Category: War

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides...
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The Fighters

By: C J Chivers

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2018

Seller ID: 0139523

ISBN-13: 9781982109493

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

SAS Sabre Squadron

By: Cameron Spence

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Penguin : 2020

Seller ID: 0162419

ISBN-13: 9781405943888

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety. Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting operations deep inside Iraq. They were operating alone and out of reach of reinforcements, with the threat of detection and its fatal consequences ever present. Yet their determination to wreak havoc behind enemy lines remained undimmed, culminating in an attack that decisively reconfirmed the regiment's awesome reputation. Cameron Spence, a se...
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The 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars In The Great War

By: Captain H K D Evans

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Antony Rowe Ltd : 0000

Seller ID: 0147172

ISBN-13: 9781843428367

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In his foreword to this book, Winston Churchill rightly calls it a 'plain yet careful record of the fortunes and services of the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars in the Great War (which) deserves and will repay attentive study from those to whom the history of the regiments of the British Army is of vivid interest'. The 4th Queen's Own were one of the Army's elite cavalry regiments which fulfilled their traditional role in the open warfare which characterised the campaigns in 1914 and 1918 at the beginning and end of the Great War. In between, of course, came the static horrors of trench warfare, whe...
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The Bridge At No Gun Ri

By: Charles J Hanley

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : 2001

Seller ID: 0139763

ISBN-13: 9780805071832

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had massacred a large group of South Korean civilians early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal war's 50th anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been surpressed for decades, confirming allegations the U.S. military had sought to dismiss. It made headlines around the world. "In The Bridge at No Gun Ri," the team tells the larger, human story behind the incident through the eyes of the people who survived it. The American side, the green recruits of the "good t...
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One Day The Soldiers

By: Charles London

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Harper : 2007

Seller ID: 0144948

ISBN-13: 9780061240478

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.

In this powerful and unforgettable book--by turns painful, funny, terrifying, and triumphant--Charles London takes us into the world of refugee children, celebrating their unique skills for survival and reflection. Their remarkable stories and drawings chill the blood and touch the heart, offering an indelible, first hand portrait of the war that rages beyond the headlines.

October

By: China Mieville

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Verso : 2017

Seller ID: 0157749

ISBN-13: 9781784782771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Unsung Heroes of the Royal Canadian Navy (True Canadian Amazing Stories)

By: Cynthia J Faryon

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Altitude Pub. : 2005

Seller ID: 0123347

ISBN-13: 9781551537658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Scholars Of Mayham

By: Daniel C Guiet

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Penguin : 2020

Seller ID: 0161246

ISBN-13: 9780735225220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Riveting...A true-life mix of James Bond, Lawrence of Arabia and 'Casablanca.' -The Wall Street Journal The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a four-person team of Allied secret agents dropped into Nazi-occupied France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping German tanks away from Normandy after D-Day. When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. ...
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The Devil That Never Dies

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Little Brown : 2013

Seller ID: 0157330

ISBN-13: 9780316097871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Kidnapped By The Taliban

By: Dilip Joseph

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Thomas Nelson : 2014

Seller ID: 0121385

ISBN-13: 9780718031565

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Back Cover Copy: "Am I About to Die?"OnDecember 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues aredriving back to Kabul, Afghanistan, after serving villagers that morning at arural clinic. Suddenly a man waving an AK-47 blocks their path. More armed menjump out of hiding. For Dilip, it is the beginning of a nightmare-he's being kidnappedby the Taliban.Dilip and his friends endure anine-hour march into the mountains, gruesome images of torture and death, andrepeated threats of execution. Four days later Dilip is freed in a daring anddeadly rescue that claims the life of a SEAL...
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Carnivore

By: Dillard Johnson

Price: $8.99

Publisher: WM : 2014

Seller ID: 0112911

ISBN-13: 9780062288394

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant First Class Dillard "C. J." Johnson--one of the most decorated soldiers in the history of the legendary 3rd Infantry Division--and his crew are recognized by Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals while battling inside and out of the "Carnivore," the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After miraculously beating stage-three cancer, he returned to his platoon in Baghdad for a second combat tour, often serving as a designated marksman protecting his fellow tr...
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12 Strong

By: Doug Stanton

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Scribner : 2009

Seller ID: 0144473

ISBN-13: 9781501178511

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review)--the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. Previously published as Horse Soldiers, 12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan te...
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