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  • With 6th Airborne Division in Palestine, 1945–1948

    de Dare Wilson ...
    The 6th Airborne Division was a major element of the British Security Force in Palestine between September, 1945 and May 1948. Faced with the unenviable task of upholding the law in a lawless country, the individual British soldier had to face continual opposition from a hostile Jewish community. This story is described by General Wilson, then a Major, who served with the division during this ... Leer más

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  • Tempting the Fates

    A Memoir of Service in the Second World War

    de Dare Wilson ...
    General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won his MC) with the Northumberland Fusiliers and later the Recce Regiment. He then served in Palestine and Korea which he rates as the most vicious war he fought in. He was picked to command 22 SAS and was responsible for basing them at Hereford. His account of the world record-breaking free fall jump ... Leer más

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  • The General's Game Book

    The Sporting Life of a Military Gentleman

    de Dare Wilson ...
    Dare Wilson's sporting career dates back to 1920s when, as a small boy, he started fishing in Northumberland on River Derwent. Since then as he has pursued successful careers in the Army and Conservation, he has fished and shot all over the world; turkey hunting and snake catching in Georgia, pheasants in Korea, sand grouse and quail in Palestine, geese in Ireland, ducks in Manitoba.A natural ... Leer más

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    A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-1945

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    From the author of D-Day: "an amazing tale of how the world's very first special force was created specifically for North Africa during WWII" ( Books Monthly).The origins of most of the West's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 to ... Leer más

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  • The Moscow Option

    An Alternative Second World War

    de David Downing ...
    This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941.Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow on September ... Leer más

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  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    de Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Leer más

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  • With Wings Like Eagles

    A History of the Battle of Britain

    de Michael Korda ...
    “[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.”—Wall Street JournalFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the most important battles of World War II. In the words of the Washington Post Book World, “With Wings Like Eagles is a ... Leer más

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  • Outposts

    Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    de Eugene Rogan ...
    **An International Bestseller * An Economist Best Book of the YearThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East.“A page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival…. Remarkable.” —Wall Street Journal**By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of ... Leer más

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  • A Drop Too Many

    de John Frost ...
    One of the British Army's first paratroopers recounts in vivid detail his service in the 2nd Parachute Battalion during the Battle of Arnhem and beyond . . .No one who has read of Arnhem can fail to be inspired by gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, which held the north end of the key road bridge over the Rhine—the "Bridge Too Far"—not for twenty-four hours for which it was equipped, but for ... Leer más

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  • How to Lose a Battle

    Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

    de Bill Fawcett ...
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    A remarkable compendium of the worst militarydecisions and the men who made themThe annals of history are littered with horribly bad military leaders. These combat incompetents found amazing ways to ensure their army's defeat. Whether it was a lack of proper planning, miscalculation, ego, bad luck, or just plain stupidity, certain wartime stratagems should never have left the drawing board. ... Leer más

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