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Amazing Diving Stories

This collection of true diving stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. Enjoy classic tales of this extreme watersport, from thrilling wreck discoveries to encounters w ...


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Amazing Fishing Stories

Travel from Scottish streams to shark infested seas and from the frozen tundra to tropical reefs. There’s every style of fishing, from the magic touch of the fly to blood-and-thund ...


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Amazing Sailing Stories

Set sail on a thrilling journey to discover some of the most exciting tales of adventure afloat. There’s every sort of vessel from majestic square rigger to humble homemade yacht. ...


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Shark Bytes

The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most ...


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Golden Lily

The fascinating autobiography from Asia’s first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. Learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old, Lijia Xu was taken away ...


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The First Indian

An engrossing narrative of one man’s struggle to achieve his dream against all odds, this is both a fast-paced adventure and a telling commentary on how heroes are often made despi ...


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I Was Hitler's Chauffeur

Erich Kempka served as Hitler’s personal driver from 1934 through to the Führer’s dramatic suicide in 1945. His candid memoirs offer a unique eyewitness account of events leading u ...


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Memoirs of Ernst Röhm

Ernst Röhm was one of the key architects behind the rise of the Nazi Party. From 1919 until 1923, following the defeat of Germany in the First World War, Röhm served in the Freikor ...


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To the Gate of Hell

Until seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in August 1944, Armin Böttger experienced the horrors of the Second World War from the perspective of a panzer radio operator. In his ...


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Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great is one of history’s most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, ...


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A Soldier of the Seventy-First

‘The author’s sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a priv ...


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I Was Hitler's Pilot

A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being pitched into the thick of it as personal pilot to a certain ‘Herr ...


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No Cloak, No Dagger

The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were ...


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At Hitler's Side

This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler’s side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English.Nicolaus von Below was ...


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Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe

Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Secon ...


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Two Fronts, One War

War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events. While examining the wider historical perspective to lay the foundation, this book relates th ...


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Gordon Welchman

'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith

The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have p ...


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Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout

Frederick Maurice Crum (1879–1952) fought in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in the Mounted Infantry, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. After peacetime service in India he r ...


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Obedient Unto Death

Between 1941 and 1944 Waffen-SS Oberscharführer (Sergeant) Werner Kindler took part in 84 days of close combat, qualifying him for the Close Combat Clasp in Gold, the Third Reich's ...


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Kommando

This gripping book tells the remarkable story of Germany's special forces – military, naval and aerial – during the Second World War. Although capable of stunning achievements agai ...


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Hitler's Last Witness

After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war's end as Hitler's bodyguard, courie ...


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Pathfinder Cranswick

In 1962 Michael Cumming's account of the extraordinary story of one of the RAF's most notable Second World War bomber pilots, Alec Cranswick DSO, DFC, came to the attention of the ...


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Fatal Fortnight

Numerous books have been published about the First World War but few have focused on the machinations in the British parliament and the role it played in the decision to go to war. ...


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With Wellington in the peninsula

Few men from the 71st Highland Light Infantry who sailed from Cork with Wellington to Portugal in 1808 returned to the Irish port six years later. The author of Vicissitudes in the ...


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Gurkhas at War

Gurkhas at War, the result of in-depth interviews conducted by editors J. P. Cross and Buddhiman Gurung, provides these remarkable soldiers with the opportunity to put their own ex ...