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Marching Orders | |||
| The Untold Story of World War II | War & Militaria | |||
| Bruce Lee | ||||
| Da Capo 2001 608 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0306810360 | ||||
| Published Price £18.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| In what was described by the TLS reviewer as 'an uncomfortable but most interesting book', Lee draws on US Army records of diplomatic cipher operations to show how the Ultra/Magic decrypts and the breaking of the Japanese Purple ciphers contributed to the defeat of Germany and the surrender of Japan. Among the topics covered are the intercepted reports of Baron Oshima, Japanese ambassador in Berlin; the role of the McCormack reports in Eisenhower's planning of Overlord, and the decision to use atomic weapons in Japan. | ||||
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Empires on the Pacific | |||
| World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia | War & Militaria | |||
| Robert Smith Thompson | ||||
| Perseus 2001 448 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1903985161 | ||||
| Published Price £24.99 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| By moving China to centre stage, Robert Smith Thompson expands the traditional boundaries of the Pacific Theatre of World War II and casts the conflict in an entirely new light. This recasting of the Asian conflict profoundly alters our understanding not just of World War II in the Pacific but also of what followed in the Korean War and the war in Vietnam. | ||||
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Struggle for a Vast Future | |||
| The American Civil War | War & Militaria | |||
| Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Edited by) | ||||
| Osprey 2006 272 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 184603213X | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Here, twelve eminent historians discuss the origins and legacy of the American Civil War, each offering a fresh perspective on a key theme. Among their topics: military leadership, the naval war, espionage, emancipation, and European influence. | ||||
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We Will Remember Them | |||
| The Men of Tavistock Who Died in the First World War | War & Militaria | |||
| Alex Mettler; Gerry Woodcock | ||||
| Tavistock Local History Society 2003 251 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0954428412 | ||||
| Published Price £14.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| At the end of the Great War in 1918 monuments were built in towns and villages throughout the country, listing the names of the fallen. This book provides the human stories behind the names on the Tavistock memorial. It describes the family background, civilian lives, wartime careers and the deaths of 119 men, from Tavistock's first casualty, Hugh Mockler-Ferryman, in September 1914, to Arthur Whittome, who died during the insurrection in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) in 1920. | ||||
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A People's History of the Civil War | |||
| Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom | War & Militaria | |||
| David Williams | ||||
| New Press 2006 586 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1595581251 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| There have been many published histories of America at war with itself, but David Williams's remarkable People's History is firmly rooted in accounts of everyday people caught up in the momentous struggle. When the conflict is seen through the experiences of people whose voices are rarely heard - among them, foot-soldiers, women, slaves, prisoners of war, draft resisters and Native Americans - a new perspective emerges that complements, contradicts and humanizes more conventional historical accounts. Off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, | |||
| the Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine | War & Militaria | |||
| Arthur Cotterell | ||||
| Overlook 2005 344 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1585676675 | ||||
| Published Price $29.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| 'The first, and most charismatic, war machine ever invented', the chariot originally appeared in Mesopotamia and exhibited great longevity, surviving not only into Roman times, when Nero won at the Olympics despite falling off, but also into the Byzantine era, when 30,000 people died in riots over a chariot-race. Cotterell traces the development of chariot warfare from China and India to Egypt and Europe, and discusses modern misconceptions about the supposed similarities between ancient chariots and modern tanks. | ||||
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Weekend Warriors | |||
| From Tyne to Tweed | War & Militaria | |||
| T L Hewitson | ||||
| Tempus 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752437569 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Hussars, riflemen, gunners and engineers from the North East have seen active service in the Napoleonic and Boer Wars, the First and Second World Wars, Northern Ireland and Iraq. From their bases at Berwick, Alnwick, Hexham and Newcastle, the New Territorials carry on the proud fighting tradition into the 21st century. This carefully researched and illustrated book tells the story of the militias and volunteers of Northumberland from 1662 to the present. | ||||
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Balloons at War | |||
| Gas Bags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets | War & Militaria | |||
| John Christopher | ||||
