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  • The British Home Guard Pocketbook

    by A.F.U. Green ...
    'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.'The Home Guard has been immortalised in British culture in the TV series Dad's Army. Formed by men not eligible for active service – too old, too young, in reserved occupations vital to the war effort – who were expected to resist a German invasion with any resources they ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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  • Flying Start

    A Fighter Pilot's War Years

    by Hugh Dundas ...
    "A personal and vivid view of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) engagement of the Luftwaffe in World War II . . . Exciting, valuable, and good reading." — Library JournalThis is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Rifleman Went to War

    by Herbert W. McBride ...
    More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally as a sharpshooter. When World War I broke out in Europe, he was so eager to fight that he enlisted in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • FLYING FURY: Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps [Illustrated Edition]

    by James Thomas Byford McCudden VC DSO & Ba, MC & Bar MM ...
    Illustrated Edition – contains 30 photosThe highest scoring British Air Ace reveals his daily life at the front, in the air and in combat with the Germans above the Western Front.In the muddy trenches of the Western front few rankers would have considered that they would achieve field rank of major and international celebrity. In the skies above the shell-torn landscape, any man with enough talent ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Become a Spy

    The World War II SOE Training Manual

    by British Special Operations Executive ...
    During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the ungentlemanly warfare” waged by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) against Hitler’s Germany and Tojo’s Japan. In the early years of the war, the SOE set up top secret training schools to instruct prospective agents in the art of being a spy. Soon there was an international network of schools in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • King of Airfighters

    The Biography of Major 'Mick' Mannock DFC

    by Ira Jones ...
    A penetrating study of Britain's top World War I fighter ace, written by fellow pilot Ira Jones, the author of An Air Fighter's Scrapbook.Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top-scoring ace of the First World War has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years; most notably, it claims seventy-three "kills" for Mannock, making him the number-one-scoring Allied ace of the war. Later ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Cockpit

    by Arthur Gould Lee ...
    A riveting firsthand account of training for—and surviving—air combat during World War I, by the author of No Parachute.Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Gould Lee gained valuable time flying trainers before he was posted in France during World War I. In November 1917 during low-level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down three times by ground fire. He spent eight months ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rifleman Went to War

    by Herbert Wes McBride ...
    This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • By Air to Battle - The Official History of the British Paratroops in World War II

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    First published in 1945 and comprising a compilation of fascinating primary accounts of airborne combat as told by the very men who fought in the action, By Air to Battle is the official history of Airborne operations by British Paratroops in World War II. Spanning the introduction of the Central Landing Establishment to the end of the war, we follow the heroic exploits of the British First and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Lee-Enfield Rifle

    by Martin Pegler ...
    Series Book 17 - Weapon
    The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles. It was adopted by the British Army in 1895 and only replaced by the L1A1 SLR in 1957. It saw combat from the Boer War onwards, and thousands are still in use today; it is estimated that 17 million have been produced. Soldier's recollections of the rifle are overwhelmingly affectionate (it was known ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Out of Nowhere

    A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan

    by Martin Pegler ...
    A full and detailed history of the military sniper, from the American Civil War to the war on terror, packed with first-hand accounts.The sniper is probably the most feared specialist warrior and the most efficient killer on the battlefield. Endlessly patient and highly skilled, once they have you in their crosshairs, your chances of survival are slim.This revised edition of Out of Nowhere ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Sniping in the Great War

    by Martin Pegler ...
    A military history analyzing the evolution of sniper warfare during WWI by the firearms expert and author of Eastern Front Sniper.From the sharpshooters of the American Civil War to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, military snipers are legendary for their marksmanship and effectiveness in battle. The specialized role of the sniper developed among the ranks of the British Army over the course of World War I. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus