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Special Forces Pilot

As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author relives his part in operations, ...


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Spirit of Resistance

One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Ex ...


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Tank Commander

Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Re ...


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Teenage Tommy

Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took pa ...


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The Great War Handbook

Geoff Bridger’s The Great War Handbook answers many of the basic questions newcomers ask when confronted by this enormous and challenging subject – not only what happened and why, ...


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Fighting the Kaiser's War

Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no man's land are rare. This highly or ...


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The Madness of Alexander the Great

Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing him as possibly the greatest general that ever lived. Richard ...


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A Marine at Gallipoli on The Western Front

Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth.

He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Fo ...


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Tigerhjärtats sånger

'Utan att känna något kan vi gå rakt igenom varandra, som sömngångare med tomma pupiller, luft genom luft, med ögonlock som rycker till i draget när vi går igenom varandra, utan at ...


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Undset, Hamsun och kriget

Både Sigrid Undset och Knut Hamsun upplevde höjden av prestige i Stockholm när de tilldelades varsitt nobelpris. Hamsun 1920 och Undset 1928. Två prominenta norska författare som i ...


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Carl Sandburg

En fyrtioårig amerikansk journalist klev av på Stockholms centralstation i slutet av oktober 1918. Sveriges neutrala ställning i kriget hade gjort Stockholm till ett av Europas cen ...


Omslagsbild för Blixen & Blixen: Bror Blixen, kvinnorna och förlusterna
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Blixen & Blixen: Bror Blixen, kvinnorna och förlusterna

Ett omsusat och skamfilat äktenskap med en mytomspunnen författare, en förkärlek för viltjakt på afrikanska öppna marker och ständiga äventyr. Vem var egentligen Bror, förutom make ...


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The Uncommercial Traveller

"No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me."Let the character of The Uncommercial Traveller take you on a ...


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A Confession

"With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mockin ...


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Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS

The story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing and heroic of the Second World War – indeed in the history of the British armed services. He was awarded no less than three Mi ...


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Tudor Victims of the Reformation

This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to ...


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Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace

When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone. ...


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A Right Royal Scandal

Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck fam ...


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Julius Caesar's Disease

It is generally accepted as a historical fact that Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, an illness which in classical times was sometimes associated with divinely bestowed genius. ...


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The Red Baron

Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916, Manfred von Richthofen, or the Red Baron as he became known, had shot down an impressive total of fifteen aircraft ...


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In Good Company

In Good Company is a graphic account by the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders, of his service in the First World War. Several times wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 with ...


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The Red Baron

Keen First World War aviation enthusiasts will be familiar with Norman Franks’ previous books covering the life of Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, so why this new one? ...


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Above the Battle

In April 1943, a young officer arrived at Penshurst to join ‘C’ Flight, 653 Squadron. He was no ordinary pilot and this was no ordinary RAF outfit. Lyell Munro was a soldier and 65 ...


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Wind in the Wires and An Escaper’s Log

Duncan Grinnell-Milne was one of that select band of young men who made history in the air between 1915 and 1918 when they learned to fly in machines that resembled box-kites and l ...


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Lady Lucy Houston DBE

The life-story of Lady Lucy Houston DBE must surely be one of the most romantic and dramatic epics of the last one hundred and fifty years, yet nowadays she is a woman unknown. She ...