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Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice
by Gerald Steinacher
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- 2011-06
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- 9780199576869
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This is the fascinating story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life… Read more about this item Item Price
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The First Day on the Somme
by Martin Middlebrook
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1977
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- 9780713901948
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After an immense, but useless bombardment, at 7.30am on 1st July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the Battle of The Somme and the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties. This is account of that fateful day. Well illustrated throughout, with b/w photographs and hand-drawn maps. CONDITION: Used,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Amiens 1918
by James McWilliams; R.James Steel
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- May 2004
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- 9780752428604
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The first history of one of the most significant battles of the First World War. A major victory for the Allies, Amiens is the battle many military historians credit with precipitating the end of the war. The surprise attack was launched on 8 August 1918, with over 500 tanks (the largest number to participate in any battle of the war),… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jutland 1916
by Charles London
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- 1st
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- June 25, 2000
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- 9781841762814
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The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed - a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a conviction that anything short of a Trafalgar-style annihilation was letting the side down. True, the German Fleet had sunk… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jutland 1916
by Charles London
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- 1st
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- June 25, 2000
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- 9781841762814
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The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed - a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a conviction that anything short of a Trafalgar-style annihilation was letting the side down. True, the German Fleet had sunk… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mons 1914
by David Lomas
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- 1st
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- 1997
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- 9781841761428
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When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose excellent marksmanship cost the closed packed German ranks dear. Eventually forced to fall back by overwhelming German numbers,… Read more about this item Item Price
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British Tommy (Trade Editions)
by Martin Pegler
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- As New
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- April 25, 2001
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- 9781841762739
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World War 1 was a watershed in British military and social history, and even now the repercussions can still be felt. No town or village in the British Isles escaped their casualties, and the creative genius of a generation was wiped out, at an incalculable loss to society. This book looks in detail at how the British soldier lived, fought… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gallipoli 1915 (Osprey Trade Editions)
by Philip J. Philip Haythornthwaite; Haythornthwaite
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- February 15, 2000
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- 9781841760308
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The Gallipoli expedition of 1915 was designed to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia. Characterised by outstanding courage and determination, the campaign is also remembered for the appalling military incompetence in the higher commands of both sides. As new. Light shelf wear. Item Price
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First Ypres 1914 With visitor information (Trade Editions)
by David Lomas
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- As New
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- 1999
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- 9781841762555
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In the autumn of 1914 the original British Expeditionary Force faced a heavily reinforced German drive towards the channel. Field Marshal Sir John French, the British Commander-in-Chief, had sent his men north in an attempt to outflank the Germans across the open ground of Flanders. Here they advanced into the face of a huge German attack and commenced the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Aviation: The Early Years
by Peter Almond
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- 2013
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- 9783848005161
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Aviation The Early Years chronicles the first years of man-powered flight in photographs, from the end of the last century to the era of the great Zeppelins, and shows us in numerous marvellous pictures the story of the pioneers and adventurers who extended the boundaries of human achievement.
Large book.
Well illustrated throughout with Getty Images. Item Price
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The Bomb: A Life
by Gerard De Groot
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 2004-08-24
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- 9780224062329
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Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. Bombs are as old as hatred itself, but it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. Since 8.14 a.m. 6 August 1945, when a lone B-29 aircraft appeared over the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Battle: A Tragedy of the First World War
by A. P. Herbert
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- 2009-04
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- 9781848325210
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In The Secret Battle A. P. Herbert tells the story of an idealistic, young officer called Harry Penrose. First in Gallipoli, then in the trenches of France, he is tested and brought to breaking point as he battles to retain the ideals of military glory, duty and courage amidst the daily grinding miseries of the trenches. It lays bare the… Read more about this item Item Price
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British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources
by Edward; Macklin, Graham; Twigge, Stephen Hampshire
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- 1st
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- 2008
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- 9781905615001
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While other books have speculated on the history and nature of Britain's intelligence services, this is the first to tell the story through the documents themselves. Only ten years ago access to these original sources would have been impossible, but now experts Twigge, Hampshire and Macklin draw on the spies' and spymasters' own words from the National Archives' unique intelligence… Read more about this item Item Price
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Submarine: Hunter & Hunted-British Submarine and Anti-Submarine Operations During the First World War
by Charles W. Domville-Fife
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- 2010-03
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- 9781846779756
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A fine overview of subs and sub-killers
This comprehensive book concerns the operations of the Royal Navy to deal with the enemy submarine threat in the conflict for the dominance of the seas and oceans during the Great War. The global nature of this first massive war of the twentieth century gave the submarine its first opportunity to be a significant… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Shallow End of War: Accounts of the Royal Navy in the 'Sideshow' Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18
by Conrad Cato
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- 7/16/201
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- 9781782821670
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The Royal Navy's small vessels and armoured cars in the Great War
This book has been created by Leonaur's editors by bringing together historical accounts from Conrad Cato's two books, 'The Navy in Mesopotamia 1914-17' and 'The Navy Everywhere.' Cato was a serving officer in the Royal Navy in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and drew on his own experiences for his first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sea Fights and Land Battles: From Sluys to the Bombardment of Alexandria [1890]
by Mrs Valentine
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- 1890
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'and from Hastings to the War of the Sudan'
Antiquarian book aimed at older children of the 1800s.
Blue boards decorated in red with gold text to front and spine.
Fair. Rubbing and bumping to outside boards and spine. Inner fly pages completely detached (still present) frayed at the edges and tanned. spine very loose. Frontispiece 'Almeida' present. 294 pages present. Some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Victory: The Weekly for the India Command Vol XIV, No. 8
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- 1st
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- 1945
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Wartime magazine, distributed to WW2 Allied Forces in India and the Far East. Paper cover, stapled, 75pp. Front cover showing Betty Grable (design by Wingrove). Contains several articles, including 'The Oversized Trunk' by Sax Rohmer. Also runs an article 'Men of the Year 1944'. CONDITION: General moderate wear. Staples rusted. Still well-bound and readable. An insight into the real mindset… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949
by Hugh Purcell
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- As New
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- Fine
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- 2004
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- 9780750930802
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This is the untold story of Tom Wintringham, a founder-member of the British Communist Party and a great character, described in the New Dictionary of National Biography as a 'uniquely British revolutionary'. Item Price
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Burning the Sky
by Mark Wolverton
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- New
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- 1st
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- 2018
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- 9781468314175
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The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. Ever since the Soviet Union proved that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Tensions escalated between the United States and the Soviet Union over their respective nuclear weapons reserves, both sides… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Rabbit
by Bruce Marshall
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- Used, very good. No inscriptions. Clean. Binding very good.
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- Moderate wear. Price clipped. Good
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- 1968
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Classic World War II French Resistance true story.
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