War & Militaria

War & Militaria

War & Militaria

War & Militaria

War and military, warfare worldwide, soldiers and regiments, battlefields and war zones. Historical overviews of world conflicts over the centuries.

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SACRED SWORDS: Jihad in the Holy Land 1097-1291
JAMES WATERSON    Book Number: 89994
Published price: £19.99
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The conflict between Christians and Muslims in the early medieval period is full of resonance for our own times. We are used to hearing the story from a British perspective, including the exploits ...
INDIAN EMPIRE AT WAR
GEORGE MORTON-JACK    Book Number: 90433
Published price: £12.99
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A pioneering study that looks at the 1914-18 War from the perspective of South Asia. 1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War from Flanders to the African bush and the de...
VISITOR'S HISTORIC BRITAIN: West Sussex Stone Age
KEVIN NEWMAN    Book Number: 90684
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Sussex-born tour guide, teacher, history consultant and journalist Kevin Newman regularly escapes up on the South Downs on walks much shorter than Belloc managed. Many writers have written about t...
ON WAR

New ON WAR

CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ    Book Number: 25263
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Perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Oppression soldier von Clauswitz had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe...
WELSH YEOMANRY AT WAR
STEVEN JOHN    Book Number: 90754
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A history of the 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, the Welsh Regiment from Pen & Sword military books. Soon after the Great War, following many years of part time soldiering as caval...
GRAVEDIGGERS: The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
RUDIGER BARTH & H. FRIEDERICHS    Book Number: 90861
Published price: £25
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How could it happen? How did Hitler rise to power in a democracy and then so ruthlessly consolidate his position as a dictator? This book looks at a single momentous winter in 1932, reporting meeti...
SISTERS IN ARMS: Female Warriors
JULIE WHEELWRIGHT    Book Number: 90888
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Western culture has a popular tradition of women who dressed as men and joined the military, often immortalised in books or on stage and screen. Julie Wheelwright soon discovered many of these acc...
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
E. D. BRADBY    Book Number: 91020
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First published by Oxford University Press in 1926, this paperback 2017 edition is a welcome reprint. The aim of the book is to give some idea of the French Revolution to the general reader who is...
BANDAGING THE BLITZ
PHYLL MACDONALD I. D. ROBERTS    Book Number: 91060
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Sub-titled 'The True Story of a Young Nurse in Wartime London'. In 1938, 18 year old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents, and sets off from her quiet seaside home...
DUNKIRK: The Epic Story
JOHN HARRIS    Book Number: 91063
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The epic story of history's most extraordinary evacuation, and one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War, this book is about the miracle on the beaches that saved a nation. In May 19...
GAME OF BIRDS AND WOLVES
SIMON PARKIN    Book Number: 91065
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With novelistic flair, investigative journalist Simon Parkin shines a light on Operation Raspberry and these unsung heroines in this riveting true story of war at sea. Sub-titled 'The Secret Game ...
D-DAY: The Soldiers' Story
GILES MILTON    Book Number: 91119
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The first American troops to wade ashore on Omaha Beach were jokingly known as the Suicide Wave. Almost none came back. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured v...
WATERLOO: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's Last Campaign
CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT    Book Number: 91129
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Divided into three parts, Christopher Hibbert masterly depicts first Napoleon and his rise to power, then a portrait of Wellington and the Allied armies, and lastly the steps leading up to and the ...
NELSON'S BAND OF BROTHERS: Lives and Memorials
PETER HORE    Book Number: 91164
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While there is perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins,...
FIRST VCs: Maurice Dease and Sidney Godley
MARK RYAN    Book Number: 90787
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The first two VCs of World War I were gained at the bloody battle of Mons in an action defending the Nimy Bridge. Both men received multiple gunshot wounds but refused to leave their posts, in spi...
AVRO LANCASTER IN MILITARY SERVICE 1945-1965
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91227
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Entering service in the crucial wartime year of 1942, the Avro Lancaster quickly became the supreme RAF heavy bomber of its day in spite of competition from the Handley Page Halifax, with the RAF f...
AVRO SHACKLETON
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91228
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Written with modelling enthusiasts in mind, this book focuses on extensive visual coverage of the iconic Avro Shackleton, a post-war machine in the RAF coastal command for the defence of friendly m...
BEYOND ENDURANCE
NICK BARKER    Book Number: 91230
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Captain of HMS Endurance during the Falklands conflict of 1982, Nick Barker made his first visit to the islands in December 1980. Endurance, or Red Plum as she was always called, had joined the Ro...
BOEING FACT FILE
JO BEECK    Book Number: 91231
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From the elegant prototype Model-40 biplane of 1925 which was adapted to carry mail between Chicago and San Francisco, to the 787 "Dreamliner" with its glass-fibre structure, this neat fact file te...
BY THE EMPEROR'S HAND
TIMOTHY DAWSON    Book Number: 91235
Published price: £30
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'Military Dress and Court Regalia in the Later Romano-Byzantine Empire' is the sub-title of this richly illustrated book. Drawing on literary and artistic sources, archaeology and reconstructions,...
DERBYSHIRE AT WAR 1939-45
GLYNIS COOPER    Book Number: 91238
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A thorough account of the Home Front in a region which backed up troops by manufacturing munitions and maintaining essential industries to 'keep the home fires burning', as well as hosting, educati...
HAWKER HURRICANE AND SEA HURRICANE
TONY O'TOOLE, MARTIN DERRY    Book Number: 91248
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The Hurricane was one of Britain's most iconic aircraft which was not only pivotal during the Battle of Britain but also served as a night fighter, fighter-bomber, naval fighter and dedicated groun...
HITLER'S DEFEAT ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1944-45:
HANS SEIDLER    Book Number: 91249
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In this publication from Images of War, witness the struggle between the Nazis and Allied military over a ten month period, between 1944 and 1945. This is a fascinating combination of rare photogra...
IRISH BRIGADE 1670-1745
D. P. GRAHAM    Book Number: 91251
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Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s and took part in most of the major conflicts of the time including the Wars of the 1670s, the Nine Years War, the War of the Spanish Succession, t...
SHERLOCK'S SQUADRON
STEVE HOLMES    Book Number: 91318
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Sub-titled 'The Incredible True Stories of the Unsung RAF Heroes of World War Two', this is a compelling account of the war from the eyes of a group of young men from distant corners of the globe. ...
SAS ITALIAN JOB: The Secret Mission
DAMIEN LEWIS    Book Number: 91287
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In the hard-fought winter of 1944, the Allies advanced northwards through Italy but halted on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in in an effort to break...
GLADIUS
GUY DE LA BEDOYERE    Book Number: 91523
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The author has written a great number of books on the Roman world over the last 30 years and was part of Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team for 15 years. This is his richly researched, detai...
BOHEMIANS: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance
NORMAN OHLER    Book Number: 91328
Published price: £28
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An incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led Germany's largest anti-Nazi resistance group, right in the darkening heart of Berlin. Summertime 1935 and on a lake near the city a ...
LIBERATION OF PARIS
JEAN EDWARD SMITH    Book Number: 91371
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Professor Smith's book tells the remarkable story that shows how three men, one American, one French and one German, saved the city of Paris from destruction. Following their breakout from Normand...
HITLER VERSUS STALIN, THE EASTERN FRONT 1944-1945
NIK CORNISH    Book Number: 90750
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From the Image of War series are rare photographs from wartime archives, from Warsaw to Berlin. This superb photographic history depicts the Eastern Front and the defeat of the German Army, the de...
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