| Tempus 2004 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752429957 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Even before he got his first balloon aloft in 1783, Joseph Montgolfier was thinking in terms of using it to launch a surprise attack on the English holding Gibraltar; in 2003 plans for anthrax-carrying balloons were discovered in Afghanistan. From Bonaparte's balloon corps to the present day, this illustrated history traces the military applications of balloons - in reconnaissance and surveillance, as barrage, or for dropping bombs - and describes their use in conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and the Cold War. | ||||
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Independent Force: The War Diary of the Daylight Squadrons of the | |||
| Independent Air Force, June-November 1918 | War & Militaria | |||
| Keith Rennles | ||||
| Grub Street 2002 218 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 190230490X 248x175mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £10.99 | |||
| The Independent Air Force was formed in June 1918, two months after the official formation of the Royal Air Force. Conceived as a strategic bomber force, dedicated to attacking Germany's war production, vital industries, railways and aerodromes, the IAF was the forerunner of the Second World War's Bomber Command. Based on a mass of documentary evidence, this book presents a day-to-day record of the IAF's achievements and the tremendous but sadly often futile contribution of its personnel. | ||||
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War and the Pity of War | |||
| War & Militaria | ||||
| Neil Philip; Illus. Michael McCurdy (Edited by) | ||||
| Clarion 1998 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0395849829 255x188mm | ||||
| Published Price $20.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| This moving anthology presents war in all its horror and heroism as seen through the eyes of poets, from ancient China to modern America, and from ancient Sparta to Bosnia. Here, the conflicts that have scarred the 20th century are placed in the context of warfare through the ages - a relentless cycle of violence in which the concepts of honour, duty and glory are balanced against the experience of loss, grief and terror. Illustrated with scratchboard drawings by Michael McCurdy. | ||||
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Last Post | |||
| The Final Word from our First World War Soldiers | War & Militaria | |||
| Max Arthur | ||||
| Weidenfeld 2005 272 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0297846442 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Following his award-winning Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur interviewed the 26 last surviving British veterans of the conflict, all aged between 104 and 109, for this remarkable oral history. With quiet dignity, these men describe the mud, blood and rats of the trenches, and the distressing deaths of friends and colleagues, but they also recall the humour and humanity, comradeship and loyalty brought out by the extreme circumstances of total war. | ||||
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Blood in the Sea | |||
| HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code | War & Militaria | |||
| Stuart Gill | ||||
| Cassell 2004 239 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0304366919 | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| In November 1941, after one great success as a result of the Admiralty's use of Enigma intelligence, the British light cruiser HMS Dunedin went searching for another German surface vessel in the Atlantic, but fell victim to a lone U-boat and was sunk, with the loss of over 400 men. This account of Dunedin's wartime operations is based on the reminiscences of some of the survivors, among them Stuart Gill's own father. | ||||
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Battles and Campaigns | |||
| War & Militaria | ||||
| Malcolm Swanston | ||||
| Eagle 2007 158 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1582974187 352x284mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Malcolm Swanston traces the history of warfare from the ancient Middle East and classical Greece and Rome to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the 21st century, looking broadly at the expansion and collapse of empires as well as focusing on the sites of major battles and campaigns. | ||||
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Our War | |||
| How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War | War & Militaria | |||
| Christopher Somerville | ||||
| Cassell 2005 364 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0304367176 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Five million citizens of the Commonwealth fought in the Second World War. Our War uses the personal testimonies of veterans to assess attitudes to the Mother Country in the dying days of the Empire, their motives for volunteering (often in the face of family disapproval), the levels of racial prejudice they experienced and the effects of the war on both the lives of individuals and the shaping of the modern Commonwealth. | ||||
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Baghdad Journal | |||
| An Artist in Occupied Iraq | War & Militaria | |||
| Steve Mumford | ||||
| Drawn & Quarterly 2005 224 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1896597904 254x318mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| For artist Steve Mumford, 'the act of drawing slowed down the war, recording the spaces in between the bombs'. This book, the culmination of four trips to Iraq, records his experience of the war-torn country as an artist, staying in Baghdad and mixing with Iraqi people and going on patrol with the American GIs. Mumford's work is not overtly political, and his drawings and watercolours record, with a more reflective quality than photojournalism, life on all sides of the conflict. Off-mint. Felt tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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