True war & combat stories books

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Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic Of Escape, Survival, And Victory

Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic Of Escape, Survival, And...

Author: David Howarth
ISBN: 9781599213224
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Gripping true tale how of men who patrolled by dogsleds a stark 500-mile stretch of Greenland fought capture or...  Read More >>

Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox

Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II...

Author: Steve Pitt
ISBN: 9781550028089
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Author Steve Pitt examines the life of Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, who attacked famed German General...  Read More >>

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign

Author: General Cavalie Mercer
ISBN: 9781845883782
Format: Paperback
$33.61

An account of the role played by G Troop, Royal Horse Artillery in military campaign of Waterloo in 1815. This book...  Read More >>

The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Eugene P. Wilkinson, USN (Ret.): 1918-2013

The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Eugene P. Wilkinson,...

Author: Paul L Stillwell, USNR (Ret.) ,  Eugene P. Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781682692677
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Based on five interviews conducted by Paul Stillwell in January 1998, the volume contains 436 pages of interview...  Read More >>

Boldness Be My Friend

Boldness Be My Friend

Author: Richard Pape
ISBN: 9780755316267
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Honour and the Shame

The Honour and the Shame

Author: John Kenneally Vc
ISBN: 9780755316120
Format: Paperback
$26.99

One of the Remarkable True Stories of WWII series. A tale of a fascinating life of courage, wild escapades and a...  Read More >>

And Direction Was Given: A Daring Escape from a POW Camp and a Dramatic Journey to Neutral Switzerland

And Direction Was Given: A Daring Escape from a POW...

Author: Alan John Flederman
ISBN: 9781847480026
Format: Paperback
$26.27

In the dying days of World War II, Alan Flederman was a POW in Italy. As the Allies advanced, there was an ever-present...  Read More >>

Sniper One: ‘The Best I’ve Ever Read’ – Andy McNab

Sniper One: ‘The Best I’ve Ever Read’ – Andy McNab

Author: Dan Mills
ISBN: 9780141029016
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Suitable for those who have read the American Sniper, this title takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war....  Read More >>

Hitler's Irishmen

Hitler's Irishmen

Author: Terence O'Reilly
ISBN: 9781856355896
Format: Paperback
$76.43

The remarkable story of two Irish men, captured in Jersey, who found themselves fighting for the Germans on the...  Read More >>

Life's Too Short to Cry: The Compelling Memoir of a Battle of Britain Ace

Life's Too Short to Cry: The Compelling Memoir of a...

Author: Tim Vigors
ISBN: 9781904943815
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Educated at Eton and Cranwell, 1940 found Tim Vigors flying Spitfires and seeing frantic and distinguished service...  Read More >>

Ten Fighter Boys

Ten Fighter Boys

Author: Wing Commander Athol Forbes, D.F.C. ,  Squadron Leader Hubert Allen, D.F.C.
ISBN: 9780007236930
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The extraordinary stories of ten fighter pilots, told in their very own words during the Second World War.  Read More >>

Faith, Hope and Malta: Ground and Air Heroes of the George Cross Island

Faith, Hope and Malta: Ground and Air Heroes of the...

Author: Tony Spooner
ISBN: 9780907579588
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Ground and air heroes of the George Cross island. Personal stories from those who were there.  Read More >>

Tobruk

Tobruk

Author: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9780732286316
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told...  Read More >>

A River Kwai Story: The Sonkrai Tribunal

A River Kwai Story: The Sonkrai Tribunal

Author: Robin Rowland
ISBN: 9781741144222
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In 1946 seven former guards from the infamous River Kwai camp were put on trial for their lives before a military...  Read More >>

Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler

Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien,...

Author: Tobey C. Herzog
ISBN: 9781587296314
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Four midwestern Americans coming of age during the 1960s faced a difficult personal decision - whether or not to...  Read More >>

Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir

Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir

Author: Haider Ala Hamoudi
ISBN: 9780825305481
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Flak: True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War Two

Flak: True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War...

Author: Michael Veitch
ISBN: 9780330424080
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person...  Read More >>

A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings (LOA #181): The Road Back to Paris / Mollie and Other War Pieces /  Uncollected War Journalism / Normandy Revisited

A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings (LOA #181): The...

Author: Pete Hamill
ISBN: 9781598530186
Format: Hardback
$105.60

One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, Liebling found his greatest subject...  Read More >>

The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Gerald E. Miller, USN (Ret.): 1919-2014

The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Gerald E. Miller, USN...

Author: Vice Adm. Gerald E. Miller, USN (Ret.) ,  John T. Mason
ISBN: 9781682691748
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Based on four interviews conducted by John T. Mason Jr., from January through April 1976, the volume contains 417...  Read More >>

Chance

Chance

Author: Anne Metikosh
ISBN: 9781897126202
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead,...  Read More >>

American Warrior: A Combat Memoir of Vietnam

American Warrior: A Combat Memoir of Vietnam

Author: Wess Roberts ,  John C Bahnsen
ISBN: 9780806528076
Format: Hardback
$44.75

One of the greatest soldiers from the Vietnam War era sets the record straight.  Read More >>

On the   Frontline

On the Frontline

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN: 9781844545100
Format: Hardback
$92.27

After 9/11, the British forces were called upon to by the government to engage new enemies in faraway lands. Spearheading...  Read More >>

For King And Country: Voices from the First World War

For King And Country: Voices from the First World War...

Author: Brian MacArthur
ISBN: 9780316027434
Format: Hardback
$100.19

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While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War

While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical...

Author: Ian Bruce Robertson
ISBN: 9781425135126
Format: Paperback
$60.72

The thrilling true story of a field surgical unit in World War II. With no helicopters to move wounded soldiers...  Read More >>

A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier

A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier

Author: Ishmael Beah
ISBN: 9780007247097
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.  Read More >>

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