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Product Description: In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882-1969) of the Royal Marines recounts his life and military service through both world wars. Jerram describes in candid detail his late 19th-century childhood in Devon and Cornwall, the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, the Royal Navy's Far East Station, a traditional Corps of Marines, the Gallipoli Campaign, the World War I Western Front and the interwar and World War II years...read more
By Donald F. Bittner (editor)

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9780786446186 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 6, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.

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Product Description: July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn’t caved in to Hitler’s Third Reich. Hitler’s stated aim was to ‘eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of the war against Germany’...read more

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9781445642642 | Amberley Pub Plc, January 30, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn’t caved in to Hitler’s Third Reich.

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Product Description: The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 British and Indian Army soldiers faced over 13,000 fanatical and previously victorious Japanese troops...read more

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9781473843677, titled "We Fought at Kohima: A Veteran’s Account" | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.

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Product Description: The WWII battle of Sidi Rezegh was fought in November-December 1941, part of a campaign to retake eastern Libya and drive the enemy out of North Africa. It was partially successful and achieved the badly needed relief of Tobruk. The New Zealand Division played a major role in this complex campaign...read more
By Glyn Harper (editor)

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9781921966705 | Exisle Pub, July 15, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The WWII battle of Sidi Rezegh was fought in November-December 1941, part of a campaign to retake eastern Libya and drive the enemy out of North Africa.

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9781468309225 | Overlook Pr, August 14, 2014, cover price $40.00
9780396066279, titled "Abracadaver" | Dodd Mead, September 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | also contains Abracadaver

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9781468310184 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, June 2, 2015), cover price $26.95

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Product Description: This amazing autobiography encapsulates a period of Ben Reynolds’ experiences as a soldier in the desert in North Africa and as a prisoner of war in Italy during the Second World War. It is a candid portrait of survival and survivors...read more

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9781742576374 | New Holland Pub Pty Ltd, December 1, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: This amazing autobiography encapsulates a period of Ben Reynolds’ experiences as a soldier in the desert in North Africa and as a prisoner of war in Italy during the Second World War.

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Product Description: ‘The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered...read more

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9781783831746 | Pen & Sword, February 19, 2015, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: ‘The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back.

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9781468310559 | Overlook Pr, January 8, 2015, cover price $27.95

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9781628737295 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, September 2, 2014, cover price $24.95

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9780314006851, titled "West''s California Codes Vehicle Code: 1992 Compact Edition" | West Group, June 1, 1992, cover price $35.95 | also contains West''s California Codes Vehicle Code: 1992 Compact Edition

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9781445610481 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 19, 2013, cover price $29.95

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9781445619798 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, August 19, 2014, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organized in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy occupied countries...read more

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9781783831586 | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe.

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9781629142036 | Reprint edition (Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, August 5, 2014), cover price $14.95
9781602391901 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained a collection of their father’s memoirs, which detailed his experiences as an infantry officer during the Second World War, when he served in the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders...read more
By Robin Ward (editor)

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9781843410669 | Birlinn Ltd, July 19, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow.

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9781781593714, titled "Voices in Flight: The Dambuster Squadron: The Dambuster Squadron" | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records.Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle...read more

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9781781594728 | Pen & Sword, September 30, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records.

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Product Description: A remarkable and exciting true story including escape and evasion behind enemy lines in Italy, Yugoslavia and Germany; life in a PoW camp and adventure in the Indian Ocean

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9781849950664, titled "Through Albert's Eyes: Vol. II of the British Navy at War and Peace" | Whittles Pub, September 7, 2013, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A remarkable and exciting true story including escape and evasion behind enemy lines in Italy, Yugoslavia and Germany; life in a PoW camp and adventure in the Indian Ocean

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Product Description: Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory, but a promising running career was interrupted by war service. His capture during the fall of Singapore marked the beginning of a three-and-a-half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease...read more

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9780753153369 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 2013), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants.

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9780753153376 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants.
9781780576121 | Mainstream, September 1, 2013, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: A wonderfully varied collection of women talk to Mavis Nicholson about their lives during World War II in this fascinating compilation of oral history. Frank and vivid, these stories reveal intimate details of how these women lived, worked, loved, and coped throughout those difficult years...read more
By Vera Lynn (foreword by)

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9781854115294 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, April 1, 2013, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A wonderfully varied collection of women talk to Mavis Nicholson about their lives during World War II in this fascinating compilation of oral history.

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Product Description: • Publication timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary 16-17 May 2013.• The human story of the raid both of the aircrew and the victims along the Ruhr valley.• The most detailed narrative ever of the bombing raid on the Möhne and Eder dams on the night of 16-17 May 1943...read more

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9781445611938 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, March 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: • Publication timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary 16-17 May 2013.

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