Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
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Category: MILITARY
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France by Jonathan Trigg
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Category: MILITARY
Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force, helped by dreadful German command errors and the terrible state of Wehrmacht forces in the West - but is this all ...Show more
For Gallantry: Australians Awarded the George Cross and the Cross of Valour by Craig Blanch
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Category: MILITARY
From the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the burning ruins of the Bali bombings, For Gallantry tells the stories of the 28 Australians awarded the nation's highest non-combat awards for bravery: the Imperial George Cross and its Australian Honours and Awards replacement, the Cross of Valour. Created to m ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
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Category: MILITARY
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
World War One by Norman Stone
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Category: MILITARY
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the wa ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
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Category: MILITARY
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Flak: True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War II by Michael Veitch
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Category: MILITARY
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, bef ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
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Category: MILITARY
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
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Category: MILITARY
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then ...Show more
Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
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Category: MILITARY
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political circumstances in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategi ...Show more
Vladimir Putin: The World's Most Dangerous Man? by JAMES GREENSMITH
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Category: MILITARY
Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the lessons of the past had been well and truly learned ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
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Category: MILITARY
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more