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Royal Air Force and Australian Flying Corps Squadron Losses - 1st April - 30th June 1918 (Paperback): W.R. Chorley Royal Air Force and Australian Flying Corps Squadron Losses - 1st April - 30th June 1918 (Paperback)
W.R. Chorley
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Hardcover): Gary Turner I'll Take My Chances - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Gary Turner
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Whizzbangs and Woodbines - Tales of Work and Play on the Western Front (Paperback): J. C. V. Durell Whizzbangs and Woodbines - Tales of Work and Play on the Western Front (Paperback)
J. C. V. Durell
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1918 Whizzbangs and Woodbines presents a candid portrait of life behind the lines on the Western Front by Reverend Durell, then Rector of Rotherhithe, and Chief Commissioner of the Church Army in France.The Church Army, along with its counterparts the YMCA, TOC-H and Salvation Army played an important part in the support and morale of soldiers in war. In addition to providing spiritual support,the Church Army welcomed more than 200,000 men each day to their recreation huts and provided visits and gifts to the wounded, tents and hostels near the front lines, drove ambulances, mobile canteens and kitchen cars.In addition to voluntary Church services, for those who wished to attend, a simple salvation from trench life was offered; music, singing, concerts, card games,billiards and refreshments, all small measures of joy in the midst of dangers and hardships and as vital to the continued war effort as bullets and shells. For a packet of woodbines and a cup of tea was restorative ammunition enough for the average British Tommy.

Through the Gate (Paperback): Kenneth Ballantyne Through the Gate (Paperback)
Kenneth Ballantyne
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In Memoriam - Louisa Blake Steedman Mason (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): unknownauthor In Memoriam - Louisa Blake Steedman Mason (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
unknownauthor
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 - Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (Hardcover): Alex J. Kay Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 - Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (Hardcover)
Alex J. Kay; Edited by Alex J. Kay; JEFF Jeff Rutherford; Edited by JEFF Jeff Rutherford; David Stahel; Edited by …
R3,026 Discovery Miles 30 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices -- became most obvious. Germany's military aggression and overtly ideological conduct, culminating in genocide against Soviet Jewry and the decimation of the Soviet population through planned starvation and brutal antipartisan policies, distinguished Operation Barbarossa-the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union-from all previous military campaigns in modern European history. This collection of essays, written by young scholars of seven different nationalities, provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable gap in English-language literature on Germany's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the radicalization of World War II during this critical year. Alex J. Kay is the author of Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 and is an independent contractor for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences. Jeff Rutherford is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he teaches modern European history. David Stahel is the author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East and Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East.

U.S. Air Force Special Tactics (Hardcover): Combat Control School Heritage Foundation (Ccshf) U.S. Air Force Special Tactics (Hardcover)
Combat Control School Heritage Foundation (Ccshf)
R4,279 R3,458 Discovery Miles 34 580 Save R821 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Line 1914-1918 (Paperback): Georg Bucher In the Line 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Georg Bucher; Translated by Norman Gullick
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georg Bucher, a German infantryman from 1914 had lost almost all of his closest friends by 1918. The last friend he lost, Riedel, was crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war. This is his tale in their memory. A sergeant by 1918, Bucher describes nearly every part of the Western Front - the Marne, Verdun,Somme, Ypres, the Vosges and the 1918 Spring Offensive in vivid detail. He illustrates how his psychological state changed over the course of the war, how a soldier can in a split second turn from a human being into a killing machine without pity, killing as second nature, without thought.The raw endurance required to survive the trenches is narrated in undiluted fashion, no horrors are spared; the quagmire of 3rd Ypres, unrelenting lice and rats, the stench of death and descriptions ofa bhorrent actions such as (so Bucher alleges) French soldiers, under the influence of absinthe, mutilating some of his company for revenge on the Senegalese.Fans of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' or 'Storm of Steel' will be delighted to discover Bucher's work.

German Submarine Warfare - A Study of its Methods and Spirit, Including the Crime of the Lusitania (Paperback): Wesley Frost German Submarine Warfare - A Study of its Methods and Spirit, Including the Crime of the Lusitania (Paperback)
Wesley Frost
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1918, this book is a record of observations and evidence compiled by the then US Consul in Queenstown, Eire. A rare study from first-hand accounts. Contains detailed testimonies of survivors from over fifty vessels attacked and often sunk by German submarines during the Great War.A vivid and accurate picture of the tactics and motives of German submarine warfare is provided in the first part of the book. The second part concentrate son the attack and sinking of RMS Lusitania. The sinking of the Lusitania remains a controversial topic with the loss of 1,198 lives on 7May 1915

Collections of the New-York Historical Society - For the Year 1874 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): New York Historical Society Collections of the New-York Historical Society - For the Year 1874 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
New York Historical Society
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3 - October 14, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): American Legion National Headquarters The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 3 - October 14, 1921 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
American Legion National Headquarters
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
EXERCISE TIGER CASUALTY COVER UP REVEALED 2017 (Paperback): Richard Bass EXERCISE TIGER CASUALTY COVER UP REVEALED 2017 (Paperback)
Richard Bass
R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In Memoriam - George R. Mather, M. D (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): unknownauthor In Memoriam - George R. Mather, M. D (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
unknownauthor
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram - A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War (Paperback): David M.... The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram - A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War (Paperback)
David M. Guss
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through ten different POW camps and three Gestapo prisons. He became a serial escapee – fleeing his captors no fewer than twenty-one times, including his final, and finally successful, escape from a POW column in April 1945.

Perhaps the most dramatic of his attempts was from Gavi, the ‘Italian Colditz’. Gavi was a maximum-security prison near Genoa for the pericolosi, the ‘most dangerous’ inmates because of their perpetual hunger to escape. It was here that Alastair met David Stirling, the legendary founder of the SAS, and cooked up the plan for what would become the ‘Cistern Tunnel’ escape, one of the most audacious but hitherto little-known mass escape attempts of the entire war.

A story of courage in the face of extraordinary odds, it is a testament to one man's dogged determination never to give up.

Munich, 1938 - Appeasement and World War II (Paperback): David Faber Munich, 1938 - Appeasement and World War II (Paperback)
David Faber
R769 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R90 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting in Munich with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. As he disembarked from the aircraft, he held aloft a piece of paper, which contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with one another again. He had returned bringing "Peace with honour--Peace for our time."

Drawing on a wealth of archival material, acclaimed historian David Faber delivers a sweeping reassessment of the extraordinary events of 1938, tracing the key incidents leading up to the Munich Conference and its immediate aftermath: Lord Halifax's ill-fated meeting with Hitler; Chamberlain's secret discussions with Mussolini; and the Berlin scandal that rocked Hitler's regime. He takes us to Vienna, to the Sudentenland, and to Prague. In Berlin, we witness Hitler inexorably preparing for war, even in the face of opposition from his own generals; in London, we watch as Chamberlain makes one supreme effort after another to appease Hitler.

Resonating with an insider's feel for the political infighting Faber uncovers, "Munich, 1938 "transports us to the war rooms and bunkers, revealing the covert negotiations and" "scandals upon which the world's fate would rest. It is modern history writing at its best.""

Via Ypres - Story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances (Paperback): Allan Jobson Via Ypres - Story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances (Paperback)
Allan Jobson
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances beings in the year of 1915 at various recruiting offices, and continues in a thin, uncertain stream of variable humanity, finding its way to the Sussex Downs, facing the sea, at Cow Gap, Eastbourne, Here the lines of white tents, the whitewashed stones, the martial sounds and atmosphere welcomed the embryo soldier to the service of his country, and to fellowship unique and abiding. These embryo soldiers were to become the men that would be responsible for the mobile frontline medical units and had special responsibility for the care of casualties of the Brigades in their Division. Via Ypres tells of these young men - mostly mere boys and non-militaristic in their education - faced with the task of preparing to go to war to take part in the great struggle. These happy, cheerful and perhaps a bit casual soon-to-be soldiers remained just so once training was over but also became the gallant and efficient men who were to be faced with the danger and misery that war cannot help but bring; in doing so potentially risk their lives to save those of their comrades.

Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944 (Hardcover): Bodleian Library Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944 (Hardcover)
Bodleian Library
R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Don't be too ready to listen to stories told by attractive women. They may be acting under orders." This was only one of the many warnings given to the 30,000 British troops preparing to land in the enemy territory of Nazi Germany nine-and-a-half months after D-Day. The newest addition to the Bodleian Library's bestselling series of wartime pamphlets, "Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944" opens an intriguing window into the politics and military stratagems that brought about the end of World War II.
The pamphlet is both a succinct survey of German politics, culture, and history and a work of British propaganda. Not only does the pamphlet cover general cultural topics such as food and drink, currency, and social customs, but it also explains the effect of years of the war on Germans and their attitudes toward the British. The book admonishes, "The Germans are not good at controlling their feelings. They have a streak of hysteria. You will find that Germans may often fly into a passion if some little thing goes wrong." The mix of humor and crude stereotypes--"If you have to give orders to German civilians, give them in a firm, military manner. The German civilian is used to it and expects it"--in the text make this pamphlet a stark reminder of the wartime fears and hopes of the British.
By turns a manual on psychological warfare, a travel guide, and a historical survey, "Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944" offers incomparable insights into how the British, and by extension the Allied forces, viewed their fiercest enemy on the eve of its defeat.

A History of The Princess Mary's Hospital Royal Air Force Akrotiri 1963 - 2013 (Paperback): David Vassallo A History of The Princess Mary's Hospital Royal Air Force Akrotiri 1963 - 2013 (Paperback)
David Vassallo
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Twilight of the Special Relationship - Americans who Fought and Died in the British Armed Forces 1914-1921 (Paperback): Michael... Twilight of the Special Relationship - Americans who Fought and Died in the British Armed Forces 1914-1921 (Paperback)
Michael O'Brien
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Agony of Belgium - The Invasion of Belgium; August - December 1914 (Paperback, New edition): Major Frank Fox Agony of Belgium - The Invasion of Belgium; August - December 1914 (Paperback, New edition)
Major Frank Fox
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, following the rejection of the German Ultimatum by the King, deserves a wider audience. Throughout this account the courageous and noble qualities of King Albert in the dark days come to the fore. Whether at the Front as an active Commander-in-Chief; with his people during Zeppelin raids and artillery bombardments at Antwerp; declining refuge in France after the retreat from Ostend; or rallying his troops for rearguard actions his conduct was of the finest. His account of the "frightfulness" of the events in Louvain against the civilian population- including women and children- and the sacking of cultural treasures was not at first believed by Officials in Antwerp. However his reporting of Zeppelin raid shelped to arouse public opinion in the United States.Fox provides vivid descriptions of a terrible, and little known, conflict.

Escaping Hitler - Stories of Courage and Endurance On the Freedom Trails (Paperback): Monty Halls Escaping Hitler - Stories of Courage and Endurance On the Freedom Trails (Paperback)
Monty Halls 1
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

`I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .' Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains with German troops hot on his heels. These are just some of the stories told in heart-stopping detail as Monty Halls takes us along the freedom trails out of occupied Europe, from the immense French escape lines to lesser-known routes in Italy and Slovenia. Escaping Hitler features spies and traitors, extraordinary heroism from those who ran the escape routes and offered shelter to escapees, and great feats of endurance. The SAS in Operation Galia fought for forty days behind enemy lines in Italy and then, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, exfiltrated across the Apennine mountains. And in Slovenia Australian POW Ralph Churches and British Les Laws orchestrated the largest successful Allied escape of the entire war. Mixing new research, interviews with survivors and his own experience of walking the trails, Monty brings the past to life in this dramatic and gripping slice of military history.

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
Clipped Wings - Illustrated Diary of My RAF Service in India & Burma 1942-1946 by CPL Peter Walker (Hardcover): Clipped Wings - Illustrated Diary of My RAF Service in India & Burma 1942-1946 by CPL Peter Walker (Hardcover)
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Inspired by the discovery of her father's long-forgotten photos, diaries and letters from home, the author set about creating this book as a tribute to the bravery and sacrifices made by the armed forces in the often over-looked Indian sub-continent area of conflict, 5,000 miles away from home. Now, after six years of work and research, this book has culminated in a tremendous insight into the appalling hardships and working conditions as well as the ingenuity of the often forgotten RAF ground crew who kept the warbirds in the air. Deprived by the RAF of his Pilot's Licence due to colour blindness, Peter was based firstly in central India, maintaining old planes that were already obsolete, and then in Burma where the ground crew were also flying as cargo handlers and stretcher bearers, having to land and take off in the most hazardous of conditions on short bush strips hacked out of the Japanese-infested jungles.

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
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
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