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  • Dear Mum
    Susan Tyzack
    Susan was always a bit of a nomad. From reporting an attempted coup in Seychelles, via hand-feeding rhinos in Tanzania, she has now landed in Orkney.Unaccountably drawn to the islands to the bemusement of friends, she learns about milling and becomes immersed in the landscape and the people. Will she settle? Will this be 'home'? And what is home anyway?September 1944 and the wa...
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    15,74 €

  • At Close Quarters
    Robert Bulkley
    At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the U.S. Navy, first published in 1962, is the official Navy history of Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats during World War II. The book opens with a look at PT boat design and construction, naval activities in the Philippines and the evacuation of MacArthur from Corregidor (conducted via PT boat by the book’s author, himself a PT skipper), followed by cha...
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    20,16 €

  • Five Down and Glory
    Gene Gurney
    Five Down and Glory, first published in 1958, is the authoritative record of America’s top fighter pilots from the early 1900’s through the Korean War. Beginning with a definition of the term 'ace,' the book details the exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille in France, the Flying Tigers in China, the Eagle Squadron in England, pilots of the U.S. Navy and Marines, the 8th Air Forc...
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    20,43 €

  • Into Enemy Waters
    Andrew Dubbins
    With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the elite Underwater Demolition Teams, precursor of the Navy SEALs-who were given nearly impossible pre-invasion missions from D-Day to the most crucial landings in the Pacific Theate...
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    16,12 €

  • Carpe Diem
    Anneli Jones
    This sequel to 'Reflections in an Oval Mirror' details Anneli’s post-war life. The scene changes from life in Northern ’West Germany’ as a refugee, reporter and military interpreter, to parties with the Russian Authorities in Berlin, boating in the Lake District with the original ’Swallows and Amazons’, weekends with the Astors at Cliveden, then a new family in the small Kentis...
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    31,28 €

  • Juno Beach
    Mark Zuehlke
    On June 6, 1944 the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and dee...
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    22,46 €

  • Breakout from Juno
    Mark Zuehlke
    On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly against Hitler’s finest armoured divisions, at a great cost in bloodshed. Initially, only the 3rd Division was involved, but in a couple of weeks two other Canadian division...
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    22,01 €

  • THE RIFLE BRIGADE 1939-45
    Regimental History
    This is a Regimentally published title that follows the Rifle Brigade and its exploits throughout the Second World War. Compiled by appropriate officers of the regiment, this is a day-to-day account of men in battle. Of a more intimate Regimental Chronicle style than the work of Major Hastings, it pleases with the first-hand telling of the Regiment’s achievements narrated by se...
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    29,04 €

  • THE WAR DIARY OF H COMPANY
    Brigade History
    This is a Regimentally published title that covers an individual company of the Rifle Brigade compiled from the company war diary, and is a day to day account of men of H Company in the heat of battle. Taking part in the Normandy landings in June 1944 and the subsequent advance across North West Europe. ...
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    25,36 €

  • THE GUILDFORD HOME GUARD
    G. W. Geddes
    Though gently mocked as TV’s ’Dad’s Army’, the Home Guard was a deadly serious bid to thwart an expected German invasion in the Second World War. This unit history of the Guildford Home Guard explores the unit’s history chronologically. Listing of first and Stand Down officers, Disposition and Weapons in the Defence of Guildford Nodal Point (Nodal Points were towns and villages...
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    19,65 €

  • DORNIER Do 24 FLYING BOAT
    Dornier-Werke G.m.b.H.
    Detailed operating instructions for Do 24T-1 and Do 24T-2 Variants of the German three-engine flying boat ,designed in the 1930s by the Dornier Flugzeugwerke for maritime patrol and search and rescue purposes.With monochrome industrial photography and two colour line drawings and charts throughout, this is a very interesting factory manual for a rare aircraft of which a total o...
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    18,84 €

  • FROM THE BEACHES TO THE BALTIC
    Noel Bell
    A tightly typeset company history describing ’G’ Company’s exploits during the campaign through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany in 1944/45. The 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade was formed in early January 1941 by the re-designation of the 2nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade. As a motor battalion, it took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, as part of the 29th Armour...
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    19,53 €

  • HISTORY OF 2/6TH BN. QUEEN’S ROYAL REGT. IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
    Regimental History
    This is the story of the 2/6TH Bn. QUEEN’S ROYAL REGT fighting with determination against a formidable foe in the form of the German Army. From its arrival in Italy during the main invasion of Italy at SALERNO on 9 September 43, it continued applying pressure on the withdrawing Germans through to the hour of victory in Venice. It relates how the battalion, and it’s Rifle Compan...
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    25,14 €

  • Sniping, Scouting and Patrolling
    Anon
    At a time when practically the total manpower of England was being mobilised for war this manual was of great value to instructors and students in the art of shooting at the enemy from a position where you could not be seen,with illustrations on type of loopholes, camouflage,and observation posts. Gale and Polden’s Sniping, Scouting and Patrolling is one of the most sought afte...
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    25,67 €

