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  • Blood on the Wave

    Scottish Sea Battles

    by John Sadler ...
    A history of combat in Scottish waters—from the Iron Age to the Cold War—and the changes in the technology and tactics of naval warfare.Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eastward down to the Moray ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighter Aces

    Knights of the Skies

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    A readable and entertaining introduction to aerial combat in the series that "would be excellent for someone with an early interest in military history" ( Army Rumour Service).Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aerial combat as glorious ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander the Great

    Conqueror, Commander, King

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    An overview of Alexander's life—from his early military exploits to the creation of his empire and the legacy left after his premature death.Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In a dozen years, Alexander took the whole of Asia Minor and Egypt, destroyed the once mighty Persian Empire, and pushed his army eastwards as far as the Indus. No one in history has equaled ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bannockburn

    Battle For Liberty

    by John Sadler ...
    The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles of British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting characters of the opposing commanders Edward II and Robert the Bruce, the strategy of the campaign and the tactics of the battle itself—all these elements combine to make the event one of absorbing and lasting ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spy of the Century

    Alfred Redl & the Betrayal of Austro-Hungary

    by John Sadler, Silvie Fisch ...
    This military biography reveals the secret life of a closeted Austro-Hungarian intelligence officer who became a double agent in pre-WWI Europe.On the night of May 24th, 1913, three high-ranking military officials waited outside a hotel in the center of Vienna. At around two am they heard a gunshot and knew that one of their own had just ended his life. Colonel Alfred Redl, the former deputy head ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Patrol

    A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-1945

    by John Sadler ...
    From the author of D-Day: "an amazing tale of how the world's very first special force was created specifically for North Africa during WWII" ( Books Monthly).The origins of most of the West's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gurkha Way

    A New History of the Gurkhas

    by John Sadler ...
    In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbors and the British. During the fighting his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partnership was born. This ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hotspur

    Sir Henry Percy & the Myth of Chivalry

    by John Sadler ...
    On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed. Posthumously he was declared a traitor and his lands forfeited to the crown. This was an ignominious end to the brilliant career of one of the most famous medieval noblemen, a ... Read more

    Was $23.99 CAD Now $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Towton

    The Battle of Palm Sunday Field 1461

    by John Sadler ...
    This medieval military history uses archeological research to shed new light on this significant and bloody battle in the Wars of the Roses.The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on March 29th, 1461, was a major turning point in the Wars of the Roses. It was also the largest, longest fought, and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second Barons' War

    Simon de Montfort & the Battles of Lewes & Evesham

    by John Sadler ...
    For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in this highly readable ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hot Trod

    A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border

    by John Sadler ...
    The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP’s call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit - and indeed Brexit itself - begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer identity actually mean in the twenty-first century and how the past affects this. As a borderer and historian John Sadler is uniquely qualified to examine the border from Roman times to today. He’s been ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD

  • Desert Rats

    The Desert War 1940-3 in the Words of Those Who Fought There

    by John Sadler ...
    The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a life and death struggle with the Axis powers in North Africa, a titanic, swaying conflict that surged back and forth across the barren wastes of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. This desert war encompassed many of the epic battles of the Second World War, ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD