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Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Collier's chronicle of the Battle of Britain, drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts from RAF and Luftwaffe combatants, gives a compelling account of history in the making. Over the English Channel, across southern Britain, and into the heart of the savagely fought confrontation, go where the commanders ...Show more
Escape or Die - True Stories of Heroic Escapes by Paul Brickhill (ed)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is matched only by that of the underground movements and ordinary civilians who helped the escapees. From the Spitfire pilot who was left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to the air gunner who enlisted the help of a pro ...Show more
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The Zulu kingdom established by King Shaka was robust and self-sufficient, but royal rivalries and newly arrived white colonialists made it a bloody period that shaped the face of modern Africa. This much-deserved, detailed depiction of day-to-day combat during nine of the most influential battles--from ...Show more
Gunboat! - Small Ships at War by Bryan Perrett
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Britain, like other colonial powers, established, controlled and accessed her empire from the seas. It was realised that the preservation of secure trading conditions required armed ships able to operate in shallow coastal and river waters. The gunboat was developed to meet this need: a small, shallow-d ...Show more
The Battle of Britain : Dowding and the First Victory, 1940 by John Ray
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences.
The Berlin Raids - RAF Bomber Command Winter, 1943-44 by Martin Middlebrook
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The Battle of Berlin was the longest, most sustained offensive against a single target, and its merits remain a subject of debate even today. Here is the story behind these costly raids-- including crucial tactical shifts within the R.A.F.-- and month-by-month coverage of the most important runs. Based ...Show more
The Bruneval Raid: Stealing Hitler's Radar by Millar, George
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
312 pages One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that they knew exactly how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the British had attacked and destroyed the who ...Show more
The Puppet Masters Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by John Hughes-Wilson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officer John Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us 'behind the scenes' of military and political events from Elizabeth I to Osama ...Show more
The War of the Running Dogs: Malaya 1948-1960 by Noel Barber
$24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY HISTORY | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly strugg ...Show more
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