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  • Cholsey in World War II
    Barrie Charles
    The six years 1939-45 were a time of hardship, change, excitement and tragedy for the residents of Cholsey, a village in rural Berkshire. Rationing, the black-out and shortages affected everyone, while many feared for their loved ones away in the forces. Some of those who could not fight volunteered in the village, becoming members of the Home Guard, Land Army, the Air Raid P...
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    15,27 €

  • For Those Who Fought for It
    William Bisbing
    This book details the military experience of Marine William Bisbing. Mr. Bisbing enlisted in the Marines and did his boot camp training in San Diego, California. After training, he was sent to Vietnam, where he spent his tours as a Combined Action Group Marine (military advisor), which meant that his units coordinated with local Vietnamese forces and set night ambushes for the ...
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    14,53 €

  • Alexander the Great
    Steven Dewitt
    Everything you need to know about the greatest conqueror!There are a number of historic people who have lead a life of power and impact. They have contributed so much in history that up until now, their accomplishments resound in our ears very well, and remain unforgettable.One of the greatest people to ever live is the famous alexander the great, well known as the conqueror of...
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    16,03 €

  • Halgankii Gunnimadoonka
    Ibraahim Aadan Shire
    ❝BUUGGANU WUXUU DULMARAYAA marxalad Soomaalida soo martay oo aan weli si buuxda loo soo tebin. Ibraahim Aadan Shire wuxuu si aqoon iyo xirfad leh noogu soo gudbinayaa dhacdooyinkii keenay dullaankii Xabashidu ku soo gashay gobolka Gedo iyo mirihii ka dhashay. Waxaa qoraalku cuskanayaa xogogaalnimada qoraha, oo la noolaa dhacdooyinkaas, tixraacyo qoraallo hore oo si toos ah am...
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    17,47 €

  • Return to Vietnam, The Memories
    Stan Bain
    When I was waiting to board the aircraft in Saigon in July 1968, following my 13-month tour of Vietnam, the last thing I would have expected was to come back to Vietnam. Not until forty-five years after the Vietnam War ended, I was dealing with nightmares, and was diagnosed with PTSD. I was encouraged by my counselor and others to write about my experiences from Vietnam. That r...
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    12,15 €

  • Return to Vietnam, The Memories
    Stan Bain
    When I was waiting to board the aircraft in Saigon in July 1968, following my 13-month tour of Vietnam, the last thing I would have expected was to come back to Vietnam. Not until forty-five years after the Vietnam War ended, I was dealing with nightmares, and was diagnosed with PTSD. I was encouraged by my counselor and others to write about my experiences from Vietnam. That r...
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    18,86 €

  • Civil war London
    Jordan S. Downs
    London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army that would defeat the king of England. ...
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    43,87 €

  • EAST AFRICA VOLUME 1 August 1914-September 1916
    Lt-Colonel Charles Hordern
    The first (and only) published volume on the frustrating early Allied campaign in East Africa, that saw the emergence of Germany’s Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - one of the most successful and legendary guerilla leaders of all time.This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the first half of the campaign in East Africa (the planned second volume was never published)...
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    67,02 €

  • TOGOLAND AND THE CAMEROONS
    Brig-General F. J. Moberly
    This volume of the Official History of The Great War covers the little-known Togoland and Cameroon campaigns, in which British and French-led African troops took over the two German colonies. The Togoland campaign was wrapped up in August 1914, while the Cameroons - where natural obstacles and hazards were severe - ended successfully in February 1916.This volume of the Official...
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    66,55 €

  • TOGOLAND AND THE CAMEROONS
    Brig-General F. J. Moberly
    This volume of the Official History of The Great War covers the little-known Togoland and Cameroon campaigns, in which British and French-led African troops took over the two German colonies. The Togoland campaign was wrapped up in August 1914, while the Cameroons - where natural obstacles and hazards were severe - ended successfully in February 1916.This volume of the Official...
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    83,64 €

  • EAST AFRICA VOLUME 1 August 1914-September 1916
    Lt-Colonel Charlles Hordern
    The first (and only) published volume on the frustrating early Allied campaign in East Africa, that saw the emergence of Germany’s Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - one of the most successful and legendary guerilla leaders of all time.This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the first half of the campaign in East Africa (the planned second volume was never published)...
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    84,10 €

  • Los experimentos más extraños del KGB
    Mercedes Pullman
    La autora, que vivió buena parte de su vida en la URSS y es licenciada en Filología Rusa, ha investigado toda clase de archivos y documentos originales sobre el funcionamiento y las operaciones del temido KGB el servicio secreto de la antigua URSS, revelando en el libro aspectos absolutamente desconocidos sobre esta organización, como el uso de personas dotadas de poderes psíqu...
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    17,68 €

  • Nyasaland Operations during the World War, 1914-1918
    T. Cullen Young
    Young’s Nyasaland Operations manuscript was entrusted to the Society of Malawi in 1955, likely in the hope the Society would benefit by its publication. Now edited with commentary and annotations by Melvin E. Page, his accounts and personal recollections are at last available to a wider readership, offering a further perspective on the Great War as experienced primarily by Nyas...
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    35,41 €

  • The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan
    Tom Womack
    Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch Naval Air Force--or Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD)--played a significant but largely overlooked role in the opening months of the Pacific War. With 175 aircraft, the MLD greatly outnumbered the combined forces of its American and British allies. In three months of intense combat, the MLD lost 50 percent of its personnel a...
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    59,13 €

  • Kriegsbriefe eines elsässischen Bauernburschen
    Hans Karl Abel
    Diese Briefe enthalten alles, was an Furchtbarem über einen Furchtlosen und Untadeligen in vierjährigem Wettersturm dahinbrauste. Sie sind ein Charakterbild und ein Zeitspiegel; vielleicht macht die Zukunft mehr aus ihnen.An der Westfront geschrieben, legen sie Zeugnis davon ab, daß das allgemeine Vorurteil gegen den Elsässer nicht hindern konnte, einen Soldaten wie Klaus Hofer...
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    24,50 €

  • Earning Their Wings
    Sarah Parry Myers
    Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied ove...
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    38,15 €

  • Earning Their Wings
    Sarah Parry Myers
    Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied ove...
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    126,99 €

  • Violence in Defeat
    Bastiaan Willems
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    48,60 €

  • The Uninvited, Edward W. Wickemeyer WWII Journal
    Daniel M. Wickemeyer
    Original South Pacific World War II Journal: The recently discovered journal of Edward W. Wickemeyer, who served as a waist gunner, flight engineer, and aerial photographer on the B-24 Liberator 'The Uninvited' during World War II, is included in this publication.  This book also includes a detailed account of Ed’s 19 months of extensive training that took place around the...
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    17,72 €

  • THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
    Committee of Imperial Defence
    This is an accurate view of the siege as was possible that is aided with the addition of good strategical maps to assist the reader to appreciate the relationship between these operations and the movement of field armies.This was war being observed by every military establishment and news agency in the world. The level of interest in the Russo-Japanese War rested on two facts: ...
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    58,14 €

  • THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
    Committee of Imperial Defence
    The first of this five-volume work deals with the causes of the war, and the opening events up to and including the Battle of the Ya-Lu. An important study written with all criticism excluded. This was war being observed by every military establishment and news agency in the world. The level of interest in the Russo-Japanese War rested on two facts: First, the idea of a small a...
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    52,46 €

  • THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
    Committee of Imperial Defence
    Volume 2 of this Official History deals with the military operations between the battles of the Yalu to Liao-Yang. The naval operations were touched upon in so far as they affected the movements of troops on land.This was war being observed by every military establishment and news agency in the world. The level of interest in the Russo-Japanese War rested on two facts: First, ...
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    58,14 €

  • Cujte Srbi!
    Rudolf Arcibald Rajs
    Rukopis Cujte Srbi! napisan je 1928, godinu dana pred Rajsovu smrt. U svom posmrtnom zavestanju, Rajs nabraja vrline i mane srpskog naroda. Knjiga predstavlja ogledalo srpskog naroda iz kojeg i danas mozemo mnogo da naucimo. Izdanje na cirilici. ...
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    8,80 €

  • Battles of the Prophet
    Halima Bint Muhammad Abdul Hannan
    Battles of the Prophet: A Brief Guide to the Ghazawaat of Prophet Muhammad presents information relating to all 27 Prophetic battles in a single, accessible volume. Ideal for students of knowledge, each section contains the following:- Factbox with battle statistics- Geographical information/maps- Description of key events and notable figures- The battle’s significance in early...
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    20,24 €

  • Hitler’s Library
    Ambrus Miskolczy
    The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an ideal reader of Schopenhauer, nevertheless his remarks destroy that image, particularly if we see how he read Ernst Jünger, Richard Wagner, or Paul de Lagarde, and how he reread Mein Kampf.The book describe...
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    27,86 €

  • Mushroom Cloud
    Thomas J Yeggy
    Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. 'This novel is so important for everyone who cares about nuclear disarmament because as philosopher George Santayana wrote 'Those who do not learn history a...
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    16,00 €

  • The Ground You Stand Upon
    Joshua E Bowe / Wilbur E Bowe
    Awarded the Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America. Sent into the deadly Central Highlands of Vietnam, the true story of my dad and his fellow soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division. Twenty-year-old Will Bowe was living on his family’s farm, and the military build-up had just begun when he was drafted in 1965. The impossibly young men of his company would be ...
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    35,32 €

  • The Yalaku
    Ross Bowden
    This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare ...
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    219,77 €

  • The 600 m.o.l. - Black Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam
    Dr. Joe Ponds
    This book is aimed at sharing information about a population of men who engaged in military service to their country with duties involving aviation. The era that this book addresses is one during which there was considerable racial turmoil in America. So, these were stalwart men who entered into a professional career field where they were not readily embraced. The field that th...
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    38,75 €

  • American Military History Volume 1 (Second Edition)
    Center of Military History US Army
    American Military History provides the United StatesArmy - inparticular, its youngofficers, NCOs, and cadets - with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History firstpublishedthis work in 1956as atextbook for senior ROTC courses.Since then it hasgone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support...
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    36,57 €