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Dad's war
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Andy Cropper |
Constructed from diary and reflective memories, underpinned by backgroud research through unit records and war diaries, this follows the journey of one young soldier from civilian life through D-Day … |
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Bow and arrow war
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Marjorie Inkster |
This is the story of a 19 year-old who joined the FANY then trained as a radar mechanic during the 1939-45 war. From 1943 she was a radar maintenance officer on London gun-sites, including Hampstead,… |
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Sniping in France, 1914-18
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Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard |
Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his … |
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A Prisoner's Progress
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David James (1919 - 1986) |
This book, which was originally published by Blackwoods Magazine, in two parts, describes how the author became a war-time officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in charge of a Motor Gun Boat o… |
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Testament of youth
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Vera Brittain |
A vivid and passionate record of the years 1900 to 1925, this is Vera Brittain's haunting autobiography - a portrait of a young girl's life in prewar England and a heartbreaking document of the holoc… |
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The Hut Six Story
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Gordon Welchman |
The men and women of Bletchley Park, who repeatedly broke German military cyphers throughout the Second World War, made an incalculable contribution to the allied success. This book, written by one o… |
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Tank!
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Ken Tout |
This short book is a novelette-sized experiential treatment. It is raw, full of the period banter between the men of a tank battalion in Normandy. The characters crass humour is exquisitely raw.
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Mussolini
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Spike Milligan |
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Season of blood
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Fergal Keane |
When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the ge… |
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Tobruk
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Harrison, Frank. |
A gripping account and perhaps the most authoritative work ever written about the Siege of Tobruk in the North African theatre of operations during World War II. Frank Harrison, the author, who serve… |
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The man who never was
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Ewen Montagu |
It is the story of a World II deception by the Allies intended to dupe the Third Reich in believing that a sea landing in the Mediterranean would be in Greece instead that in Sicily where in reality … |
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Finest hour
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Tim Clayton,Phil Craig |
Sixty years ago, Europe lay at the feet of Adolf Hitler. Standing between Hitler and world domination was the just-appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a few hundred pilots in the Royal Air… |
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With Popski's Private Army
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Ben Owen |
If you have read Vladimir Peniakoff's memoir, then you will undoubtedly have an appetite for "With Popski's Private Army" by Ben Owen. It is the essential complement to Peniakoff's book, relating the… |
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