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AIR BATTLE FOR MOSQUITO: MOSQUITO MENACING THE Graham M. Simons ARNHEM REICH Alan Cooper During the history of The operation to take the bridges at Arnhem was given the code name 'Operation Market Garden', Market being the air side of the operation and Garden the subsequent ground operation. Its their efforts and the courage on evident display at Arnhem that the book is based upon.

Martin Bowman This book is full of first-hand accounts from the crews that flew the ‘Mossie’ in its roles as a bomber, long-range reconnaissance and low-level strike aircraft. The author has gathered together many of the most exciting operational reports.

aviation there have been very few aircraft that have achieved immediate success when entering front-line service. The de Havilland Mosquito was one such aircraft. The pilots loved it. This book describes how it was built and utilizes many hitherto unpublished photographs from the design studio and production lines.

MOSQUITO MISSIONS Martin Bowman Martin Bowman's well-tried and respected formula of incorporating background information with scores of RAF, Dominion, and overseas pilots and navigators' personal narratives, is employed here once again to great effect.

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AIRCRAFT WRECKS: A WALKER’S GUIDE C N Wotherspoon, Alan Clark, Mark Sheldon Originally published to acclaim in 2009, this paperback re-issue aims to give readers access to the tangible remains of hundreds of historic aircraft that still lie at crash sites on the moors and mountains of the British Isles.

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BEYOND THE DAMS TO THE TIRPITZ Alan W Cooper This book is a timely reminder that there is a lot more to this Squadron than their exploits on the Dams. 70 years on, the collective achievements of the men who made up 617 Squadron are relayed, making for an impressive tribute and a celebration of their aerial endeavours.

THE DAM BUSTER RAID Alan Cooper Seventy years ago, 133 airmen of 617 Squadron, later known as the Dambusters, set out to destroy the Ruhr Dams in Germany. This one operation amongst many carried out by Bomber Command has become one of the most well known in the whole history of WWII.

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THE MEN WHO BREACHED THE DAMS

GUY GIBSON: DAMBUSTER

Alan W Cooper

A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and in particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed.

First published to acclaim in 1982, this was author Alan Cooper's first publication before he went on to become a prolific writer of aviation history.

Geoff Simpson

VOICES IN FLIGHT:

THE DAMBUSTER SQUADRON Colin Higgs, Bruce Vigar Borne of a well-established partnership between the authors Colin Higgs and Bruce Vigar, this is an evocative and beautifully crafted piece of work that is sure to appeal to the aviation fraternity as well as serving as a memorial to the veterans.

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ON LAUGHTER- FLIGHT 777 SILVERED WINGS Ian Colvin

BEHIND THE WIRE LUCK OF A LANCASTER Philip Kaplan

Gail Strever-Morkel

On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Did the Germans believe that Churchill was on board Flight 777? Ian Colvin carried out an exhaustive investigation into the incident.

Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two.

Gordon Thorburn

Phillip E Sims

Front-line squadrons flew to Germany three and four times a week in 1943-44, which was when W4964 was flying her 107 sorties, all with No 9 Squadron and all from RAF Bardney. She was given a special character as J-Johnny Walker, ‘still going strong’.

This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. This is the tale of the realisation of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.

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This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father) is sure to appeal widely. The story is by necessity highly personal, as the central figure fights his way through a series of challenging experiences.

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A CENTURY OF AIR POWER

WINGED CRUSADERS

FROM AUSTER TO APACHE

BRITAIN ON THE BRINK

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No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. A Century of Air Power provides valuable lessons for the future.

Formed in 1915, and still operational today, 14 Squadron is one of the RAF's longest serving and most senior Squadrons. Spending the first thirty years of its operational life in the Middle East, the history of this Squadron is rich one.

656 Squadron celebrated its 70th Anniversary on 31st December 2012. Over the intervening years, the Squadron has served with great distinction. This is 656’s story, told in full and for the first time.

Geoff Leeming belongs to an elite group of helicopter pilots. He describes his flying experiences in underpowered, and by today’s hightech standards, basic choppers such as the single-engined Whirlwinds and its successor, the Wessex.

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The book focuses on the implications for Britain of the covert deployment by the Soviet Union of ballistic nuclear missiles ninety miles off the US coast. Britain on the Brink reveals the major strategic re-think the Cuban Crisis forced on Prime Minister Macmillan and the British Government.

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AVRO VULCAN

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

SECRETS OF THE LIGHTNING EJECT FABULOUS SPITFIRE FLYING BOATS Peter Caygill

THE SPITFIRE

David W. Fildes

Lance Cole

The Avro Vulcan was the last V Bomber to see active service in its primary role during the Falklands conflict. The book examines the origins of the design, the prototypes and experimental aircraft and goes on to explain the modifications that were made to the last of the breed.

Using exclusive access to his family documents, his unpublished autobiography and many notes and stories, as well as forensic research, this book details for the first time, a new twist to the Spitfire’s story and the secrets of its advanced science.

This unique contemporary account produced from contemporary reports and debriefs provides a primary source insight into reality of being a fighter pilot in World War II. Fascinating reading for military enthusiasts and anyone interested in the true story of World War II.

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The English Electric Lightning entered RAF squadron service in 1960 and continued flying in the interceptor role until 1988. It had a stunning worldbeating performance with a top speed in excess of Mach 2 and a climb rate that would take it to 40,000 feet in a little over 3 minutes. The aircraft’s safety record, however, left much to be desired.

Leslie Dawson

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The history of the development and operations of flying boats in the early twentieth century is a vibrant one, full of colourful characters and experimentation. In ‘Fabulous Flying Boats’, Leslie Dawson captures this spirit of dynamism.

