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RAF Liberator Over The Eastern Front

A Bomb Aimer's Second World War & Cold War Story

by Auton MBE, Jim
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008

Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-USAAF, war-weary Liberator heavy bombers. This squadron he was based in Foggia in Italy, living under canvas without the barest of military or personal necessities. The duration of a tour at that time was 40 front-line operations over such...
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Guardsman and Commando

The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM

by David Feebery
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

Guardsman and Commando is Cyril Feebery's memoir of his service with the British Army between 1937 and 1945.Feebery served with the Grenadier Guards in the British Expeditionary Force, was evacuated wounded from Dunkirk, completed Commando training in Scotland an joined the Middle East Commando (Layforce). On...
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Betrayed Ally

China in the Great War

by Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony in Shandong...
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by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013

This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and accurate four part work that uniquely presents a complete account of the air operations throughout ‘Market-Garden’ in September 1944 when British, US and Polish airborne troops made a gallant attempt to seize and hold bridges across the...
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Stalingrad

How the Red Army Triumphed

by Michael K. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010

Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary...
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Leningrad Under Siege

First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal

by Daniil Alexandrovich
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007

Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record. The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans' sudden onslaught in June 1941. This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there....
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Freely I Served

The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944

by Major-General Stanislaw Sosabowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

Freely I Served is the gripping memoir of Stanislaw Sosabowski who became one of the most senior Polish commanders during the Second World War.

After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding...
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Poland Betrayed

The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939

by David G. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country’s courageous fight against two unstoppable forces. Hitler’s military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed...
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by Martin Pegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging, authoritative study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to...
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Sir John Hawkwood

Chivalry and the Art of War

by Stephen Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

In Florence cathedral hangs a remarkable portrait by Uccello of Sir John Hawkwood, the English soldier of fortune who commanded the Florentine army at the age of 70 and earned a formidable reputation as one of the foremost mercenaries of the late middle ages. His life is an amazing story. He rose...
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Mercenaries and their Masters

Warfare in Renaissance Italy

by Michael Mallett
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009

Michael Mallett’s classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context...
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No Mercy from the Japanese

A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945

by John Wyatt, Cecil Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

By the laws of statistics John Lowry should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him during those four years. Examine the odds stacked against him and his readers will understand why he hold this view. During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore...
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Alarm Starboard!

A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea

by Geoffrey Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004

The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking...
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Bomb Alley

Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War

by David Yates
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007

This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...
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