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  • Colonial Armies: Africa 1850-1918

    Organisation, Warfare, Dress and Weapons

    by Peter Abbott ...
    In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts of the continent, but much of the main activity was concentrated into the two decades between 1881 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern African Wars (1)

    Rhodesia 1965–80

    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The Rhodesian War of 1965–80 was the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe.The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on 11 November 1965 the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced his country's Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. That act sparked a series of violent encounters between the traditional colonial ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Modern African Wars (4)

    The Congo 1960–2002

    by Peter Abbott ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions led to the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives.From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as armies and rebel groups from Rwanda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia and other countries crossed ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Ukrainian Armies 1914–55

    Series Book 412 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Modern African Wars (2)

    Angola and Mozambique 1961–74

    by Peter Abbott ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    Portugal was both the first and the last of the huge European colonial powers.For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states whose governments were sympathetic to the cause of ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • The Rhodesian War

    A Military History

    A military history of the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—spanning from 1890 to the 1970s.In this exciting book, authors Paul Moorcroft and Peter McLaughlin examine the military history of Southern Rhodesia, from the first resistance to colonial rule through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. They recount the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eye of the Firestorm

    The Namibian - Angolan - South African Border War - Memoirs of a Military Commander

    For his exploits and astuteness, Roland de Vries has rightfully been called the ‘Rommel of the SADF’. In this forthright, warts-and-all but compassionate autobiography he recounts the fascinating story of the transformation of a small, colonial army into, pound-for-pound, the best fighting force on the planet."Eye of the Firestorm" could be used to enhance the teaching within the military, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bismarck

    The Epic Chase

    by Jim Crossley ...
    When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of Britains most powerful ships were sent to pursue and sink her. The first encounter proved disastrous for ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands War

    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.They were wrong.Britain ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arnhem 1944

    The Airborne Battle

    A detailed history of the World War II battle, featuring experiences from over 500 participants, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.The Battle of Arnhem was a turning point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges spanning the wide rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 32 Battalion

    The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit

    by Piet Nortje ...
    Every war has at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South African forces fighting in Angola from 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion. Founded in utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign rebel movement, undefeated in 12 years of front-line battle, feared by enemies that included both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Run The Gauntlet

    The Channel Dash 1942

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 28 - Raid
    In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships ... Read more

    $15.99 USD