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Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942 (paperback edition)

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942 (paperback edition)

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The Sirdar and the Khalifa: Kitchener's Reconquest of Sudan 1896-98 (paperback)

The Sirdar and the Khalifa: Kitchener's Reconquest of Sudan 1896-98 (paperback)

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German Raiders of the First World War (paperback edition)

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The Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets (paperback edition)

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Polaris: Submarines, Missiles, the US Navy and the Royal Navy

Polaris: Submarines, Missiles, the US Navy and the Royal Navy

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Home Front: Alfred T. Palmer’s WWII Photography

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Letters from a Flying Officer

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Letters from a Flying Officer

The exciting diaries and letters of a World War One fighter ace.

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Napoleon in Defeat and Captivity 1815-1821

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The tragic tale of the defeated Napoleon from Waterloo until the end of his life.

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SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard Volume 1: A-J

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SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard Volume 1: A-J

A detailed examination—in words and pictures—of the principle figures in the SS.

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Odilo Globocnik: The Devil's Accomplice

Heydrich: Dark Shadow of the SS

Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsführer-SS

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard Volume 1: A-J

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler’s Praetorian Guard Volume 2: K-Q

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler’s Praetorian Guard Volume 3: R-W

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Children's Voices of the Second World War - published by Fonthill Media

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Children's Voices of the Second World War

A moving and evocative account of how the War affected children in varying circumstances - from evacuees to victims of violence.

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All in a Day's Work: 30 Years as a Brighouse Bobby - available from Fonthill Media

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All in a Day's Work: 30 Years as a Brighouse Bobby

The funny, sad and often incredible life of a local policeman patrolling his hometown.

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Joseph Goebbels: The Biography (paperback)

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Joseph Goebbels: The Biography (paperback)

The best biography ever written about the sex-driven propaganda genius who became an evil mechanic for the Third Reich.

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The War Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943

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The War Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943

The first illustrated edition of these remarkable first-hand diaries from Italy's foreign minister during the Second World War.

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Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942 - published by Fonthill Media

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Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

The danger and hardship of life in the World War Two Russian convoys is here brought vividly to life in a diary of a man that lived them.

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Aircraft Carrier Impero: The Axis Powers’ V-1 Carrying Capital Ship

Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany’s Last Great Battleship

Bismarck and Hood The Battle of the Denmark Strait: A Technical Analysis for a New Perspective (paperback edition)

U-boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages (paperback edition)

Sinking the Beast: The RAF 1944 Lancaster Raids Against Tirpitz

Bismarck: The Pride of the German Navy

Swastikas in the Arctic: U-boat Alley Through the Frozen Hell

Voices from the Arctic Convoys

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

Hitler's Naval Bases: Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War

HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy

The Battle of the Denmark Strait: An Analysis of the Battle and the Loss of HMS Hood

Yamato: Flagship of the Japanese Imperial Navy

King George V-class Battleships

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau

Empire Cruise: The Special Service Squadron 1923-24

Armed Bluejackets Ashore: US Navy Landing Guns 1850–1942

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942 (paperback edition)

Hans Sturm: A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front - available now from Fonthill Media

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Hans Sturm: A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front

The story of a brave and successful German soldier on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

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Mosquito Attack! A Norwegian RAF Pilot at War - available now from Fonthill Media

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Mosquito Attack! A Norwegian RAF Pilot at War

The gripping true story of Finn Eriksrud - a Mosquito pilot who fled Norway to take on the Luftwaffe over his occupied country.

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RAF Special Duties: Unique Sorties of the Second World War

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RAF Special Duties: Unique Sorties of the Second World War

Thrilling rare and previously unpublished special operations flown by the RAF during the Second World War.

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The Diary of a Hurricane Pilot in the Battle of France: Francis Blackadder of 607 Squadron

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The Diary of a Hurricane Pilot in the Battle of France: Francis Blackadder of 607 Squadron

Before the Battle of Britain was the Battle for France - and the first deployment of the Hurricane, in this gripping wartime diary.

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Zero to Hero: From a Boys' Home to RAF Hero

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Zero to Hero: From a Boys' Home to RAF Hero

The remarkable biography of Victor Roe, one of the longest serving rear gunners in the RAF’s Pathfinders.

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47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943-1946 - available now from Fonthill Media

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47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943-1946

The gripping and fascinating story of 47 Royal Marine Commando told by those who were there.

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Trunk Monkeys: The Life of a Contract Soldier in Iraq

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Trunk Monkeys: The Life of a Contract Soldier in Iraq

The bloody realities of being a contract soldier during the most dangerous time in Iraq’s history.

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Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsführer-SS

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Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsführer-SS

A detailed study of Himmler’s diaries illustrating his private life and work itinerary, supplemented by photos chronicling his life.

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Odilo Globocnik: The Devil's Accomplice

Heydrich: Dark Shadow of the SS

Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsführer-SS

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard Volume 1: A-J

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler’s Praetorian Guard Volume 2: K-Q

SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler’s Praetorian Guard Volume 3: R-W

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Hermann Goering in the First World War: The Personal Photograph Albums of Hermann Goering

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Hermann Goering: In the First World War (Volume 1)

A forensic photographic study of Hermann Goering’s first period of fame -- as a First World War fighter ace.

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Voices from the Arctic Convoys

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Voices from the Arctic Convoys

A unique record of the experiences from veterans of the Arctic convoys during the Second World War.

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Guarding The Führer: Sepp Dietrich and Adolf Hitler

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Guarding The Führer: Sepp Dietrich and Adolf Hitler

The amazing story of how one of the most targeted men in history survived to take his own live in 1945.

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Voices of Colditz: Handwritten Accounts by Allied Officers Inside Oflag IV-C

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Voices of Colditz: Handwritten Accounts by Allied Officers Inside Oflag IV-C

Thrilling accounts of daring escapes and everyday life in the notorious Colditz Castle. Written by those that lived them while still imprisoned.

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Napoleon in Captivity: The Reports of Count Balmain Russian Commissioner on the Island of St Helena

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Napoleon in Captivity: The Reports of Count Balmain Russian Commissioner on the Island of St Helena

The 1815 Treaty of Paris was signed between defeated France and the Allies. Each Allied nation was allowed to send a commissioner to St Helena to observe Napoleon’s captivity. Russia therefore sent Count Balmain to report back to St Petersburg.

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Himmler’s Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide

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Himmler’s Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide

For the first time - the fascinating personal account of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's last months. The dramatic fall from supreme power in 1945, and a career in mass murder ending in suicide.

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Letters from the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918

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Letters from the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918

The First World War told in the letters and diaries of those that fought it.

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Pilgrimage to the Western Front

Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part

Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913

Grandad’s Army: Volunteers Defending the British Isles in the First World War

Military Aviation of the First World War (hardback edition)

Letters from the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918

The Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front 1914-1918

The Liverpool Rifles: A Biography of the 1/6th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment in the First World War

Led by Lions: MPs and Sons Who Fell in the First World War

For Conspicuous Gallantry: Military Cross Holders of the First World War

Todger: Thomas Jones VC, DCM, 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment

Great War Special Agent Raymond de Candolle

Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff and the Kaiser’s Marshals and Generals

The Lion and the Rose: A Biography of a Great War Battalion – The 1/5th King’s Own

The Lion and the Rose: The 2/5th Battalion of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919

The Lion and the Rose: The 4th Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919

Primus in Armis: An Illustrated History of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

If the Kaiser Comes: Defence Against a German Invasion of Britain in the First World War

From Horses to Horsepower

Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War

Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War

Volunteers and Pressed Men: How Britain and its Empire Raised its Forces in Two World Wars

Coastal Patrol: Royal Navy Airship Operations during the Great War 1914-1918

Kaiser Bill! A New Look at Imperial Germany's Last Emperor, Wilhelm II 1859-1941

Reich Rails: Royal Prussia, Imperial Germany and the First World War 1825-1918

The North Eastern Railway in The First World War (paperback)

Deveron to Devastation: Brother Officers of the 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in WW1

The British Shell Shortage of the First World War

The RNAS and the Birth of the Aircraft Carrier 1914-1918

Mount of Aces: The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a (paperback)

Britain’s Forgotten Fighters of the First World War

KEKs and Fokkerstaffels: The Early German Fighter Units in 1915–1916

Schneider Trophy Seaplanes and Flying Boats: Victors, Vanquished and Visions

Fokker Fodder: The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c

Irish Aces of the RFC and the RAF in the First World War: The Lives Behind the Legends

Letters from a Flying Officer

German Raiders of the First World War (hardback edition)

The North Eastern Railway in The First World War (hardback edition)

Mount of Aces: The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a (hardback)

Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords

The British Army of the Rhine After the First World War

The Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets (hardback edition)

German Raiders of the First World War (paperback edition)

The Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets (paperback edition)

The Surrender of Napoleon

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The Surrender of Napoleon

An accurate and absorbing historical account on how Napoleon surrendered to the British on HMS Bellerophon.

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At Close Quarters: SOE Close-Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor - available now from Fonthill Media

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At Close Quarters: SOE Close-Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor

A fascinating biography of a hidden, mysterious man who would later become a Special Forces war hero, leaving a distinctive legacy.

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Into the Swarm: Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War (hardback edition)

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Into the Swarm: Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War (hardback edition)

Stories of bravery and sacrifice as The Few took on the might of the dreaded Luftwaffe against all odds.

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Glorious in Solitude: The Courage of Isolated Rear Gunners in the RAF During the Second World War

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Glorious in Solitude: The Courage of Isolated Rear Gunners in the RAF During the Second World War

The rear gunner’s domain was a tiny Perspex-encased turret and there was no room for a parachute...

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A Tank Gunner's Story: CPL Gruntz of the 712th Tank Battalion - available now from Fonthill Media

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A Tank Gunner's Story: CPL Gruntz of the 712th Tank Battalion

Recounting the reality of the Second World War was cathartic for the veteran, an epiphany for his son’s perceived glamour of combat.

