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War of the Unknown Warriors | |||
| Memories of Britain 1939-45 | War & Militaria | |||
| David Souden | ||||
| National Trust 2005 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0707803888 247x188mm | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This history of Britain in the Second World War focuses on the country's historic houses, drawing on recollections of life in wartime to recover hidden histories in familiar places. It is a celebration of life on the Home Front in houses and estates now in the care of the National Trust, such as Chartwell in Kent, Churchill's country home, given to the Trust as a memorial to the nation's struggle, and many other great houses given over to military use, as hospitals or as evacuees' billets. | ||||
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Raiders | |||
| Great Exploits of the Second World War | War & Militaria | |||
| John Laffin | ||||
| Sutton 2003 182 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750932082 | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| During World War II a number of daring raids were carried out by Allied and Axis forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. Raiders relates to over 20 such operations with the emphasis on attacks mounted by the British. 16pp b&w plates | ||||
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Balloons at War | |||
| Gas Bags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets | War & Militaria | |||
| John Christopher | ||||
| Tempus 2004 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752429957 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Even before he got his first balloon aloft in 1783, Joseph Montgolfier was thinking in terms of using it to launch a surprise attack on the English holding Gibraltar; in 2003 plans for anthrax-carrying balloons were discovered in Afghanistan. From Bonaparte's balloon corps to the present day, this illustrated history traces the military applications of balloons - in reconnaissance and surveillance, as barrage, or for dropping bombs - and describes their use in conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and the Cold War. | ||||
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Independent Force: The War Diary of the Daylight Squadrons of the | |||
| Independent Air Force, June-November 1918 | War & Militaria | |||
| Keith Rennles | ||||
| Grub Street 2002 218 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 190230490X 248x175mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| The Independent Air Force was formed in June 1918, two months after the official formation of the Royal Air Force. Conceived as a strategic bomber force, dedicated to attacking Germany's war production, vital industries, railways and aerodromes, the IAF was the forerunner of the Second World War's Bomber Command. Based on a mass of documentary evidence, this book presents a day-to-day record of the IAF's achievements and the tremendous but sadly often futile contribution of its personnel. | ||||
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The SS | |||
| A History 1919-45 | War & Militaria | |||
| Robert Lewis Koehl | ||||
| Tempus 2004 288 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752425595 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Originally designed as an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to prevent the undermining of the Nazi Party, the SS grew into one of the most feared secret police forces of the 20th century. Koehl documents its development, from the origins of Nazism in the 'social and political maelstrom' of 1919-1924 and the inception of the SS in 1925 to its disbandment in 1945. He reveals both the inner workings of the SS and its paramount contribution to both the military strategy of the Waffen SS and the Holocaust. | ||||
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The Secret Annexe | |||
| An Anthology of War Diarists | War & Militaria | |||
| Irene & Alan Taylor (Edited by) | ||||
| Canongate 2004 676 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1841954438 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Whether military commanders planning battles, famous literary figures or just ordinary civilians caught up in events they cannot control, the diarists anthologized here are united by experience of wartime. The excerpted journals, kept by authors as varied as Pepys, Tolstoy and Orwell, Anne Frank, Anna Politkovskaya and Salam Pax, cover conflicts ranging from the 17th-century Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American War of Independence to the Falklands, Chechnya and Iraq. | ||||
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A War in Words | |||
| The First World War | War & Militaria | |||
| Svetlana Palmer; Sarah Wallis | ||||
| Simon & Schuster 2003 381 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0743248317 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This collection of documentary evidence, none originally intended for publication, comprises the work of 28 people whose individual stories shed a new light on the events of the war. It begins in 1914 with the confessional account of one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins; among the other sources are the letters of a Canadian soldier, the correspondence between Rudolf Hess and his mother and the diary which a twelve-year-old German schoolgirl began on the first day of the war. | ||||
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War Book of the German General Staff | |||
| Grossgeneralstab | War & Militaria | |||
| JH Morgan (Translated by) | ||||
