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Sub-Categories of Military history
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The daring young woman who led France's largest...
Lynne Olson
Biography: historical, political & military; History; Second World War; Espionage & secret services
Hardback
In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became... [more]
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis
True crime; History; European history; Second World War
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule -- [more]
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Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb
Jim Winchester
History; Vietnam War
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The extraordinary story of the loss of a U.S. plane with a live nuclear bomb on it during the Vietnam War in 1965, and the... [more]
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The Amritsar Massacre: The British Empire's Worst Atrocity
Vanessa Holburn
History; Military history
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This book examines the context in which the infamous event took place - and asks why something that happened 100 years ago... [more]
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The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields AD451
Evan Michael Schultheis
History; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Military history; Battles & campaigns
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Reconsiders the evidence for Attila the Hun's most famous battle, the climax of his invasion of the Western Roman Empire that... [more]
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Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese...
Thurston Clarke
History; Asian history; History of the Americas; Military history; Vietnam War; International relations
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A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved... [more]
$57.95
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Women's Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words
Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Memoirs; History; The Holocaust; Second World War
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New paperback edition - A moving and detailed portrait of women in the most terrible circumstances, by a respected author... [more]
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Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World
Brian Lavery
History; British & Irish history; Maritime history; Military history; Naval forces & warfare
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Following the progress of the Royal Navy from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the First World War, Brian Lavery reveals... [more]
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If the War Goes On... Reflections on War and Politics
Hermann Hesse
Literary essays; First World War; Second World War
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A collection of essays on the absurdity of war, from the Nobel Prize laureate [more]
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg
History; History of the Americas; Military history; Central government policies; Defence strategy, planning & research; Nuclear weapons
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction... [more]
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Shadows on the Track: Australia's Medical War in Papua 1942-1943: Kokoda...
Jan Mcleod
History; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
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The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. [more]
$34.99
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Superguns 1854-1991: Extreme artillery from the Paris Gun and the V-3 to...
Steven J. Zaloga
History; Military history; Weapons & equipment
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Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power,... [more]
$24.99
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Rosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn
Paul L Hedren
History; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Military history; Indigenous peoples
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Explores in detail the movements in the spring and early summer of 1876 of Sitting Bull's and Crazy Horse's Sioux and Northern... [more]
$63.95
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For King and Other Countries
Glyn Harper
History; Australasian & Pacific history; First World War
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Leading military historian Glyn Harper has scoured archives and museums worldwide to show where and when New Zealanders served... [more]
$65.95
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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who...
Charles Lane
Biography: historical, political & military; History; History of the Americas; American Civil War; Politics & government; Civil rights & citizenship
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Chronicles the story of the Reconstruction-era Secret Service and its battle against the KKK's effort to suppress the emancipated... [more]
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Exploring the Britannic: The life, last voyage and wreck of Titanic's tragic...
Simon Mills
History; Maritime history; First World War; Ships & shipping: general interest; Swimming & diving
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Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior... [more]
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Jungle Cavalry: Australian Independent Companies and Commandos 1941-1945...
Gregory Blake
History; Second World War
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The Australian Independent Companies and the Commandos into which they evolved were unique sub-units of the Australian Army... [more]
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The Art of War: Illustrated Edition
Tzu Sun, Anthony Tucker-Jones
History; Military history; Military tactics; Business strategy; Gift books
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A new illustrated edition of Sun Tzu's classic ancient Chinese meditation on military strategy and human psychology, with... [more]
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The First World War in Focus: Rare and Unseen Photographs
Alan Wakefield
Photographs: collections; History; First World War
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As we near the end of extensive centennial commemorations of World War I, it nonetheless retains the power to surprise, even... [more]
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The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster...
Jonathan Trigg
History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Air forces & warfare
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In 1941 the Luftwaffe was the most powerful air force in the world. This is the story of how it was utterly defeated on the... [more]
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The Battle of The Nile: A Ladybird Expert Book
Sam Willis
History; African history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Napoleonic Wars; Naval forces & warfare; Battles & campaigns
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Part of the new Ladybird Expert series Nelson- Battle of the Nile is an accessible and authoritative introduction to the naval... [more]
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The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave
Patrick Bishop
Biography: historical, political & military; History; Military history
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SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years... [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
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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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The Hidden Places of World War II: The Extraordinary Sites Where History...
Jerome M. O'Connor
History; Second World War
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A grand tour of the secret places - some known and many unknown - where WWII history was made. [more]
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Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and its Low, Fast, and...
Jay Stout
History; Second World War
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The story of the 345th Bomb Group, one of the sharpest tools in the U.S. arsenal in the South Pacific in World War II. [more]
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