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Loading ...10 World War II Spitfire fighter pilots talk about their experiences as part of 66 Squadron. Of the 10, 5 were dead before the book was published.
(1 votes) Loading ...The Last Fighting Tommy is the biography of Harry Patch, born 17th June 1898. The paper back edition was published in 2008, and Harry Patch was still alive, at the grand old age of 110 — he didn’t pass away until 25th July 2009.
(2 votes) Loading ...The Forgotten Voices of Burma is an oral history of the British armies conflict in Burma, fighting against the Japanese.
(2 votes) Loading ...In Mark Urban’s Rifles you’ll read about how they fought, their wounds and care, dessertion and everything else that formed a part of a soldiers life in the 1900′s.
(3 votes) Loading ...The American Civil War was a truly brutal war that’s had a massive impact on how America has evolved to date. Just how much can be judged by Keegan’s closing statement: American socialism was stillborn on the battlefields of Shiloh and Gettysburg. It’s also one of the few wars where the loosing side wasn’t vilified [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...This book is a masterpiece. Bullock interweaves the lives of these two tyrants, chapter by chapter, setting them against the political background of 20th century Europe. From childhood, through their respective rise to power, to the build up of and aftermath of WW2, this book is full of insight into their personalities, behavior, and motivations. [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Stalingrad was one of the major turning points of World War II and became an almost personal struggle of power between Stalin and Hitler. Neither would allow their armies to withdraw, and neither would accept defeat, although it did come and the Germans suffered heavily for it. The conditions that the soldiers of both armies [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...I figure most of you have heard of the tales of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I also expect it conjures up images of shinning armor, jousting, fair maidens and of course Camelot. Well, if that’s what you’re after then read a different book. Bernard Cornwell’s Arthur lives at the time of [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...‘We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.’ Anais Nin Today there were another 16 US casualties in Iraq (BBC News 03/11/2003). This follows on the heels of the announcement that more British soldiers have been killed since the official end of the war in Iraq than during the conflict itself [...]
(2 votes) Loading ...Ian Knight is somewhat of an expert on Zulu military history and is well placed to author this work. Most literature covering the rise of the Zulu nation focuses almost exclusively on the Anglo-Zulu war, and is invariably written from the point of view of the British. What makes The Anatomy of the Zulu Army [...]