Military History & Warfare

Elizabeth Longford - Wellington ( 2 Volume Biography - The Years of the Sword ( 1969) | Pillar of State (1972)- HB

A two volume uniform set of Elizabeth Longford's biography of the Duke of Wellington - the first volume covers his youth and military career , the second his post militart career as a a politician...

Mark Arnold-Forster - The World At War - HB- 1973

Hardcover , third printing in the year of publication, 1973, the tie-in edition to the Thames TV series of the same name, memorably narrated by Laurence Olivier. Many of those who took part in WW2...

Dorothy MacArdle - The Irish Republic - HB 4th Edition 1951 ( Originally 1937) - Revolutionary Ireland

The Irish Republic was the first complete history of the struggle that started with the proclamaition of the Republic and ended, or seemed to end, with the Republican defeat and ceasefire order of 24...

Owen Matthews / Overreach

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Lucette Matalon Lagnado / Children of the Flames

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel...

Nevil Shute / Pastoral

Set during the turmoil of World War II, this novel tells the story of a brave young fighter pilot, Peter Marshall, and a pretty WAAF officer. The author's other novels include "A Town Like Alice" and...

Josef Skvorecky / The Cowards

The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in...

Primo Levi / If This Is A Man/The Truce

Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary. Featuring a new introduction from the author of Jews Don't Count, David...

Martin Gilbert / Kristallnacht

One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of World War II - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population...

Alan Bullock / Hitler and Stalin

A comparative study of the lives and careers of Hitler and Stalin. Alternate chapters on each serve both to draw contrasts and highlight parallels. The author gives his reasons for believing that the...

Noel Mostert / The Line Upon A Wind

In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland and by 1815, established dynasties and kingdoms were overthrown, the United States had been established as a world power and a new age was...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Dunkirk

* * * S pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the...

Mark Ryan / The Hornet's Sting

The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum's action-packed career as a British-run...

Sam Kean / The Bastard Brigade

New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb     This book is second hand, and...

Richard Collier / The Sands of Dunkirk

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Lost in Shangri-La

An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...

Jan Karski / Story of a Secret State

'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate?... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben...

Alasdair Cross / The Spitfire Kids

A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire     This book is...

Peter Padfield / Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the...

Martin Middlebrook / The Battle of Hamburg

Bestselling Martin Middlebrook¿s classic account of the battle for Hamburg: a description of a text book campaign, where the British Bomber Command got everything right.     This book is second hand,...

Sebastian Haffner / The Meaning Of Hitler

A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. 'Dazzlingly brilliant' OBSERVER...

Heinz Knoke / I flew for the Fuhrer

Heinz Knoke won Germany's highest award for gallantry: the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Joining the German air force on the eve of the Second World War, he fought throughout the conflict in a...

Lucas Paul / Gestapo the Story Behind the Nazis Machine of Terror

The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler...

Albert Speer / Inside The Third Reich.

The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Philipp Von Boeselager / Valkyrie

The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. 'The last of its kind... celebrates a long-since vanished generation... as...

Lena Mukhina / The Diary of Lena Mukhina

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also...

Robin Bruce-Lockhart / Reilly Ace of Spies

A 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, the British Secret Service, his background was a...

Craig Cabell / Snipers: Profiles of the World's Deadliest Killers

Snipers are numbered among the most highly trained and efficient of all trained killers. They can act as lone agents or as part of a strategic military force. From the French sniper who shot Admiral...

Ian Beckett / Ypres: The First Battle 1914

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett...

Martin W. Bowman / Wild Blue Yonder - The US 8th Air Force in Britain(Coffee Table Book)

'Two nations divided by a common language': this was never more true than in 1942 when the first American airmen arrived in the UK. Young Americans were puzzled, amazed and often exasperated by the...

Richard Bennett / Fighting Forces (Coffee Table Book)

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13 World-leading Historians / The D-Day Companion (Coffee Table Book)

Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, 'The D-Day Companion' book brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the...

George Morrison & Tim Pat Coogan - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - HB- 2005

The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the...

Alfred Price / Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII (Coffee Table Book)

During the six years of World War II the science of aviation advanced more rapidly than in any other similar period in history. From that forcing-house of development, five types of aircraft emerged...

Roger A. Freeman / B-17 Fortress (Coffee Table Book)

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Chris Bishop / Vietnam War Diary (Coffee Table Book)

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Philip J. Haythornthwaite / A Photo History of World War One (Coffee Table Book)

More than 450 contemporary photo graphs feature in this pictorial study of the armies at war during 1914-1918. Each illustration is accompanied by detailed captions and each has been chosen to...

Seymour M. Hersh / The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating...

Geoffrey C. Ward / The Civil War : An Illustrated History of the War Between the States (Coffee Table Book)

The American Civil War was the largest wa

Tony Ross & Joan Charles / Dear Joan (Hardback)

Extracts from the largest known surviving collection of love letters from the Second World War     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Peter Darman / Weapons and Equipment of the SAS (Coffee Table Book)

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Steve Crawford / SAS Encyclopedia: History, tactics, weapons and equipment (Coffee Table Book)

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Chris McNab / The SAS Handbook of Living off the Land (Coffee Table Book)

Barry Davies / SAS: the Illustrated History (Coffee Table Book)

A pictorial history that covers every are

Jonathan Steele / Ghosts of Afghanistan (Hardback)

Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the...

Peter Darman / SAS (Hardback)

The British Special Air Service (SAS), together with its Australian and New Zealand counterparts, is synonymous with military excellence. This work explores the SAS's training, weapon skills,...

Mike Sutton / Typhoon (Hardback)

Mike Sutton led the RAF's premier Typhoon squadron into battle against a brutal enemy. Flying the world's most advanced multi-role combat jet, every mission across the treacherous skies above Syria...

Chris Ryan / The One That Got Away (Hardback)

The Bravo Two Zero mission, conducted by the SAS behind Iraqi lines, involved eight members of the regiment in one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Ryan was hurt...

Basharat Peer / Curfewed Night (Hardback)

Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) / Civil Defence Handbook (Advising Householder Protection Against Nuclear Attack) (Hardback)

In 1963, the Home Office and Central Office of Information distributed this handbook for the civil defence, police and fire services to advise the public on what to do in the event of a nuclear...

Patrick Joseph Bishop / Target Tirpitz (Hardback)

Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was...

W.E. May / The Boats of Men of War (Coffee Table Book)

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