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By: Bob Alford
ISBN: 9781472816870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942--the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.
(Paperback)
By: Toby Harnden
ISBN: 9781849164238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Philippe-Paul De Sgur
ISBN: 9781590172827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Segur's account is to this day one of the greatest military disasters of all time and a masterpiece of military history, providing a vivid and unmistakable lesson about imperial hubris and its risks.
(Paperback)
By: Terrance McGovern
ISBN: 9781472825964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bermuda has been fortified since it was first occupied by the British in the 17th century, with some 50 forts constructed up to 1945. This new study describes these fortifications in detail and will appeal to the many visitors that come to the islands each year, as well as those interested in Caribbean fortresses.
(Paperback)
By: Charlie A Beckwith
ISBN: 9780062249692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. When the author issued this call to arms in Vietnam in 1965, he revolutionized American armed combat. This title tells the story of what would eventually come to be known as Delta Force.
(Hardback)
By: Meredith Hindley
ISBN: 9781610394055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
ISBN: 9781846684456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein -'the end of the beginning' -and the bloody battle that followed .
(Paperback)
By: Steve Coll
ISBN: 9780718194499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Merlin Robinson
ISBN: 9781472830074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th December 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The battle history, men and equipment of the most famous Free French unit of World War II, led by France's best fighting general.
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By: John Wukovits
ISBN: 9780306922039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Hachette Books
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From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
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By: Jennifer Purcell
ISBN: 9781849017145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The lives of six women on the home front 1939-1945: the true history of what our grandmothers did in the war.
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Avery Sutton
ISBN: 9780465052660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Basic Books
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II
(Paperback)
By: Steven J. Zaloga
ISBN: 9781472811431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tracing the final operations of the war, this title analyses how the Allied strategies in the final days of the war were a hint of the future suspicion that would drive the Cold War.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin J McNamara
ISBN: 9781610394840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Philip Weir
ISBN: 9781784423759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated guide to the history of the famous "Little Ships" and their role in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, which saved hundreds of thousands of British soldiers from capture by German forces.
(Hardback)
By: Jessica Donati
ISBN: 9781541762558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The Wall Street Journal's national security reporter takes readers into the lives of the U.S. Special Forces, who are being increasingly relied upon to fight and win the war in Afghanistan, with devastating consequences both at home and abroad.
(Paperback)
By: Brian Lane Herder
ISBN: 9781472848468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study describes the air-sea offensive supporting the ground-force invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February and April 1945, which led to the sinking of the Yamato and the onslaught of the Japanese kamikaze.
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By: Fitzroy Maclean
ISBN: 9780141042848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book presents his adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.
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By: Roger Ford
ISBN: 9780753827987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Turkey, the First World War and the making of the Middle East.
(Hardback)
By: John Nichol
ISBN: 9781398509405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The astonishing story of the ejection seat and the pilots who have had to rely on it
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By: Andrew Roberts
ISBN: 9781784080013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of our finest narrative historians tells the shattering story of the blackest day in the history of the British army: the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916.
(Paperback)
By: James M. McPherson
ISBN: 9780143127758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: David Crane
ISBN: 9780007456680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.
(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
ISBN: 9780241536711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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