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A Pilgrimage to the Somme (Paperback): Robin Moore A Pilgrimage to the Somme (Paperback)
Robin Moore
R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Looking for the Good War - American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback): Elizabeth D. Samet Looking for the Good War - American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback)
Elizabeth D. Samet
R500 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Battleships of World War I & World War II (Hardcover): E V Martindale Battleships of World War I & World War II (Hardcover)
E V Martindale
R599 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R54 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The rise of the aircraft carrier following the Japanese aerial strike on Pearl Harbor in 1941 highlighted the vulnerabilities of the battleship, bringing about its demise as a dominant class of warship. This book offers a detailed guide to the major types of battleships to fight in the two World Wars. Explore HMS Dreadnought, the first of a class of fast, big-gun battleships to be developed at the beginning of the 20th century; see the great capital ships that exchanged salvos at the battle of Jutland, including the German battlecruiser Derfflinger, which sank the British battleship Queen Mary; find out about the destruction of HMS Hood, which exploded after exchanging fire with the Bismarck, which itself was sunk after a trans-Atlantic chase by a combination of battery fire and aircraft-launched torpedoes; and be amazed at the 'super-battleship' Yamato, which despite its size and firepower, made minimal contribution to Japan's war effort and was sunk by air attack during the defence of Okinawa. Illustrated with more than 120 vivid artworks and photographs, Technical Guide: Battleships of World War I and World War II is an essential reference guide for modellers and naval warfare enthusiasts.

Take Me Back to Blighty - The Diary of a Machine-Gunner in Macedonia 1916-1919 (Paperback): George Burford Take Me Back to Blighty - The Diary of a Machine-Gunner in Macedonia 1916-1919 (Paperback)
George Burford
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Girl's War (Hardcover): Doreen Drewry Lehr A Girl's War (Hardcover)
Doreen Drewry Lehr
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It probably doesn't surprise anyone to learn that for each one of us, a childhood does matter. It's a lesson the planners of Britain's World War II evacuations should have kept in mind. Doreen Drewry Lehr searches for her childhood, lost when she was sent away from her mother before she was even five. She finds precious clues in conversations with those who shared her wartime experiences on the beautiful, isolated and harsh Yorkshire Moors. The second part of the book surveys Britain's social policies that separated children from home and parents
from the 17th century until 1967, when the last children left Britain - the majority falsely labeled as "orphans."

The Wvu Coed Murders - Who Killed Mared and Karen? (Paperback): Geoffrey C. Fuller, S James McLaughlin The Wvu Coed Murders - Who Killed Mared and Karen? (Paperback)
Geoffrey C. Fuller, S James McLaughlin
R721 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lion and the Rose : The 1/5th Battalion the King's Own Royal Lancast (Hardcover): Kevin Shannon The Lion and the Rose : The 1/5th Battalion the King's Own Royal Lancast (Hardcover)
Kevin Shannon
R779 R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Save R102 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on many unpublished sources, this book narrates the individual parts played by over 1,500 of those who served with the 1/5th King's Own in the Great War. First seeing action in Flanders in March 1915, they fought in almost all of the major campaigns on the Western Front. Initially recruited from Lancaster, Morecambe, Blackpool and Fleetwood, this battalion was very much a 'family' unit with many of the men closely related and no less than seven father-son relationships within the battalion. Though these relationships helped strengthen the men in times of need, when casualties were suffered they brought extra heartache to the battlefield. Often, these tragic outcomes are related in the men's own words. Using a combination of mainly unpublished sources, this volume details the deeds of this gallant battalion. Wherever possible, accurate coordinates have been given for the places men served, fought and in many cases, were wounded or died. A series of sketch maps detail the trench locations in which the battalion fought. An appendix listing nearly 3,500 officers and men who served with the 1/5th is included and is the most complete battalion roll ever published.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback): James Baldwin The Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback)
James Baldwin; Foreword by Stacey Abrams
R423 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R61 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Need To Know - World War II And The Rise Of American Intelligence [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition):... Need To Know - World War II And The Rise Of American Intelligence [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Nicholas Reynolds
R757 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Memorial (Paperback): Amanda Laws Beyond the Memorial (Paperback)
Amanda Laws
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Continent Erupts - Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Hardcover): Ronald H. Spector A Continent Erupts - Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Hardcover)
Ronald H. Spector
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and Malaya-the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the famous surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, civil war, communal clashes and insurgency engulfed the continent, from Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars were raging in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East and Southeast Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries and international archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.

Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Paperback): Timothy Snyder Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Paperback)
Timothy Snyder
R782 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R274 (35%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. ? Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.

Unsinkable - Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Paperback): James Sullivan Unsinkable - Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Paperback)
James Sullivan
R482 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Monty's Rhine Adventure (Paperback): Patrick Delaforce Monty's Rhine Adventure (Paperback)
Patrick Delaforce
R480 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R40 (8%) Out of stock

This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the Bulge. Monty's Rhine Adventure begins immediately after the Normandy invasion with the euphoria surrounding the belief that the war would soon be won. However, it was not to be as easy Monty hoped. The book covers the difficult next few months as the Allies slogged through France and Belgium fighting stern and skilled Nazi resistance. However, the centrepiece of Monty's Rhine Adventure is Operation Market garden - Monty's bold plan to cut through the German defences via the eight bridges which spanned the Dutch/German border. The book deals with the plan, its execution and its aftermath in rigorous detail. Had Market Garden gone to plan, it might have led to the overall defeat of the Third Reich before the end of 1944. As it was, it was the Russians that entered Berlin first in May 1945. Nonetheless, this period remains one of the boldest and most exciting of the Second World War.

An Unremarked Sacrifice (Paperback): Ken Wayman An Unremarked Sacrifice (Paperback)
Ken Wayman
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mercury Rising - John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (Paperback): Jeff Shesol Mercury Rising - John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (Paperback)
Jeff Shesol
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War-a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival-and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America's sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut's heroics lifted the nation's hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."

In Harm's Way - The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Revised and Updated)... In Harm's Way - The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Revised and Updated) (Paperback)
Doug Stanton
R506 R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nine Days - The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election (Paperback): Paul Kendrick, Stephen... Nine Days - The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election (Paperback)
Paul Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
R522 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Republic of Detours - How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Paperback): Scott Borchert Republic of Detours - How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Paperback)
Scott Borchert
R500 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eagle Day - The Battle of Britain August 6th - September 15th 1940 (Paperback): Richard Collier Eagle Day - The Battle of Britain August 6th - September 15th 1940 (Paperback)
Richard Collier
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Key title in the new Uniform Legends series. Up close and personal accounts of pilots who were there, first written in the 1960's when many of the surviving British and German airmen were in or entering their middle years

Ginger Lacey - Fighter Pilot (Paperback): Richard Townshend Bickers Ginger Lacey - Fighter Pilot (Paperback)
Richard Townshend Bickers
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wonderful account of one of the top Battle of Britain fighter pilots. Written by one of the foremost military aviation authors who was an RAF Officer himself and personally knew Lacey.

Legendary Warrior of the SAS - Robert Blair Mayne (Paperback): John O'Neill Legendary Warrior of the SAS - Robert Blair Mayne (Paperback)
John O'Neill
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
J for Johnnie (Paperback, New edition): John Trotman J for Johnnie (Paperback, New edition)
John Trotman
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
It Was an Awful Sunday - The 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at the Battle of Festubert 15-17 May 1915 (Paperback):... It Was an Awful Sunday - The 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at the Battle of Festubert 15-17 May 1915 (Paperback)
Michael James Nugent
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nothing Can Stop Us - The Definitive History of 514 Squadron RAF (Paperback): Simon Hepworth Nothing Can Stop Us - The Definitive History of 514 Squadron RAF (Paperback)
Simon Hepworth
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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