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How the Girl Guides Won the War
Janie HamptonCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world the Girl Guides and how they helped win the war. ...
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The Junak King: Life as a British POW, 1941-45
Sydney LitherlandCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British and C...
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Belfast to Benghazi: Untold Challenges of War
Rupert WielochCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Current price €19.54Original price €22.99Save 15% -
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik LarsonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - i...
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War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944
Tony ReddingCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word Chindit will alwa...
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The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis
Wes DavisCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the...
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Engineer in Gray: Memoirs of Chief Engineer James H. Tomb, CSN
James H. TombCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Chief Engineer James Hamilton Tomb (1839-1929) devoted almost 12 years of his early life to wartime naval service - first in the Confederate States...
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Journey Through Hell: Memoir of a World War II American Navy Medic Captured in the Philippines and Imprisoned by the Japanese
Loren E. StampCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found himself aiding many of his fellow captives who had been wounded in ...
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A Northern Confederate at Johnson''s Island Prison: The Civil War Diaries of James Parks Caldwell
James Parks CaldwellCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50A college graduate at 16 and a founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant. He fought ...
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War in Aquarius: Memoir of an American Infantryman in the Vietnam War
Dennis KitchinCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volu...
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Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam, 1965-1966
Franklin CoxCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.S. Marine experience at war in Vietnam, this memoir recounts the experiences of a young officer in a serie...
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Ese to Master Jefe: From street gang life in South Central Los Angeles to US Navy Master Chief
Raul R. RamosCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Current price €27.63Original price €32.50Save 15% -
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No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Polands Forces in World War II
Kenneth K. KoskodanCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50An in-depth history of the Polish soldiers who served in World War 2, with previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photographs. There ...
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Reilly Ace of Spies
Robin Bruce-LockhartCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A huge figure in the history of British espionage and one of the models for James Bond, Sidney Reilly was born in Russia in 1873. To his employers...
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Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling
Mark S. SmithCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years lat...
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A Soldier''s Best Friend: The Canine Heroes of Afghanistan
Stephen Paul StewartCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Military working dogs are silently winning the war against the world's deadliest insurgents; day after day saving soldiers' lives in the most dange...
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Save 15% Black Hawk Down
Mark BowdenCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 19...
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Deliver Us From This Cruel War
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Joseph J. Hoyle enlisted in the Confederate Army in May 1862 as a private. By the time of his death in September 1864, he was serving as a lieutena...
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Save 15% Part of Life Itself: The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
Leslie MillerCurrent price €53.54Original price €62.99This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (18891979), a Canadian soldier who served in the ...
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Save 15% Casualties of Conflict: Fatalities of the War of Independence and Civil War in Glasnevin Cemetery
Conor DoddCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99From the ordinary to the extraordinary, Casualties of Conflict explores the lives and deaths of over 300 individuals laid to rest in Dublin's iconi...
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Save 15% The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
Nathaniel ZinsserCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50You don't have to be born confident. You can learn to be confident. Here's how.Dr Nate Zinsser works with the cream of the US military to prepare t...
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Save 15% A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine As heard on BBC Radio 4
Andrew HardingCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of A...
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Save 15% Part of Life Itself: The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
Leslie MillerCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (18891979), a Canadian soldier who served in the ...
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Save 15% Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
Ben MacintyreCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Brought to you by Penguin.A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed...
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Save 15% Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937
Dan WaddellCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrers wishes. Bu...
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Save 15% Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale
Sean O'DriscollCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times_____The story behind the hit movie Baltimore, starring Imogen Poot...
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Save 15% War and American Literature
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €90.94Original price €106.99This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...
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Save 15% Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
Saul DavidCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the Bri...
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Save 15% Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
Saul DavidCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the Bri...
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Save 15% Call Me an American
April CaoCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99In Call Me an American, Captain Caos triumphant journey of sacrifice and perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds, speaks to the enduring powe...
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Save 15% Don''t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
Atef Abu SaifCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99On October 7, Israeli territory around the Erez border of Gaza Strip was invaded in a surprise attack by Hamas's Al Qassam Brigades. In response to...
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Save 15% Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales - THE PERFECT FATHER''S DAY GIFT
Aldo KaneCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50'The thinking man's action hero' - The Times MagazineTrained Royal Marines Sniper, world record breaker and extreme TV adventurer, Aldo Kane is kno...
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Save 15% Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Burkhard BilgerCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
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Save 15% The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
Thomas McKelvey CleaverCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off ...
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Save 15% Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Brent E. JonesCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50During the late stages in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer was wounded in action, but vowed to return. In 1944 he...
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From Night Flak to Hijack: It''s a Small World
Captain Reginald LevyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99This is the autobiography of Reginald Levy, a British pilot who reached a total of 25,090 flying hours in over forty years of civil, military and c...
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