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Goose Green - A Battle Fought to be Won by Adkin, Mark
£1.99

Good+ Hardcover with dust jacket, slight crease to top of back cover, gently bumped at top of spine and front cover. The first land battle of the Faulklands war was also the longest and hardest fought the most contreversial and the one most needed to win. this book is devoted to this crucial battle.... Read More information

The Charge - The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost by Adkin, Mark
£3.49

Top corner of front cover creased. The charge of the Light Brigade is one of Britain's best-known glorious military disasters. On 25 October 1854, during the siege of Sebastopol, the Light Brigade attacked Russian gun positions at Balaclava. The charge lasted 7 minutes; of 673 officers and men who went into action, 247 men and 497 horses were lost. This book shatters many long-held conceptions of... Read More information

Canada in Flanders - The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume I / 1 by Aitken, Sir Max
£8.99

Red marked hardcovers with gilting titling to faded spine. Bumped top/bottom of spine and corner with small tear to top of spine. Date, name and address written on inside front cover. Brown spotting due to age mainly to first few pages. Canada in Flanders - The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume I / 1 with maps and appendices. Contents includes Mobilisation, Warfare, Neuv... Read More information

Mega Book of Tanks by Alligator Books
£3.99

Pictorial hardcover. Each title in this series takes a detailed look at a different mode of transport, informing the reader when the given machine was invented and by whom, how it has evolved over the years, and providing a glimpse into the future. This volume features tanks.... Read More information

Berlin Dance Of Death by Altner, Helmut
£7.95

Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a teenagers vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, wher... Read More information

Citizen Soldiers - From the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany by Ambrose, Stephen E
£1.49

From the author of D-Day and Band of Brothers comes the story of the ordinary soldiers in Northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bittersweet days of the war. It opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy; the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap; Patton tearing t... Read More information

D-Day June 6 1944 - The Climatic Battle of World War II by Ambrose, Stephen E
£1.49

Ex-Library book. Couple of pages loose. It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing basebal... Read More information

D-Day by Anderson, Duncan
£4.49

Ex-Library Book. Hardcovers with dust jacket which has creasing/crinkles, bumping to top/bottom of spine. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the event which marked the end of Nazi Germanys progression through Europe. A well researched text, complemented by over 150 photographs, relives the action and is interspersed with many fascinating eye witness accounts. Large book.... Read More information

World Aircraft Combat Aircraft 1945 - 1960 by Angelucci, Enzo
£2.95

Hardcover with dust jacket.Providing a comprehensive and well-documented history of aviation. This volume includes a selection of 148 aircraft from fifteen countries, with 171 colour illustrations plus supplementary black-and-white line drawings.... Read More information

The War in Egypt and the Soudan Volume I - II by Archer, Thomas
£34.99

Brown faded hardcovers, some markings, with tan leather binding to corners and raised spine. Bumped/rubbed at corners, rubbed at spine top/bottom edge. Patterned sides to book. An episode in the history of the British Empire being a descriptive account of the scenes and events of that great drama, and sketches of the principal actors in it.... Read More information