Historia ja muistelmat
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Blood in the Trenches
Dugmore, A. RadclyffePen and SwordWritten by Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore of the King's Own Light Infantry, this personal memoir provides an excellent account of the Great War up to the Battle of the Somme. A wide...
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I Escape!
Hardy, J.L.Pen and SwordOf all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be...
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Nelson's Mediterranean Command
Orde, DenisPen and SwordIn 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte, who was all but Master of Europe, assembled a formidable expeditionary force at Toulon. While its purpose was unknown there was every reason to believe...
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Follow me! I Will Lead You!
Laurie, George BrentonPen and Sword'Follow me! I will lead you!' were the last words of Lt. Col. George Brenton Laurie, who commanded the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles and was killed at Neuve Chapelle in March, 1...
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Wellington in the Great War
Owen, Christopher W.A.Pen and SwordHow the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity...
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Chichester in the Great War
Eddleston, John J.Pen and SwordTangmere Airfield had a prominent role in the Air War from 1916 onwards and many local men joined the Royal Sussex Regiment. This book looks at how the experience of war impacted o...
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The Polish Underground 1939-1947
Williamson, David G.Pen and SwordThe Polish partisan army, the largest in Europe, fought with extraordinary tenacity against the Wehrmacht during the Warsaw Uprising. This was the most famous manifestation of orga...
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Abandon Ship!
McCrum, TonyPen and SwordCaptain Tony McCrum’s naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salern...
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Airway to the East 1918-1920
Semple, ClivePen and SwordThe origins of what became officially known as No 1 Aerial Route lay in the newly formed Royal Air Force’s desire to move several squadrons of the then recently designed first heav...
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Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes
Drabkin, Artem; Summerville, Christopher; Isaev, AlexeiPen and Sword22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the G...
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Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz
Cooper, Alan W.Pen and SwordFirst published to acclaim in 1983, this book is set to impact upon the book-buying public, eager for accounts of this period of World War history. Relaying the later operations of...
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Birmingham Pals
Carter, TerryPen and SwordIn the summer of 1914, our finest young men flocked to the colors in Northern towns and cities to answer Lord Kitchener’s ‘Call to Arms’ in a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm and pa...
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Conjuror on the Kwai
Fyans, PeterPen and SwordThe Conjuror on the Kwai is the incredibly moving story of Gus Anckorn, a British soldier who was captured by the Japanese and held for over three and a half years. Before the war,...
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Ceawlin
Mathews, RupertPen and SwordIn this book Rupert Matthews puts forward his ground breaking new theories on the collapse of the post-Roman order in Britain and the formation of England. Drawing on newly analyze...
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Combat Over Korea
Chinnery, PhilipPen and SwordCombat Over Korea offers a superb selection of thrilling accounts by Allied airmen of their experiences. These include air combat between fighters, a B29 Superfortress bomber ditc...
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Confessions of a Eurosceptic
Heathcoat-Amory, DavidPen and SwordFew are better placed to write on the United Kingdom’s relations with the European Union than David Heathcoat-Amory. As a Member of Parliament, Minister of State and Privy Counsel...
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Expedition to Disaster
Matyszak, PhilipPen and SwordThe Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta fo...
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Fortress Kent
Ingleton, RoyPen and SwordSince the dawn of civilization, Britain has been menaced by foreign powers and invasive hordes, anxious either to pillage and plunder or to invade and rule over this green and plea...
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Jocks in the Jungle
Thorburn, GordonPen and SwordIn 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. Some of the Black Watch...
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Luck of the Devil
le Page, RobertPen and SwordRobert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats...