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The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: August 21, 1925 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: August 21, 1925 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3: July 15, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3: July 15, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 4: May 26, 1922 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 4: May 26, 1922 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2: August 13, 1920 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2: August 13, 1920 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1: Part I.; Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers,... Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1: Part I.; Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, Based Upon "the Century War Series" (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Robert Underwood Johnson
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In Memoriam: Susan M. (Page) Currier, 1838-1910 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): unknownauthor In Memoriam: Susan M. (Page) Currier, 1838-1910 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
unknownauthor
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Virginia in the Civil War (Paperback): Joseph A D'Arezzo Virginia in the Civil War (Paperback)
Joseph A D'Arezzo
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Hardcover): Robbie Burns Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Hardcover)
Robbie Burns
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear, hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL, FREng

Thrown Upon the World - A True Story (Hardcover): George Kolber, Charles Kolber Thrown Upon the World - A True Story (Hardcover)
George Kolber, Charles Kolber
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Paperback): Robbie Burns Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Paperback)
Robbie Burns
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear, hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL, FREng

Sword - D-Day Trial By Battle (Paperback): Max Hastings Sword - D-Day Trial By Battle (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R440 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R91 (21%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years.

Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for.

In Sword, veteran chronicler of war Max Hastings explores with extraordinary vividness the actions of the Commando brigade, Montgomery’s 3rd Infantry and 6th Airborne divisions on and around a single British beach. He describes their frustrations, hopes, loves and fears through the apparently interminable years training and preparing in England, then their triumphs and tragedies on the beach and beyond. Here are the airborne assaults on the Caen Canal bridge and Merville Battery, the battles on the shoreline and against the German strongpoints inland, narrated and explained with all the insights that Hastings’ decades of study, veterans’ interviews and new archive research enable him to deploy. The book offers a searching analysis of why British troops did not reach Caen on 6 June, as Montgomery had promised Churchill that they would – and the story of the brigadier who was sacked for that failure. There is also a host of personal portraits of key figures from commando leader Lord Lovat, famously brave but supremely arrogant, to tank colonel Jim Eadie, whose tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry repulsed a panzer division in the last hours of 6 June, and some of the humbler participants to whom extraordinary things happened.

This is D-Day as you have never read the story told before, with the blend of narrative, analysis and human insight that made Max Hastings’ last book Operation Biting, like many of his earlier works, a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller.

Allies At War - How The Struggles Between The Allied Powers Shaped The War And The World (Hardcover): Tim Bouverie Allies At War - How The Struggles Between The Allied Powers Shaped The War And The World (Hardcover)
Tim Bouverie
R992 R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Save R176 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A “revelatory” (The Guardian) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the critically acclaimed author of Appeasement.

After the fall of France in June 1940, all that stood between Adolf Hitler and total victory was a narrow stretch of water and the defiance of the British people. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United States into the conflict, drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart, and persuade neutral countries to resist German domination.

By early 1942, after the German invasion of Russia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the British-Soviet-American alliance was in place. Yet it was an improbable and incongruous coalition, divided by ideology and politics and riven with mistrust and deceit. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were partners in the fight to defeat Hitler, but they were also rivals who disagreed on strategy, imperialism, and the future of liberated Europe. Only by looking at their areas of conflict, as well as cooperation, are we able to understand the course of the war and world that developed in its aftermath.

Allies at War is a fast-paced, narrative history, based on material drawn from more than a hundred archives. Using vivid, firsthand accounts and unpublished diaries, Bouverie invites readers into the rooms where the critical decisions were made and goes beyond the confines of the Grand Alliance to examine, among other topics, the doomed Anglo-French partnership and fractious relations with General Charles de Gaulle and the Free French, and interactions with Poland, Greece, Francoist Spain and neutral Ireland, Yugoslavia, and Nationalist China.

Ambitious and compelling, revealing the political drama behind the military events, Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.

King's Road: for King and Country (Paperback): Judy Sutton, Helen Little King's Road: for King and Country (Paperback)
Judy Sutton, Helen Little
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Born out of a desire to commemorate those men from King's Road, St Albans, who lost their lives in the Great War, the road's current residents suggested the idea of a lasting memorial. Then came the task of researching the lives and the families of those men. It involved many hours of leafing through old newspapers and archives, obtaining advice from local and national bodies and seeking help from relatives of the deceased. A further memorial - this book, which includes a brief history of this street - is the result. The book was compiled by Compiled by Judy Sutton & Helen Little with help and support from many others.

Time Trap two (Paperback): Richard Smith Time Trap two (Paperback)
Richard Smith
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jamie and Todd are horrified to learn that the grand plan, which they thought had been defeated, might be about to be implemented in 1775, America. Hector and Catherine have to go back in time and thwart Travis - an agent of the grand plan - who is hell bent on world domination. Jamie and Todd go with Hector and Catherine on a mission to 1775, to prevent a super gun from being used in the battle of bunker hill, during the American war of independence, but they have only days to stop history from being altered.

Hospital Sketches - An Army Nurses's True Account of Her Experience During the Civil War (Hardcover): Louisa May Alcott Hospital Sketches - An Army Nurses's True Account of Her Experience During the Civil War (Hardcover)
Louisa May Alcott
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Honours, Decorations, and Medals to The Royal Corps of Signals for Gallantry & Distinguished Service 1920-2020 (Hardcover):... Honours, Decorations, and Medals to The Royal Corps of Signals for Gallantry & Distinguished Service 1920-2020 (Hardcover)
Nick Metcalfe
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In every year since the formation of The Royal Corps of Signals in 1920, its officers and soldiers have been formally recognised for their gallantry and distinguished services on operations across the globe and their vital contribution to the wider tasks undertaken by the British Army. Published by the Royal Signals Institution in celebration of the 2020 centennial this volume records all honours, decorations, and medals awarded since 1920. It includes a wealth of long-forgotten and rarely-seen material and it also records many hundreds of awards that acknowledge the complexity of Royal Signals in its early years-its inextricable link to the Indian Signal Corps; the interweaving of units and personnel from across the Commonwealth during the Second World War and in Korea, Malaya, and Borneo; the role played by Queen's Gurkha Signals and by locally recruited personnel from Palestine, Malaya, Hong Kong, and Malta; and the crucial contribution made by women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War and the Women's Royal Army Corps in the post-Second World War period. The volume comprises three parts. To put the operational awards in context, Section One takes a chronological tour through the history of Royal Signals in three eras-the campaigns of the inter-war years, the Second World War, and global conflict and insurgency since 1945. Other chapters deal with non-combatant gallantry and exploration. With many awards no longer available and unfamiliar to many readers in the present-day, Section Two describes the various honours, decorations, and medals in three sub-sections-awards for bravery, awards for distinguished service, and the Mention in Despatches and the various King's and Queen's commendations for bravery and valuable service. The origin and use of each award are explained briefly, and detail is given about the number conferred; many of these chapters contain biographical details of the recipients. Section Three comprises the Register of Awards. It includes 682 honours, decorations, and medals for gallantry (the recommendations or citations for which are replicated in full), and 2,582 appointments to the various orders of chivalry and awards of the British Empire Medal, the Queen's Volunteer Reserves Medal, and the Polar Medal. It also records the recipients of a little under 6,200 mentions in despatches, 36 King's and Queen's Commendations for Bravery or Brave Conduct, 109 Queen's Commendations for Valuable Service, and a multitude of foreign awards. The Register is supported by ten appendices. Six record recipients from the various Empire and Commonwealth signal units linked to Royal Signals in time of conflict or war. The others document awards to personnel of the various women's services; to Queen's Gurkha Signals and to locally enlisted personnel from Malaya, Hong Kong and Malta; to military and civilian personnel attached to Royal Signals; and those recognised by the Royal Signals Institution.

Brooklyn and the Civil War (Paperback): E a Livingston Brooklyn and the Civil War (Paperback)
E a Livingston
R482 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While Manhattan was the site of many important Civil War events, Brooklyn also played an important part in the war. Henry Ward Beecher "auctioned off" slaves at the Plymouth Church, raising the money to free them. Walt Whitman reported news of the war in a Brooklyn paper and wrote some of his most famous works. At the same time, Brooklyn both grappled with and embraced unique challenges, from the arrival of new immigrants to the formation of one of the nation's first baseball teams. Local historian Bud Livingston crafts the portrait of Brooklyn in transition--shaped by the Civil War while also leaving its own mark on the course of the terrible conflict.

The Cell in Vladimir (Hardcover): Charles Wood The Cell in Vladimir (Hardcover)
Charles Wood
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On 2 September 1944, a German Wehrmacht Liaison Officer was captured by the Russians in Bucharest. His name was Lieutenant-Colonel Heinz-Helmut von Hinckeldey and he was to remain a "war convict" of the Soviets until 1955. For 11 years, Heinz-Helmut von Hinckeldey had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of imprisonment; the filth and squalor of the cells, in which he was kept; the agony of isolation and repeated self-examination; and the pain of ignorance, of not knowing if his motherland (Germany) still existed or whether those he loved, ever realized that he was alive. The personal Story that, like countless others, would never have been told, had it not been for the admiration and fascination built up over time by the Author, Charles Wood

Blood Money - Stories Of An Ex-Recce's Missions In Iraq (Paperback): Johan Raath Blood Money - Stories Of An Ex-Recce's Missions In Iraq (Paperback)
Johan Raath 2
R300 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A riveting, action-filled account that sheds light on the realities of working in a war-torn country, this is the first book on the war in Iraq by a South African.

Johan Raath and a security team were escorting American engineers to a power plant south of Baghdad when they were ambushed. He had first arrived in Iraq only two weeks before. This was a small taste of what was to come over the next 13 years while he worked there as a private military contractor (PMC). His mission? Not to wage war but to protect lives. Raath acted as a bodyguard for VIPs and, more often, engineers who were involved in construction projects to rebuild the country after the 2003 war. His physical and mental endurance was tested to the limit in his efforts to safeguard construction sites that were regularly subjected to mortar and suicide attacks. Key to his survival was his training as a Special Forces operator, or Recce.

Working in places called the Triangle of Death and driving on the ‘Hell Run’, Raath had numerous hair-raising experiences. As a trained combat medic he also helped to save people’s lives after two suicide bomb attacks on sites he then worked at.

The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback): Anthony Malkin The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback)
Anthony Malkin
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The tour guide is designed specifically for the enthusiast wanting to explore and discover more about Israel's military history. But instead of simply reading about historical events this guide takes the traveller to the battle sites themselves throughout Israel. The guide is in chronological order starting with the First World War and taking you through selective events in history up to 2006. From a geographical perspective the tour will take you from southern Israel through the Jordan Valley and on to the Golan Heights in the north by the Syrian and Lebanese border.

Naval Sketch-Book, Or, the Service Afloat and Ashore (Paperback): William Nugent Glascock Naval Sketch-Book, Or, the Service Afloat and Ashore (Paperback)
William Nugent Glascock
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot - or Cameron Highlanders (Paperback): Robert Jameson Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot - or Cameron Highlanders (Paperback)
Robert Jameson
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon - Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution... History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon - Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution (Paperback)
Adolphe Thiers
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field - Southern Adventure in Time of War: Life With the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana... Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field - Southern Adventure in Time of War: Life With the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation (Paperback)
Thomas Wallace Knox
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Crusaders, Or, Scenes, Events, and Characters from the Times of the Crusades (Paperback): Thomas Keightley The Crusaders, Or, Scenes, Events, and Characters from the Times of the Crusades (Paperback)
Thomas Keightley
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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