Historia ja muistelmat
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Commando Tactics
Bull, StephenPen and SwordBritish commandos are among the most celebrated soldiers of the Second World War. Their daring, ingenuity and bravery have given rise to an almost legendary reputation that makes i...
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Convoy SC122 and HX229
Middlebrook, MartinPen and SwordWinston Churchill wrote, “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.” Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, th...
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Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo
Glover, GarethPen and SwordThe journals of the Honourable James Stanhope are among the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and yet they have never been publi...
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Hitler
Norman, AndrewPen and SwordWritten by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the pseudo-science of Liebenfels and o...
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Polygon Wood
Cave, NigelPen and SwordThis wood featured significantly in the First and Third Battles of Ypres and was the scene of numerous deeds of heroism, such as that which won young Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bent...
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Renegade Hero
Higston, MichaelPen and SwordCold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. He was a ‘go anywhere, do anything,’ Royal Air Force pilot with a reputation for ‘sheer guts’. Whether ferrying troops to rem...
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Retreat and Rearguard 1914
Murland, JerryPen and SwordThe British action at Mons on 23 August 1914 was the catalyst for what became a full blown retreat over 200 blood drenched miles. This book examines eighteen of the desperate rear...
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Retreat and Retribution in Afghanistan 1842
Kekewich, MargaretPen and SwordThe blow to British pride and confidence caused by the crushing defeat of their army in Afghanistan during the winter of 1841/2 compares in its impact to the disaster in New York o...
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Stalingrad to Kursk
Jukes, GeoffreyPen and SwordThe epic battles fought at Stalingrad and Kursk were pivotal events in the war on the Eastern Front. After the catastrophic failure of the German offensives of 1942 and 1943, the W...
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The Crimean War at Sea
Duckers, PeterPen and SwordToo often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the...
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Up to Mametz and Beyond
Wyn Griffith, LlewelynPen and SwordLlewelyn Wyn Griffith’s Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the crea...
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War of the White Death
Irincheev, BairPen and SwordOn 30 November 1939 Stalin’s Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing ups...
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Wellington Against Junot
Buttery, DavidPen and SwordThe first French invasion of Portugal in 1807 - which was commanded by Junot, one of Napoleon's most experienced generals - was a key event in the long, brutal Peninsular War. It w...
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Women Wartime Spies
Krame, AnnPen and SwordFrom Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stere...
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Beneath the Waves
Evans, A.S.Pen and SwordSince the beginning of the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1901, 173 submarines have been lost and in many circumstances with their entire crew. War inevitably takes a heavy toll:...
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A Field Marshal in the Family
Montgomery, BrianPen and SwordField Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain co...
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Great Battles of the Great War
Skelding, Ed; Stedman, MichaelPen and SwordLinking with a six part television programme (to be shown on ITV in November) covering the history of Gallipoli, The Somme and Ypres this book combines contemporary imagery with at...
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The Battle for Burma
Conyers Nesbit, RoyPen and SwordThe struggle of British, Commonwealth and American-Chinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threate...
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Secret Channel to Berlin
Braunschweig, Pierre Th.CasemateThis book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The a...
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The Sterling Years
Edmiston, JamesPen and SwordThis is the story of the manufacture, development and usage of one of the most famous submachine Guns ever produced by a British Firm Designed at the end of WW2 it saw limited use...