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MUD AND BODIES THE LAST DITCH SAGITTARIUS RISING Mike Burns, Edited by Saul David David Lampe Cecil Lewis

A BOLD AND AMBITIOUS ENTERPRISE

DEFENDING HEAVEN

Andrew Bamford The British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813-14 in support of the Dutch revolt against the French is one of the lesser-known campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. The book deals with all aspects of the campaign.

Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song and Ming dynasties’ wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese civilisation against a Mongol war machine.

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Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at Loos, the Somme and Vimy Ridge, as well as in staff and training posts.

In 1940 Hitler’s invasion plans were in full swing and Britain had to quickly assemble a secret resistance force. This compelling study reveals the intentions of both side, from Hitler’s strategies for Operation Sea Lion and subsequent occupation, to Britain’s secret plans for resistance.

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In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defence of London against deadly night time raids.

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MEMOIRS OF A STUKA PILOT

ACE OF THE BLACK CROSS

NOTES OF A DISASTER AT RUSSIAN SNIPER STALINGRAD

DISASTER AT D-DAY

Helmut Mahlke, Translated by John Weal

Ernst Udet

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Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a mediaeval, knightly tournament. This was the battle in the air between the first primitive aircraft and intrepid aviators.

Vassili Zaitsev’s account of the hell that was Stalingrad is moving and harrowing. Zaitsev was used as a symbol of Russian resistance against the Nazis. His exploits, including a famous ‘duel’ with a Nazi sniper, remain the stuff of legend.

It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. The outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras demonstrates in this thought-provoking and highly readable alternate history of the fateful battle.

It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the signs of invasion, ready for the final battle. The outcome could easily have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this masterful and devastating account.

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After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer during the Spanish Civil War, the author describes his flying training as a Stuka pilot.

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J. Greene & A. Massignani

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For almost four desperate years, from 1939-mid 1943, the British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolfpacks. The Allies might never have turned the tide without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the greatest untold stories of WWII.

More than any other campaign of WWII, Operation Weserubing has been shrouded in mystery. The German success was the result of improvisation and the application of available forces far beyond the comprehension of their British and Norwegian counterparts.

Heinz Linge worked with Adolf Hitler for a ten-year period from 1935 until the Führer’s death in the Berlin bunker in May 1945. During his years of service Linge was constantly by his side. Linge gives an excellent eyewitness account of events.

A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being pitched into the thick of it as personal pilot to a certain ‘Herr Hitler’. Hitler, who loathed flying, felt safe with Baur and would allow no one else to pilot him.

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Bletchley Park, or 'Station X', was home to the most famous codebreakers of the Second World War. The 19th-century mansion was the key centre for cracking German, Italian and Japanese codes. Former WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of this crucial division.

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DONITZ, URUSSIAN BOATS, CONVOYS EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF Jak P. Mallmann Showell THE CAMPAIGN For the first time noted naval OF 1814 historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz’s memoirs in a parallel text with the British Admiralty’s secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to produce a unique view of the U-boat war as it was perceived at the time by both sides.

Alexander Mikaberidze This book is the first title to bring together dozens of letters, diaries and memoirs of Russian participants of the 1814 Campaign.

BRINGERS OF WAR THE WATERLOO ARCHIVE: John Laband VOLUME V The enthralling tale of the Portuguese in Africa before the nineteenth century deserves to be every bit as familiar as the Spanish conquest of the Americas. In this impeccably researched and spellbinding new book, John Laband expertly recalls this remarkable saga in full for the first time.

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CROWN COVENANT AND CROMWELL

Gareth Glover

Stuart Reid

This volume seeks to put this right and to bring to life the human story of the German troops – their trials and tribulations, their sufferings and their emotions – and to finally reveal their views on the battle which many entered with mixed emotions.

This is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. It is the story of those armies and the men who marched in them.

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THE WAR OF THE MOTOR GUN BOATS A J Chapman Daily life on these small ships is vividly described. War of the Motor Gun Boats fills an important gap in the literature of the Second World War.

UNBROKEN Alastair Mars This account is of the 26year-old Alastair Mars' command of this outstandingly successful submarine embraces her construction, sea trials and voyage to Gibraltar preparatory to her vital role in the Mediterranean.

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ARCTIC CONVOYS GREY WOLVES: 1941 - 1945 THE U-BOAT WAR 1939-1945 Richard Woodman

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Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles to accurately place four tons of high explosive under the hull of the Tirpitz. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944, at the age of 22. This book details his life.

During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. Told from the perspective of their crews, this is the inspiring story of the long-suffering merchant marine without which Russia might well have fallen to Nazi Germany.

It was popularly believed that the U-boat men were all volunteers; this was not the case. However, once committed to the Ubootwaffe, each man soon understood that he must take pride in being part of a unique brotherhood.

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HMS FEARLESS

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Iain Ballantyne and Jonathan Eastland

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The Seventh ship to bear the name, the Assault Ship and Commando Carrier HMS Fearlesswas first commissioned in 1965. Over the next 37 years she was seldom far from the action world-wide. Thousands of sailors, Royal Marines and soldiers served on board over her 19 commissions. Now paid off, Fearlesshas a great story to tell.

Nelson’s Victory which is still in commission at Portsmouth as the flagship of the Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command, Vice Admiral Sir James BurnellNugent, is the main subject of this forthcoming book.

While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1.

SECRET SECRET FLOTILLAS VOL 1 FLOTILLAS VOL II Brooks Richards

Brooks Richards This authoritative publication by the late historian, Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations during World War II. The account has been made possible through access to closed government archives, combined with Brooks’ own wartime experiences and the recollections of many of those involved.

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As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. The official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during WWII.

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Edward Teach – ‘Blackbeard’is one of the legends of the so-called ‘golden age of piracy’. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and gives a vivid insight into the nature of piracy.

The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators. From ship’s boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper.

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COLDITZ: THE ARCTIC SNOW GERMAN STORY TO DUST OF NORMANDY Reinhold Eggers Reinhold Eggers was the German Security Officer during the last years at Colditz. His book is a compilation of the most spectacular escape attempts written by the escapers themselves. Eggers supports the stories with extracts from his Colditz diary.

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As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, the author lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped. He describes the fierce fighting outside Dunkirk, his captivity, escape and his extraordinary life in Vichy France, in this gripping, beautifully written book.

Two officers made home runs via a tunnel dug beneath a wooden vaulting horse from Stalag Luft III. The author, a RAF bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag-Luft III (site of the 'Great Escape' later in the war). This classic escape-and-evasion story, is an exciting read.

The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs Thatcher’s Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a ‘home-run’ from Colditz Castle.

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Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job. In 1940 using his special knowledge of North Norway's coast line he landed and moved over 10,000 Allied soldiers in local boats without the loss of a single life.

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1914-1918 - AN EYEWITNESS TO WAR

THE BATTLE OF MARNE 1914

1914 - VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS

RETREAT AND REARGUARD 1914

SLAUGHTER ON THE SOMME: 1 JULY 1916

Edited and introduced by Bob Carruthers A fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources. The struggle for Verdun, the battles between Austro-Hungarian and Russian forces in the East, and the daily life in the trenches are just some of the topics in four complete and intriguing memoirs.

The First Battle of the Marne was one of the most pivotal battles in history. Fought outside Paris in September 1914, it turned the tide of the German invasion of France, and robbed Kaiser Wilhelm II of his best chance of winning the First World War. A gripping account of the battle, followed by a series of easy-tofollow tours of the battlefield.

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The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare. Recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were eyewitnesses to them.

16 VCs were won during this historic Retreat, showing that even in the darkest hours individuals and units performed with gallantry, resourcefulness and great forbearance. Alive with first hand accounts, letters, diaries and official unit records.

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In this publication, the authors have drawn together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for 171 British Regiments that went “over the top” that day – a day which even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom and around the world.

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BRITISH ARMOURED DIVISIONS AND THEIR COMMANDERS, 1939-1945

ARMOURED TANK WARFARE IN COMMANDER THE ITALIAN Bill Close CAMPAIGN 1943- Bill Close had a remarkable 1945 war. In campaign after

Richard Doherty

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A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed but just eight saw action. Historical narrative, analysis and fact make this an invaluable book for the student of WW2 and armoured warfare.

This volume gives readers a vivid impression of the Italian landscapes over which the campaign was fought, the wide range of military vehicles used, and the gruelling conditions endured.

campaign, from the defence of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. He finished the war as one of the most experienced and resourceful of British tank commanders.

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RED ARMY TANK COMMANDER Vasiliy Bryukhov What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? Vasiliy Pavlovich Bryukhov’s vivid, detailed and gripping memoir of his wartime service gives a fascinating and authentic insight into these questions.

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The author has over ninety first-hand French accounts, most of which have never been published in English, and combined them with accounts from the other participants in order to create a graphic new narrative of one of the world’s decisive battles.

Using eyewitness accounts and an intimate knowledge of the terrain, the author reconstructs Waterloo and takes the reader across the battleground as it is today. This is a thorough, easyto-follow guide.

The Battle of Barossa 1811 is the first book to examine this crucial campaign in detail and to reveal its true historical importance.

Peter Edwards uses an excellent range of sources to bring to life this pivotal year in the Peninsular War. His work offers a fascinating insight into the strategy, the command decisions and the experience of combat 200 years ago.

1813 was a critical year in the world war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon. In a series of major battles the converging armies of the Sixth Coalition drove the French forces back. This was the year in which the balance of power tipped decisively against Napoleon’s First Empire.

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FORGOTTEN BATTLES OF THE ZULU WAR Adrian Greaves Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorke’s Drift to other fiercely fought battles. He covers little recorded engagements which were fought on the same day as Isandlwana but have been eclipsed by it. This hugely informative book will fascinate fans of this period of our Imperial history.

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THE TRIBE THAT WASHED ITS SPEARS Adrian Greaves, Xolani Mkhize This authoritative, yet hugely readable, book traces the history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa – they were not indigenous as were the Koi and San population – and the establishment of Zululand. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colourful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built its fiercesome reputation.

GLADSTONE, GORDON AND THE SUDAN WARS Fergus Nicoll General Gordon’s death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 - and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi - was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Fergus Nicoll’s radical reappraisal of the first Sudan wars refutes the conventional image of both men.

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PRIVATE LORD CRAWFORD’S GREAT WAR DIARIES

INTO BATTLE E W Parker

Lord Crawford’s pre-and post-war diaries describe his peacetime experiences. This is a unique document which throws fascinating new light on what it meant to be a junior rank.

Written well over 90 years ago this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitchener’s Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital – an officer with the Military Cross – recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918.

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DONALD DEAN VC

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LAST MAN STANDING

Terry Crowdy and Susan Bavin

Carole McEntee-Taylor, Foreword by Dame Judi Dench

Richard Van Emden

Military historian Terry Crowdy has edited Dean's letters and diaries, never previously published, adding additional notes and material from official reports to give the reader context. The result is a moving, often amusing and inspiring portrait of a little-known hero of two world wars.

'Save Yourselves, I'll carry on'. These were the last known words of Herbert Columbine, shouted at his two companions on the afternoon of 22nd March 1918. He was only defeated after the Germans dropped a bomb on his position.

It hardly seems credible today that a nineteen-year-old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Norman Collins, the author of this superb memoir, tells the story of his life as a young subaltern at the front during 1916 and 1917.

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VIRIATHUS Luis Silva Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to Englishlanguage scholars.

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BEYOND THE GATES OF FIRE

IMPERIAL BROTHERS

Christopher Matthew, Matthew Trundel

Ian Hughes

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Philip Matyszak The tale of Sertorius is the story of a people struggling to liberate themselves from oppressive rule. It is also the story of Sertorius himself, who started as an idealist, and ended almost as savage and despotic as his enemies.

304 pages

This will be the first full-length book on the subject since 1997. It will examine the role of the mercenaries and their influence on the wars of the period down to the death of Alexander the Great, who employed them and why, and will also look at the social and economic pressures that drove tens of thousands to make a living of fighting for the highest bidder.

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The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history. The heroism of the 300 Spartans who opted to remain behind to face the full might of the Persian host while their Greek allies made good their escape has become the stuff of legend.

The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. The author, by tracing the careers of both men in tandem, compares their achievements and analyzes the extent to which they deserve the contrasting reputations handed down by history.

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MERCENARIES IN SERTORIUS AND THE CLASSICAL THE STRUGGLE WORLD FOR SPAIN

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THE FALKLANDS 3 COMMANDO FALKLANDS WAR BRIGADE IN THE HERO FALKLANDS Martin Middlebrook Jon Cooksey

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BAGHDAD OPERATORS James Glasse, Andrew Rawson

Martin Middlebrook, one of the most skilful historians of the 20th Century, has weaved the many strands of this extraordinary military achievement into a fascinating, thorough and highly readable account of the Campaign.

Julian Thompson The author, now a celebrated military historian, has revised his early book and added for this 25 Anniversary edition more of his own personal thoughts and impressions. It is all too easy to overlook just how perilous and risky a venture this expedition was.

At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment’s assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up by an Argentine machine gun, it falls to Sergeant McKay to act. This is the story of Ian McKay: the last British hero of the Twentieth Century.

Bill Sloan, a former British Army intelligence officer and Shahid Al Sheehi, the son of a Pakistani Britishimmigrant are caught up in a breathtakingly ambitious plan for a small Middle Eastern Emirate to seize regional power by acquiring weapons of mass destruction. This novel draws the reader into a realm of political intrigue and a host of anxious preoccupations.

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Ever wondered what members of the Special Forces did after they left the services? This story starts with five guys organising an undercover road trip across worn torn Iraq in the spring 2003. Discover how they used their unique military skills to create a successful security company with over 300 employees during the early days of the occupation.

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THE ANGLOSAXONS AT WAR Paul Hill The authors broad, detailed and graphic account of the conduct of war in the AngloSaxon world in the unstable, violent centuries before the Norman Conquest will be illuminating reading for anyone who wants to learn about this key stage of medieval history.

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AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF BRITAIN:

Timothy Venning

Taking a similar approach to his successful If Rome Hadn't Fallen, Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken.

Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses.

THE ANGLOSAXON AGE

THE WARS OF THE ROSES

EDWARD IV AND THE WARS OF THE ROSES David Santiuste As David Santiuste shows in this perceptive and highly readable new study, Edward was a formidable military leader whose strengths and subtlety have not been fully recognized. A fascinating insight into Edward the man and into the politics and the fighting.

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THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066 - THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH John Grehan & Martin Mace The Battle of Hastings is the most defining event in English history. As such, its every detail has been analysed by scholars and interpreted by historians. Yet one of the most fundamental aspect of the battle – the place upon which it was fought – has never been seriously questioned, until now.

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THE NORMANDY THE NORMANDY TIGERS IN INVASION, JUNE CAMPAIGN 1944 NORMANDY 1944 Bob Carruthers Wolfgang Schneider

GOODWOOD OVER THE BATTLEFIELD

FIGHTING WITH THE DESERT RATS

Col Roy Stanley II USAF (Ret’d)

Major H.P. Samwell MC

The Normandy Invasion literally takes a different view of D-Day and just beyond, showing the wellknown events using aerial photos. This is what anxiously waiting senior officers knew about progress in the early hours of 6 June 1944.

This lavishly illustrated edition is the definitive single volume overview of the hard fought campaign in Normandy. The Normandy Campaign encompasses the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of the battle for Normandy and expertly details the events which influenced the actions of the armies on both sides of the battlefront.

For the first time in English, Wolfgang Schneider, an expert on German armour, presents a complete combat chronicle of the German Tiger Tank, including new details on how the Tiger performed against Allied armour, particularly the Sherman, and famous tank ace Michael Wittmann.

Ian Daglish For the first book in our new series Over The Battlefield, we have chosen Ian Daglish to describe the events of Operation GOODWOOD, July 1944, the dramatic attempted British armoured break-out from the Normandy bridge-head.

This is a descriptive account of what it was like to serve as an Infantry Officer with the Desert Army in the Western Desert and Sicily between 1942 and 1943. The author is Major H.P. Samwell, MC, who was unfortunately killed on 13 January 1945, whilst serving with the 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st Highland Division.

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ONCE A HUSSAR OUT OF THE WAVELL – DEPTHS OF HELL SOLDIER AND Ray Ellis STATESMAN John McEwan Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written, candid and perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. His story is an honest and moving memoir, but it also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship.

When John McEwan and his Regiment landed in Malaya, they were all hugely confident. This evaporated in utter disbelief as the British were totally outmanoeuvered by the Japanese advance culminating, in the capture of Singapore. This is his extraordinary story.

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DEATH WAS OUR BEDMATE

THE LAST GREAT CAVALRYMAN

Agnes McEwan, Campbell Thomson

Richard Mead Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front. Although not a public figure, McCreery was key figure in the development of armoured warfare, a brilliant tactician and among the most important British fighting generals of the Second World War.

