The Memoir of a Navy SEAL
Author: Chuck Pfarrer
A thrilling account of life in the US Navy's elite force, the SEALs; Contains first-hand descriptions of clandestine actions 'Since the first Navy frogmen crawled onto the beaches of Normandy, no SEAL has ever surrendere ... |
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The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young
Author: David P. Kilroy
Charles Young served as the highest-ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army until 1917. During his career, he served on the western frontier, in the Philippines, and in Mexico, and as military attache to bot ... |
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the Reminiscences of an Officer of HM 82nd Foot During the Peninsular War
Author: George Wood
A rare first hand account of Wellington's Army Students of the Peninsular War will be familiar with 'The Subaltern' by Gleig (also published by Leonaur), but that fine work should not be confused with this book by an ... |
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Author: John Patterson
Life inside Wellington's 'Old Peninsula Army' The 'Dirty Half Hundred'-the 50th-won their nickname not from a propensity for unsanitary habits, but from their black facing colour on cuffs and collars which would, whe ... |
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With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day
Author: J.Ted Hartman
"Tank Driver" is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas ... |
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Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
Author: Kevin Sites
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to k ... |
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the 'Gordon Relief Expedition' Against the Mahdists, Sudan, 1885
Author: Lord Edward Gleichen
"'The sand of the desert is sodden red The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead'" This is a fascinating memoir of the early career of a prominent British soldier of the late 19th and early 20th century. It is mad ... |
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With the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers During the First Sikh War, 1845-1846
Author: W. W. W. Humbley
An unusual perspective on the downfall of the Punjab The 9th Lancers played a comparatively small part in the First Sikh War. Their real fame came during the Second Sikh War and during the Indian Mutiny where they wo ... |
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Letters from Moore's Army in Portugal and Spain During the Peninsular War by a British Officer 1808-1809
Author: Robert Ker Porter
Essential correspondence from Iberia Perhaps the best way to describe this excellent collection of letters from the theatre of war is to quote the author's own introduction. 'The following letters contain an account ... |
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Memoirs of an American Cold War Submariner
Author: Phillip Norris
Phil Norris chronicles his service aboard 5 nuclear submarines during the Cold War in this candid autobiography. Phil focuses on his personal challenges and triumphs during his storied career in the highly-selective nucl ... |
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Lessons in Leadership and Life
Author: Colin L. Powell & Tony Koltz
"It Worked for Me" is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that have shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell's legendary career in public service. At its heart are Powell's "13 Rules ... |
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the Experiences of Two British Women During the Indian Mutiny 1857---A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow by G. Harris & Day by Day at Lucknow by Adelaide Case
Author: G. Harris & Adelaide Case
Two enthralling Lucknow diaries in one special edition The siege and relief of the Residency at Lucknow is one of the principal conflicts of the Great Mutiny and became an abiding symbol of the spirit, resolution and ... |
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The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken by War
Author: Jake Wood
Among You is the gripping real-life story of a soldier serving on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an unforgettable, unflinching account of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Jake Wood lives parall ... |
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Author: Helga Schneider
Unforgettable and deeply arresting, "Let Me Go" is a haunting memoir of World War II that awonat let you go until youave finished reading the last pagea ("The Washington Post Book World"). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schne ... |
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Custer's Memoir of His Campaigns Against the Indian Tribes of the Western Plains
Author: George A. Custer
The memoirs of the most famous American cavalryman Those who pursue fame are occasionally fated to acquire it for reasons other than those of their ambitions. So it is with George Armstrong Custer who is principally ... |
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Author: Paul Sibley
The true story of a monk who became an SAS soldier, went to war in the Middle East, and then worked amongst the tribes of Oman. |
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Author: Professor Kenneth Clarke
The 303rd flew 364 combat missions over German-occupied territory with the Eighth Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps, during World War II, more combat missions than any other heavy bombardment group in the Eighth Air Force.C ... |
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Two First-Hand Accounts of British Tanks & Tank-Men at War in Europe During the First World War---Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh & Men and Tanks by J. C. MacIntosh
Author: Richard Haigh & J. C. MacIntosh
Two essential accounts of the tankers at war-in one special edition These two books have more in common than their subject-the lives and battles of British soldiers and their mighty metal war machines at war on the W ... |
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Author: Laurence Rees
'My whole life can be summed up as this ceaseless effort of mine to persuade other people' - Adolf Hitler. More than any other single figure, it is arguably Adolf Hitler who has most changed the course of history. He use ... |
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Author: Giles Hunt
Robert Patrick Lietenant at Fourteen; Died a Colonel at Twenty-five Aged fifteen, Robert Patrick was commanding a company during the Helder Expedition of 1799. Ten years later he died of wounds while commanding a Portuge ... |
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