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By: Jeffrey Lee

ISBN: 9781782399285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The sweeping story of one of the most notorious crusader knights, Reynald de Chatillon - a great Christian hero of the Second Crusade and one of the most hated figures in Islamic history.


(Paperback)

By: Ann Thwaite

ISBN: 9781509852000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Now a major motion picture starring Margot Robbie and Domhnall Gleeson.


(Hardback)

By: Nigel Ely

ISBN: 9781789465594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands War, April-June 1982


(Paperback)

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

ISBN: 9781472853417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II.


(Hardback)

By: Thomas Hippler

ISBN: 9781784785956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing


(Paperback)

By: Jeremy Paxman

ISBN: 9780670919635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explaining why we fought it so willingly, how we endured it so long, and how it transformed us all.


(Paperback)

By: Julian Spilsbury

ISBN: 9781848668997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The compelling stories of history's most disastrous conflicts.


(Paperback)

By: Jason Webster

ISBN: 9780552772815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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When Jason Webster and his wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder.


(Paperback)

By: Ronald Fry

ISBN: 9780316341448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, the Hammerhead Six mission applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against the terrorist insurgency.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This touching, brutally honest diary of a First World War soldier makes a fascinating contribution to our understanding of what life was like for the British Tommy.


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By: Harry Drinkwater

ISBN: 9780091957223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2014
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Harold Drinkwater was not supposed to go to war. He was told he was half an inch too short. But, determined to fight for king and country, he found a battalion that would take him and was soon on his way to trenches of the Somme. This book offers a moving testament to one man's struggle to keep his humanity in the face of unimaginable violence.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Forsyth

ISBN: 9781472814579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Volksjger was an interceptor cheaply manufactured for Germany's final stand. For aviation and World War II enthusiasts, this study explores the operational history of the He 162.


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By: Robert Leckie

ISBN: 9780091937515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Presents author's journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. This title provides details of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting a portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defence of their country.


(Hardback)

By: Scott Bateman

ISBN: 9780241655580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gerry Docherty

ISBN: 9781780576305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Exposes those responsible for the First World War. This book reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of rich and powerful men in London responsible for the heinous crime perpetrated on humanity.


(Hardback)

By: M.G. Sheftall

ISBN: 9781035422685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A sensitive and meticulously researched account of life in Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing, with extensive testimony from the few remaining survivors


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By: Maurice Possley

ISBN: 9780310365341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Zondervan
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This imaginative, previously untold story is the chronicle of a courageous young soldier fighting in WWII, the attempted capture of Adolf Hitler, and the subsequent saga of the dictator's pistol. Based on true events, this is an adventure you won't soon forget.


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By: Nigel Thomas

ISBN: 9781472839541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This illustrated study details the organization, battle orders, combat history, uniforms, and insignia of the World War II units recruited by Nazi Germany from ethnic minorities in the USSR.


(Hardback)

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones

ISBN: 9781472847393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on new research, Hitler's Winter tells the story of the Battle of the Bulge from the German perspective.


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By: Gregg Jones

ISBN: 9780451239181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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From Admiral George Dewey's legendary naval victory in Manila Bay to the Rough Riders' heroic charge up San Juan Hill, from Roosevelt's rise to the presidency to charges of U.S. military misconduct in the Philippines, "Honor in the Dust" brilliantly captures an era brimming with American optimism and confidence as the nation expanded its influence abroad.


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By: Laurence Rees

ISBN: 9781849901673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during World War 2 has been well documented.


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By: Stephen Clarke

ISBN: 9780099594987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if'), then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began re-writing history. The Duke of Wellington was beaten, they say, and then the Prussians jumped into the boxing ring, breaking all the rules of battle.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780060760243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the ancient Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with horribly bad military ideas. This compendium of great military disasters and ill-advised battle plans highlights the worst military decisions throughout history and the world.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780062069092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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With more than 35 chapters of military disasters, both famous (infamous) and obscure, this title is chock of trivia, history, and looks at the world's greatest seafaring military defeats.

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