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The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the illfated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 and whose members later experienced the worst kind of hell as POWs of a cruel and bestial enemy.

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Archibald Wavell’s life and career makes a marvellous subject. Not only did he reach the highest rank and become an Earl and Viceroy of India but his character was complex.

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CROMWELL’S WAR MACHINE Keith Roberts In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes how Cromwell's army was recruited, inspired, organized, trained and equipped. He also sets its strategic and tactical operation in the context of the theory and practice of warfare in seventeenthcentury Europe.

AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF BRITAIN:

THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR Timothy Venning

Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France.

OFFA AND THE MERCIAN WARS

KILLING FIELDS OF SCOTLAND

CULLODEN

Chris Peers

R J M Pugh

In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It is Chris Peers’s task in this new study to uncover the facts about Offa and the other Mercian kings and to set them in the context of English history before the coming of the Danes.

Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden but know little if anything about those events. This book tells the stories of these battles and many others fought in Scotland from the Roman victory at Mons Graupius in AD 83 to the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden Moor in 1746.

So, what really happened at Culloden? In this fascinating and original book, a team of leading historians and archaeologists reconsiders every aspect of the battle. They examine the latest historical and archaeological evidence, question every assumption, and rewrite the story of the campaign in vivid detail.

Edited by Tony Pollard

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THE SPARTAN WAY ALCIBIADES Nic Fields For a period of some 200 years, Sparta was acknowledged throughout the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers. Nic Fields explains the reasons for this superiority, how their reputation for invincibility was earned (and deliberately manipulated) and how it was ultimately shattered.

P. J. Rhodes Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Professor Rhodes brings the authority of an internationally recognized expert in the field.

ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT

GERMANICUS

Michael Taylor

Germanicus (a.k.a. Germanicus Iulius Caesar) was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mould of Alexander the Great. This, the first modern biography of Germanicus, is in parts a growing-up story, a history of war, a tale of political intrigue and a murder mystery.

A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. Despite the loss of territory and prestige enshrined in the subsequent Peace of Apamea, Antiochus III left the Seleucid Empire in far better condition than he found it.

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THE COLLAPSE OF ROME Gareth C Sampson By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. But, as Gareth Sampson points out in this new analysis, the situation was much more complex than the traditional view portrays it and the scope of the First Civil War both wider and longer.

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THE WILL TO LIVE L L Baynes Len Baynes’ courage and mental and physical strength kept him alive during the 1000 days of captivity by the barbarous Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in keeping a diary were immense and yet Len persevered. As a result of this extraordinary feat, Len’s record is pure fact.

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As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the dreadful experience Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and their strength.

2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. The Japanese captured Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. The author has researched the plight of these men, so many of whom never saw their native Scotland again.

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Of the tens of thousands of Allied personnel captured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942 only a small number of brave souls attempted to escape to freedom rather than suffer brutality, starvation and very possibly death as POWs.

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POSTERS OF THE MURDEROUS GREAT WAR TOMMIES

A DOCTOR ON THE WESTERN FRONT

BATTLE ON THE AISNE 1914

BATTLE LINES: YPRES

Jerry Murland

Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland

The river Aisne featured prominently in August 1914 during the Retreat from Mons and in September was the scene of bitter fighting. Historian Jerry Murland places the Aisne battles in their context, both from the BEF and German viewpoints.

Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Sword’s new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured here.

Frédérick Hadley, Martin Pegler

Julian Putkowski, Mark Dunning

Until the arrival of radio and television, and despite the influence of newspapers, posters were the major medium for mass communication. As the 200 wartime and immediate postwar posters selected for this book reveal, they were one of the most potent ways of conveying news, information and propaganda.

Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offences, all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. Drawing on contemporary records, this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these men either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed civilian.

Henry Owens, Edited by John Hutton

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Henry Owens Great War diary provides a vivid and complete narrative, seen from the perspective of an army doctor, of what it was like to live and fight in the trenches of the Western Front.

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THE BRUNEI FROM THE IMJIN BIAFRA STORY REVOLT 1962-1963 TO THE HOOK Frederick Forsyth Nick Van Der Bijl

James Jacobs

In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of hostages. Within twelve hours of its outbreak, British forces were despatched by ship and aircraft from Singapore to restore order.

The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. In this gripping memoir Jim recounts his experiences and emotions from joining the Army through training, the journeys by troopship and, most importantly, on active service.

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This book which marked Frederick Forsyth’s transition from journalist to author is a record of one of the most brutal conflicts the Third World has ever suffered, indeed it has become a classic of modern war reporting. The Biafra Story a compelling read.

THE RHODESIAN COLD WAR WAR SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKERS Paul Moorcraft, Peter McLaughlin

Nick McCamley

This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power.

This book tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the north Atlantic.

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THE DEFENSE OF THE DEFENCE MOSCOW 1941 AND FALL OF GREECE 1940-41 Jacky Radey, Charles Sharp,

ROMMEL’S DESERT WARRIORS

RUSSIAN ARMOUR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Foreword by David Glantz

John Carr

Michael Olive, Robert Edwards

Michael Green

There was one point in the Second World War when Germany had a chance of winning, October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s forces before Moscow had been smashed and no reserves were available to defend the capital. This book is a compelling study of a previously unknown part of the Battle of Moscow.

John Carr's masterful account of these desperate campaigns, while not disparaging the British and Commonwealth assistance, draws heavily on Greek sources to emphasize the oft-neglected experience of the Greeks themselves and their contribution to the fight against fascism.

Using an extensive collection of rare and previously unpublished photographs, together with detailed captions and accompanying text, Rommel’s Desert Warriors 1941-42 provides a unique insight into the troops, uniforms, desert terrain, tanks, weapons and much more.