  • Back to Mandalay
    Lowell Thomas
    Back to Mandalay, first published in 1951, is noted correspondent Lowell Thomas’s engaging account of the Burma Campaign in World War II. Led by British General Orde Wingate, the book describes the formation of the Chindits - troops specializing in operations in Japanese-occupied territory - and his innovative tactics and approach to war including the use of gliders to transpor...
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    20,40 €

  • A Promise is Forever
    Donald F Hrinya
    Ed Hrinya is the perfect soldier. Charismatic, noble, strong, and confident. He valiantly takes up the honor of serving his country during the most trying of times: World War II. But will a promise he made cost him everything?The daily struggles and stresses of war press in all around Ed and his small company of soldiers. They find themselves under fire more than once by variou...
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    15,69 €

  • Down to the Sea
    Bruce Henderson
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    16,85 €

  • Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
    Harry Elmer Barnes
    A series of essays on the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941-a seismic event which led to the United States of America officially entering the Second World War.This deep-delving overview of the events, published only twelve years afterwards, was edited by the Bibliographical Editor of the Council on Foreign Relations journal 'Foreign Af...
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    30,87 €

  • Beach Moose & Amber
    Sharon Easton
    When Sharon found typewritten pages tucked in the back of her deceased father’s accordion folder, she had no idea she was holding an invitation to the greatest writing adventure of her life. The pages were her mother’s final attempt to record her Jewish family’s history - a history that she had kept secret for decades. Sharon’s mother was clear in her writing, 'All I ask is tha...
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    13,17 €

  • Lucky to be Here, Jack Bewes, 463 Lancaster Squadron
    Lyn McGettigan
    Jack Bewes’ story of war is seen through the eyes of the mates who flew Lancasters together from England to Germany and France and saw their best friends killed. There was the mate they celebrated with at the pub or the dance who did not return for breakfast, the uncertainty about the mate who did not reply to the letters written to him.These carefree, fun-loving boys of about ...
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    19,46 €

  • ’PLAYBOYS’
    Anon
    141 Regiment was the first RAC unit to be equipped with the ’Crocodile’ flame-throwing tank, introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart and converted from the Churchill tank for the role of close infantry support.B Squadron’s daring and costly close support of 1st Battalion 116th US Infantry’s assault on the heavily defende...
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    29,34 €

  • ’PLAYBOYS’
    Anon
    141 Regiment was the first RAC unit to be equipped with the ’Crocodile’ flame-throwing tank, introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart and converted from the Churchill tank for the role of close infantry support.B Squadron’s daring and costly close support of 1st Battalion 116th US Infantry’s assault on the heavily defende...
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    43,97 €

  • The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines
    Amanda Weinberg
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    15,58 €

  • Back Door to War
    Charles Callan Tansill
    Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion: that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration activel...
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    32,24 €

  • COLONEL A. J. D. BIDDLE’S DO OR DIE
    Colonel A. J. D. Biddle
    An all-time classic from ’The Master of the Bayonet’ that has, for this revised edition, extensive full-page illustrations featuring Biddle himself, helping to clarify manoeuvres of his version of the deadly art of hand-to-hand combat.Biddle was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps. He taught cadets the use of the machete, sabre, dagger a...
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    37,89 €

  • COLONEL A. J. D. BIDDLE’S DO OR DIE
    Colonel A. J. D. Biddle
    An all-time classic from ’The Master of the Bayonet’ that has, for this revised edition, extensive full-page illustrations featuring Biddle himself, helping to clarify manoeuvres of his version of the deadly art of hand-to-hand combat.Biddle was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps. He taught cadets the use of the machete, sabre, dagger a...
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    25,71 €

  • Dresden
    Frederick Taylor
    'A picture markedly different from conventional accounts.' --New York Times Book ReviewThe dramatic and controversial account that completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany’s ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England....
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    15,44 €

  • A HISTORY OF THE BROMLEY HOME GUARD
    L.D.V.
    Though gently mocked as TV’s ’Dad’s Army’, the Home Guard was a deadly serious bid to thwart an expected German invasion in the Second World War. This unit history of the Bromley Home Guard explores the unit’s history and personalities. Almost half of this history usefully gives a nominal roll of the battalion, and a list of members who then joined the services, showing branch ...
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    19,43 €

  • 21 ARMY GROUP ORDNANCE
    Major J. Lee-Richardson R.A.O.C.
    This book was written and published in Germany in 1946, by 21st Army Group in 1946 as a record of the ordnance (military supplies, especially weapons and bombs) services of the Army Group from the invasion in 1944 to the end of the war. It is a fascinating read and is well illustrated throughout, it also has a good colour map to clarify the narrative. 21st Army Group operated i...
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    29,55 €

  • THE HISTORY OF THE 4th ARMOURED BRIGADE
    Brigadier R.M.P. Carver
    The brigade, now known as the ’Black Rats’, was formed in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa. The Black Rats were subsequently involved in the invasion of Sicily and fighting in Italy before taking part in the Battle of Normandy and the advance through Belgium, Holland and into Germany. A Roll of Brigade, commanders and an ord...
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    18,11 €


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