True war and combat stories Books
Reach plc World War Two A History in 50 Photographs
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£6.99
Monash University Publishing Maestro John Monash: Australia's Greatest Citizen
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£17.99
Exisle Publishing One Woman's War and Peace: A Nurse's Journey in
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£17.41
Linden Publishing Co Inc Stories of Service: Valley Veterans Remember
Book SynopsisThis compilation of 76 World War II veterans'' stirring recollections presents a remarkable array of stories from all of the major theatres of the war, including the Pacific, Europe, and a saga of Japanese internment in the United States. Gleaned from a series of memoir-writing classes, veterans of the greater Fresno, California, region recorded their memories, thoughts, fears, and feelings on having played a role in World War II. Ranging from riveting to poignant, the stories capture the dramatic moments of epochal combat -- including the landings at Okinawa and the Battle of the Bulge -- while acutely expressing the difficulties and privations of life during wartime.
£22.09
FreeLance Academy Press Murder, Rape, and Treason: Judicial Combats in
Book SynopsisMurder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of the most sanguine, unusual or controversial judicial duels of the late Middle Ages. These duels—formal, limited combats—are among the best-known medieval deeds of arms, and were an important part of late medieval warrior culture. Deeds of arms - formal, limited combats - were an important part of late medieval warrior culture, allowing men-at-arms the chance to display their identities and establish their martial worth before an audience that included their peers, their lords and captains, and the ladies who inspired them. Among the most interesting, unusual and prominent deeds of arms were the judicial duels of the late Middle Ages (14th and 15th centuries). The word "duel" suggests to modern audiences a conflict over honour, but although medieval trials by combat were likewise concerned with issues of reputation and shame, their purpose was judicial: a method of reaching a verdict when other methods could not. If evidence or testimony was not clear or was rejected by participants in a legal case, one could always turn to God. But there was, in fact, no guarantee of clarity even in the case of the duel, and unlike their portrayal in popular media, it was rare for duels to be fought to a lethal conclusion. A settlement was often negotiated before the trial was ever fought, or halted by the judge in mid-combat before either combatant could be slain. For a millennium, the trial by battle had been a fairly routine part of law enforcement in many parts of Europe, but by the second half of the 13th century, they were increasingly restricted to adjudicating guilt for capital crimes such as murder, rape, and treason. Yet even as such combats became increasingly rare, their scarcity lent them an aura of prestige, making the late 14th century a golden age for duels, drawing a great deal of popular, clerical and legal attention. The cases in which duels were approved were often controversial, as was the legal procedure itself. Was the result of a judicial combat truly an expression of the will of God? Medieval lawyers and ordinary observers often had their doubts. The controversies surrounding duels resulted in a number of late medieval duels being recorded in some detail. These duels are therefore among the best-known medieval deeds of arms, and accounts of some of the most sanguine, unusual or controversial are contained in this book. Colour and b&w illustrations.
£24.50
South Dakota State Historical Society Red Cloud: Oglala Legend
Book SynopsisA celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skilled diplomat who transitioned the Oglala Sioux to reservation life. In Red Cloud: Oglala Legend, John D. McDermott examines Red Cloud’s early years, his rise to prominence, and his struggle to protect his people from cultural domination.McDermott goes beyond Red Cloud’s War to focus on the Oglala chief’s time as a statesman. Chronicling the chief’s diplomatic trips to the United States capital, the author examines the changes in Red Cloud’s vision of armed resistance and his long-term strategy for maintaining Oglala life and culture. Through negotiation, passive resistance, and selective integration, Red Cloud worked to defend his people’s interests in the face of change.As the only American Indian leader to win a war against the United States Army, Red Cloud is a larger-than-life figure in the history of the West. McDermott adds new layers to the story of the chief, illuminating his early youth and worldview through little-used sources.Red Cloud: Oglala Legend is the fourth book in the South Dakota Biography Series, which highlights some of the state’s most famous residents.
