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The Present Past

This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodder’s original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record.There has long ...


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To the Last Man

Through thoughtfully constructed research, Bradham vividly presents the battle for Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula – one of the most important and yet understudied operations of the ...


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Waterloo 1815

Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo. As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his e ...


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With the German Guns

At once harrowing and light-hearted, Sulzbach’s exceptional diary has been highly praised since its orginal publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account ...


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Sailor Malan

'I do not think that Malan could join a squadron without improving it, however good it was. Not by sword-waving, but by a strength of mind and integrity that are at once recognizab ...


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1 Group: Swift to Attack

Following the recent unveiling of the monument to Bomber Command in London's Green Park, the publication of this lovingly crafted account of the exploits of oft-overlooked 1 Group ...


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4 Group Bomber Command

During the immediate period before World War Two, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, ...


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A Gunner’s War

If the First World War had not happened when it did, Channel Islander Clarence Ahier would almost certainly have led a mostly unremarkable life. But it did, and in October 1915, ag ...


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A Reluctant Hero

This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Naza ...


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A Talent for Adventure

Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner’s story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping ...


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Abandon Ship!

Captain Tony McCrum’s naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salern ...


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Adventurous Empires

This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britain’s national airline, ...


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Sodasta ja rakkaudesta

"Vinhasti räiskyy sodan pauhina. Sen aiheuttavat hirmuiset äänet monien vekottimien syytäessä kuivaa muonaa puolin ja toisin. Olemme hyökkäämässä tien suunnassa, tehtävänä ottaa yh ...


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Israels krig

Staten Israel föddes in i krig. Sedan FN röstade fram en tvåstatslösning 1947 har det närmast konstant pågått konflikter mellan Israel och den palestinska befolkningen och arabiska ...


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Life in the Victorian Asylum

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the thousands of ordinary people who experienced Victorian mental health care? Life in the Victorian Asylum is the story of those ordi ...


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Rome Versus Carthage

The epic struggle between Carthage and Rome, two of the superpowers of the ancient world, is most famous for land battles in Italy, on the Iberian peninsula and in North Africa. Bu ...


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Conscientious Objectors of the First World War

The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men — the first conscientious objectors — refused c ...


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Plymouth in the Great War

The story of Plymouth in the First World War has never been fully covered although the town played a key role in the deployment of troops to Northern Europe as well as supplying sh ...


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Kensington in the Great War

How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity ...


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Seaford and Eastbourne in the Great War

How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity ...


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Leadership in War

In this controversial study, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty wartime leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He considers the extr ...


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The Afghan War

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freed ...


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An Anthology of World War One 1914-1918

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Selected complete chapter extracts from some of Pen and Swords most exciting, brand new, First World War titles, books included are; Slaughter on the Somme, by John Grehan and Mart ...


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Voyages from the Past

A social history of sea travel from the passengers' perspective, encompassing all walks of life and vessels departing from a variety of UK ports. Simon Wills tells the stories of o ...


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Reporting from the Front

When the war was declared in August 1914, one of the first acts to be implemented by the politicians and military was a strict censorship on the newspapers. As the poacher turned g ...