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T-34 Shock: The Soviet Legend in Pictures

German Self-Propelled Artillery Guns of the Second World War

American Panther Tanks: An Examination of the Five Surviving Panzer V Tanks Including the Rare Panther II

How to Kill a Panther Tank: Unpublished Scientific Reports from the Second World War

Fallen Giants: The Combat Debut of the T-35A Tank

The Reaper's Harvesting Summer: The 12.SS-Panzer Division ‘Hitlerjugend’ in Normandy

German Heavy Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War: From Tiger to E-100

From Horses to Horsepower

Reich Rails: Royal Prussia, Imperial Germany and the First World War 1825-1918

The British Army of the Rhine After the First World War

The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War

A Soldier of the Reich: An Autobiography

A Tank Gunner's Story: CPL Gruntz of the 712th Tank Battalion

The Battle of Arnhem

Monte Cassino January-May 1944: The Legend of the Green Devils

The Fighting Wessex Wyverns: From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division

The Polar Bears: From Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th Division

Panzersoldaten! Italian Blackshirt Division of the Eastern Front 1941-1943

How to Kill a Tiger Tank: Unpublished Scientific Reports from the Second World War

Frontkämpfer: Wehrmacht Photo Albums From The Front

Voices from Britain: Broadcasts from the BBC 1939-45

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Voices from Britain: Broadcasts from the BBC 1939-45

A collection of famous wartime broadcasts to the World from the BBC, including the broadcast of the declaration of war.

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Fascist Italy at War: 1939–1943

The Grandest Larceny: The Foundation of Israel

Paid to Predict: Duplicity, Deceit and Dishonesty among 'Allies'

Robert Mugabe’s Lost Jewel of Africa

Let There Be Justice: The Political Journey of Imran Khan

Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff: The Unknown Home Secretary

Disraeli v Gladstone: Westminster’s Most Bitter Feud

The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939

The War Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943

Kowtow: Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman Who Introduced Them

Voices from Britain: Broadcasts from the BBC 1939-45

Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance

Led by Lions: MPs and Sons Who Fell in the First World War

Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords

Fading Eagle: Politics and Decline of Britain’s Post-War Air Force

Delivering London's Olympic Dream: A Long Life in Sport

No Condition is Permanent: Risk, Adventure and Return - The Business of Life

Winston Churchill: The Great Man's Life in Anecdotes

The Chamberlains: Joseph, Austen and Neville 1836-1940

Prime Ministerial Anecdotes

Joseph Goebbels: The Biography (hardback)

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Joseph Goebbels: The Biography (hardback)

The best biography ever written about the sex-driven propaganda genius who became an evil mechanic for the Third Reich.

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Unshackled Spirit: Prisoners of War and The Secret Spitfire

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Unshackled Spirit: Prisoners of War and The Secret Spitfire

In mid-1943, a British pilot imprisoned in Germany commenced cryptic communication back to England. He had just one goal in mind: to establish a secret trust fund that prisoners of war could use in order to purchase their very own spitfire to soar above them in the skies over occupied Europe.

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Napoleon on St Helena

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Napoleon on St Helena

A Comprehensive Account of Napoleon’s Imprisonment.

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Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes - available now from Fonthill Media

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Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes

Anecdotes of the Führer presented in a unique and compelling manner.

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Napoleonic Anecdotes

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Napoleonic Anecdotes

Napoleonic Anecdotes contains over 300 snippets on Napoleon Bonaparte, his life, his battles, his marriages and his exiles.

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Unwanted Hero: The Flying Career of Squadron Leader Donald Barnard DFC, 1937-1955

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Unwanted Hero: The Flying Career of Squadron Leader Donald Barnard DFC, 1937-1955

The story of a hero who was court-martialled due to unauthorised attempts to help emaciated Allied POW’s from Burma in 1945.

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Goldfish Caterpillars & Guinea Pigs: Accounts of Pilots and Air Crews from World War II (hardback edition)

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Goldfish Caterpillars & Guinea Pigs: Accounts of Pilots and Air Crews from World War II (hardback edition)

Accounts of pilots and aircrews who experienced life saving events, enabling exclusive membership rites to very special clubs.

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The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon

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The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon

The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon is an essential read and important addition to the Napoleonic library. Written by Oscar Browning - an acclaimed Cambridge historian, the book contains previously unpublished information on Napoleon's youth.

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Slouching in the Undergrowth: The Long Life of a Gunner Officer

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Slouching in the Undergrowth: The Long Life of a Gunner Officer

A fascinating autobiography from a distinguished war veteran.

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Napoleon and His Marshals

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Napoleon and His Marshals

Probably the finest one-volume account of Napoleon and his battles in the English language.

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Viking Spitfire: The Story of Finn Thorsager

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Viking Spitfire: The Story of Finn Thorsager

The story of Finn Thorsager, the first Norwegian to engage in aerial combat and to later fight the Luftwaffe in the skies over England.

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