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The Man the Nazis Couldn't Catch
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This book is about a private soldier of the British Army, Leonard Arlington of the Middlesex Regiment. But it is dedicated, with his approval, to those ordinary men and women of northern France and bordering Belgium who defied the Nazis during the Second World War and risked their lives to help British fighting men elude their Nazi pursuers. Len ...
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The French Foreign Legion
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Jackboot / a History of the German Soldier
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Jackboot: The Story of the German Soldier
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John Laffin believed that for too long the image of the German soldier has been distorted by the political crimes and atrocities of the Nazis. It is time that the ordinary German soldier was given his due. Such is the aim of "Jackboot", which traces the background and influences that have shaped the character of the German soldier from the time of ...
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On the Western Front : soldiers stories from France and Flanders, 1914-1918
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Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier
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Tommy Atkins is the English soldier. The "Tommy this, an' Tommy that", who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth across India, who kept us his six-rounds-to-the-minute at Mons, ...
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Hitler Warned Us
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Why didn't the Great Powers' intelligence experts and ambassadors, political observers and behavioural psychologists tell their governments during the 1930s that Adolph Hitler was a threat to humanity? Perhaps they did just that and were ignored. Hitler's intentions and ambitions, his strategy and tactics, his character and personality were all ...
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On the Western Front: Soldier's Stories from France and Flanders
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This book was the first serious attempt to illustrate the humanity of the soldier on the Western Front, reflecting the war as they saw it from first shot to last. These tales, told to fellow men in the trenches, behind the lines, at base hospitals and at the estaminets and billets during rest periods, have been recorded here.
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The Western Front Illustrated 1914-1918
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With many illustrations this book provides the clearest and most dramatic impressions of World War I.
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Secrets of Leadership: Thirty Centuries of Command
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Generally, all great commanders all owe something to Gideon, victor over the Midianties about 1200 BC and to David, conqueror of Goliath, about 1000 BC. The circumstances of war may never be repeated. But the essence of major tactics has not changed as greatly as many theorists would have us believe. The methods of their applications may have ...
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The Agony of Gallipoli
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'Sacred ground of lost endeavour' or 'Hell heaped up'? Controversy still rages today about the Gallipoli campaign, inspired by Winston Churchill and designed to knock Turkey out of the First World War, thereby opening a supply route to arms-starved Russia. Was it one of the greatest blunders of the war, misconceived from the start and mishandled ...
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Panorama of the Western Front
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This is a contemporary portrait of the entire length of the Western Front - one battle front of World War I. Here, the panorama is reproduced in double-page spreads and annotated with details of the individual engagements, famous battles and key events which relate to each location.
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Brassey's Dictionary of Battles
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The anatomy of captivity.
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Codes and ciphers : secret writing through the ages.
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An explanation of the development, methods, and use of cryptography throughout history.
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The Australian Army at War, 1899-1975
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Detailed information on the uniforms and insignia of the world's most famous military forces. Each 64-page book contains some 50 photographs and diagrams, and 12 pages of full-colour artwork.
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Links of leadership; thirty centuries of military command.
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Combat Surgeons
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To the press, the politicians and the generals, the tens of thousands of wounded that result from a modern large-scale battle are thought of as "casulaties". To the dedicated surgeons, doctors and their staff they are individuals in need of expert help. Throughout history, Armed Services doctors have faced not only appalling medical difficulties: ...
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World War I in Postcards
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Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948-73
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The modern wars of the Middle East began in 1947, when the Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Lebanese were unofficially at war with the Jewish settlers of Palestine. On the 15 May, the day afer Israel was declared a sovreign state, the Arab invasion began. Between then and 1973 five wars occurred: those of 1948; the Sinai War; the Six-Day War; ...
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Raidersgreat Exploits of the
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During World War II several daring raids were carried out by Allied and Axis forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. These raids were as individual in character as the men who carried them out and equally unique in their objectives. John Laffin relates more than 20 such operations mounted by British, ...
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The Israeli Army in the Middle East Wars 1948-73
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Israel assumes in advance that defeat in war means an end to the Jewish nation, and it wages war accordingly. This fact influences the Israeli approach to its army and to the strategy, tactics, training and conduct of war. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948 and 1973. For a force which began as an ...
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Damn the Dardanelles!: The Agony of Gallipoli
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The Dagger of Islam
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Fedayeen : the Arab-Israeli dilemma
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