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  • Letters Of A Civil War Surgeon

    by Major William Watson ...
    "From September 1862 until May 1865, Major William Watson served as surgeon with the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, which fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and elsewhere. Over the course of three years at war, he wrote 91 letters to his family, in which he describes his own war against death and disease. This well-educated and sensitive young man ... Read more

    $4.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Company Of Tanks [Illustrated Edition]

    by Major William Henry Lowe Watson, D.S.O., D.C.M. ...
    "Steel, mud, blood and courage on the Western FrontThis is a fine book because it is a superb first hand eye-witness account of British Tanks in action throughout the First World War. Without much preamble Watson launches the reader, in company with the author's brother officers, men and machines into the heart of the field of conflict on the 11th Corps forward line on the Western Front in the ... Read more

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  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Major William Henry Lowe Watson D.S.O. D.C.M. ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Read more

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    by Ian Trenowden ...
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  • Night Fighter Over Germany

    'The Long Road to the Sky'

    by Graham White ...
    This WWII memoir of an NCO Royal Air Force pilot offers a vivid, personal account of wartime life and dangerous operations over Europe.In 1941, Graham White was passing a Royal Air Force recruiting center and, on the spur of the moment, signed up. As a non-commissioned RAF pilot, he went on to fly long-range night-fighters against the Luftwaffe. White experienced badly designed and dangerous ... Read more

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  • The Military MEGAPACK®

    25 Great Tales of War

    by Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce ...
    Hours of great reading await, with tales of war and military adventure by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranging from classics of the Civil War to the World Wars to the future of war -- and many other battlefields -- here more than 640 pages of military fiction! Included are the complete novel "The Red Badge of Courage," pulp stories by Arthur J. Burks, Johnston ... Read more

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  • The Hell of Burma

    Sergeant Harry Verlander

    by Sean Rayment ...
    Series Book 2 - Tales from the Special Forces Shorts
    This is Harry Verlander’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.The Special Forces Club is a fabled gentlemen’s club, based in the heart of London. It has a closely guarded secret: you have to be a genuine hero to be a member.Harry had volunteered aged 16 in 1942. By 1944, he was parachuting into France on D-Day as part of the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Crew

    The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

    by David Price ...
    A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command.******************************The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, ... Read more

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  • Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTION“An excellent book to read at this time during the anniversary of the bombing of the German dams by what seemed impossible odds.” Review.**Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters tells the dramatic story of a renowned British flying legend and his leadership of the infamous raid on the Ruhr dams in May 1943, providing a fitting and timely tribute to a truly courageous aviator.This short i ... Read more

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  • Cruel Seas (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    At dawn, they saw her masts on the horizon and immediately prepared for battle. They were up against a formidable foe; the Admiral Graf Spee had already sunk nine British merchant ships in the South Atlantic. Now, her modern prototype diesel engines were set at maximum power and she was heading straight for them at full speed...Read about the Royal Navy’s determined hunt for the enemy battleship ... Read more

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  • The Final Plan

    by Kenneth S. Murray ...
    The Final Plan is based on historical figures and actual events that occurred at the end of World War II. Hitler’s girl friend, Eva Braun, is pregnant. Positive that she will bear him a son, the Fuhrer conceives a daring scheme for her to escape to Argentina.Forty seven years later, Jake Brooks, an Israeli intelligence agent, is drawn into a murder in London and the Nazi plot begins to unfold. ... Read more

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  • John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONJohn Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot and flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike, delivered from an obsolete biplane, in a force nine gale, in the middle of the Atlantic, brought about the sinking of Nazi Germany’s most powerful battleship, the Bismarck.This short book gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into ... Read more

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