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The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German Officer

The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German...

Author: Alexander Pfeifer ,  Philipp Cross
ISBN: 9781068609824
Format: Hardback
$81.81

The Other Trench is about an officer within one of the most prestigious battalions of the Imperial German Army....  Read More >>

The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Author: Jon Ronson
ISBN: 9781035039227
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier

Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier

Author: Jamie Pennell
ISBN: 9781775542384
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the...  Read More >>

Dark Skies over Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg, Resistance and Rescue of the Hungarian Jews, 1944–1945

Dark Skies over Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg, Resistance...

Author: Jane Davis ,  Gellert Hardi-Kovacs
ISBN: 9781800792814
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg became an important...  Read More >>

1965: Courage Unleashed, Short Stories of the Indo-Pak War

1965: Courage Unleashed, Short Stories of the Indo-Pak...

Author: Ian Cardozo
ISBN: 9780143460374
Format: Paperback
$62.04

This account highlights the human dimension of war through the dramatic personal experiences of army and air force...  Read More >>

The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes: The Death of the Sixth Army

The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes: The Death...

Author: Jonathan Trigg
ISBN: 9781398119635
Format: Paperback
$31.02

New paperback edition - Reveals the human agony behind such statistics through the words of the Germans who were...  Read More >>

The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century

The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st...

Author: Kenneth F. McKenzie ,  James N. Mattis
ISBN: 9781682474495
Format: Hardback
$62.99

As the Commander of US Central Command, General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important - and controversial...  Read More >>

Un Dia En La Vida de Abed Salama

Un Dia En La Vida de Abed Salama

Author: Nathan Thrall ,  Antonio Ungar
ISBN: 9788433924308
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Author: Walter Howell
ISBN: 9781496850768
Format: Hardback
$64.99

Part biography and part military history, Fallen Comrade examines what happened to three young men from Clinton,...  Read More >>

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the...

Author: Charlotte A. Lerg
ISBN: 9781805393429
Format: Paperback
$72.32

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense...  Read More >>

Live. Fight. Survive.: An ex-British soldier’s account of courage, resistance and defiance fighting for Ukraine against Russia

Live. Fight. Survive.: An ex-British soldier’s account...

Author: Shaun Pinner
ISBN: 9781405959773
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The extraordinary recount of one man's experience in the Ukrainian war and his miraculous escape from Russian imprisonment...  Read More >>

Home Front Wickham: the story of a family home and a wartime village in the 1930s and 40s

Home Front Wickham: the story of a family home and a...

Author: David Warwick
ISBN: 9781915067463
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Wickham, 1939: as a nation prepares for war, Wentworth House opens its doors ... For young David, his childhood...  Read More >>

Napoleón (Spanish Edition)

Napoleón (Spanish Edition)

Author: Stendhal ,  HENRI BEYLE
ISBN: 9788491054108
Format: Paperback
$47.39

La biografía de una de las grandes figuras históricas de Europa, de la mano de un escritor excepcional, Stendhal....  Read More >>

Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales

Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales

Author: Aldo Kane
ISBN: 9781529350753
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Aldo Kane is an adventurer and World Record Holder with over 20 years' experience working in some of the most extreme,...  Read More >>

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Author: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780008454265
Format: Paperback
$26.99

‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An...  Read More >>

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets...

Author: Burkhard Bilger
ISBN: 9780008100773
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this ""unflinching, gorgeously written,...  Read More >>

Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds.

Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold...

Author: Harrison Christian
ISBN: 9781761153938
Format: Paperback
$26.99

This is the untold story of a remote garrison of Allied soldiers on New Guinea during WWII who stood up to the Japanese...  Read More >>

Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War

Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War...

Author: George Butler ,  George Butler
ISBN: 9781529514087
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Over the course of a year after the Russian invasion, award-winning artist George Butler drew portraits of Ukrainians...  Read More >>

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the...

Author: Carol R. Byerly
ISBN: 9780817361426
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Offers a long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas.  Read More >>

Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II

Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and...

Author: Robert P. Patterson ,  Brian Waddell
ISBN: 9781621908999
Format: Paperback
$92.27

In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author’s papers and originally...  Read More >>

MacArthur and West Point: How the General and the Academy Shaped Each Other

MacArthur and West Point: How the General and the Academy...

Author: Sherman L. Fleek
ISBN: 9781648431890
Format: Hardback
$91.30

Few figures loom larger in the story of the United States Military Academy at West Point—or in US military history...  Read More >>

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the...

Author: Carol R. Byerly
ISBN: 9780817321932
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Offers a long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas.  Read More >>

de Nuestros Hermanos Heridos

de Nuestros Hermanos Heridos

Author: Joseph Andras ,  alex Gibert
ISBN: 9788433924087
Format: Paperback
$57.95

La literatura contra el olvido. La historia real del únicoápied noiráejecutado por el gobierno francés durante la...  Read More >>

American Gold in Post-Second World War Taiwan: The Forgotten Free China

American Gold in Post-Second World War Taiwan: The Forgotten...

Author: Wu Sing-yung
ISBN: 9781036404642
Format: Hardback
$401.15

This book documents the financial transaction of U.S. gold in Taiwan. This gold played a pivotal role in enabling...  Read More >>

The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban

The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save...

Author: Andy McNab
ISBN: 9781802796896
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012...  Read More >>

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