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  • Belfast to Benghazi

    Untold challenges of war

    by Rupert Wieloch ...
    Rupert Wieloch has seen more than his share of front-line military action, having served as a platoon commander during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, before leading a squadron during the Gulf War in 1990. Deploying to Bosnia with the United Nations, his troops became renowned by the press as “Saviours of the Children” after he planned and executed the largest defensive battle fought by a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners

    The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War

    by Rupert Wieloch ...
    The dramatic account of 15 British soldiers abandoned in Bolshevik Russia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.In Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners, Rupert Wieloch details how the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 affected the Allied war effort. The threat drove the formation of an Allied force, including British, American, French, Czech, Italian, Greek, and Japanese troops, stationed ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberating Libya

    British Diplomacy and War in the Desert

    by Rupert Wieloch ...
    Free Libya! was the chant heard throughout Libya during the Arab Spring revolution that ended with the death of Colonel Gadaffi in October 2011. The story is about British involvement in Libya since the first treaty signed with the rulers in Tripoli in January 1692. The book is divided into four eras. The first covers the period up to the Italian invasion in 1911; the second covers the First World ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belfast to Benghazi

    by Rupert Wieloch ...
    Rupert Wieloch has seen more than his share of front-line military action, having served as a platoon commander during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, before leading a squadron during the Gulf War in 1990. Deploying to Bosnia with the United Nations, his troops became renowned by the press as "Saviours of the Children" after he planned and executed the largest defensive battle fought by a ... Read more

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    The Divided Island, 1955–1974

    by Nicholas van der Bijl ...
    An in-depth look at the conflicts in Cyprus during the mid-twentieth century.The UK has been involved in Cyprus for over 125 years. Strategically placed in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was initially ideal for protection of the Suez Canal and more recently as a 'listening post' for the troubled Middle East and southern flank of NATO.The British faced two serious problems—the first, the Greek ... Read more

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  • Mad Mitch's Tribal Law

    Aden and the End of Empire

    by Aaron Edwards ...
    Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government. Crater had come to symbolise Arab nationalist defiance in the face of the world’s most powerful empire.Hovering 2,000 ft. above the smouldering ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Gulf War

    The Fight for Iraq 1941

    by Barrie G. James ...
    This military history of the Iraqi revolt in WWII, told from the point of view of the men who were there, is "a fantastic and enjoyable book" (Col. Tim Collins, OBE).In the spring of 1941, on an airfield fifty-five miles from Baghdad, a group of RAF airmen and soldiers were outnumbered by the better equipped Iraqi forces—soldiers who were aided by the Germans and Italians. After thirty days, this ... Read more

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  • Suez

    The Double War

    by Roy Fullick, Geoffrey Powell ...
    The events that followed President Nasser of Egypts nationalisation of the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956 were as dramatic as they were painful to Britains standing in the world. The authors of this fascinating book describe the unfolding disaster in detail and explain why lack of success was almost inevitable. In military terms not only were there misunderstandings between the British and French but ... Read more

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  • Task Force Black

    The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq

    by Mark Urban ...
    The true story of one of the most dramatic and sustained special operations in military historyWhen American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly realized no such weapons existed. Instead they faced an insurgency—a soaring spiral of extremism ... Read more

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  • All Hell Let Loose

    The World at War 1939-1945

    by Max Hastings ...
    Recommended for viewing on a tablet.From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II.The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled ‘all hell let loose’.The eminent historian Max Hastings here encapsulates life through ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    An international bestsellerAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East.**“A page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival ... Remarkable.” —**Wall Street JournalBy 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and... ... Read more

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  • Uncommon Soldier

    Brave, compassionate and tough, the making of our modern Diggers

    by Chris Masters ...
    Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, peacekeeper, street-level diplomat and aid worker.Having been taken into their ranks in a way ... Read more

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