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Helion & Company Portuguese Dragoons, 1966-1974: The Return to
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£16.10
Helion & Company Paradise Afire Volume 2: The Sri Lankan War,
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£16.10
Helion & Company Emperor'S Own: Ethiopian Forces in the Korean
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£17.95
Helion & Company They Fought with Extraordinary Bravery!: The III
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£21.25
Helion & Company So Bloody a Day: The 16th Light Dragoons in the Waterloo Campaign
£25.46
Helion & Company Battle for Cassinga: South Africa's Controversial
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£16.10
Helion & Company Congo Unravelled: Military Operations from
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£16.10
Helion & Company Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear
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£16.10
Helion & Company Tito'S Underground Air Base: Bihac (Zeljava)
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£16.10
Helion & Company Hunt for the U-2: Interceptions of Lockheed U-2
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£16.10
Helion & Company The Rescue They Called a Raid: The Jameson
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£21.25
Key Publishing Ltd THE PARAS IN IRAQ: Operation Telic 1
Book SynopsisFor Operation Telic, the 2003 campaign in Iraq, the UK was the junior partner alongside their American allies but still contributed a substantial force. This was based around the 1st Armoured Division consisting of 7th Armoured Brigade, 16 Air Assault Brigade and 102 Logistics Brigade, with the Marines of 3 Commando Brigade under command. This photographic diary concentrates on 16 Air Assault Brigade's two parachute battalions, 1 and 3 Para. Beginning with the invasion and operations in the southern oilfields, the story follows 3 Para's successful entry into Basrah, before the action switches to 1 Para and a move to Baghdad to secure the British Embassy. This is followed by a look at life at the Embassy and on patrol in the city before 3 Para's return south. Written by a media escort and photographer with 3 Para, who was himself a Para for 23 years and continued to serve as a reservist, this book shows how paratroopers looked and fought during the campaign. Illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, it shows the reality of British forces in a modern-day war, with insights into the Parachute Regiment's equipment and operations.
£14.24
Helion & Company Ripe for Rebellion: Insurgency and Covert War in
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£17.95
Helion & Company Into the Iron Triangle: Operation Attleboro and
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£16.10
Helion & Company Operation Danube: Soviet and Warsaw Pact
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£16.10
Helion & Company Tsar Bomba: Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs,
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£19.62
Helion & Company Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955: Volume
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£17.95
Helion & Company Paulista War Volume 2: The Last Civil War in Brazil, 1932
£17.95
Helion & Company Italy, Piedmont & the War of the Spanish
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£29.75
Helion & Company Austrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and
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£29.75
Helion & Company Battle for Angola: The End of the Cold War in
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£31.50
Helion & Company The Secret Expedition: The Anglo-Russian Invasion
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£25.46
Helion & Company Riflemen: The History of the 5th Battalion, 60th
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£25.46
Helion & Company French Light Infantry 1784-1815: From the
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£25.46
Helion & Company These Distinguished Corps: British Grenadier and
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£21.25
Helion & Company The Zulu Kingdom and the Boer Invasion of
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£22.50
Helion & Company Fit to Command: British Regimental Leadership in
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£25.46
Helion & Company Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest
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£21.25
Helion & Company Waterloo After the Glory: Hospital Sketches and
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£25.46
Helion & Company With My Face to My Bitter Foes: Nana's War
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£29.75
Helion & Company 1805 - Tsar Alexander's First War with Napoleon:
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£21.25
Helion & Company Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in
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£21.25
Helion & Company Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in
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£29.95
Monash University Publishing Don't Mention the War: The Australian Defence
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£15.29
30 Degrees South Publishers Anglo-Boer War (South African War) 1899–1902: A
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£25.16
30 Degrees South Publishers Platoon 3: A mechanised ratel soldiers story
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£19.79
30 Degrees South Publishers The Raw War
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£18.00
Booklocker Inc.,US DMZ Diary: A Combat Marine's Vietnam Memoir
£19.45
Ross & Perry Operation Desert Storm
£29.95
Feral House,U.S. Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
Book SynopsisA Marine officer's innter struggle with turht after coming home from Iraq.
£14.39
Savas Beatie The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from
Book SynopsisThe New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from America’s Greatest Conflict is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, tables, charts, and more than 100 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through Reconstruction.Coverage includes battles and campaigns, the common soldier, technology, weapons, women and minorities at war, hospitals, prisons, generals, the naval war, artillery, and much more. In addition to these important areas, Hughes includes a fascinating section about the Civil War online, including popular blog sites and other Internet resources. Additional reference material in The New Civil War Handbook includes losses in battles, alternate names for battles, major causes of the deaths of Union soldiers (no data exists for Confederates), deaths in POW camps, and other rare information.Civil War buffs will find The New Civil War Handbook to be an invaluable quick reference guide, and one that makes an excellent addition for both the Civil War novice and the Civil War buff.About the Author: Mark Hughes is an electronics instructor widely recognized as the authority on Civil War cemeteries. He has written several books, including Bivouac of the Dead, The Unpublished Roll of Honor, and Confederate Cemeteries (2 vols.). An electronics instructor at Cleveland Community College, Mark, his wife Patty, and their daughter Anna Grace live on the family farm near Kings Mountain, NC.
