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Military Lessons Of The Gulf War by Bruce W. Watson
Military Lessons of the Gulf War presents an authoritative international perspective on the military, operational and technological aspects of the Gulf War together with the political, foreign policy and strategic considerations.
The Iron Cross: A History, 1813-1957 by Gordon Williamson
The Iron Cross history, with details of grades and award documents. 176pp, fully illustrated.
Like Wolves On The Fold: The Defence Of Rorke's Drift by Lt. Col. Mike Snook
Written by a serving officer of the 24th Regiment, this work provides striking and detailed new insights with its 32 pages of fully captioned illustrations and terrain photographs. Wednesday, 22 June 1879, was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern
Black Water: By Strength And By Guile by Don Camsell
Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role demanded that Don fought in just about every t
Tommy: The British Soldier On The Western Front by Richard Holmes
Tommy is Richard Holmes's tribute to the ghosts of the millions of ordinary soldiers who fought in the First World War. The book also reflects the dissatisfaction he feels at the way we still remember it. Too often we approach World War I through the literature it inspired. The poems of Wilfred Owen
The Old Contemptibles by Robin Neillands
The British entered World War I convinced of victory. Many even predicted an end to hostilities by Christmas. For the British Expeditionary Force, which was instead obliterated by 1915, this proved a costly assumption. In his robust re-examination of the onset of war, Robin Neillands reviews the exp
The Shooting Gallery by Gaz Hunter
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Excellent SAS Autobiography, 23 Jan 2001 By C. J. Husing "fact275" (California United States) - See all my reviews In the growth industry of SAS autobiographies, Gaz Hunter's is best for its description of operations around the
Britain's Last Tommies: Final Memories From Soldiers Of The 1914-1918 War, In Their Own Words by Richard Van Emden
Britain's Last Tommies is a tribute to the final veterans of the Great War, featuring fascinating interviews with the last servicemen who fought for Britain in the trenches of France and Flanders. For more than twenty years, Richard van Emden has met and talked to over 270 veterans of the Great Wa
War Diaries And Letters 1914-1918 by Douglas Haig
There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggle
Private 12768: Memoir Of A Tommy by John Jackson
(Revealing History): Memoir of a Tommy . A newly discovered account of life in the trenches that challenges our perception of how British troops viewed the First World War. There is no shortage of personal accounts from the First World War. So why publish another memoir? The principal reason is the
Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
Richard Holmes, bestselling author of 'Redcoat' and 'War Walks' 'Incisive, emotionally-charged and visceral...A hard-hitting and heart-breaking book'. Alan Ramsey in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' 'The book of the year...GALLIPOLI is just the most stunning account of the Anzac boneyard'. Carlyon pu
The Nemisis File by Paul Bruce
The true story of an SAS execution squad
The Order Of The Death's Head: The Story Of Hitler's Ss (penguin Classic Military History) by Heinz Hohne
The author has drawn on primary historical sources in the form of secret SS archives, confidential papers and diaries and hundreds of personal interviews to reveal that the SS was not directed by some devilishly efficient system, but was the product of accident, inevitability and the grouping togeth
Fighting Mad (war Book Series) by Michael Calvert Dso
'Mad' Mike Calvert was certainly a character, and here he describes how he got out of Burma when the Japanese invaded, met a strange brigadier called Wingate, and ended up leading a column of Chindits later in the war. An excellent first-hand account of war in the Far East. Comment | Permalink | Wa
The First World War by Hew Strachan
A significant addition to the literature on World War I, which takes a global view of what has frequently been misperceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, this single-volume work assesses Britain's participation i
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