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  • Hard Lying

    An Intelligence Officer on the Levantine Shore 1914–19

    by Lewen Weldon, Barnaby Rogerson ...
    Lewen Weldon was mapping the desert of Egypt when the First World War broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential agents from a steam yacht onto the Syrian coast behind Turkish lines. He took his men ashore in small boats at night, which also allowed him to land and conduct personal interviews before returning back through the surf. This vivid ... Read more

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  • Battle Tales from Burma

    by John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

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  • 36 Days

    by Hugh Dolan ...
    When Australian troops stormed ashore in the pre-dawn darkness of April 25th 1915, it was the culmination of one of the most complex and daunting operations in the history of warfare - the seaborne assault of a heavily fortified shore, defended by a well-prepared and forewarned enemy.The risks were enormous, and the death toll on the beach at Anzac Cove could have been murderous - as it was with ... Read more

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  • Pathan Rising

    Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898

    by Mark Simner ...
    Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact causes of the unrest remain unclear, it was likely the result of tribal resentment towards the establishment of the Durand Line and British ... Read more

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  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    by Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Kabul (1879) - part of the Bretwalda Battles series

    Bretwalda Battles, #10

    by Oliver Hayes ...
    Series Book 10 - Bretwalda Battles
    With British & American troops again in Afghanistan, this book looks back to a previous conflict when Islamic fundamentalists again sought to overthrow the government of Afghanistan and British troops went in to pacify the area.In September 1879 rebels against Emir Yaqub Khan massacred the British residents of Kabul. The British put together a column of 7,000 men to march on Kabul, punish the ... Read more

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  • In Rommel's Backyard

    A memoir of the Long Range Desert Group

    by Andrew Gibson-Watt, Alistair Timpson ...
    This WWII journal takes readers inside an elite reconnaissance and raiding unit operating behind enemy lines in the North African campaign.As a young man entering the maelstrom of World War II, Alastair Timpson had the good fortune to find his way into the most romantic of special force units, the Long Range Desert Group. In Rommel's Backyard describes the various roles of the LRDG, all of which ... Read more

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  • Long Range Desert Group

    Behind Enemy Lines in North Africa

    by W. B. Kennedy Shaw ...
    A "moving, exciting and authentic" chronicle of the British Army's legendary recon and raiding unit in the desert of North African during WWII ( The Observer).During its two-and-a-half years fighting in North Africa, from 1940 to 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the desert. This small, highly mobile force made a name for itself through daring exploits and vital ... Read more

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  • Secret Army

    An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords, a far flung corner of WWI

    by Barry Stone ...
    It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today.Barry Stone tells the story of these Australian, British, New Zealand, Canadian and South African men who ... Read more

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  • Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks

    The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman

    Edited by Tony Spackman ...
    This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

    by William Wright ...
    The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... Read more

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  • Anzac–The Landing

    Gallipoli

    by Stephen Chambers ...
    Series series Battleground Gallipoli
    The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915. Landing on a hostile beach, under the cover of darkness, the Anzacs moved inland rapidly, but the response of the Ottoman forces was equally quick. The outcome of the campaign was arguably sealed during the first day, when the door for an Anzac victory was closed. With the order to dig, dig, dig ... Read more

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