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  • The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

    The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

    by Noel Mostert ...
    The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits.In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Castles of Steel

    Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dreadnought

    Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. MassieWith the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • World in Crisis

    Classic Accounts of World War II

    by Walter Lord, William J. Craig, Richard Tregaskis ...
    Three New York Times –bestselling World War II histories, including the true story of the miraculous evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk .The monumental scope and breathtaking heroism of World War II are brought to vivid life in three riveting accounts that span the conflict's Western Front, Eastern Front, and Pacific Theater.The Miracle of Dun... ... Read more

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  • Warriors of the 106th

    The Last Infantry Division of World War II

    by Martin King, Ken Johnson, Michael Collins ...
    This chronicle of the 106th Infantry Division follows the unit into the Battle of the Bulge and recounts the stories of GIs who fought—even after capture.On December 16, 1944, as the European conflict of World War II was reaching its climax at the Battle of the Bulge, the 106th Infantry Division was fresh, green, and right in the pathway of the Fifth German Army. Warriors of the 106th chronicles ... Read more

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  • We Also Served

    The Forgotten Women of the First World War

    by Vivien Newman ...
    A social history of British women's brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to "go home and sit still." Thankfully, hundreds of thousands of women from all corners of society ignored that advice and lent their collective strength ... Read more

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  • Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War

    by Admiral Reinhard Scheer ...
    Victors write history. German Admiral Reinhard Scheer knew this, and wrote his own anyway. In this memoir of World War One, he says, "We are victors and vanquished at one and the same time, and in depicting our success the difficult problem confronts us of not forgetting that our strength did not last out to the end."Admiral Scheer took command of the German High Seas Fleet in 1916. He championed ... Read more

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  • Guy Gibson

    Dambuster

    by Geoff Simpson ...
    A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed, including his stunning leadership achievement in creating No 617 Squadron and leading its attack on the dams ... Read more

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  • Peter the Great: His Life and World

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great“Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—**The New York Times Book ReviewAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Proud Tower

    A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of AugustDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nicholas and Alexandra

    The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    **A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great“A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tirpitz

    The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship

    by Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander ...
    The authors of Bismarck deliver "a very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters" during World War II ( NYMAS Review).After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth—the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable ... Read more

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