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  • Code Talkerby Chester Nez; Judith Schiess Avila

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive?and this is his story . . . His name wasn?t Chestesr Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination... more...

  • They Hosed Them Outby John Bede Cusack

    Wakefield Press 2012; US$ 12.95

    In John Bede Cusack's fictionalised military memoir 'They Hosed Them Out', fact and fiction intersect to tell the powerful story of one man's experience as an air gunner during the Second World War. Cusack transcends the limitations of non-fiction and traditional war literature to evoke not only the well-documented horrors of war but also the adventure.... more...

  • Cottonby Giorgio Riello

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 28.00

    A fascinating account of how cotton industrialised Europe and transformed the early modern global economy. more...

  • Hitlerby R. H. S. Stolfi

    Prometheus Books 2011; US$ 14.99

    Countless books, including five major biographies, have been devoted to the subject of Adolf Hitler. Yet, despite the mass of tantalizing detail uncovered over six decades, the man at the center of so much historical, psychological, and political analysis remains elusive. For some, he was evil personified, a diabolical tyrant driven by a lust for power;... more...

  • Semper Fi in the Skyby Gerald Astor

    Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95

    Here, one of America?s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines? gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain Henry ?Baron? Elrod destroyed two... more...

  • Clear the Bridge!by Richard O'Kane

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95

    Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skipper. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...

  • Memory and the Mediterraneanby Fernand Braudel

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 18.95

    A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel?one of the twentieth century?s most influential historians? Memory and the Mediterranean chronicles the Mediterranean?s immeasurably rich past during the foundational period from prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less than the bedrock of our civilization and the very origins... more...

  • Immediate Actionby Andy McNab

    Transworld 2008; US$ 12.00

    Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As... more...

  • The Railway Manby Eric Lomax

    Random House 2009; US$ 12.00

    A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50... more...

  • Behind Enemy Linesby Tommy Macpherson; Richard Bath

    Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 12.00

    With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared... more...