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The explosive real-life story of the mission to ambush a dangerous rebel group in Sierra Leone, as retold by ex-SAS soldier and author Tony Hoare.

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An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.

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The French Foreign Legion has built a reputation as one the world's most formidable and colourful military institutions. This book explores how the Legion selects its recruits, their native lands, and why these warriors seek a life full of hardship and danger.

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A Times Political Book of the Year 2022

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the wars echoing legacy.

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How did we end up living in a terrifying reality of potential nuclear annihilation

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A guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century. Augmented with rare photographs and illustrations, this title explores the history, organization, and appearance of the armies, both guerilla and conventional, that fought in this bloody war.

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A compelling anthology of spies, soldiers, mercenaries and assassins, Black Ops tells the secret history of 20th- and 21st-century warfare.

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A masterful account of a vital four months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, a key turning point in both the Pacific Theater and the wider Second World War.

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This book uses the latest historical and marine archeological research to present a novel, comparative exploration of an ever-popular subject: the epic clashes of British and German surface battleships during World War II.

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This original and controversial book from the Costa Award-winning author of The Strangest Man offers a brilliant insight into Britain's atomic scientists during the war and shows a new and less flattering side to the great war leader.

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An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power.

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A superbly illustrated study of the major warships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. While the Kriegsmarine's capital ships became less important to Hitler following the outbreak of war, these vessels played a key role in projecting power in northern waters in the opening years of the war, disrupting Allied shipping and supporting operations.

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The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing

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Six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century, and the one trait that links them all: hubris.

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A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Java Sea, a key Japanese victory in their advance throughout Southeast Asia.

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Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book.

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The first in a three-book series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

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The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

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This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive.

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The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'), and what followed was Italy's first debacle in World War II.

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This concise yet detailed overview gives a balanced account of this key Blitzkrieg campaign in the Balkans during the opening years of World War II.

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A Times Political Book of the Year 2022

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the wars echoing legacy.