Sassoon's Long Journey - An Illustrated Selection from the Sherston Memoirs by Siegfried Sassoon; Paul Fussell
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1967 : Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev
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1967 did not mark the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was a year that changed the course of history. When Egypt's President Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli navigation, it triggered a conflict between Israel and the armies of Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Within six days th ...Show more
1914-1918 : The History of the First World War by David Stevenson
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In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow. In this major ...Show more
England's Last War Against France : Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith
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Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. It went on for over two years and cost several thousand lives. Under ...Show more
The First World War : Volume 1 - To Arms by Hew Strachan
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This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultu ...Show more
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
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The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the wa ...Show more
Sahib : The British Soldier in India by Richard Holmes
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From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown.
Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great by Andrew D. Lambert
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From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book s ...Show more
Decisive Battles of World War II : The German View by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and Jurgen Rohwer
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The Boer War by Denis Judd; Keith Surridge
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The Boer War was an epic both of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism. It had an extraordinary cast of characters - not only leading men like Churchill, Kruger, Rhodes and Kitchener, but minor characters from Conan Doyle and Kipling to Gandhi, Chief Dinizulu and Hector Fighting Mac MacDonald. The ...Show more
The Book of War - 25 Centuries of Great War Writing by John Keegan
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Acclaimed military historian John Keegan's anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants--from Thucydides' classic account o ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
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DoP - November 2008 With over a million casualties, the Somme was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July ...Show more