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An illustrated guide to Viking warfare from strategy and weapons to culture and tradition: ';a very excellent introduction to the Viking age as a whole' (Justin Pollard, historical consultant for the Amazon television series Vikings). From the tim...

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The tragic story of the Italians sent to the USSR by Mussoliniand the only division of elite mountain soldiers who didn't completely perish. When Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its...

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';Good focused context' pinpoints the historical significance of the single bloodiest episode in the Second Boer Warfrom a Zulu warfare expert (FGS Forum). Spion Kop, just northeast of Ladysmith, South Africa, was the largest hill in the region, b...

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';A compelling tale of how this spiritually and politically charged area of the globe has long been a place of pivotal battles' (Library Journal). Today's Arab-Israeli conflict is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in t...

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The WWII Soviet guerilla training manual that became an essential text for freedom fighters across the globecomplete with illustrations. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II, the Red Army began recruiting local partisans to he...

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A colorful, wide-ranging memoir of danger and adventure in wars around the world.Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia . . .So begins this memoir of a career spent examining warfare-on the ground and...

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A revealing account of the US conflict with Iran over the Persian Gulf during the Reagan eraand the groundwork it set for today's tensions. In May 1987, the US frigate Stark was blown apart by an Iraqi jet fighter in the Persian Gulf, jumpstarting...

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A Vietnam War battalion commander with the 199th LIB recounts the intense combat he saw during the Tet Offensive and NVA attacks in this candid memoir. This visceral combat memoir chronicles the height of the Vietnam War from the nervous period ju...

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A comprehensive account of the World War II Allied bombing campaign to destroy pivotal Romanian oil refineries-by the retired Marine Corps fighter pilot.Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of...

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The story of the World War I fighter pilot the Red Baron himself sought to emulate . . .German air ace Oswald Boelcke was a national hero during World War I. He was the youngest captain in the German air force, decorated with the Pour le Merite wh...

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A witty collection that celebrates the strength to find humor even in the most challenging circumstances-with proceeds benefiting veterans.Britain's armed forces have a legendary sense of humor, dating back over generations of servicemen and women...

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The authors of Bismarck deliver ';a very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters' during World War II (NYMAS Review). After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck,...

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"e;A superb portrait of a forgotten but vital World War II battle of strategic importance and bestial savagery"e; (Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times-bestselling author of The Romanovs)Through firsthand accounts, as well as archival ma...

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';A fine biography of Leclerc, who played almost as important a part as de Gaulle himself in restoring French pride in the Second World War' (Antony Beevor, international bestselling author of D-Day). From the fall of France until 1943, Philippe L...

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"e;Spotlights the career of a fascinating modern warrior, while also shedding light on some of the conflicts that have raged throughout the world"e; (Tucson Citizen).A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the regi...

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';Womer reveals his own inside account of fighting as a spearhead of the Screaming Eagles in Normandy, Holland, and the Battle of the Bulge' (Tucson Citizen). In 2004, the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the mo...

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The real-life companion to the literary classicwritten and illustrated by the daughter of the 340th Bomb Group's commander, Catch-22's Col. Cathcart. After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that...

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This detailed analysis of the WWII naval battle by the acclaimed historian and mechanical engineer reveals new insight into the Bismarck's victory. In the spring of 1942, Nazi Germany unleashed its behemoth battleship Bismarck against the British ...

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A visceral and accurate firsthand account of flying with the Imperial German Air Force during WWI. The airborne fighting squadrons of the Imperial German Luftstreitkrfteknown as the Jagdstaffel or Jastawere a fearsome and elite force throughout th...

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';McScotch' himself describes his book and pays tribute to a colleague in this note, which appears at the front of the volume: ';This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had the privilege of serving in...

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A WWI pilot's memoir of flying with the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany-and, on November 11, 1918, the last one.One of the many who came to Europe from all over the British Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, A. R. K...

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A classic memoir of the early days of aviation by a longtime Royal Air Force pilot, including his harrowing, exhilarating adventures in the Great War. Ira ';Taffy' Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about ...

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The decisive battle in Gen. MacArthur's reclaiming of the Philippines in WWII is told in vivid, on-the-ground detail in this ';definitive account' (WWII History Magazine). When Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942 to organize a new ...

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This Revolutionary War history analyzes the Continental Army's extensive use of guerilla tacticsthe beginning of modern Special Ops. When the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching His Majesty's British and Germ...

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This ';fascinating' biography of a South African-born warrior provides a window into a full century of military conflicts(Adam Makos, New York Timesbestselling author of A Higher Call). Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler's highly colorful life fr...

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A rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of World War I. Originally published in 1933, Wings of War provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans' step-by-step retreat...

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Dramatic true stories of air combat featuring Germany's greatest pilots: ';AWorld War I aviation history classic' (Over the Front). In these riveting accounts, Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke, and other famous daredevil flyer...

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A fascinating chronicle of the Cold War battle where US and Soviet weapons, as well as Cuban and South African troops, took part in the Angolan Civil War. In the late 1980s, as America prepared to claim its victory in the Cold War over the Soviet ...

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Winner of the John Carroll Award and the G.Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award. A deeply researched work on the infamous 1876 battle, filled with new discoveries. This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of America's most ...

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A detailed military biography of the most highly decorated Nazi regimental commander in WWII. The most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. He was serving...

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