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A week at Waterloo
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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… |
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Landscape Turned Red
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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… |
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Battle
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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. |
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Iwo Jima
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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… |
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The myth of the Great War
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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… |
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Flags of our fathers
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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… |
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It never snows in September
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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.… |
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Dunkirk
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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… |
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