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30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account....
One Hundred Events That Shaped World War II

One Hundred Events That Shaped World War II

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Author: Peter Darman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The bloodiest conflict in human history was not decided by the actions of an enlightened few. Instead, it played out as...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed

People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed

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Author: Michael Foss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general,...
Derrick VC in his own words: The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II

Derrick VC in his own words: The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II

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Author: Mark Johnston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won...
Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

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Author: James P. Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape

Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape

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Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

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Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

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Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...
Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

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Author: Krista Vane-Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for...
Mercenaries to Conquerors

Mercenaries to Conquerors

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Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

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Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window'...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

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Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict.' - Richard...
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

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Author: Lesley M M Blume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals...
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List

The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List

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Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the...
The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

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Author: Benjamin Carter Hett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

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Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

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Author: Scott Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands...
The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories

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Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

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Author: William J. Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election...
Soldiers' Tales: Volumes 1 and 2

Soldiers' Tales: Volumes 1 and 2

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Author: Denny Neave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A collection of stories that are entertaining, emotional and humorous, Soldiers' Tale is a wonderful tribute to the Aussie digger. Australian...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

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Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

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Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A detailed and meticulously researched tale... that reads like a thriller."--New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-selling...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

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Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa

Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa

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Author: Evert Kleynhans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition, undermine the Allied war effort, and - given the strategic importance of...
Fear and the Freedom

Fear and the Freedom

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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and...
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

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Author: Colonel John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence...
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 453 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

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Author: Bill Yenne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

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Author: Leland Shanle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonised over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable....
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

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Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 406 What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler's vicious Third...
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941

War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941

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Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

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Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

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Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During the late stages in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer was wounded in...
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

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Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...
Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

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Author: John Broich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Spring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain...
The General vs. the President: Macarthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

The General vs. the President: Macarthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

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Author: H.W. Brands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world....
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...