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Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: a WAAF’s Diary

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World...
Author: Joan Rice ISBN: 9780007228218 Format: Paperback	$19.99
A moving and personal account of a young woman’s experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim... Read More >>

90 Day Wonder: Darkness Remembered

90 Day Wonder: Darkness Remembered
Author: Leon Cooper , Don Tait ISBN: 9780979058417 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Leon Cooper, the young Naval officer manages to have repeated confrontations with the ship's Commanding Officer.... Read More >>

On the Raft: The Holocaust - Survival and Reconciliation

On the Raft: The Holocaust - Survival and Reconciliation...
Author: John D. Dohmlo , Claude Abraham ISBN: 9781885184030 Format: Hardback	$52.67
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18 Hours: The True Story Of A Modern Day Australian SAS War Hero

18 Hours: The True Story Of A Modern Day Australian...
Author: Sandra Lee ISBN: 9780732282462 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the US-led military offensive to flush out Al Qaeda... Read More >>

D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France

D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France
Author: Frank 'Dutch' Holland , Adam Wilkins ISBN: 9781904943938 Format: Hardback	$105.47
The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon... Read More >>

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919...
Author: R.B. Fleming ISBN: 9781554580002 Format: Hardback	$121.31
Shows how the young men viewed the war, as well as what they observed both during training and from the trenches... Read More >>

Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama

Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan...
Author: John C. Carter ISBN: 9780817315214 Format: Hardback	$136.62
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Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry

Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of...
Author: Robert Patrick Bender ISBN: 9780817315528 Format: Hardback	$105.47
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Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter

Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob...
Author: John Robert Slaughter , Alex Kershaw ISBN: 9780760331415 Format: Hardback	$71.15
John Robert Slaughter enlisted aged sixteen with the National Guard as a career soldier. Just twenty at the end... Read More >>

The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the...
Author: Leonard V. Smith ISBN: 9780801445231 Format: Hardback	$105.47
How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves... Read More >>

Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq

Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven...
Author: Richard Lowry ISBN: 9780425215296 Format: Paperback	$42.24
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The Greater Share of Honour

The Greater Share of Honour
Author: Kim James ISBN: 9781905886692 Format: Paperback	$73.79
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Battlefield Afghanistan

Battlefield Afghanistan
Author: Mike Ryan ISBN: 9781862273900 Format: Paperback	$39.95
From interviews with his numerous contacts among the coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan, Mike Ryan has done... Read More >>

The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas: A Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-1945

The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas: A Firsthand Account of...
Author: Emily Van Sickle ISBN: 9780897335546 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Emily and husband Charles Van Sickle were trapped in Manila after its surrender to the Japanese in 1942. They were... Read More >>

From Pusan to Panmunjon (M)

From Pusan to Panmunjon (M)
Author: Paik Sun Yup , Matthew B. Ridgway ISBN: 9781574887433 Format: Paperback	$23.63
This is the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the soldier who, at the age of just 32, became South Korea's... Read More >>

My Hitch in Hell

My Hitch in Hell
Author: Lester I. Tenney , James B. Stockdale ISBN: 9781574888065 Format: Paperback	$23.63
Captured by the Japanese after the Philippines fell, Lester Tenney was among the few to survive the legendary Bataan... Read More >>

Stories of Service: Valley Veterans Remember World War II

Stories of Service: Valley Veterans Remember World War...
Author: Janice Stevens ISBN: 9781933502083 Format: Paperback	$65.87
A compilation of 76 World War II veterans' recollections presents an array of stories from the major theatres of... Read More >>

Hard as Nails: The Sportsmen's Battalion of World War One

Hard as Nails: The Sportsmen's Battalion of World War...
Author: Michael Foley ISBN: 9781862274068 Format: Hardback	$49.95
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Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F.

Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain...
Author: Marjorie Barron N , Harold W. McGill ISBN: 9781552381939 Format: Paperback	$72.60
The World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary... Read More >>

Zigzag: The incredible wartime exploits of double agent Eddie Chapman

Zigzag: The incredible wartime exploits of double agent...
Author: Nicholas Booth ISBN: 9780749951542 Format: Paperback	$42.99
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Carlos: A Tale of Survival

Carlos: A Tale of Survival
Author: J.L. Kunkle ISBN: 9780979682216 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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After Auschwitz: One Man's Story

After Auschwitz: One Man's Story
Author: Hermann Gruenwald , Bryan Demchinsky ISBN: 9780773532427 Format: Hardback	$105.47
The extraordinary life of Hermann Gruenwald, Hungarian Jew, Shoah survivor, and Canadian businessman - a life that... Read More >>

Mission Accomplished: The Engaging Memoir of a Czech Fighter Pilot Flying for Britain in World War Two

Mission Accomplished: The Engaging Memoir of a Czech...
Author: Frank Mares ISBN: 9781904943822 Format: Hardback	$105.47
Appalled at the German occupation of his homeland in 1939, Frank Mares determined to assist his country in their... Read More >>

Heroes Of The SAS: True Stories Of The British Army's Elite Special Forces Regiment

Heroes Of The SAS: True Stories Of The British Army's...
Author: Barry Davies, B.E.M. ISBN: 9780753512470 Format: Paperback	$32.99
The riveting true stories of the men of Britain's Special Forces revealing what it's really like being a member... Read More >>

Last Waltz in Vienna

Last Waltz in Vienna
Author: George Clare ISBN: 9780330490771 Format: Paperback	$36.83
A beautiful book: a fascinating piece of history' Beryl Bainbridge Read More >>

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