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Great Escape.
The full and dramatic story of how 76 Allied RAF officers escaped from Stalag-Luft III, Germany's most secure POW camp, on the night of the 24th March 1944, with contributions from survivors and their families.Author: Anton Gill. Publisher: Headline. Paperback. 270pp. 13 x 20cm. ISBN 0755310388. Original Price £8.99.
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 | Send it by Semaphore.
The old visual telegraphs, which used giant semaphore indicators on a series of highly conspicuous sites, were developed in France during the French Revolution. For the first time news of victories was sent by an army in the field back to the capital in minutes, compared to hours or days by horse.Author: Howard Mallinson. Publisher: Crowood. HARDBACK. 208pp. 23 x 15cm, 564g, ISBN 1861267344. Original GBP £19.95.
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Dictionary of the Second World War.
One of Pen & Sword's 'Military Classics' that has more than 1,600 detailed and analytical entries, together with specially commissioned maps - which cover every aspect of the war.Author: Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Paperback. 548pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 085052962X. Original Price £10.99.
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 | Victory In Europe.
One of the Pen & Sword 'Images of War' series that is a collection of rare photographs from wartime archives. This volume is a spectacular record of the closing months of the Second World War.Author: Andy Rawson. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 25cm. ISBN 184415274X. Original Price £12.99.
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D-Day: Images of War.
One of the Pen & Sword 'Images of War' series that is a collection of rare photographs from wartime archives. This volume is a spectacular record of the D-Day invasion from the sea, air and military campaigns.Author: Francis Crosby. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Paperback. 112pp. 19cm by 25cm. ISBN 1844150771. Original Price £12.99.
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 | Target Eisenhower.
A study of military and political assassination attempts during World War II, especially detailing the plan to kill the Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower in Paris in December of 1944.Author: Charles Whiting. Publisher: Spellmount. Hardback. 164pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1862272859. Original Price £18.99.
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Pilgrimage of Remembrance.
The story of the Scots Guards II infantry company which fought on the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. Based mainly on letters sent home, the author has also visited the relevant battlefields and gives a unique 'worm's eye' view.Author: Michael Curtis. Publisher: Michael Curtis. Hardback. 160pp. 17cm by 25cm. ISBN 0954904400. Original Price £19.00.
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 | Man Who Never Was.
Two accounts, one factual and one fictional, by two different people, of one of the greatest intelligence operations ever undertaken.Author: Ewen Montagu/Duff Cooper. Publisher: Spellmount. Paperback. 207pp. 15cm by 23cm. ISBN 1862273642. Original Price £14.99.
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Horseman, Pass By.
A history of the Australian Light Horse in World War I, these mounted troops were a dashing mobile force and earned the respect and admiration of the world.Author: Lindsay Baly. Publisher: Spellmount. Paperback. 337pp. 15cm by 22cm. ISBN 1862272557. Original Price £16.99.
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 | West at War.
A unique record of the experiences of soldiers, sailors and airmen from the West of England, who fought during the Second World War. This book accompanies a major television series on ITV 1 West. Author: Nick Maddocks. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 194pp. 17cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750941103.
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Wartime Nurse.
Recounting the amazing exploits of the nurses working in battle zones during the 100 years spanning wars from the Crimea to Korea - years when such nurses struggled for official recognition.Author: Eric Taylor. Publisher: Hale. Hardback. 221pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0709067771. Original Price £19.99.
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 | Unusual Undertakings.
General Jim Wilson selects six episodes from his military career and relates them in detail. Covering Tunisia, Italy, Cyprus, India and Pakistan, this absorbing memoir will both inform and entertain.Author: Sir James Wilson. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 278pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0850529050. Original Price £25.00.
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Special Forces.
One of the Airlife 'Vital Guide' Series that covers the elite of the military world and covers units such as Commandos, SEALS, Ranger Delta Force and the SBS.Author: George Forty. Publisher: Airlife. Paperback. 112pp. 14cm by 23cm. ISBN 1840372060. Original Price £7.99.
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 | D-Day Commando.
A history of 48 Royal Marine Commando which began its life in March 1944 and was disbanded in January 1946. In its short but active life it always seemed to be in the thick of the fighting and the history reads much the same as the history of the last year of the war in Europe. Author: Ken Ford. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 194pp. 16cm by 23cm. ISBN 0750940042.
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Saving Britain's Art Treasures.
This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. Initially they were distributed to Country Houses but this became too risky and they eventually ended up in two special underground repositories.Author: N.J.McCamley. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 150pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0850529182. Original Price £19.95.
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 | Blowing Our Bridges.
A wartime memoir of Major-General Tony Younger that transports the reader back to these dangerous and dramatic times that includes the Korean war and the anthrax experiment on the island of Gruinard.Author: Major-General Tony Younger. Publisher: pen & Sword. Hardback. 227pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1844150518. Original Price £19.99.
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Axis of Evil.
This covers the dramatic events which unfolded from the 11th September 2001 to the end of the official occupation of Iraq, in the summer of 2004.Editor: Paul Moorcroft, Gwyn Winfield & John Chisholm. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 295pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1844152626. Original Price £19.99.
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 | On Flows The Tay.
A fascinating examination of how great wars can both advance and retard the march of society, here highlighted in the Scottish town of Perth and the First World War.Author: Bill Harding. Publisher: Cualann Press. Paperback. 189pp. 15cm by 21cm. ISBN 0953503623. Original Price £12.99.
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Marching To The Drums.
A gripping compendium of exciting first-hand accounts of nineteenth century warfare from the Kabul Massacre, Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War, China, the Sudan to the Siege of Mafikeng. Author: Ian Knight. Publisher: Greenhill. Hardback. 303pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1853673722.
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 | Heroic Option.
A superbly written and researched record of this extraordinary contribution to the British Army, which has become so rich a part of the heritage of both Britain and Ireland.Author: Desmon & Jean Bowen. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 331pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1844151522. Original Price £25.00.
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Worcestershire Under Arms.
A ground-breaking new history of the experience of local men who were recruited into the Royalist and Parliamentarian armies, and considers the complex and often difficult relationship between these soldiers and the local population.Author: Malcolm Atkin. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1844150720. Original Price £19.99.
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 | Sieges of the Middle Ages.
In the Middle Ages the castle was an important military and administrative centre and here we cover the period from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses.Author. Philip Warner. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Paperback. 214pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 1844152154. Original Price £6.99.
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Longknives.
One of the G.I. Series, that is an illustrated history of the American soldier, his uniform and equipment. This volume contains the U.S. Cavalry and other Mounted Forces from 1845-1942.Author: Kurt Hamilton Cox & John P. Langellier. Publisher: Greenhill. Paperback. 80pp. 19cm by 26cm. ISBN 1853672335. Original Price £9.99.
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 | VE Day.
A combination of historical analysis of this major milestone in the history of mankind with moving personal accounts from a wide range of individuals.Author: Craig Cabell & Allan Richards. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 192pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1844151840. Original Price £19.99.
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US Airborne Forces of the Cold War.
One of the G.I. Series, that is an illustrated history of the American soldier, his uniform and equipment. This volume contains the airborne forces of the Cold War.Author: Leroy Thompson. Publisher: Greenhill. Paperback. 72pp. 19cm by 26cm. ISBN 1853675652. Original Price £9.99.
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 | Fix Bayonets.
One of the G.I. Series, that is an illustrated history of the American soldier, his uniform and equipment. This volume contains the U.S. Infantry from the American Civil War to the Surrender of Japan.Author: John P.Langellier. Publisher: Greenhill. Paperback. 72pp. 19cm by 26cm. ISBN 1853673242. Original Price £9.99.
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Johhny Reb.
One of the G.I. Series, that is an illustrated history of the American soldier, his uniform and equipment. This volume contains the uniform of the Confederate Army, 1861-1865.Author: Leslie D. Jensen. Publisher: Greenhill. Paperback. 80pp. 19cm by 26cm. ISBN 1853672513. Original Price £9.99.
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 | No Finer Courage.
The Lee, a village in Buckinghamshire, is like many other British villages in that it bears the silent testimony of the men who went away to fight in the First World War and never came back.Author: Michael Senior. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 239pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750936665. Original Price £18.99.
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Living History: Illustrating the Past.
A quirky little book of published and unpublished illustrations of romances, novels and factual narratives linked by the common theme of history.Author: Stephen Beck. Publisher: Stephen Beck. Paperback. 52pp. 29cm by 21cm. ISBN187422124. Original Price £8.50.
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 | On the Bloody Road to Berlin
Frontline accounts from North-West Europe and the Eastern front from 1944 to 1945, seen through the eyes of British, American, Russian and German soldiers.Editor: Duncan Rogers & Sarah Williams. Publisher: Helion. Hardback. 281pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 1874622086. Original Price £21.95.
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SOE's Ultimate Deception.
The first book dedicated solely to Periwig, the author sheds new light on the vested interests and infighting between Britain's secret organisations in the final stages of the Second World War.Author: Frederic Boyce. Publisher: Sutton. Hardback. 244pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0750940271. Original Price £17.99.
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 | Open Road To Faraway.
The fast moving account of the harsh realities of war by Edinburgh art teacher, Andrew Winton, who spent 4 years of captivity in Nazi POW camps, escapes and constant danger in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia.Author: Andrew Winton. Publisher: Cualann Press. Paperback. 160pp. 15cm by 21cm. ISBN 0953503658. Original Price £9.99.
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Army Apprentices Harrogate.
This book chronicles the development of the Army Apprentices of Harrogate from their inception in 1947, to meet the army's needs of the immediate post-war era and the Cold War, to their demise in 1996.Author: Colonel Cliff Walters. Publisher: Halsgrove. Hardback. 160pp. 22cm by 30cm. ISBN 1841142182.
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 | London Scottish.
For two centuries the officers and men of the London Scottish have faithfully served their country yet never more so than in the Great War. Using war journals and diaries this insight is a rare opportunity to see a regiment at war.Author: Mark Lloyd. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 256pp. 17cm by 24cm. ISBN 0850527139. Original Price £19.95.
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Secret Forces of World War II.
An astonishing number and variety of unorthodox military units were created during World War II, this book lifts the veil on the full range of Allied elite units.Author: Philip Warner. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Paperback. 245pp. 15cm by 23cm. ISBN 184415114X Original Price £12.99.
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 | Secrets Of Leadership.
The essence of major tactics during battle have not changed as greatly as many theorists would have us believe and here we see that the British principles of WW2 can be traced back to those of the Romans.Author: John Laffin. Publisher: Sutton. Paperback. 280pp. 13cm by 20cm. ISBN 0750934603. Original Price £8.99.
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Our Chances Were Zero.
The daring escape by two Germans from India in 1944.Author: Rolf Magener. Publisher: Pen & Sword. Hardback. 190pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 0850528445. Original Price: £19.95
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