The Perfect Nazi : Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation by Martin Davidson
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Category: MILITARY
In 1926, at the age of twenty, a trainee dentist called Bruno Langbehn joined the Nazi party. Growing up in a Germany that was impoverished and humiliated by the defeat of the First World War, and surrounded by a fiercely military environment, Bruno was one of the first young men to sign up. And as the ...Show more
Dunkirk : Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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Category: MILITARY
The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like ...Show more
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world's leading intelligence or security services has taken such a step. The Defence of the Realm, the book which results, is an unprecedented public ...Show more
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
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Category: MILITARY
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
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Category: MILITARY | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
The Burma Campaign : Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
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Category: MILITARY
A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two. Often described as 'the forgotten war', the Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. It has become no ...Show more
With the Old Breed - The World War Two Pacific Classic by E B Sledge
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of th ...Show more
U.S. Lucia and the Light- Candlewick Press by Lex McAulay
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Category: MILITARY | Series: An Arrow book
A detailed and masterly account of the biggest unit level battle involving Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War. The Battle: For twenty-six days during May and June 1968 the 1st Australian Task Force fought a series of actions around Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, northeastof Saigon. The S ...Show more
American Sniper : The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
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Category: MILITARY
Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, "American Sniper" is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 255 confirmed kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history.
The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War by Kevin Sites
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Category: MILITARY
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you ne ...Show more
Red November : Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War by W. Craig Reed
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Category: MILITARY
In this riveting popular history, W. Craig Reed pulls back the curtain on the most secret aspects of America's Cold War with the Soviet Union: the underwater battles and espionage operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare numerous times. As a former submariner and navy diver, Ree ...Show more
The Only Thing Worth Dying for : How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan by Eric Blehm
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Category: MILITARY
"The Only Thing Worth Dying For" is not only brilliant, it's the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.--former Congressman Charlie Wilson.