Gallantry in Action - Airmen Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Two Bars 1918-1955 by Norman Franks
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Category: Military History
When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its own gallantry medals to distinguish itself from the Army and the Royal Navy. Thus the new Distinguished Flying Cross came into being. Not that this new awar ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
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Category: Military History
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Category: Military History
A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his many contradictions.While in A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country', he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambiti ...Show more
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940-1945 by BRENDAN O'CARROLL
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Category: Military History
Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw was serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary F ...Show more
Flashpoints - Air Warfare in the Cold War by Michael Napier
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Category: Military History
From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars throughout the wi ...Show more
Orsogna: New Zealand's First Italian Battle by Jeffrey Plowman
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: New
Of all the hilltop towns on this part of the Italian Adriatic Coast, none was of greater natural strength. From the south, it appeared as a long line of stone-built houses perched precariously on an escarpment above the Moro River, its buttresses extending down into the cliff face. To an attacker approa ...Show more
Rampant Dragons - New Zealanders in Armour in World War 2 by Jeffrey Plowman
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
A ‘gritty’ history of the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade, from its formation in New Zealand through to its final campaign in Italy in 1945. Author Jeffrey Plowman is a well-established ‘armoured’ buff who has specialized in studying the history of New Zealand armoured fighting vehicles and units tha ...Show more
Monte Cassino - Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line by Jeffrey Plowman
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Category: Military History | Series: Images of War Ser.
The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German occupation. Much has been written about Cassino, but fe ...Show more
Tigers I and II - Germany's Most Feared Tanks of World War II by David Doyle
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Category: Military History | Series: Legends of Warfare: Ground Ser.
Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production totaling fewer than 2,000 units, its heavy armor, its power, and perhaps the even more powerful Nazi propaganda machine ensured that the Tiger remains well known ...Show more
The Shape of Battle - Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
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Category: Military History
One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . . Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with sticks and stones or advanced technology, h ...Show more
1923 The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany's economic heartland, the Ruhr; triggering a series of crises that almost spiralled out of contro ...Show more
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton
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Category: Military History
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell, and almost no ...Show more