It was the Stalin’s tanks and armoured fighting vehicles that finally pushed the German Army back from the outskirts of Moscow. From that point on, the tanks and armoured fighting vehicles of the Red Army continued their offensive operations until they entered Berlin in April and May 1945.

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Rostislav Aliev On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest – Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa had begun. The heroic defence of Brest has become one of the legends of the Second World War on the Eastern Front, an example of selfless Soviet heroism in the face of Nazi aggression.

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BRITISH MILITARY THE COMPLETE MEDALS BLUE MAX SECOND EDITION Peter Duckers

Kevin Brazier

THE ANIMAL THE HOME CHURCHILL’S VICTORIA CROSS FRONT IN WORLD SECRET WAR TWO DEFENCE ARMY Peter Hawthorne

Until the end of the Great War the Blue Max was the most prestigious accolade a German serviceman could wish for. Yet fictions and myths about the Blue Max have obscured its long and fascinating history. Kevin Brazier, in this comprehensive account of the Pour le Mérite and of the men who received it, aims to set the record straight.

Sixty-three animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one book, The Animal Victoria Cross.

Susie Hodge

Arthur Ward

This book traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day and it features an expert account of their design and production. For over 200 years these awards have marked the wars, campaigns and battles fought by British and Imperial forces across the world.

Packed with interviews, photographs and other first hand information, this book will appeal to all those who were there, but even more for those with little or no experience of World War Two, who will gain insights into the humour, strength and creativity that emerged in the face of hardship and tragedy.

Following the publication of his 50th anniversary history of the Battle of Britain, A Nation Alone, Arthur Ward looked deeper into the story of the Invasion Summer of 1940 and interviewed those involved with Auxiliary Units at the very top and in the front line, as volunteers in a six-man cell.

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ROAD TO MANZIKERT

SALADIN

Professor Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B Allfree, John Cairns

Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic and highly readable study of the life and times of this remarkable, many-sided man, who dominated the Middle East in his day, gives a fascinating insight into his achievements and into the Muslim world of hiscontemporaries.

This book sets the battle in the context of the military history of the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World (Arab and Seljuk Turkish) up to the pivotal engagement at Manzikert in 1071, with special emphasis on the origins, course and outcome of this battle.

Geoffrey Hindley

THE WAR OF THE THREE GODS

ROME, PARTHIA AND INDIA

Peter Crawford

Between 152 and 138 BC a series of wars from Africa to India produced a radically new geopolitical situation. John Grainger's lucid narrative shows how these seismic events, stretching from India to the Western Meditteranean, interconnected to recast the ancient world.

Philip Sidnell

War of the Three Gods is a military history of the first half of seventh century, with heavy focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641). This was a pivotal time in world history as well as a dramatic one.

John D Grainger

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MIDGET NINJA AND TACTICAL LAXATIVES ‘Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxitives’ is a light-hearted look at some of the most bizarre incidents, weirdest weapons and strangest stratagems to be found in the annals of warfare. Drawn from all periods of history there is something here for every reader with an interest in military history and/or a sense of humour.

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Dick Read was among the first to respond to Kitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. This narrative, refined and uniquely illustrated over the years is a personal record of one man’s war and a profoundly moving epitaph for a lost generation.

David Kenyon, Foreword by Richard Holmes

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The cavalry have been consistently underestimated since the first histories of the Great War were written. But, in light of modern research, is this the right verdict? David Kenyon seeks to answer this question in his thoughtprovoking new study.

As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realised from the outset of the First World War that his family was likely to be at or near the front line. He was a reluctant soldier who was willing to stand up to authority – and to avoid risks – in order to survive.

memoirs. During the Great War, besides commanding the 8th Glosters, he was GOC 12 Brigade and GOC 105 Brigade. He was wounded eight times during the war, won the VC during the Battle of the Somme, and was mentioned in despatches six times.

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HAPPY ODYSSEY JOHNNY: THE LEGEND AND Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart TRAGEDY OF Adrian Carton de Wiart’s GENERAL SIR autobiography is one of the most remarkable of Military IAN HAMILTON John Philip Jones This book examines why Hamilton failed at Gallipoli and shows how, in spite of that failure he became a well respected military prophet.

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THE LONG THE ATLANTIC RANGE DESERT WALL GROUP 1940-1945 J.E. Kaufmann, H.W.

The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Airlanding troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about. This is the first account of the Sicily air landing operation.

Major General David Lloyd Owen

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GERMAN MACHINE GUNS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets. It was the job of specialist Bomb Disposal teams to render the V-weapons safe and uncover their secrets.

Hans Seidler

The complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures can be visited today, and this book is an authoritative guide to them.

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This splendid record takes the reader behind enemy lines not only in North Africa but in Italy, the Aegean and the Balkans. The Author, who commanded the LRDG, paints a vivid picture of the unit’s colourful character.

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Using over 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, this book provides a unique insight into German weaponry from early Blitzkrieg campaigns to the final demise of the Nazi empire.

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Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain’s most effective weapon against international terrorism. This is the true story of one Operator and of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted on the streets of Britain.

Correlli Barnett CBE In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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ROMAN CONQUESTS: THE ROMAN EGYPT AND JUDAEA INVASION OF BRITAIN John D Grainger

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Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these campaigns, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Specially-commissioned colour plates by the renowned Graham Sumner bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously-researched detail.

Around eight-five Roman legionary fortresses have been located and identified and are heredetailed together for the first time. An introductory section outlines the history of legionary bases and their key components. A detailed bibliography provides up-to-date publication information.

