Author: Michael Walsh
Presents a tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. This book shows how all eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, ... |
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A Life
Author: Gerard DeGroot
Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. Bombs are as old as hatred itself, but it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the ... |
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the Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Author: Peter Grose
Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl ... |
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Author: Thomas E Ricks
Semper Fi. The few, the proud. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Once a Marine, always a Marine. The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed ... |
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Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
Author: Stanley Weintraub
In 11 Days In December, master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed wi ... |
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The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
Author: Ben Macintyre
Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. H ... |
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Letters from a World War II Soldier
Author: Kerry Redmann
The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, duri ... |
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The Around-The-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
Author: Tom Chaffin
The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly chris ... |
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Author: T. C. F. Hopkins
Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran Constantinople. Western civilization was being t ... |
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Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
Author: Viktor Suvorov
Using new documents and reevaluating existing material, The Chief Culprit analyzes Joseph Stalin??'s strategic design to conquer Europe and his support for Germany, which helped bring Hitler to power and sustained him. S ... |
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From Victory to Collapse
Author: Joseph T Glatthaar
You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks, Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army ... |
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From Pearl Harbour to Bikini Island
Author: Robert D. Ballard
To be published in the 60th anniversary year of the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor, Graveyards of the Pacific is Dr. Robert Ballard's compelling survey of the major WWII Pacific battlefields and graveyards including Mi ... |
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One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars
Author: Kevin Sites
This book offers an adventurous, smart, empathetic look at world conflict and the future of media by a pioneer in journalism who has spent the past year covering the most dangerous areas in the world - without a crew. A ... |
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The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM
Author: Les Bartlett & Peter Jacobs
Les Bartlett has become one of the great characters of World War II history. He flew as bomb aimer with the then Flying Officer Michael Beetham, who later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. At that time, he was a ser ... |
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1939-45
Author: Ronald Lewin
This anthology is...a distillation of what the fighters put down at the time or in retrospect to tell others (or perhaps convince themselves) what it was all about. Here are the words of the wise, the witty, the nonchala ... |
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A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
Author: Jean Debelle Lamensdorf
Working as a journalist at the Adelaide Advertiser in 1966, Jean Debelle yearned to be involved in the biggest story of the decade - the Vietnam War. But only male journalists in Australia were being sent to cover the es ... |
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The Forgotten Story of the Worst P.O.W. Camp in Japan
Author: Roger Maynard
Hell's Heroes is the story of the POW camp that never was - so dubbed by one old soldier because the atrocities that occurred there went largely unreported at the time. Nestled by the riverside in the west-coast Japanese ... |
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Author: Winston Churchill
As first lord of the admiralty and minister for war and air, Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs. In this classic account, he dramatically details how the tides of despair and triumph flowed a ... |
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Author: Peter McPhee
This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately intro ... |
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The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Author: Adam Tooze
This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason ... |
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