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SALE Quick view At Close Quarters: SOE Close Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor. Grant-Taylor taught commandos, secret agents, and irregular soldiers the art of how to kill at close quarters. He taught them how to be ruthless, lethal, and covert, and yet his own life was itself a mystery worthy of a John Buchan thriller novel... Publisher's Price Was: $65.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Babylon's Ark. Publisher Description When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city centre and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that... Publisher's Price Was: $46.95 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
Quick view Back to the Pavilion. Publisher Description An autobiography of a Lieutenant General of the Pakistan Army whose military career began before the partition of the subcontinent. M. Attiqur Rehman was also Governor of Punjab, Martial Law Administrator adn cChairman, Public... Publisher's Price Was: Now: Now: $7.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW: The Conjuror on the Kwai. Fergus Anckorn was conscripted in 1939 and his regiment was posted to Singapore at the 11th hour in 1942. Though seriously injured he survived the infamous ÔDeath Railway' that featured in the film Bridge on the River Kwai. It was there he honed his... Publisher's Price Was: $57.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Eisenhower: A Life. Chronicles Eisenhower's modest childhood in Kansas, his college years at West Point, and his rapid ascent through the military ranks, culminating in his appointment as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. Beginning when... Publisher's Price Was: $49.95 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
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SALE Quick view Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival. A vividly told story of the Holocaust, she tells of how, as a teenager in Holland, her life changed forever. As she had a Jewish boyfriend (who later became her husband) they were forced into hiding, cut off from the outside world and their relatives. ... Publisher's Price Was: $47.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Flying Scot: An Airman's Story. He began his career flying Wellington bombers over the North African desert, was involved in supplying besieged Malta, and hunted German ships in the Med. On D-day he dropped parachutists into German-held territory. He taught in the Central Flying... Publisher's Price Was: $57.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914-1917. The editor is Hermon's granddaughter, who inherited the Georgian mahogany desk in which were kept all the letters that her grandfather wrote to her grandmother during the First World War. When Nason read the letters in 1991 after her grandmother's death... Publisher's Price Was: $50.00 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Gardens of Stone. Only 14 years old when the German army advanced into Northern France, Stephen's father was English and tended the war graves, his mother was French and battling blindness, their own adventures in the First World War seemed a lifetime ago. Stephen and his... Publisher's Price Was: $34.95 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Haig's Medical Officer: The Papers of Colonel Eugene 'Micky' Ryan CMG DSO RAMC. Mickey Ryan was Field Marshall Douglas Haig's long serving doctor and confidant. Theirs was an unlikely alliance, as their personalities and backgrounds were quite different. Haig was a taciturn man, a staunch Scottish Presbyterian and devotee of Empire... Publisher's Price Was: $57.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
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SALE Quick view In the Dust of Kilimanjaro. An autobiographical account of a man who grew up in Africa and his struggle to protect the wildlife of Kenya. Travel with him from the plains of Africa in search of pygmy elephants to boardrooms of ivory traders. Publisher Description This is the story... Publisher's Price Was: $36.00 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Joan of Arc: A Military Leader. Many books have told Joan's tale from religious and feminist aspects, but this takes a different tack and addresses the question of why the soldiers of France followed a woman into battle when no troops of the Hundred Years War had done so before - and... Publisher's Price Was: $24.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas. The poet Edward Thomas was killed by a German shell in April 1917 in France. He had no idea that his poetry would be rememberedÑand especially highly esteemed by other poets, among them Auden and Larkin. Dylan Thomas put it well: 'It is as though we had... Publisher's Price Was: $39.95 Now: Now: $19.95 Compare
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SALE Quick view Portrait of a Bomber Pilot. Flight-Lieutenant Jack Wetherly, DFC made a vital contribution to his squadron's life, training and operational success. This traces his development from novice second pilot of a Wellington to a senior captain of a Halifax in Wing Commander Leonard... Publisher's Price Was: $37.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered. In 1938, young, chic Trudi Miller is a milliner to some of the smartest women in Vienna. Life is good, and she is falling in love with the handsome Walter. But they are Jewish, and Hitler's forces are taking over the country, so Trudi desperately seeks a... Publisher's Price Was: $44.95 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative: The True Life of Dmitri Bystrolyotov . The Times Literary Supplement said: 'A larger-than-life figure. Extraordinarily handsome, sophisticated and highly resourceful... An ideal poster boy to inspire coming generations of Russian spies... One thing seems clear: the old habits of Russia s... Publisher's Price Was: $59.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Blue Door. Lise and her Norwegian family lived in Java, and were imprisoned by the Japanese for two years, where they were treated brutally. They faced disease, starvation, and the desperate behaviour of their fellow prisoners. Her story is remarkable. Publisher... Publisher's Price Was: $29.95 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars. The author was a platoon commander and company operations officer in the British Army and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His irreverent journey through frontline life describes his (and his fellow-soldiers') transformation from arrogant beginners to... Publisher's Price Was: $29.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949. Wintringham looked like a mild-mannered college professor, but in the 1920s he was incarcerated in a British prison for sedition, tried to turn the General Strike into a communist revolution, and then set up the Daily Worker. He commanded the British... Publisher's Price Was: $59.95 Now: Now: $19.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Negotiator: My Life at the Heart of the Hostage Trade. He is a Kidnap-for-Ransom (K&R) consultant. He has worked for government agencies, law enforcement teams, multinational corporations and private clients. His shadowy team is made up of former spies and special operatives. He has dealt with religious... Publisher's Price Was: $35.00 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
SALE Quick view A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson. Publisher's Price Was: $57.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
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