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A week at Waterloo A week at Waterloo De Lancey, Magdalene Lady "One woman's true story of war, love, and loss." "Magdalene De Lancey fought to save her husband's life on the edge of the battlefield at Waterloo. American-born William was one of the first professi… OL17741498W
Landscape Turned Red Landscape Turned Red Stephen W. Sears Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought, the most terrible was September 17, 1862. The Civil War battle waged on that date at Antietam Creek, Maryland, took a human toll… OL1935636W
Battle Battle Richard Holmes Discover the history of battles, from the hand-to-hand combat of the ancient Assyrians to the artillery actions of World War I. OL3125814W
Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Bill D. Ross February 19, 1945: the day on which, on a seemingly impregnable flyspeck Pacific island some 75,000 United Marines began there thirty-sex day assaults against Japanese forces defending to the last ma… OL4803042W
The myth of the Great War The myth of the Great War John Mosier "Based on a decade of research into previously unused French and German sources, The Myth of the Great War shows what actually happened at the front as the participants perceived it at the time, as o… OL5755135W
Flags of our fathers Flags of our fathers Bradley, James,James Bradley,Ron Powers In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who ra… OL5799329W
It never snows in September It never snows in September Robert J. Kershaw Arnhem was a resounding defeat for the British, but in human endurance terms, the stuff of legend. Press glamorisation at the time laid the basis for a ‘legend’ upheld by Allied historians for years.… OL789160W
Dunkirk Dunkirk Hugh Sebag-Montefiore The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had… OL8255989W