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  • From Bataan to Freedom
    Judy Reed
    Errett Lujan served during World War II with the U.S. Army 200th/515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Regiment in the Philippines, the largest regiment on the islands when the Japanese invaded just hours after Pearl Harbor. The regiment was credited as both the first and the last to fire on the enemy before surrendering. Lujan survived the invasion, the Bataan Death March and ...
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    57,31 €

  • Resistance Girl Renée
    Ruth Uzrad
    She will do anything to bring her family back together.Berlin, 1939. When her beloved hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, 14-year-old Ruth takes her younger sisters by the hand and boards a train bound for Belgium. Courageous and resourceful, she vows to do all she can to keep the three of them safe and together.But as the war progresses swiftly through Europe, even Belgi...
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    22,59 €

  • The Secret Diary
    Michelle Wright
    If caught, his captors would have killed him but Marvin Doyle was determined to document the truth in case he didn’t make it out alive.  There was also another reason; Marvin thought the sooner he’d write down what happened the sooner he’d be able erase it from his tortured mind.             This is the true story of aerial gunner Sergeant Marvin Doyle, a World War II prisoner ...
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    12,38 €

  • French Revolution
    Leslie Holmes
    The narrative plunges the reader into the heart of late 18th-century france, unraveling the intricate societal and political undercurrents that gave rise to the national assembly. The creation of this body marked the commencement of a seismic shift, as the emboldened third estate began to challenge the monolithic power of the monarchy.Readers are then ushered into the intensity...
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    16,03 €

  • THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND 1897
    William Le Queux
    Le Queux’s work is an early example of Invasion literature genre, which began with The Battle of Dorking in 1871, where the British are soundly defeated by an invading German army. Le Queux’s novel depicts Britain being invaded by coalition forces led by France and Russia, who make several early advances, but the brave English patriots fight on and eventually manage to turn the...
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    49,96 €

  • MANUAL OF GUERILLA TACTICS
    Anon
    One of the excellent, concise Bernards Pocket Books, intended to show members of the Home Guard and the regular forces that war is not conducted in a gentlemanly way - it is kill or be killed. The authors describe the effective methods and equipment needed for close-quarter battle. Subjects cover house to house fighting, sniping, silent killing, booby traps, fuses, detonators, ...
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    12,05 €

  • ROUGH NOTES OF SEVEN CAMPAIGNS IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE AND AMERICA DURING THE YEARS 1809-15
    John Spencer Cooper
    An exceptional first-hand account written by a Sergeant of the 7th Royal Fusiliers who served and fought in most of the famous battles and sieges of the Peninsular Campaign during the Napoleonic Wars, including such battles as Talavera, Busaco, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria and the battles for the Pyrenees. The author, Sergeant John Cooper, returned to England upon...
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    23,45 €

  • 鸢飞戾天
    吴鸢
    这是一部罕见的由抗战军人亲笔撰写、发自前线的战地报道集。作者吴鸢，1927年投身北伐，1934年起追随王耀武将军，加入后来被称为'国民革命军五大主力'之一的第74军，经历了从抗战第一战--淞沪会战到最后一战--湘西会战的全过程。战火纷飞之中，吴鸢将军（吴鸢的最后军职是第四方面军司令部第一处少将处长）还担任了范长江等创办的国际新闻社的特约记者，以及《民国日报》、《前线周报》等众多报刊的特约记者，写下和发表了众多战地报道，为抗战史留下极为珍贵的第一手资料。        吴鸢将军在抗战前和抗战期间撰写的少量散文、小说，以及后期撰写的回忆性文章，也收入本书。吴鸢担任江西省文史馆馆员期间，曾帮助多人记录、整理和撰写回忆录，本书附录中收入了少量此类文章。   本书由吴鸢的女儿吴仪东编辑、整理。由于历史的原因，吴鸢的文章散落于各地、多种报刊之中，且多篇...
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    29,79 €

  • The Canadian Dream of an English Country Boy
    James Robertshaw
    Canadians Pioneers building up the Country, World War 1 involvement and about the history of Ernest Phillips a Canadian World War 1 Hero, who was decorated twice with the Military Medal. The book describes life in 1912 in Canada, how the First Nations People were recruited into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The training, the actions in World War 1 , the citations won. Life ...
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    29,11 €

  • We Called Ourselves Rocketboatmen
    Jr. William Howard Palmer
    D-Day, June 6, 1944--a day never to be forgotten. More than 156,000 troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy, making it the largest seaborne invasion in history. Leading the pre-invasion ashore were the brave, but little known, rocketboatmen, as they called themselves. Their job, as the first close up Naval offense, was to soften up the German beach defenses ...
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    14,45 €

  • Troopers’ Tales of the British South Africa Police
    Alan Stock / John Berry
    This book contains eleven stories by members of the British South Africa Police who started out as troopers at periods ranging from the earliest days of the Force to immediately after World War Two.They tell stories of times when malaria and blackwater fever were rife and a cure unknown, the young dispatch rider who died while carrying out his duty as a link in the vitally impo...
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    26,35 €

  • Warrior Rules
    Colin Knight
    Warrior Rules written more than 2,500 years ago. The book encorporates The Art of War by Sun Tzu and has been used for both military and for personal and business approaches over centuries. Edited version by Colin Knight. ...
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    5,29 €

  • THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940-43
    India Ministry of Defence
    The North African Campaign 1940-43 covers the operations conducted on the northern coast of Africa and the desert lands to the west of Egypt. In this theatre, India was saddled with the responsibility to defend Egypt. More than two Indian divisions were involved in the fighting in Africa, over the territory expanding from Egypt to Tunis. The theatre remained active from 1940 to...
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    66,24 €

  • THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940-43
    India Ministry of Defence
    The North African Campaign 1940-43 covers the operations conducted on the northern coast of Africa and the desert lands to the west of Egypt. In this theatre, India was saddled with the responsibility to defend Egypt. More than two Indian divisions were involved in the fighting in Africa, over the territory expanding from Egypt to Tunis. The theatre remained active from 1940 to...
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    85,22 €

  • Le Désert
    Pierre Loti
    ...Sous la tente que j’habite depuis une heure, au seuil du désert, je relis cette lettre qui doit être mon sauf-conduit à travers les tribus hostiles. Au bas de la page, en mystérieux caractères, est inscrite la très occulte invocation divine de la secte des Senoussi, qui a son foyer là-bas, au Moghreb, et dont le séïd est le représentant pour l’Arabie orientale.Les dangers du...
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    12,17 €

  • Prime Jeunesse
    Pierre Loti
    Ce treizième été de ma vie, où s’arrête le livre de mon enfance, me réapparaît, dans le lointain de ma mémoire, comme l’un des plus lumineux de nos beaux étés de France, un de ces étés comme nous en avions autrefois et qui ne se retrouvent plus de nos jours. Septembre finissait dans une splendeur qui semblait inaltérable et l’abondance des fruits dorés devenait telle qu’on ne ...
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    10,54 €

  • Battles of the Ages World War II 1940
    Marcus Caldwell
    In 1940, as the world was embroiled in the Second World War, several key battles shaped the trajectory of global events. The relentless advance of Nazi forces across Europe met with formidable resistance from the Allied powers, setting the stage for historic confrontations.The Battle of Britain, a significant aerial combat, unfolded in the skies over England. Here, the future o...
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    16,03 €

  • The Unknown Warrior
    James Leasor
    'A volunteer was urgently required for a secret assignment of the highest priority. He must be of non-Jewish appearance, speak German perfectly, and preferably have a German or Austrian background. A good knowledge of French on a conversational level was also desirable. ...This man would be required to work in dangerous circumstances, totally on his own.'James Leasor first hear...
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    13,35 €

  • United States Army Ordnance Field Service Technical Bulletin No. TB 23-7-1 Carbine, Cal. .30, M1 Rifle
    History Delivered
    This high quality reproduction was taken from the 1942 original and is faithful in all details. It is made to look old and contains over 65 pages of full color print covering everything on the M1 Carbine rifle. This includes full servicing, take down, oiling, parts, ammunition and more. You will not be disappointed in this piece and is an absolute must for any collector, histor...
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    32,94 €