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HISTORICAL FICTION

THE HOUSE OF MEDICI:

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THE WOODVILLE TRIANGLE TRADE BY LOYALTY CONNECTION BOUND Geoff Woodland

THE ARROW OF SHERWOOD

K. E Martin

Elizabeth Ashworth

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“There are many stories with which I weary my greedy visitors but there is one I never shall tell. While it pleases me to confide this tale to my good friends quill and parchment. I am the last survivor of those who took part in the Plaincourt Manor affair and I have vowed to take that secret to my grave...”

In 1804, Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success, in Parliament, of the anti-slavery movement. Few in Liverpool condemned the ‘Trade’. William King, son of a Liverpool slave trader, sickened by what he experienced aboard a Spanish slaver, was one of the few who did speak out.

This is the story of defiant Anne Harrington, the woman who would later become mistress to the enigmatic Richard as a consequence of his involvement in the trials of her family. With her father and grandfather killed Hornby Castle falls to her as an inheritance. The story traces the Harringtons fight to keep possession of their ancestral home.

“Robin of Locksley is a murderer. A disappointment to his mother, a humiliation to his father and a disgrace to the county. For eighteen years this boy has led a life of selfish ease and sin. I shall tell you something of this young man, a secret I have kept to myself but now know I must reveal. Then you will see how undeserving this boy is of forgiveness...”

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Edward Charles Ted Townsend presents us here with an enthralling evocation of Fifteenth Century Florence, arena of intrigue, glamour, wealth and deception. One woman's devotion forms the foundation upon which the famed Medici bank was built.

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BRITISH CRUISERS BRITISH DESTROYERS & Norman Friedman FRIGATES For most of the twentieth

SHIPCRAFT 11:

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Les Brown

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Volume 11 deals with the classes that represent the whole inter-war development of British destroyers, from the prototypes Amazon and Ambuscade of 1926 – the first new post World War I design – to the powerful and radically different ‘Tribal’ class a decade later.

The latest in this series covers the three ships of this First World War type, Hood, Repulse and Renown, which survived to fight in the Second. Still the fastest capital ships in the world in 1939, their protection was not up to contemporary standards and two were famously lost in action.

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BRITISH DESTROYERS

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century Britain possessed both the world’s largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. For the first time this book seeks to comprehend the full policy background, from which a different and entirely original picture emerges of British cruiser development.

Norman Friedman

BRITISH CRUISERS Norman Friedman

Since the Second World War the old categories of destroyer and frigate have slowly merged, a process that this book traces in comprehensive detail. Full of technical information, new insights, and illustrated with a magnificent collection of plans and photographs.

Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled cruising ships.

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FROM THE FROM THE BRITISH BRITISH DREADNOUGHT DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIPS OF BATTLESHIPS TO SCAPA FLOW TO SCAPA FLOW WORLD WAR ONE 1919-1945

WARSHIPS AFTER WASHINGTON

Arthur Marder

R A Burt

This first volume covers many facets of the history of the Royal Navy during the pre-war decade, including the economic and political background. Inevitably, attention moves to the German naval challenge, and the subsequent AngloGerman rivalry.

This second volume in the series begins with the embarrassing escape of the German ship Goeben, before moving on to the defeat at Coronel. Marder turns his attention to the whole question of British strategy and at how the High Seas Fleet was to brought to battle.

This superb reference book achieved the status of ‘classic’ soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books on the second-hand market.

British Battleships 1919-1939 is a masterpiece of research and the comprehensive text is accompanied by tabular detail and certainly the finest collection of photographs and line drawings ever offered in such a book.

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The Washington Treaty of 1922 agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. The book combines coverage of the political and strategic background of the treaty with analysis of exactly how the navies of Britain, the USA, Japan, France and Italy responded.

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HMS WARRIOR IRONCLAD FRIGATE 1860 Wynford Davies

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HMS BELFAST: CRUISER 1939

HMS VICTORY FIRST-RATE 1765

Richard Johnstone-Bryden

Jonathan Eastland

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SS GREAT BRITAIN Wynford Davies

HMS Belfast, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, is now permanently moored on the Thames in London. One of ten Town-class cruisers she saw service on the icy Arctic convoys during the Second World War and was also present for the bombardment of the DDay beaches in 1944.

HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. She is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year. As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative and well illustrated guides, this new book redresses the gap.

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HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, was the first iron-hulled, sea-going armoured ship. Rescued a century later from her role as a refuelling hulk, she became the object of the most ambitious ship restoration project ever mounted and is now afloat and open to visitors at Portsmouth.

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A follow-up to ShipCraft 11 on inter-war destroyers, this new volume deals with the later classes which were the most modern British destroyers of the Second World War.

The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Brunel, was the first ocean-going vessel to be screw-driven and built entirely of iron. When she was launched in 1843 she was twice the size of any previous ship and her revolutionary design heralded a complete break with traditional ship construction.

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FRENCH CRUISERS GERMAN GERMAN NAVAL 1922-1956 CAPITAL SHIPS CAMOUFLAGE OF THE SECOND John Asmussen and Eric Leon John Jordan, Jean Moulin WORLD WAR The French produced some of For half a century German

MUSSOLINI’S NAVY

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Maurizio Brescia

Michael Paul Pitassi

This book is a complete guide to the Regia Marina, the navy with which Italy fought the Second World War. Starting with the historical background, it describes how the navy developed, how it was organised, the facilities that supported it, and the operations it conducted both before and after the armistice in 1943.

The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years.

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the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership.

Siegfried Breyer, M Skwiot Few warship types have had as much written about them as the Kriegsmarine’s capital ships. What has come to light is a growing number of photographs, many from private albums and obscure archives. This book is a careful selection of the best of these.

warship camouflage has been something of a mystery for warship enthusiasts and modelmakers. The widespread destruction of naval archives at the end of the war left little documentation. This book, therefore, is based on close scrutiny of all available photos.

