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A uniquely personal and revealing insight in to the overall impact of the Allied bomber offensive in WW2.

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This text offers a guide to the organization and order-of-battle of British and Commonwealth armies during the years 1930-1943. The five chapters cover all main theatres of war: Europe including the Home Front; North, East and West Africa; the Middle East; Mediterranean, Pacific and Far East.

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Volume 2 of the British and Commonwealth Armies series offers a complete guide to the organisation and order-of-battle of British and Commonwealth armies from late 1943 to 1945.

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Thirty Buccaneer Boys, drawn from the Fleet Air Arm, the RAF and the South African Air Force, outline their experiences in the maritime role, operations overland, including the first Gulf War, and operations by the South Africans in the Border Wars. In addition to the aircrew, air engineer officers and ground crew have also contributed.

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The work presents more than 880 unique photos from Soviet and German archives and private collections, which allowed to reconstruct 470 color side views featuring camouflage, insignias and tactical markings of the aircraft of Red Army Air Force in 1941.

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Can't Get There from Here traces the expansion and contraction of New Zealand's passenger rail network over the last century. In this fascinating study, Andre Brett argues that the trend away from passenger rail might appear inevitable and irreversible but it was not. Things could have been - and still could be - very different.

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Fascinating accounts from the operators of an English electric classic.

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A detailed account and analysis of the causes that led to the military uprising in Portugal on 25 April 1974, which brought down one of the oldest dictatorships in Europe.

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Chasing the Soft Underbelly examins the role of Turkey during the Second World War. While usually a footnote in histories of this conflict, Turkey featured highly in the strategies of the combatants. This book offers an in-depth insight into the position of the country and its armed forces before, and throughout the war.

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"This history covers the 200 years since European contact and the 150 years within that of "British rule." It seeks to explain how the Islands reached the desperate state they were in at 1990. Then it records, in a general way, the first 30 years of the Trust. Finally it attempts to suggest how the Trust, and the Island, may develop in the future"--Page xi.

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CIA Paramilitary Operations in Tibet includes over 60 colour and black and white photographs of the participants in the campaign and the insignia of the organisations involved, along with specially commissioned colour artworks illustrating the aircraft employed in the skies above Tibet.

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Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).

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In 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen and Royal Navy volunteers left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. They manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lies. This is the story of how they evaded the Japanese and survived.

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The first detailed- and richly illustrated study of multiple insurgencies and armed uprisings, and counterinsurgency operations of the Paraguayan armed- and security forces of the 1956-1980 period, both in English and Spanish languages.

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Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3, US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994 examines how the American Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade, how it trained, how it was equipped, how it planned to defend the city, and also looks the Special Forces units that served alongside it.

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Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide largely in those areas where the service had been based during the inter-war years. In Cold War Boys Overseas contributors recall their time at these foreign destinations.

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This book serves as a reminder of what air forces faced during the Cold War years as the ever-present threat of nuclear war persisted. A must for all aviation fans.

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Congo Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period by dispassionately outlining the sequence of political and military events that took place in the troubled country.

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Operation Mincemeat. The German Abwehr. MI5. D-Day Normandy Landings. Executed German spies at Wandsworth Prison.