Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out ...Show more
The Sabotage Diaries by Katherine Barnes
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Category: MILITARY
Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction. The Satotage Diaries tells the WWII story of Allied engineer Tom Barnes, who was parachuted behind enemy lines i ...Show more
Jungle Dark by Steve Strevens
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Category: MILITARY
On 21 July 1969, 3 Platoon, A Company, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment forced their way through the damp Vietnamese jungle on a patrol as part of Operation Mundingburra. With the insects biting and the humidity sapping their strength, the platoon established a safe harbour and listened as the new ...Show more
Gallipoli 1915 by Alan Moorehead
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the Germa ...Show more
Fearless by Eric Blehm
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Category: MILITARY
"Fearless "takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. "As a rule, we don't endorse books or movies or anything regarding the command where I work--and Adam Brown worked--but as the author writes in "Fearless," 'you have to know the rules, so you know ...Show more
Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad by Lena Mukhina
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Category: MILITARY
In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova, the boy she liked, liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she re ...Show more
Operation Chowhound : The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Category: MILITARY
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It too ...Show more
Defending Gallipoli the Turkish Story by Harvey Broadbent
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Category: MILITARY
Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Defending Gallipoli reveals how the Turks reacted and defended Gallipoli. Author and Turkish language expert Harvey Broadbent spent five years translating everything from official records to soldiers' personal diaries and letters to unearth the Turkish stor ...Show more
Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: MILITARY
Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, h ...Show more
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found th ...Show more