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RIGGING PERIOD SHIP MODELS

THE SAILING FRIGATE

NELSON TO VANGUARD

PILOT CUTTERS UNDER SAIL

THE GRAND FLEET

Robert Gardiner

D K Brown

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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day.

The third volume in D K Brown’s best-selling series on warship design and development looks at the Royal Navy’s response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and analyses the fleet that was constructed to fight the Second World War.

The pilot cutters that operated around the coasts of northern Europe until the First World War were amongst the most seaworthy and beautiful craft of their size ever built. This new book is both a tribute to and a minutely researched history of these remarkable vessels.

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warshipdevelopment in history; and only ten years after this allbig-gun battleship was completed, twofleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to theultimate test.

The rigging of period ship models is the most complex task which any modeller has to take on, for an eighteenthcentury man-of-war boasted mile on mile of rigging, more than 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. This now classic work untangles the complex web.

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WAR AT SEA Marcus Faulkner In the vast literature of the Second World War there has never been a naval atlas showing graphically the complexities of the war at sea, a war which spread across every ocean. With more than 200 beautifully-designed maps and charts, the atlas sets out to visualise the great campaigns and major battles as well as the smaller operations.

THE GATHERING REBUILDING THE X.1: THE ROYAL A HOME ON THE STORM ROYAL NAVY NAVY’S MYSTERY ROLLING MAIN SUBMARINE Geirr Haarr D K Brown & George Moore A G F Ditcham This new book is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940. This new book is set to fulfill all the expectations raised by his first volumes.

In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval Constructor, while this personal knowledge is augmented by George Moore’s in-depth archival research on recently declassified material.

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Roger Branfill-Cook This book explores the historical background to submarine cruisers, the personalities involved in X.1’s design and service, the spy drama surrounding her launch, the treason trial of a leading RN submarine commander, the ship’s chequered career, and her political demise.

This incident-packed career is recounted with restraint, plenty of humour and colourful descriptive power – his account of broaching and almost capsizing in an Arctic winter storm is as good as anything in the literature of the sea. The result makes enthralling reading, a great eyewitness narrative of the naval war.

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BRITISH NAVAL SHIP MODELS SWORDS AND FROM KITS SWORDSMANSHIP Dr David Griffith

GIANTS OF THE SEAS

THE VOYAGES OF INSHORE CRAFT THE DISCOVERY Basil Greenhill & Julian

Aaron Saunders

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Mannering

John McGrath & Mark Barton

In this new book, the author showcases the most influential cruise ships of the last three decades beginning with Royal Caribbean’s ground-breaking Sovereign of the Seas. The reader is taken aboard thirty of the most spectacular ships.

The ship had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986; this book tells the story of that chequered history. The Royal Geographical Society proposed a National Antarctic Expedition and the Discovery was designed.

This now classic reference work describes more than 200 types of traditional working vessel which once fished and traded around our coasts. Detailed descriptions of the types, along with stunning photographs are supplied by a team of twelve experts.

This new publication is intended to bring together a mass of research dealing with all aspects of British naval swords. For the first time, the complete story of swords and swordsmanship is presented in one concise volume.

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New techniques in resin casting and photo-etched brass have transformed the humble kit, resultingin a new form of the hobby, mid-way between traditional build-from-the-box and the time consuming demands of fabricating everything from scratch. The innovative techniques now required are demonstrated in this new manual.

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HISTORICAL FICTION

TIGER COMMAND THE PEENEMUNDE Bob Carruthers DECEPTIONS Based on a true story of combat on the Russian Front, this powerful new novel tells the gripping saga of how the Tiger tank was born and a legend forged in the heat of combat. Gritty, intense and breath-taking in its detail, this sprawling epic captures the reality of the lives and deaths of the tank crews fighting for survival on the Eastern Front.

Jim McDermott

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Peenemünde: windswept corner of the Third Reich and birthplace of the space age. Otto Fischer, a severely wounded Luftwaffe officer and former criminal investigator, is summoned to solve a seemingly incomprehensible case: the murder of a leading rocket engineer during a devastating air-raid.

ROYALIST REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER Anita Seymour

THREADS OF TREASON

The real-life historical figure of Elizabeth Murray serves as the novels central protagonist; Countess Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, she inhabited Ham House, a Jacobean mansion built on the River Thames at Petersham. Wielding a great deal of influence due to her elevated position, she found herself right at the heart of the action.

David Kent-Lemon

Mary Bale

David Kent-Lemon presents us here with a fast paced and dynamic narrative, exploring a fascinating, dramatic and less well known corner of that extraordinary conflict – the American Civil War. The characters are finely drawn, with the balance between deceit and morality offset by courage and humour.

When two of the nuns creating the Bayeux Tapestry fall from the tower of the Priory of St Thomas the Apostle, Abbess Eleanor and her protégé, Therese, are sent to investigate. The violent and mysterious deaths stir up a spirit of mistrust and suspicion amongst all those cloistered within the confines of the Priory.

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TAPPING HITLER'S GENERALS Edited by Sönke Neitzel In this extraordinary work Professor Neitzel examines these transcripts in depth for the first time. His findings are truly revealing and address important questions regarding the officers’ attitudes towards the German leadership and Nazi policies.

SPARTA AT WAR Dr Scott M Rusch Scott Rusch examines what is known of the history of Sparta, from the settlement of the city to her defeat at Theban hands, focusing upon military campaigns and the strategic circumstances that drove them.

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BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1889-1904

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GALLEY SLAVE Jean Marteilhe The first in the series, Galley Slave, is a compellingaccount of the miseries of a Huguenot slave whowas condemned to the French galley fleet at thebeginning of the 18th century.

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WHALE HUNTER

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CAPTAIN’S WIFE FROM FORECASTLE TO abby jane morrell CABIN A woman’s view of a male-

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