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Sub-Categories of Military history
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The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet...
Nick Barratt
History; British & Irish history; Medieval history; Military history
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In The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry... [more]
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
James Holland
History; European history; Second World War; Air forces & warfare; Battles & campaigns; Advocate - History
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'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all. Big Week is the knife-edge... [more]
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Dangerous Spy,...
Sonia Purnell
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Espionage & secret services; Advocate - Biography
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The incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the... [more]
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D-Day New Guinea: The Extraordinary Story of the Battle for Lae and the...
Phillip Bradley
History; Second World War; Advocate - History
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'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying The capture of... [more]
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller...
Antony Beevor
History; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
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On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aero... [more]
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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War
Max Hastings
History; Asian history; History of the Americas; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Vietnam War
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday... [more]
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Our Great Hearted Men
Peter Brune
History; Australasian & Pacific history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; First World War; Advocate - History
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The AIF and the Hundred Days Battlefields such as Gallipoli, Fromelles, Pozieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele are burnt... [more]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Robert Dallek
Biography: historical, political & military; History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Political leaders & leadership
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is a towering figure in twentieth-century history. A masterful politician who would win an unprecedented... [more]
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975
Sir Max Hastings
History; Asian history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Vietnam War
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From the best-selling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a masterly chronicle of one of the most devastating international... [more]
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Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear...
Mark Wolverton
History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Weapons & equipment; Nuclear weapons; Mathematics & Sciences
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Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth . . . the feat was regarded by some of... [more]
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Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Adam Zamoyski
Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history; Napoleonic Wars
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`Napoleon is an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A... [more]
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs
Scott Bennett
Biography: historical, political & military; Diaries, letters & journals; True war & combat stories; History; First World War
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Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as `missing.'... [more]
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory...
Nathaniel Philbrick
Biography: historical, political & military; History; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Military history; Warfare & defence
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From the New York Times -bestselling author of the National Book Award winner In the Heart of the Sea comes the thrilling... [more]
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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Charles Bean
Diaries, letters & journals; History; First World War; Press & journalism
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Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on... [more]
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land
Robert Hoyland, H. G. M. Williamson
History; Middle Eastern history; History: earliest times to present day; Crusades; Biblical archaeology; History of religion
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The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each... [more]
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D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
Giles Milton
History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
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The definitive soldier-on-the-beach account of the greatest invasion in history [more]
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The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia
Christina Twomey
History; Australasian & Pacific history; Second World War; Military veterans
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Follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were released by the Japanese at the end of... [more]
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden
History; Asian history; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Vietnam War
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Bowden's most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centrepiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the... [more]
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The Free State of Jones: A True Story of Defiance During the American Civil...
Victoria E. Bynum
Fiction & Literature; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; American Civil War; Battles & campaigns
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A remarkable true story of defiance during the American Civil War-now the focus of a major motion picture starring Matthew... [more]
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The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass
Katrin Himmler, Michael Wildt
Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history; Second World War
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The English translation of the letters of Heinrich Himmler and his wife, recently authenticated by the Bundesarchiv and serialized... [more]
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After Hitler: The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
Michael Jones
History; Second World War
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Originally published: London: John Murray, 2015. [more]
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Avenue Of Spies
Alex Kershaw
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; European history; Second World War; Espionage & secret services
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The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris s hotbed of daring... [more]
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Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War
Amanda Laugesen (Director, Australian National Dictionary Centre)
Language: reference & general; Dictionaries; linguistics; History; Australasian & Pacific history; Military history
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This book illuminates Australian soldiers' voices, feelings and thoughts, through exploration of the words and language used... [more]
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Churchill's First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban
Con Coughlin
History; Asian history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Military history; Battles & campaigns
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A gripping and revelatory account of Winston Churchill's first military campaign [more]
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The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories
Tim Bowden
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; Second World War; Prisoners of war
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Inside Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway. [more]
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