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  • Every Perspective has a Voice, Every Voice has a Perspective
    Larry Buttermore
    What started out as an epilogue turned into a book of its own. The 13 stories you will read are compelling. They should be. Told by actual combat veterans of the Vietnam conflict, they reflect on so many battles that were fought; battles that were of the 'kill, or be killed' type. The stories are, at times, raw. Other times they are humorous. Some end well, some do not. ...
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    18,36 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls / Lt.-Gen. Sir George MacMunn
    This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the early stages of the Middle East theatre - from the outbreak of war to June 1917. After a brief background to the situation in Egypt in August 1914, and the opening of hostilities with Turkey at the end of October, this volume concerns itself with the defence of Egypt against invasion by the Turks from the east and ...
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    83,44 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls
    Part II of the Official History of The Great War in the Middle East takes the story from May 1918 to the armistice. It begins with a summary of the Arab revolt against the Turks, which involved the exploits of Col. T. E. Lawrence ’of Arabia’, and consisted of harassing attacks and sabotage of railways which drew off great numbers of the Turks to the benefit of the EEF. This was...
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    65,98 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE 1914-18 ATLAS
    Captain Cyril Falls
    A full assembly of all the valuable colour and black-and-white maps that were bound into the celebrated three-volume set of Military Operations Egypt & Palestine - History of the Great War - Other Theatres and are now extracted to form this Atlas.Although attention has understandably focused on the Western Front in the Great War, the conflict was a World War fought across many ...
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    33,60 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE 1914-18 ATLAS
    Captain Cyril Falls
    A full assembly of all the valuable colour and black-and-white maps that were bound into the celebrated three-volume set of Military Operations Egypt & Palestine - History of the Great War - Other Theatres and are now extracted to form this Atlas.Although attention has understandably focused on the Western Front in the Great War, the conflict was a World War fought across many ...
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    24,61 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls
    Part II of the Official History of The Great War in the Middle East takes the story from May 1918 to the armistice. It begins with a summary of the Arab revolt against the Turks, which involved the exploits of Col. T. E. Lawrence ’of Arabia’, and consisted of harassing attacks and sabotage of railways which drew off great numbers of the Turks to the benefit of the EEF. This was...
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    83,06 €

  • The Silent Veteran
    Vance Becker
    In 1967, Vance Becker fears his younger brother will die in Vietnam. Unable to live with that premonition, he relinquishes his student deferment and is drafted and sent overseas, ensuring his younger brother’s safety. Assigned to a combat unit in the 101st Airborne, Becker leads patrols into firefights and battles throughout the hills and valleys of Phu Bai and faces the stark ...
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    17,06 €

  • Beneath the Dome
    James H. VanSciver / William J. Troy / William Speer
    Rippling through the passage of time are the memories of cadets who attended Pennsylvania Military College. This tome is an amalgamation of the eclectic experiences of those who wandered through the quadrangle and wondered what they were doing in their classes. As the years passed, these recollections evolved with the impact of life’s experiences. We are thankful to our classma...
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    17,75 €

  • Erwin Rommel First War
    Erwin Rommel / Zita Steele
    More than just a new German-to-English translation of Rommel’s memoir, 'Erwin Rommel: First War-A New Look At Infantry Attacks' by military historian/author Zita Steele (pen name for Zita Ballinger Fletcher) provides analysis of Rommel’s transformation from a naïve young soldier into a formidable World War II general. This book is an authoritative work on Rommel’s life, his tac...
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    50,41 €

  • This Ghastly War
    Mary M Crawford
    During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she was the only woman doctor on the hospital staff. Her diary and letters, presented here with historical context, narrate day-to-day life in a hospital on the Western Front, with cli...
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    72,57 €

  • The bad German and the good Italian
    Filippo Focardi / Paul Barnaby
    This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini’s fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally ...
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    156,92 €

  • Friends and enemies
    Karen Garner
    This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure - or reject - Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in their existential conflict with the fascist Axis powers. ...
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    35,64 €

  • Picturing the Western Front
    Beatriz Pichel
    Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians’ war experiences. ...
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    35,59 €

  • THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1878 1880
    Sidney H. Shadbolt
    Comprising historical and biographical divisions, and containing a rapid sketch of the war, maps illustrating the operations and the movements of the forces, 140 facsimile Woodburytype photographs of officers who lost their lives in the campaigns and recipients of the Victoria Cross, with memoirs prepared from materials furnished by their relations and surviving comrades, summa...
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    66,29 €

  • An Average Pilot
    Bev Morris / Luca Lazzara
    On 11 November 1941, four Fairey Swordfish of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm took off from Hal Far base in Malta to fly a mission over the Strait of Sicily. Their plans quickly went awry, turning their story into one of skill, determination and grit that is only now being fully told.This book, inspired by a photo of an aircraft upside down on Cefalù beach in Sicily, led to years ...
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    25,37 €

  • Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler’s Wolf Packs
    Alex Anderson
    Early 1939 saw a world already in turmoil and Great Britain enter deeper into a period of momentous political upheaval and decision-making around the growing threat of a second World War. That said, daily life went on, and so it was for a nineteen-year-old Perthshire lad, son of the local headmaster and one of four siblings, who had just graduated from Dundee’s Wireless College...
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    15,69 €

