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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
Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground by Nigel Steel
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
In the autumn of 1917, after years of stalemate at Ypres, the British and French armies launched a massive offensive to take Passchendaele Ridge. Following an intensive bombardment the Allies began their attack, but the low ground between the lines had been churned into a quagmire, and the attack was li ...Show more
Prisoner of the Turnip Heads by George Wright-Nooth
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
Police officer George Wright-Nooth spent four years incarcerated in the Japanese Military Internment Camp at Stanley. Extracts from the diary he kept, miraculously never discovered by his imprisoners, and accounts from fellow prisoners, make up much of this tale of human endurance.
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
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Category: MILITARY HISTORY | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air Force in aerobatics displays, played rugby for Harleq ...Show more
Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War by Ian Dear
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
In this title, 13 special operations by British and American agents is told in gripping detail.
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 Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
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Category: MILITARY HISTORY | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of World War II. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942 the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that fo ...Show more