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GARY DOBBS Book Number: 89987 |
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Together with Newport and Swansea, Cardiff was one of the ports targeted by the Germans early in the war, though Bridgend's munitions factory further down the coast, the largest in Britain, was inc...
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JAMES WATERSON Book Number: 89994 |
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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 ...
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GEORGE MORTON-JACK Book Number: 90433 |
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GABRIELLE MCDONALD-ROTHWELL Book Number: 90807 |
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'I have always felt embarrassed that the medals were given to me - I was just the guy flying the damned aircraft. It was a joint effort and those men were the bravest of the brave.' Tall young pil...
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MATT RICHARDS & M. LANGTHORNE Book Number: 89830 |
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With a foreword by our dear and sadly departed friend Max Arthur OBE, the book is sub-titled 'MI9's Secret Force and the Untold Story of D-Day'. Escape, evasion, survival - it's about how the Alli...
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RUDIGER BARTH & H. FRIEDERICHS Book Number: 90861 |
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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,...
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SAM KEAN Book Number: 90781 |
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The story of the race to prevent Hitler from getting the atomic bomb is a little known but crucial strand in the complex tapestry of WWII. This fast-paced account, described on the cover as "thrill...
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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...
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BRYN EVANS Book Number: 91225 |
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Japanese superiority in the air was unchallenged following the Pearl Harbor attacks, with their crack plane the Dinah easily able to outperform Allied aircraft in terms of height and speed, but a n...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TIMOTHY DAWSON Book Number: 91235 |
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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KEN OTTER Book Number: 91250 |
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HMS Gloucester (or The Fighting 'G') sank on 22 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete after an attack from a Luftwaffe aircraft. Only 85 of her 810 men survived and, while Allied destroyers were in t...
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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...
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