  • CAUSES OF PROBLEMS & POWER STRUGGLES IN SOUTH SUDAN
    GEN. STEPHEN BUAY ROLNYANG
    The intricate power dynamics at play between President Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar created a pernicious environment where inter-tribal tensions were skillfully exploited. The escalation of this volatile situation was exacerbated by the leadership’s inability to adeptly navigate disagreements and address the diverse needs of the population. While tribalism may indeed hav...
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    17,16 €

  • A Socio-Legal History of the Laws of War
    Christopher W. Mullins
    Rooted in critical historical documents from the Tudors to the American Revolution, this rich history, the first of two volumes, provides a cogent understanding of how the current historical moment has developed, as well as of the potential paths that lie ahead. ...
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    149,96 €

  • HONOURS and AWARDS of the GERMAN STATES
    DR. WALDEMAR HESSE VON HESSENTHAL / GEORG SCHREIBER
    This superb book lists and provides the histories of all honours and awards made by the many independent States, Kingdoms, Grand Duchies etc. of Germany and the German Empire and the post-1918 Austrian Republic - up to the German National Socialist Party (1939/1940). This is a reprint of what has always been a very rare book and considered to be the 'Bible' for all collectors o...
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    50,86 €

  • HONOURS and AWARDS of the GERMAN STATES
    DR. WALDEMAR HESSE VON HESSENTHAL / GEORG SCHREIBER
    This superb book lists and provides the histories of all honours and awards made by the many independent States, Kingdoms, Grand Duchies etc. of Germany and the German Empire and the post-1918 Austrian Republic - up to the German National Socialist Party (1939/1940). This is a reprint of what has always been a very rare book and considered to be the 'Bible' for all collectors o...
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    71,06 €

  • For the Love of Vietnam
    Kat Fitzpatrick
    What happens when a corrupt cease-fire goes wrong? Crack open this quick-paced narrative to find out.In 1974, CIA operative James E. Welch had been in Saigon for nearly two years when his wife, seven kids, and one black poodle were cleared to join him. The happy family reunion soon devolved into days filled with tension, then with terror, as the North Vietnam Army stepped up it...
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    19,86 €

  • VICTORY IN THE WEST ATLAS
    Major L. F. Ellis
    A full and useful assembly of all 96 General, Situation & Sketch maps from the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - VICTORY IN THE WEST: THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY.The maps are in chronological order, full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects, allowing the reader to follow the liberation of German-occupied west...
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    55,69 €

  • VICTORY IN THE WEST ATLAS
    Major L. F. Ellis
    A full and useful assembly of all 96 General, Situation & Sketch maps from the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - VICTORY IN THE WEST: THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY.The maps are in chronological order, full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects, allowing the reader to follow the liberation of German-occupied west...
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    75,90 €

  • THE LANCASHIRE FIGHTING TERRITORIALS
    George Bigwood
    In enthusiastically patriotic wartime style for the 'Home Front' reader , this is an account of the Lancashire Territorial battalions, fighting initially in the desert in Egypt, however the the major part of the book is concerned with the Gallipoli campaign. With the narrative peppered with individual soldiers names this is a useful work for the medal collector/genealogist. ...
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    24,40 €

  • A BOY AT WAR
    Bill Maier
    War changes everything. In 'A Boy at War,' Bill Maier shares his transformative journey through the American/Vietnam War, revealing the profound personal toll of conflict. From small-town innocence to hardened soldier, Maier’s narrative captivates with its raw emotion and moral complexity. Wrestling with inner demons and post-war trauma, his quest for healing offers poignant in...
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    25,67 €

  • From the South Pacific to the New River
    John Emerson Campbell
    This book is a unique love story between our Father and Mother, during WWII when the death of one of his brothers serving in Hawaii, was killed in a friendly fire accident, started what would become a great love story between the two of them. The first letter was written to this young girl of 15 years of age, expressing his and his family’s condolences on the loss of her boyfri...
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    21,56 €

  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom
    T. E. Lawrence
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom is T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I. The empire had joined the side of Germany and the Central Powers in the war, and Britain hoped that a successful revolt would take the empire out of the war effort. Britain had also promised the Arabs that, if they were suc...
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    29,55 €

  • The First Birmingham Battalion in the Great War 1914-1919
    J. E. B. Fairclough
    A very good Great War Battalion history: the 1st Birmingham Pals Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment was formed in Birmingham in September 1914 by the Lord Mayor and a local committee. They proceeded to France on 21 November 1915. In December 1915, they transferred to 13th Brigade, 5th Division. In March 1916, 5th Division took over a section of front line between St Laurent...
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    42,66 €

  • The First Birmingham Battalion in the Great War 1914-1919
    J. E. B. Fairclough
    A very good Great War Battalion history: the 1st Birmingham Pals Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment was formed in Birmingham in September 1914 by the Lord Mayor and a local committee. They proceeded to France on 21 November 1915. In December 1915, they transferred to 13th Brigade, 5th Division. In March 1916, 5th Division took over a section of front line between St Laurent...
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    30,84 €

  • The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy’s Retreat
    William Hyde Kelly
    The Battle of Wavre - ten miles from Waterloo - may have sealed Napoleon’s fate.The dazzling magnitude of the great battle of Waterloo itself has obscured a part of the campaign which is seldom studied - the battle against Thielemann, and Grouchy’s skilful retreat from Wavre. This classic account serves useful lessons because the operations leading up to the battle around Wavre...
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    38,28 €


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