World Military History
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Engineers of Victory - Paul KennedyEngineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Kennedy reveals how the leaders' grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realising their commanders' visions of success. |
ZAR 135.00 |
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The Nazis Next Door - Eric LichtblauThe Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau is the shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. |
ZAR 160.00 |
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The Seven Years' War - Daniel MarstonThe Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston describes the closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War. This was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. |
ZAR 85.00 |
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Flight by Elephant - Andrew MartinFlight by Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II's Most Daring Jungle Rescue by Andrew Martin is the incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. |
ZAR 80.00 |
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Ill Met by Moonlight - W Stanley MossIll Met by Moonlight: A daring world war II mission on Nazi-held Crete by W Stanley Moss is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. |
ZAR 75.00 |
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The World's War - David OlusogaThe World's War by David Olusoga explores the experiences and sacrifices of 4 million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. |
ZAR 215.00 |
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The Bombers and the Bombed - Richard OveryThe Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945 by Richard Overy is a startling new history of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. |
ZAR 165.00 |
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Another Man's War - Barnaby PhillipsAnother Man's War: The story of a Burma boy in Britain's forgotten African army tells of Isaac Fadoyebo, a Burma Boys. At the age of sixteen he ran away from his Nigerian village to join the British Army. Sent to Burma, he was attacked and left for dead in the jungle by the Japanese. |
ZAR 165.00 |
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The Dark Defile - Dianna PrestonThe Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842 by Diana Preston vividly recounts the drama of this First Afghan War, one of the opening salvos in the strategic rivalry between Britain and Russia for supremacy in Central Asia. |
ZAR 150.00 |
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Dingo Firestorm - Ian PringleDingo Firestorm: The greatest battle of the Rhodesian bush war by Ian Pringle describes the political and military backdrop leading up to the operation, and he tells the story of the battle through the eyes of key personalities who planned, led and participated in it. |
ZAR 95.00 |
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When the Comics Went to War - Adam RichesWhen the Comics Went to War: Comic book war heroes by Adam Riches, Tim Parker and Robert Frankland is an expansive, authoritative history of the British war comic book genre, from the first publications to appear in the 1880s to the last new titles to appear in the 1990s. |
ZAR 225.00 |
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Dead Certainties - Simon SchamaDead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations by Simon Schama is an imaginative comment on the nature of historiography. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham. |
ZAR 150.00 |
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A Short History of the first World War - Gary SheffieldA Short History of the first World War by Gary Sheffield is the ultimate introduction for anyone wanting a clear understanding of what happened and why. |
ZAR 95.00 |
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Secrets of the English War Bow - Hugh D H SoarSecrets of the English War Bow by Hugh D H Soar, Mark Stretton - master blacksmith, and Joseph Gibbs - bowyer, demonstrates how a war bow and its associated arrow heads and shafts may have been constructed and used. |
ZAR 135.00 |
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Exorcising Hitler - Frederick TaylorExorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany by Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. |
ZAR 175.00 |
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Our Supreme Task - Philip WhiteOur Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance by Philip White is a detailed yet eminently readable account of Churchill's famous speech. |
ZAR 120.00 |