Military History

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  Footsloggers

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  The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on t...

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  The Unknown Warrior

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  A moving account of how and why the tomb of the Unknown Warrior came about, by best-selling author and ex-serviceman John Nichol. 

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  Cassino ’44

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  There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they wo...

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  Conflict

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  ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES Add to basket

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  Arnhem

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  The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christm...

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  The siege

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  On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and thre...

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  Brotherhood of the flying coffin

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  A major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McGaugh.

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  Escape from Kabul

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  In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan gov...

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  Soldiers

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  ‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ? Compelling’ Daily Mail

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  The battle of the beams

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  Summer 1939. War is coming. The British believe that, through ingenuity and scientific prowess, they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar. They are wrong. The Germans have it too. They believe th...

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  Cinderella boys

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  In early 1943 Britain was engaged in a struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage. In despera...

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  Endgame 1944

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  June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Alli...

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  Das Reich

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  A gripping, authoritative history of one of the darkest periods in the Second World War, as the Resistance, the SOE and the SAS attempt to hold back the 2nd SS Panzer Division in France.

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  SAS

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  The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SA...

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  Dünkirchen 1940

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  Using revelatory new material on an event which changed the tide of World War II, Robert Kershaw’s ground-breaking history explores the Battle of Dunkirk from the German perspective.

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  SAS great escapes two

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  ‘SAS Great Escapes Two’ recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world’s most famous fighting force during WWII. From th...

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  Empireworld

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  In ‘Empireworld’, award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. Travelling the globe to trace its internatio...

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  A nasty little war

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  The untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia – and the tragedy it created. In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted by a long, brutal war, 15 nations cobbled toge...

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  Papyrus

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  Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander the Great, beneath the eruptions of M...

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  SAS Sea King Down

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  After passing the world’s toughest Special Forces selection to get into D Squadron, 22 SAS, in 1979, Mark ‘Splash’ Aston thought he’d missed out on all the action. Then on A...

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  World War II Fighter Planes Spotter’s Guide

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  World War II saw pilots from around the world battling in the skies over Europe, Asia and Africa, with victory resting upon their nerve, skill and the capabilities of some of history’s most i...

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  Seaside 100: A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects

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  Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those parts have their histor...

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