True war & combat stories books

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Author: Ishmal Beah
ISBN: 9780374105235
Format: Hardback
$63.36

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This Soldier Life: The Diaries of Romine H. Ostrander, 1863 and 1865, in Colorado Territory

This Soldier Life: The Diaries of Romine H. Ostrander,...

Author: Paul A. Malkoski
ISBN: 9780942576511
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Romine Ostrander, born in 1837, had made his way to Colorado as a private in the First Colorado Cavalry. On 26 February...  Read More >>

Fix Bayonets!: A Royal Welch Fusilier at War, 1796-1815

Fix Bayonets!: A Royal Welch Fusilier at War, 1796-1815...

Author: Donald E Graves
ISBN: 9781896941271
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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The Joker: 20 Years Inside the SAS

The Joker: 20 Years Inside the SAS

Author: Peter Scholey
ISBN: 9780233002057
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Pete Scholey, ex Royal Artillery and Parachute Regiment, possessed the necessary mix of courage and coolness under...  Read More >>

The Girl in the Check Coat

The Girl in the Check Coat

Author: Robert S. Wistrich
ISBN: 9780853036357
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Christine Winecki is a Holocaust child survivor. Here, she presents the story of her life, starting with the fond...  Read More >>

Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as ‘Schindler's List'

Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed...

Author: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9780340936290
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller  Read More >>

Time at War

Time at War

Author: Nicholas Mosley
ISBN: 9781564784568
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Aged twenty, and with no war experience, Nicholas Mosley found himself in charge of a platoon of men positioned...  Read More >>

Soldier Stories: True Tales of Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice from the Frontlines

Soldier Stories: True Tales of Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice...

Author: Joe L. Wheeler
ISBN: 9780849912177
Format: Paperback
$15.99

Soldier Stories' true, soul-stirring accounts of those who have risen to the challenge of unimaginable circumstances...  Read More >>

The Grand Prix Saboteurs: The Grand Prix Drivers Who Became British Secret Agents During World War II

The Grand Prix Saboteurs: The Grand Prix Drivers Who...

Author: Joe Saward
ISBN: 9780955486807
Format: Paperback
$65.97

WWII secret agents and racing cars  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: 9781904943617
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Born in Hatfield but raised in Eire and educated at Eton and Cranwell, early 1940 found Tim Vigors in France flying...  Read More >>

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French...

Author: Fred Anderson ,  Scott R. Stephenson
ISBN: 9780143038047
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The companion volume to a major PBS documentary series is a vivid look at arguably the most pivotal war in early...  Read More >>

I am Love: From Nothing... to All Things

I am Love: From Nothing... to All Things

Author: Reimar A. C. Schultze
ISBN: 9780972441117
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Scottish Voices From the Great War

Scottish Voices From the Great War

Author: Derek Young
ISBN: 9780752439501
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Scotland's response to the Great War has, up until now, largely been marginalized or ignored.  Read More >>

Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII

Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of...

Author: Patrick Agte
ISBN: 9780811733342
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Barely two months after leaving the Eastern Front, Michael Wittmann and the Leibstandarte found themselves in Normandy...  Read More >>

Staying Alive

Staying Alive

Author: Alexander Fullerton ,  Nicolette Mckenzie
ISBN: 9781845595869
Format: Audio
$263.87

* The prequel to Alexander Fullerton's popular SOE quartet - Rosie's first mission in France . . .  Read More >>

Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq

Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun...

Author: James Ashcroft
ISBN: 9781852273118
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In September 2003, James Ashcroft, a former British Infantry captain, landed in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was...  Read More >>

To Save a Life: STORIES of HOLOCAUST RESCUE

To Save a Life: STORIES of HOLOCAUST RESCUE

Author: Ellen Land-Weber
ISBN: 9780252074028
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, this work pairs the stories of a handful...  Read More >>

Deadly Carousel: A Singer's Story of the Second World War

Deadly Carousel: A Singer's Story of the Second World...

Author: Gabriel Tamman
ISBN: 9780853037002
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Vali Racz was a successful singer and film actress. Since she was safely Aryan, the Nazis represented no particular...  Read More >>

The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Iraqi Lines

The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Iraqi Lines...

Author: Chris Ryan
ISBN: 9781597970082
Format: Paperback
$23.63

The British Army's SAS is recognised as one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War,...  Read More >>

Carve Her Name with Pride

Carve Her Name with Pride

Author: R.,J. Minney
ISBN: 9781844154418
Format: Paperback
$44.85

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Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs

Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary...

Author: Don Whitehead ,  John B. Romeiser
ISBN: 9780823226757
Format: Hardback
$71.99

John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily...  Read More >>

Staying Alive

Staying Alive

Author: Alexander Fullerton ,  Nicolette Mckenzie
ISBN: 9781845594145
Format: Audio
$237.47

* The prequel to Alexander Fullerton's popular SOE quartet - Rosie's first mission in France...  Read More >>

Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45

Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45

Author: Catherine Merridale
ISBN: 9780571218097
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A powerful, groundbreaking new book on the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history  Read More >>

Letters from the Front Lines: Iraq & Afghanistan

Letters from the Front Lines: Iraq & Afghanistan

Author: Rear Admiral Rear Admiral Stuart Franklin Platt, (USN Ret'd) ,  Duffrey Sigurdson
ISBN: 9781894694483
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Presents an account of the lives and experiences of Americans at War in Iraq and Afghanistan. This collection of...  Read More >>

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