book is a detailed account of the fighting around Ypres during April and May 1915. It is essentially a day-by-day record of the Second Battle of Ypres which draws heavily upon personal accounts, regimental histories and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle in which Germany ...

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BRITISH ARMY: A POCKET GUIDE 2008 - 2009, THE מאת Charles Heyman The British Army Pocket Guide 2008-2009 is a comprehensive guide to the organization, equipment and tactics of today's British Army. This latest edition incorporates details of all army reorganization and regimental amalgamations plus details of major systems and equipment introduced....

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COCKLESHELL COMMANDO (Pen & Sword Military Books) מאת Bill Sparks One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and post-war career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Gre...

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THE BLACK SHIP (Pen & Sword Military Books) מאת Dudley Pope Dudley Pope meticulously researches the story of the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy - the butchering of the officers aboard His Majesty's Frigate HERMIONE 32 guns, in the West Indies in 1797. The captain of the frigate, Hugh Pigot, was a brutal and sadistic commander who fl...

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THE PEGASUS AND ORNE BRIDGES: Their Capture, Defence and Relief on D-Day מאת Neil Barber The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de main' assault. Equally brave was the seizure o...

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DUXFORD AND THE BIG WINGS 1940 - 45: RAF and USAAF Fighter Pilots at War מאת Martin W. Bowman A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF, German and American 'Eagles' who fought in the skies over England in the Battle of Bri...

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ONE OF 'THE FEW': The Memoirs of Wing Commander Ted 'Shippy' Shipman AFC מאת John Shipman This book is based on the copious notes that Ted 'Shippy' Shipman wrote in the 1970s and brings a firsthand insight into the life of an RAF Spitfire pilot during the early war years and then his remaining wartime and postwar service until 1959....

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TRACING YOUR PAUPER ANCESTORS: A Guide for Family Historians מאת Robert Burlison Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about, and no previous book has provided a guide to documents and records that family ...

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MEN OF STEEL: The Ardennes and Eastern Front 1944-45 מאת Major General Michael Reynolds CB In March 1943 the three senior Divisions of the Waffen-SS - Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (Bodyguard), Das Reich (Empire) and Totenkopf (Death's Head) - were fighting against Stalin's armies in the Ukraine under the command of SS Lieutenant General Paul Hausser. Aware of the need to create more divisio...

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CROMWELL'S WAR MACHINE: The New Model Army 1645-1660 מאת Keith Roberts The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describe...

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ATTACK ON LONDON: Disaster, Riot and War מאת Jonathan Oates Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital - and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan ...

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SNIPING IN THE GREAT WAR מאת Martin Pegler Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging, authoritative study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to ...

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THE WARS OF ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS 323-281 BC: volume 2: Battles and Tactics מאת Bob Bennett When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories. Most of these Diadochi, or successors, were consummate profe...

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MEMORIES OF AN SOE HISTORIAN (Pen & Sword Military Books) מאת M.R.D. Foot Michael (MRD) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive. He authored first (1966) the History of SOE in Franc...

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THE NUREMBERG RAID: 30-31 MARCH 1944 מאת Martin Middlebrook This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters and aims of the British bombing leaders and the...

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PENDULUM OF BATTLE: Operation Goodwood - July 1944 מאת Chris Dunphie Operation Goodwood, the largest tank battle involving British troops ever to have taken place, has been a perpetual subject of controversy. Was it intended as a break-out from the Normandy Bridgehead, or not? Was it a success or failure? Did it lead to a severe crisis in confidence over Field Marsha...

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PERISCOPE PATROL מאת John Frayn Turner The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this. Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. T...

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HAIG: A RE-APPRAISAL 80 YEARS ON מאת Brian Bond Field Marshal Earl Haig's reputation continues to arouse as much interest and controversy as ever. This volume represents the collaboration of two leading historical societies, The British Commission for Military History and The Douglas Haig Fellowship. Leading historians have produced a comprehensi...

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THE HELL THEY CALLED HIGH WOOD (Pen & Sword Military Books) מאת Terry Norman The Somme was surely one of the bloodiest rendezvous for battle of all time. High Wood, dominating the Bazentin Ridge, was the fiercely contested focal point of the battle. The Germans showed great determination and sacrifice defending the feature and it was not until September that it finally fell ...

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MY BOY JACK?: The Search for Kipling's Only Son מאת Tonie Holt 'My Boy Jack?' is the first biography of John Kipling, woven around the extraordinary story of Rudyard Kipling's search for his son. The authors, Tonie and Valmai Holt, intrigued by this unusual and newsworthy action felt drawn into taking the investigation further, to examine the evidence and to qu...

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PEGASUS - THE HEART OF THE HARRIER: The History and Development of the World's First Operational Vertical Take-off and Landing Jet Engine מאת Andrew Dow The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft that resulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service w...

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NAVAL WARFARE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 1939 - 1945 מאת Peter Smith From the year 1066 the English Channel has provided Great Britain with a natural defensive barrier, but never more than in the early days of World War Two. This book relates how the Royal Navy defended that vital seaway throughout the war. From the early days of the Dover Patrols, through the...

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TRACING YOUR TEXTILE ANCESTORS מאת Vivien Teasdale Vivien Teasdale's concise and informative guide to the textile industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to research the career of an ancestor who was a textile worker. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the technical, economic a...

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Famous 1914-1918 מאת Richard Van Emden Famous tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain's most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a murderer. The generation that grew up in the late 19th century enlisted enthusiastically in the defense o...

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STORMTROOPER ON THE EASTERN FRONT: Fighting with Hitler's Latvian SS מאת Mintauts Blosfelds Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, the author was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labor in a slave camp. So he 'volunteered' to fight for the Nazis. He describes his training and how he became an instructor before being sent into Russia. He nearly perish...

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HITLER'S PANZER ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT מאת Robert Kirchubel Hitler's panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped strategy. Their extraordinary triumphs and their eventual defeat mirrors the fate of German forces in the E...

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BARE FEET AND BANDOLIERS: Wingate, Sandford, the Patriots and the Liberation of Ethiopia מאת David Shireff This is the story of two remarkable 'firsts'. It is the story of the first successful attempt by Allied forces during the Second World War to support and sustain a local resistance movement with regular forces in enemy-held territory. It is also the story of how Ethiopia became the first nation co...

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DANGEROUS FRONTIERS: Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman מאת Bryan Ray In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden...

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JEWISH LIVES: BRITAIN 1750-1950 - How Our Ancestors Lived - How Our Ancestors Lived # מאת Melody Amsel-Arieli Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched by a variety of sources, reflect the experiences of all Jewish immigrants as they settled in their adopted land. Melody Amsel-Arieli does not just piece together the detail of their lives - their work, pastimes, families, daily chores, food and celebrations. Drawing on social, economic and historical records, she also explores their background, places of origin, motives for immigration, arrival in the UK and ex...