£13.46
Harpia Publishing, LLC Amx: Brazilian-Italian Fighter-Bomber
Book SynopsisItaly began work on a new fighter-bomber in the late 1970s, aiming to field an aircraft capable of surviving in heavily defended Cold War airspace, flying at very low level, and releasing its weapons deep in enemy territory with a high degree of accuracy. In the early 1980s, Brazil joined the programme, resulting in the AMX.Subsonic, the new fighter-bomber has also proven well suited to the types of conflicts that have proliferated in the last 25 years and has served the Italian Air Force well during close air support, interdiction and reconnaissance missions.For Brazil, the AMX brought 21st-century capabilities to its air force, introducing advanced avionics and systems including a head-up display, radar warning receiver, chaff and flare countermeasures, identification friend or foe, and other new concepts. In this way, the AMX provided the Brazilian Air Force with a useful stepping-stone to the Super Tucano and the modernised F-5 Tiger II.Most importantly, the AMX had a huge impact on the Brazilian defence industry, which developed new technologies and infrastructures that helped drive both military and civilian programmes developed by Embraer from the 1990s onwards, including the E-Jet family and the KC-390 transport.This book is a must-have for specialists and enthusiasts alike, containing exclusive material, including photos and interviews that have never previously been published, and first-hand accounts of tactics and operations.Trade ReviewHarpia's book melds well-reasearched narrative and personal accounts with excellent imagery. * Airfix Model World *
£24.61
Harpia Publishing, LLC Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force
Book SynopsisThe Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion and in support of Cuban leader’s efforts to export their revolutionary ideals.The book casts an unprecedented look at the introduction and utilisation of all MiG models in Cuban service, since their arrival before the Cuban Missile Crisis, to current times, going through all of the conflicts in which Cuba was involved, from incidents with the Dominican Republic (‘Operación Pico’) and the Bahamas, to its entanglements in wars in Vietnam, Syria, Guinea, Southern Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua and the recent apprehension of ‘export goods’ to North Korea in the Panama Canal.The story of military aviation in Cuba before the arrival of the MiGs is also briefly presented, from the beginning of their air corps and its role in the political crises that affected the country, in Castro's Revolution and the ill-fated attempted invasion at the Bay of Pigs, contextualising the times when they happened.This is the result of extensive research using Cuban publications, documents, interviews with former pilots, historians and contributions by veteran Cuban airmen both in exile and residing in their homeland. The book is richly illustrated with over 170 photographs and colour profiles detailing the history of all twenty models of MiG fighters operated by Cuba from 1962 to the present.
£24.61
DoppelHouse Press Critical Cases
Book SynopsisA frontline eyewitness account of the Syrian Revolution from prizewinning journalist and activistHadi Alabdallah. Hadi Alabdallah was an emergency medicine student in his mid-twenties when he became a citizen journalist, covering the attack by Assad's forces on the city of Homs in 2013. He and his colleague were the first to document evidence Hezbollah was fighting for the regime. After breaking the story, which changed the course of the war as it became clear Iran and also Russia were in alliance with Assad, Alabdallah became a sought after and trusted voice on social media, where he joined the ranks of cyber-dissenters. His memoir tracks his experience upon leaving his studies to become a first responder during the Arab Spring uprisings, through 2020, by which time he had fled north to Idlib Province among the rebel factions, which posed their own dangers to young reporters. Astonishing for its rendering of friendships forged during the emotional impacts of war, Alabdallah's friends and colleagues collectively dedicated their lives to the truth and to each other, though they risked capture, prison, torture, or death every day. Using creative language and style, Critical Cases explores not only the political concerns of the author and his closest friends, but gives centrality to their feelings during the life-changing mission they undertook by challenging the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Critically injured in an assassination attempt in Aleppo in 2016, Alabdallah spent months in recovery in Turkey, where he was interviewed for a multimedia feature on The New York Times. Later that year, he won the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize. Alabdallah's new Afterword remarks on the liberation of his country and the challenges that lie ahead.
£16.14
Academie Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres Jusqu'a Raqqa: Avec Les Kurdes Contre Daech
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£25.00
Bohlau Verlag Herr, mach ein Ende!
