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Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam
Author: Ian Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce...
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Author: Tom Chaffin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The bond linking Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette constituted a singularly extraordinary friendship, one which played a key role...
Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Author: Ian Sayer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them...
Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio
Author: Flint Whitlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run"...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943
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...
Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour
Author: Doctor Tom Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 366 No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest...
A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
Author: Justin Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 September 17, 1862, was America's bloodiest day. When it ended, 3,654 soldiers lay dead on the land surrounding Antietam Creek in...
The Easy Day Was Yesterday: Life, The SAS and 24 Days in Jail
Author: Paul Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 My SAS selection course instructor, was as hard as nails. At the start of each day's training, he would...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
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Author: Saul David Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of...
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its...
Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
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Author: Brian Vandemark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
HAVOC-06: A Combat Controller on Operations
Author: Troy Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 I received a target indication from one of the rear team members and observed movement coming from the left of the...
Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Martin Derry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, "Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939" chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft...
Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQN RAAF
Author: Mal Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Fatal Mission is the story of Australian navigator Oscar Furniss, just one of 55,000 young men who perished while flying for...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross
Author: Aaron Pegram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 **2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist** For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
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Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Author: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
Author: Michael J. Mazarr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
Author: Jean Edward Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the...
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Author: Meredith Hindley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key...
Light Dragoons: The Making of a Regiment
Author: Allan Mallinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
Elite Fighting Forces:From the Ancient World to the SAS: From the Ancient World to the SAS
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This is a magnificent and highly illustrated international survey of 52 of the worlds elite fighting forces crack units that have...
Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
Author: James Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of...
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Author: David Patrikarakos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
VD: The Australian Army's experience of sexually transmitted diseases during the twentieth century
Author: Ian Howie-Willis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 386 Sexually transmitted diseases, for centuries lumped together as 'Venereal Disease', or 'VD' for short, have always marched in lock-step with soldiers...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Hardback 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...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day
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Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...
Veiled Valour: Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations
Author: Tom Frame Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Given the importance of ability, judgment, leadership and discipline to the effective performance of any military force, the nation faces a...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960
Author: David Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the...
The Siege that Changed the World: Paris, 1870-1871
Author: N S Nash Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Siege of Paris from September 1870 to the city's capitulation in January 1871 was the result of Louis Napoleon...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...
Hit The Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
Author: Bill Yenne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 370 From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, come the stirring true story of the Eight...
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Author: Stanley Weintraub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative...