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Product Description: Compiled by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this is a fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources reflecting often-overlooked aspects of the Great War. The struggle for Verdun, the battles between Austro-Hungarian and Russian forces in the East, and the daily life in the trenches are just some of the topics in this fascinating single volume collection, which brings together four complete and intriguing memoirs...read more
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9781781591512 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Compiled by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this is a fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources reflecting often-overlooked aspects of the Great War.
Product Description: Der Adler was the official magazine of the Luftwaffe in World War II. In the years before Hitler, declared war on America an English language edition of Der Adler costing eight cents was published and widely sold in the USA. The magazine was available on American newsstands and the surviving English language editions provide readers who do not speak German with a fascinating primary source from inside the Third Reich...read more
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9781781591406 | Pen & Sword, July 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Der Adler was the official magazine of the Luftwaffe in World War II.
Product Description: This unique collection of contemporary combat accounts provides a primary source insight into the reality of the Afrika Korps in combat actions from 1941-43 in Libya and Tunisia. This fascinating compilation includes action reports and Allied intelligence reports...read more
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9781781591345 | Pen & Sword, February 19, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This unique collection of contemporary combat accounts provides a primary source insight into the reality of the Afrika Korps in combat actions from 1941-43 in Libya and Tunisia.
Product Description: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. Without these vital accounts, we would have virtually no knowledge of some of the key events in the history of these islands during the dark ages and it would be impossible to write the history of the English from the Romans to the Norman Conquest...read more
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9781781591482 | Ill ant edition (Pen & Sword, April 19, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles.
Product Description: This book reviews the complex set of military operations played out in the Netherlands during September 1944 involving the forces of Britain, Canada, Poland, the USA and Germany, providing a wide selection of sources covering each of the belligerents...read more
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9781781592373 | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This book reviews the complex set of military operations played out in the Netherlands during September 1944 involving the forces of Britain, Canada, Poland, the USA and Germany, providing a wide selection of sources covering each of the belligerents.
Product Description: This is the fascinating account of the massive German attack on Soviet Russia and the fierce fighting which took place from 1941 to October 1942. It was first published as part of the German Report Series, a unique run of publications that emerged as a result of the intensive program of post-war interviews conducted by US Intelligence with senior German officers who had served on the Eastern Front...read more
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9781781592328 | Pen & Sword, October 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the fascinating account of the massive German attack on Soviet Russia and the fierce fighting which took place from 1941 to October 1942.
Product Description: The Battle of Britain was the World War II air campaign waged by the Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command...read more
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9781781592168 | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Battle of Britain was the World War II air campaign waged by the Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
Product Description: This is the fascinating account, as recorded from the US perspective, of the bitter fighting during the eight days and nights of encirclement at Bastogne. First published in the pages of the Infantry Journal in 1946, this contemporary account by S...read more
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9781781591420 | Pen & Sword, February 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the fascinating account, as recorded from the US perspective, of the bitter fighting during the eight days and nights of encirclement at Bastogne.
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9781781592076 | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $14.95
Product Description: This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15. Rare photographs illustrating the optimistic men of the BEF in the act of mobilization and transport to France are contrasted with photographs from the battlefield during the opening phases of the campaign, which culminated in the four-year struggle for the Ypres salient...read more
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9781473836075 | Pen & Sword, September 19, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15.
Product Description: This powerful collection, depicting the grim realities of the Battle of the Somme, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humorists...read more
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9781473837874 | Ill edition (Pen & Sword, July 30, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This powerful collection, depicting the grim realities of the Battle of the Somme, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era.
Product Description: First published in 1945 and comprising a compilation of fascinating primary accounts of airborne combat as told by the very men who fought in the action, âBy Air to Battleâ is the official history of Airborne operations by British Paratroops in World War II...read more
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9781781591130 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: First published in 1945 and comprising a compilation of fascinating primary accounts of airborne combat as told by the very men who fought in the action, âBy Air to Battleâ is the official history of Airborne operations by British Paratroops in World War II.
Product Description: The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. They lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul...read more
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9781781591499 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes.
Product Description: This powerful collection, depicting cavalry engagements on all fronts, showcases the work of contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humorists...read more
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9781473837836 | Ill edition (Pen & Sword, June 19, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This powerful collection, depicting cavalry engagements on all fronts, showcases the work of contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era.
Product Description: This remarkable work features the Crimean War as depicted by the late Victorian military writer James Grant. The material here was first published in 1894, only 40 years after the end of the Crimean War, at a time when many of the participants were still in their sixties...read more
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9781781592359 | Pen & Sword, October 19, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This remarkable work features the Crimean War as depicted by the late Victorian military writer James Grant.
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9781781592212 | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $14.95
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9781781592229 | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $14.95
Product Description: This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars, which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649. The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions, which shaped the armies involved in the conflict...read more
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9781781591475 | Reprint edition (Pen & Sword, March 19, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars, which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.
Product Description: The years 1642 to 1651 were one of the bloodiest and most important periods in British history, as a series of civil wars brought backers of monarchy into death-struggle against supporters of a parliament. Follow the armies of Charles the First against those of Oliver Cromwell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780304353903 | Cassell, October 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The years 1642 to 1651 were one of the bloodiest and most important periods in British history, as a series of civil wars brought backers of monarchy into death-struggle against supporters of a parliament.
Product Description: With scarcely an interlude, the German-Soviet conflict in World War II lasted for 3 years, 10 months, and 16 days. The conflict seesawed across eastern and central Europe between the Elbe and the Volga, the Alps, and the Caucasus...read more
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9781783462476 | Ill edition (Pen & Sword, April 19, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: With scarcely an interlude, the German-Soviet conflict in World War II lasted for 3 years, 10 months, and 16 days.
Product Description: In 1967, vocalist Peter Gabriel founded the group Genesis along with keyboardist Tony Banks, and quickly became the noted, eccentric front man to an internationally-acclaimed progressive rock band. This is story of the groupâs early, halcyon days prior to Gabrielâs departure in 1975, during which albums such as Nursery Crimes, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and Foxtrot took the music scene by storm...read more
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9781906283353 | Trafalgar Square, March 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1967, vocalist Peter Gabriel founded the group Genesis along with keyboardist Tony Banks, and quickly became the noted, eccentric front man to an internationally-acclaimed progressive rock band.
Product Description: Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920 while the events were still recent history. He was able to draw on his own experience and his contacts to compile a large number of personal accounts from officers and men who had so recently fought in the cause...read more
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9781783463138 | Pen & Sword, June 19, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War.
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9781781592083 | Pen & Sword, July 19, 2013, cover price $14.95
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9781473868441 | Gardners Books, June 30, 2016, cover price $23.30
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9781473837911 | Ill edition (Pen & Sword, June 19, 2016), cover price $19.95
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