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Sniper One
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableWe all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach ... April 2004: Sgt Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq, part of an infantry... more...
Beyond War
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99The Pulitzer Prize?winning author examines the cardinal failing of Washington?s war on terror This book distills eleven years of expert reporting for The New York Times , Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly into a clarion call for change. An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered... more...
The Tank War
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; US$ 27.17Mark Urban turns his mind to the Second World War and the men and the Machines who beat Hitler more...
The Tank War
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; Not AvailableMark Urban turns his mind to the Second World War and the men and the Machines who beat Hitler more...
Fire in the Night
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 7.66Orde Charles Wingate. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius; others considered him greatly over-rated; a few even thought him mad. His overriding passion was for Zionism, a cause which he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Squads, an irregular force which decimated Arab rebel bands and... more...
M3 Lee/Grant Medium Tank 1941-45
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95The highly successful 'stop-gap' M3 medium tank was designed in 1941, and as adequate turret casting facilities were not yet ready, the M3 used an unusual armament configuration patterned after a French tank. British lend-lease demands led to the design of a second turret type with the US version called the Lee and the British version the Grant. It... more...
French Fortresses in North America 1535-1763
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95Following the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492, European colonists brought their system of fortification to the New World in an attempt to ensure their safety and consolidate their conquests. French and British explorers came later to North America, and thus the establishment of their sizeable settlements only got under way during the 17th... more...
Line Doggie: Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 23.00Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice and saw nearly constant action in the Central... more...
Battle Line
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 34.95A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy's evolution from a fleet centered around slow battleships to one that deployed... more...
Nationalism and War
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 28.00Leading social scientists and historians examine the complex relationship between warfare and the emergence of nationalism. more...