  • Whatever Cause We Have
    Dan Moore
    Dan Moore joined the Marines to serve in Vietnam and contribute to the anticipated American victory over communism. After completing officer training and artillery school, he deployed as a forward observer with an infantry company. His letters home described day-to-day events and revealed a growing skepticism about the war. During the Battle of Hue City, Moore lost his assistan...
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    42,71 €

  • It Never Snows In Vietnam
    Byron Opendack
    From the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest to the jungles of Southeast Asia, It Never Snows In Vietnam follows the lives of two boys, half-brothers, who come of age through changing times, family strife and self-discovery.   Jeffery Nole is abducted at Christmas time when he was four and forced to live with his father. More the five years pass before he sees his mother again. ...
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    19,21 €

  • AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
    George Aspley
    Amphibious Assault First Wave on Guam & Okinawa. Another Pacific War memoir about one young man’s wartime experience. First Wave on Guam & Okinawa is not written as a novel with characters, it is written more as a military report which also gives it legitimacy as being a good historical research book on the topic. ...
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    12,63 €

  • हमारा विश्वास हमारी प्रथाएं! विज्ञान की कसौटी पर (Hamara Vishwas Hamari Prathayein! Vigyaan Ki Kasoti Par)
    Dr.Tejaswini Guha
    आज विज्ञान का युग है। पश्चिमी जगत विज्ञान की भाषा ही समझता है, अतः भारतीय आस्थाओं और मूल्यों को आधुनिक विज्ञान की कसौटी पर खरा साबित करना समय की मांग है। आज इन मूल्यों की न केवल भारत बल्कि संपूर्ण विश्व की शांति के लिए, पर्यावरण संरक्षण, स्वयं मानव व ग्रह पृथ्वी के संरक्षण के लिए आवश्यकता है। युवा भारत को इन मूल्यों को विश्व के सामने रखना हैं, इनके वैज्ञानिक आधार के प्रति लोगो...
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    16,53 €

  • Serving the Doughboy
    Mary Frances Willard
    Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war’s final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families. After the Armistice, ...
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    71,84 €

  • World War II
    L. D. Manera
    In 1945, John Russell (Russ) Kerr provided a poignant narrative of his experiences as a left gunner on the B-29 Super-fortress engaged in the struggle against Japanese forces. Stationed on Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean, Russ articulates his wartime journey through a series of handwritten letters addressed to his brother, Robert (Bob) Kerr, and their ...
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    27,88 €

  • Drafted!
    Morgan Miller
    Drafted tells the story of Henry Morgan Miller’s year in Vietnam at the invitation of Lyndon B. Johnson. It is the story of a meat-cutter-wannabe commercial airline pilot-whose life was rudely interrupted by being inducted into a war that he considered someone else’s battle for a lost cause. It’s a story that could describe many of the almost 300,000 men drafted in 1968 along w...
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    26,63 €

  • Drafted!
    Morgan Miller
    Drafted tells the story of Henry Morgan Miller’s year in Vietnam at the invitation of Lyndon B. Johnson. It is the story of a meat-cutter-wannabe commercial airline pilot-whose life was rudely interrupted by being inducted into a war that he considered someone else’s battle for a lost cause. It’s a story that could describe many of the almost 300,000 men drafted in 1968 along w...
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    23,46 €

  • THE ARAKAN OPERATIONS 1942-45
    India Ministry of Defence
    The Arakan Operations 1942-45 describes the operations in the coastal belt of Arakan in Burma from 1942-45. After the reverses suffered by the Indian forces in Burma, the issue confronting India was to stem the tide of Japanese advance and retrieve the situation in Burma. At this stage, the Indian Army chose Arakan and Chindwin for conducting operations. The 1944 winter operati...
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    84,54 €

  • THE ARAKAN OPERATIONS 1942-45
    India Ministry of Defence
    The Arakan Operations 1942-45 describes the operations in the coastal belt of Arakan in Burma from 1942-45. After the reverses suffered by the Indian forces in Burma, the issue confronting India was to stem the tide of Japanese advance and retrieve the situation in Burma. At this stage, the Indian Army chose Arakan and Chindwin for conducting operations. The 1944 winter operati...
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    65,56 €

  • Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky
    Antonio S. Thompson
    During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state...
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    109,74 €


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