Book SynopsisDie grauenhaften Erlebnisse eines Soldaten im Russlandfeldzug 1941, aber auch die Sinnlosigkeit und Verbitterung über den militärischen Alltag als Besatzer in Frankreich und Italien, die Monotonie und nie endende Langeweile des täglichen Dienstes hätten ihn nahezu zermürbt, wäre da nicht eine innige Liebe trotz der großen geographischen Entfernungen herangewachsen. Zeigte der Germanist F. X. Haertle (1916-2009) zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges noch eine gewisse Begeisterung, so verwandelte sich diese durch die Schrecken des Krieges gänzlich in Ablehnung. Seiner großen Liebe wegen und um die alltägliche militärische Monotonie zu überwinden, schrieb er 457 Briefe an seine Verlobte. Seine Tagebücher und Briefe formen einschließlich der über 350 Fotos ein außergewöhnliches Kompendium an Qualität, Komplexität und detaillierten Beobachtungen der zeitgenössischen Ereignisse. Sie gewähren einen tiefen Einblick in die anfängliche Kriegsbegeisterung, aber auch in die Brutalität und Schrecken des Krieges und schildern ungeschminkt die Ödnis des militärischen Alltags. Sie berichten von der geistigen Wandlung eines Intellektuellen, der sich sehr bald nach Kriegsbeginn nicht nur der NS-Propaganda, sondern auch den militärischen und NS-Autoritäten durch Karriereverweigerung entzog. Aus den Briefen an seine Verlobte erschließt sich auch eine Liebesgeschichte, welche die grundlegende emanzipatorische Wandlung des Partner- und Frauenbildes erkennen lässt. Ergänzend dazu werden weitere nicht publizierte Tagebücher seines Kameraden Stephan Metzger zitiert, die ihrerseits wiederum einen vergleichenden Blick auf die gemeinsamen Erlebnisse werfen.
£162.89
Bohlau Verlag Hermann Enters wandert aus: Lebenserinnerungen
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£25.19
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Army of One: Six American Veterans After Iraq
Book SynopsisIn Army Of One, photo journalist Elisabeth Real tells the story of six American veterans whose lives have been irreversibly altered by the war in Iraq. All but one of the veterans have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Between 2006 and 2013, Real photographed and interviewed these young men, trying to uncover what they went through and how, in turn, this affected them on returning home, as they re-connected with families and tried to make lives, away from the army. The war in Iraq began in March 2003 and lasted until December 2011; 2.16 million U.S. troops were deployed in combat zones in 2001-10. 4,500 US service people were killed, many more committed suicide as a consequence of their deployment and many thousands more returned home with PTSD. A single PTSD diagnosis could cost $1.5 million in disability compensation over a soldier's lifetime. Elisabeth Real breaks down numbers, focusing on the individual soldier: the lone "Army Of One", many of whom feel this means that they have been forgotten, as soldiers and as human beings.
£17.00
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Love Stories of War Heroes
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of fifteen love stories of war heroes. Each story depicts the greatest example of patriotism and bravery with its characters drawing strength from their women. The book is an experiment to prove that the biggest source of energy that makes daring war heroes is actually love. It is a testimony of the existence of the most sensitive minds inside tough bodies. Certain delicate issues are addressed and natural solutions offered. The stories are replete with profound emotions and the smooth flow of events that touch the hearts of the readers.
£5.99
Pentagon Press Classics in World Literature: The Best of World
Book SynopsisThe two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
£24.38
Almuzara ARTE DE LA INNOVACION MILITAREL
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£30.75
Documenta Balear S.L. Els de Cabrera 19361946 el testimoni de Jeroni Bonet De Cabrera
£34.91
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Canada & Noord-Brabant: An Eternal Bond
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£9.45
HarperCollins India Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri
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£11.99
Bloomsbury India All You Need is Josh: Inspiring Stories of
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£15.19
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd From East Pakistan to Bangladesh:: Recollections
Book SynopsisThe text discusses the creation of Pakistan, political instability, military coups, and the genocide in East Pakistan leading to India's involvement in training Mukti Bahini. It also highlights international repercussions and the author's first-hand account of the Bangladesh liberation struggle.
£29.99
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army
Book SynopsisBest known for his role in helping to establish the Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation and as the unit's first commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Clarence Tan was born on his family's rubber plantation, just ten months before the Japanese invasion of British Malaya in 1941. As with those of his generation, his life spans the dramatic, often tumultuous years of Singapore's evolution from a primarily rural British colony to the world class cosmopolis it is today. From leading a platoon during racial riots in Singapore to searching for communist insurgents and Indonesian infiltrators in the jungles of Malaysia during the Emergency and the Confrontation, LTC (Rtd) Tan was part of both the British and Malaysian armies before becoming a pioneer officer in Singapore's defence force. For as surely as there are makers of history, there are those too who are made by history. Always A Commando is at once a compelling chronicle of one man's life from kampong kid to red beret and a rich evocation of the country he served through turbulent and uncertain times.
£12.59
Dementi Milestone Publishing Butch and Sundance Do India
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£17.84