| Stackpole 2005 138 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0811701476 | ||||
| Published Price $16.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Who is the enemy? How should hostile prisoners be treated? What are the legal means of conducting war? This manual - published in 1902 - details what actions were permissible and impermissible for the Imperial German General Staff. Translated in 1915, complete with critical footnotes and sidebars, it provides a clear insight into how war was to be waged according to the 'customs of civilized nations'. | ||||
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Hunt the Bismarck | |||
| War & Militaria | ||||
| Angus Konstam | ||||
| Compendium 2004 96 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1902579798 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Part of the Great Naval Battles series which examines the commanders, the ships' armament, performance and weaponry, training, morale and experience of the crews, logistics, battle arena, and the battle itself, with an assessment. | ||||
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A Brief History of the Crimean War | |||
| The Causes and Consequences of a Medieval Conflict Fought in a Modern Age | War & Militaria | |||
| Alexis Troubetzkoy | ||||
| Robinson 2006 334 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1845294203 | ||||
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| Troubetzkoy traces the convoluted causes of the Crimean War, a conflict that Frederick Engels called 'a colossal comedy of errors'. Following developments in diplomacy, trade and nationalistic expression Troubetzkoy unravels the manifold threads of a war which was fought not just on the Black Sea but on the Danube, in the Caucasus and near the borders of Norway and Persia. | ||||
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The Western Front, 1914-1918 | |||
| War & Militaria | ||||
| John Terraine | ||||
| Pen & Sword 2003 238 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0850529204 | ||||
| Published Price £6.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| In this collection of essays, John Terraine, one of the most distinguished historians of the First World War addresses topics including the genesis of the Western Front, Lloyd George's influence, Haig, Plumer and the battles for Guise, Passchendaele and Amiens. The author's introduction and linking commentary give the book a sense of unity and cohesion, resulting in a compelling history of the 'war to end all wars'. First published 1964. | ||||
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The Faraway War | |||
| Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific | War & Militaria | |||
| Richard J Aldrich | ||||
| Doubleday 2005 704 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0385606796 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This full-length study of the war that took place across Asia and the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, brings the conflict to life through the diaries of ordinary people on all sides, including a kamikaze pilot, an Australian prisoner of war, a British nurse, Vera Brittain in London and a teenage girl in Hiroshima. The diary extracts are arranged chronologically, with added historical commentary, and the result is a deeply moving documentary of the human dimensions of this 'faraway war'. | ||||
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Stars in a Dark Night | |||
| The Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family | War & Militaria | |||
| Anthony Boden | ||||
| Sutton 2004 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750934670 | ||||
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| Ivor Gurney met the Chapman family during his time as organist at Christ Church, High Wycombe, where Edward Chapman was churchwarden. Gurney stayed at the Chapman home at weekends, and when he went to the Western Front in 1915, he wrote often to his dear 'Chapmen'. Found in 1982, these playful and affectionate letters, described by Gurney's biographer, Michael Hurd as a 'record of warmth and human kindness', are published here along with an outline of the poet-composer's life. | ||||
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A World to Gain | |||
| The Battle for Global Domination and Why America Entered WWII | War & Militaria | |||
| Thomas Toughill | ||||
| Clairview 2004 214 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1902636511 | ||||
| Published Price £12.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| A study of why President Roosevelt brought American into World War II and how in the process he made the US the most powerful country in the world focusing on Roosevelt's advisors such as William Donovan, the President's Spymaster. | ||||
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From the Front | |||
| The Story of War | War & Militaria | |||
| Michael S Sweeney | ||||
| National Geographic 2003 320 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0792269195 277x235mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| Only in the last 150 years has the story of warfare been told as it unfolded, by a group of courageous men and women who experienced the heat of battle armed with only with notebooks and cameras. This history of war correspondence takes us from the imperial adventure of the Crimea to the internecine horrors of Iraq, by way of Passchendale, Guernica, Iwo Jima and the Tet Offensive. Visually gripping and written with the urgency of journalists under fire, it focuses on the true face of war and the extraordinary people who risk their lives to report it. | ||||
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