£12.34
Savas Beatie The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the
Book SynopsisThousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg, but the operation remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Bradley Gottfried’s groundbreaking The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – July 13, 1863 is a unique and thorough study of this multifaceted campaign.The Maps of Gettysburg breaks down the entire operation into thirty map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 144 detailed, full-page colour maps comprising the entire campaign. These cartographic originals bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march to and from the battlefield and virtually every significant event in between. At least two, and as many as twenty, maps accompany each map set. Keyed to each piece of cartography is a full facing page of detailed text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat (including quotes from eyewitnesses) depicted on the accompanying map, all of which makes the Gettysburg story come alive.About the AuthorBradley M. Gottfried, Ph.D., is the President of the College of Southern Maryland. An avid Civil War historian, Dr. Gottfried is the author of five books.
£26.12
Savas Beatie A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution, a war that began with a brief skirmish at Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and concluded on the battlefield at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781. In between were six long years of bitter fighting on land and at sea. The wide variety of combats blanketed the North American continent from Canada to the Southern colonies, from the winding coastal lowlands to the Appalachian Mountains, and from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean. Unlike existing accounts, A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution presents each engagement in a unique way. Each battle entry offers a wide and rich—but consistent—template of information to make it easy for readers to find exactly what they are seeking. Every entry begins with introductory details including the date of the battle, its location, commanders, opposing forces, terrain, weather, and time of day. The detailed body of each entry offers both a Colonial and British perspective of the unfolding military situation, a detailed and unbiased account of what actually transpired, a discussion of numbers and losses, an assessment of the consequences of the battle, and suggestions for further reading. Many of the entries are supported and enriched by original maps and photos. Fresh, scholarly, informative, and entertaining, this book will be welcomed by historians and general enthusiasts everywhere. About the Authors Theodore P. Savas practised law for many years before moving into book publishing. J. David Dameron is retired from the U.S. Army, where he served with the 82nd Airborne Division and 7th Special Forces Group.
£18.21
Orange Frazer Press Blood, Tears, & Glory (Softcover)
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£28.46
State House Press Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower
Book SynopsisConfederate President Jefferson Davis hoped one of his commanders could baffle the enemy in his designs on the Mississippi Valley. Confederate Major General Richard Taylor knew that the only long- term solution to protecting the twin river citadels at Vicksburg and Port Hudson was an active offensive. To that end he had already built a modest but well-supplied army while his powerful Rebel gunboat flotilla grew daily. Taylor just needed time. With the enemy army under General Nathaniel P. Banks fixated east of the Mississippi, Taylor believed he might just see his plans put into action With luck, the Confederate army might regain territory lost in Louisiana and its flag might once against float over New Orleans. The Union army would then have much larger issues to worry about.Taylor had cause to be optimistic. The Federal Army and navy had been trying the direct approach against Vicksburg and Port Hudson with mounting casualties, lost ships, and growing frustration. “There is no use longer deceiving the public, for the Banks expedition is a failure,” wrote a Massachusetts journalist. “Much as I admire Gen. Banks I am forced to admit that he is not the soldier I judged him to be nor the general this department needs.”As Rebel plans matured, time grew short for Union efforts. Banks needed to redeem himself, and his officers suggested an indirect approach west of the Mississippi, working from enclaves captured the previous fall, as the the key to victory. “The Teche county was to the war in Louisiana what the Shenandoah Valley was to the war in Virginia” Captain John William De Forest of the 12th Connecticut Infantry noted. “It was sort of a back alley, parallel to the main street wherein the heavy fighting must go on”. Instead of wasting his army against enemy entrenchments and prepared positions, Banks decided instead to roll up Bayou Teche, destroy Taylor’s small army, and isolate Port Hudson from its groceries. Capturing places like Franklin, New Iberia, Opelousas, and Alexandria, he might even open the possibility of cooperation with the army under General Ulysses S. Grant operating against Vicksburg.Taylor, caught by surprise and beaten to the punch, reacted with typical pugnacity “To retreat without fighting was . . . to abandon Louisiana”, he wrote. Unless his army held its ground, the way across the Pelican State lay open to Union invasion with potentially catastrophic results for the fight for the lower Mississippi River. If Union land and naval forces gained control of the Red River, they would shut off the steady supply of corn, hogs, and beef heading into the forts across the river.In the spring of 1863, the opening act of the final scene of the Mississippi Valley campaign would play out in southwestern Louisiana among the bayous and swamps of the massive Atchafalaya Basin.Donald S. Frazier, author of the award-winning Fire in the Cane Field, expands up his Louisiana Quadrille with the release of book two, Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863. The better known stories of the campaigns for Vicksburg and Port Hudson grow richer and more nuanced by taking a look at the fighting west of the river as part of a larger picture.
£33.96
State House Press Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of
Book SynopsisAward-winning author Donald S. Frazier returns to the field of Civil War history with keen turn of phrase and enthralling story-telling with the release of Fire in the Cane Field: The Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861–January 1863. Beginning with the spasms of secession in the Pelican State, Frazier weaves a stirring tale of bravado, reaction, and war as he describes the consequences of disunion for the hapless citizens of Louisiana. The army and navy campaigns he portrays weave a tale of the Federal Government's determination to suppress the newborn Confederacy - and nearly succeeding - by putting ever-increasing pressure on its adherents from New Orleans to Galveston. The surprising triumph of Texas troops on their home soil in early 1863 proved to be a decisive reverse to Union ambitions and doomed the region to even bloodier destruction to come. This bracing work, ten years in the making, ushered in a chronological string of books on the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas, as Frazier presents fresh sources on new topics in a series of captivating narratives.
£23.96
For Beginners Lincoln for Beginners
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£11.39
Eakin Press Texas and Texans in the Civil War
£17.10
