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War Memoirs
War Memoirs
War and military, warfare worldwide, soldiers and regiments, battlefields and war zones. Historical overviews of world conflicts over the centuries through the eyes and words of those who were there.
| FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
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Ford Madox Ford chose his name in honour of his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown and he founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Re...
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| DAVID MILLICHOPE Book Number: 85920 |
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Halifax's experience of the Great War was different to that of many other large towns and cities. A garrison town (home of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment), within days the public moo...
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| JULIE SUMMERS Book Number: 85892 |
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In a heartfelt tribute to the ordinary country women who were at the core of the village Women's Institutes, a researcher and historian draws on interviews with many WI members and uses hitherto un...
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| WILLIAM ANDREW FLETCHER Book Number: 86257 |
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The memoirs of a Confederate soldier written at the time in April 1861 when war was declared between the Union and the Confederacy in America. When the news came, it made W. A. Fletcher nervous as...
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| DANIEL ANSELME Book Number: 86413 |
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Daniel Rabinovitch was born in 1927 and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance and this novel was first published in Paris in 1957. France's engagement in Algeria was beco...
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| DONALD JACK Book Number: 87055 |
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With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the-pants escapades, this series about a young pilot makes the War to End All Wars come roaring to life. Descriptive and full of air combats and writt...
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| JOSEPH HELLER Book Number: 87241 |
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"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this." - Financial Times. Subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on, the novel's st...
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| BETTINA STANGNETH Book Number: 87248 |
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In 1962 Adolf Eichmann was convicted and hanged in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity. After his career as a manager of the Holocaust he had escaped to Argentina, but was finally captured and t...
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| KEITH OGILVIE Book Number: 87437 |
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Sub-titled 'Battle of Britain to The Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie DFC'. When the Royal Canadian Airforce wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Kei...
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| SHEELAGH MAWE Book Number: 83999 |
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It was a sunny day in 1940, Britain was at war, and Sarah age five and her brother James, six, were sitting at the table watching their mother pour the tea. Suddenly she broke the news. 'It's your ...
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| ANNA SEGHERS Book Number: 87688 |
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A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, now in affordable paperback edition, it is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. Written...
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| HAING NGOR & ROGER WARNER Book Number: 87689 |
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A young doctor in his native Cambodia, Haing Ngor saw his life transformed when the Khmer Rouge Communists, led by the notorious Pol Pot, took over his country in 1975. He and his family along wit...
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| JACK HIGGINS Book Number: 87919 |
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On one side, the largest and most effective seagoing Task Force ever assembled. On the other, an air force ready to die as they attack again and again despite the odds. A single deadly mission me...
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| AUDREY MAGEE Book Number: 87951 |
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A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, that woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rat...
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| IVAN CHISTYAKOV Book Number: 87607 |
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The author was a Muscovite who was expelled from the Communist Party during the purges of the late 1920s and early 30s. He commanded an armed guard unit on a section of BAM, the Baikal-Amur Railwa...
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| RACHEL TRETHEWEY Book Number: 88077 |
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Before we commemorated with poppies, we commemorated with pearls. This was the campaign the 'Red Cross Pearls', an idea by Lady Northcliffe to raise money for the British Red Cross by collecting en...
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| DAVID RUTLAND & EMMA ELLIS Book Number: 88079 |
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A two-generation saga of the Manners family, Resolution shares the history of John Masters, Marquis of Granby, who famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War and his two sons - Charle...
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| PETER DOYLE Book Number: 88080 |
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Frank and Percy Talley were two brothers born and raised in Muswell Hill in north London in a comfortable middle-class home. In August 1914 when they were both in their 20s they volunteered to join...
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| SUSAN MAJOR Book Number: 88151 |
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Even though some women worked in clerical, cleaning and catering roles on the railways, between the wars even these jobs were done mostly by men. Before the outbreak of WWII the roles of porters, g...
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| TOBY HARNDEN Book Number: 88180 |
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Winner of the Orwell Prize in 2012, here is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Under-equipped and overstretched, they fo...
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| ANNE FRANK Book Number: 88182 |
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The young Anne Frank kept a diary from 12th June 1942 to 1st August 1944. On 4th August, eight people hiding in the Secret Annexe were arrested and two secretaries working in the building found An...
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| JOHN TERRAINE Book Number: 88594 |
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Captain J. L. Jack in 1914 was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive and fight in France. Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Jack ...
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| TIM O'BRIEN Book Number: 88795 |
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'Matchbook' design whereby the back cover folds over the page edges and inside the front cover to make the whole edge look like the strip to strike on a box of matches on this 2019 designer reprint...
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| PAT BARKER Book Number: 88541 |
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The Booker Prize-winning first instalment of the Regeneration Trilogy and a powerful moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma of the First World War. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland...
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| SINCLAIR MCKAY Book Number: 88809 |
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When scouring the population for codebreakers, Bletchley Park recruiters devised various ingenious mind twisters to assess the puzzle-solving capacity of these applicants. Hidden codes, cryptic cr...
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| OLIVER CLUTTON-BROCK Book Number: 88975 |
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Sub-titled 'Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners From Stalag Luft VII (Bankau) to Berlin, June 1944 to May 1945.' The book is firstly a testament to those many nationalities who found thems...
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| PAUL ROLAND Book Number: 88493 |
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By the author of more than 30 books about the Nazis, the occult and the Nuremberg Trials, Paul Roland draws on the recollections of those who lived through the rise and fall of one of the most vici...
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| ANNE DE COURCY Book Number: 89162 |
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Coco Chanel may have been the best dress designer in history and the French Riviera was arguably one of the most famous pieces of coastline. In 1930, the two cultural titans were combined when Chan...
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| ROGER MORTIMER Book Number: 89182 |
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Commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1930, Roger Mortimer divided his life between the racecourse, the hunting field, London's nightclubs and his parents' well-appointed mansion in Cadogan Sq...
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| RICHARD HUMPHREYS Book Number: 88797 |
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Humphreys was a crew member on the Polaris nuclear submarine HMS Resolution from 1985 to 1990 and this memoir starts with his first gruelling training at HMS Raleigh on the banks of the Tamar, foll...
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