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  • The Third World War

    The Untold Story

    by Sir John Hackett ...
    Sir John Hackett re-examines his hypothetical scenario for World War III, incorporating the technological advances made in the four years since the publication of his book The Third World War: August 1985. The book also provides an inside look at the Soviet Politburo and the Red Army, due to input from a Soviet defector. ... Read more

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  • I Was A Stranger

    by General Hackett, Sir John Hackett ...
    Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German military police billet. After four months in hiding, Hackett was at last well enough to strap a battered suitcase to an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    An Aussie soldier's diary of the first World War - by turns compelling, illuminating, funny, touching and sad - and absolutely unputdownable.Archie Albert Barwick was an enthusiastic young 24 year old when he joined the First AIF in late August 1914 - his service number was 914. When he learnt that he'd been accepted into the army, he was so happy he turned two somersaults for pure joy. this is ... Read more

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  • Blood and Ruins

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  • The Somme

    The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

    by Richard van Emden ...
    The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it.One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a ... Read more

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  • The Gun

    by C. J. Chivers ...
    Series series A History of Weapons and Warfare
    In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s ... Read more

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  • Somme

    by Lyn Macdonald ...
    2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the ... Read more

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  • The Roses of No Man's Land

    by Lyn Macdonald ...
    THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...'Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another ... Read more

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  • Putin's Wars

    From Chechnya to Ukraine

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    THE FINANICAL TIMES - BEST BOOKS OF 2022'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' - The TimesA history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became ... Read more

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  • Happy Odyssey

    by Adrian Carton de Wiart ...
    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

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    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

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  • Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar

    by Kenneth Sandford ...
    Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy machinegun posts single-handed and led a frontal assault on enemy guns. His exploits and ... Read more

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