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Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world. As Prime Minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953 he nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, led the nation's defiant attempt to run its oil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990727347Author Christopher J LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Christopher J. LynchPublisher Christopher J. LynchWeight(grams)...

From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and crucial lessons for people on the battlefield,...

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In the summer of 1917, more than two hundred American men volunteered for service in England's Royal Flying Corps, where they would be trained to fly with the Allies until American squadrons could be organized. John MacGavock Grider, assigned to Royal...

American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South's covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch...

In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. "Jack" Stilwell (1850-1903), a man...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737253Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184806Author Andrew Gerow HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882840304Author Lisa JustFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Community Christian MinistriesPublisher Community Christian MinistriesWeight(grams)...

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the 'Panzer Graf' (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748573Author Jonathan HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

The career of the French general Maxime Weygand offers a fascinating glimpse into the perils and politics of military leadership and loyalty in the interwar years and after France's defeat in 1940. Of obscure birth, Weygand had an outstanding career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528263Author Roger CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956373373Author T D GlennFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Wild Wolf PublishingPublisher Wild Wolf PublishingWeight(grams) 321g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250119032Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318g

History has not been kind to Hannah More. This once lionized writer and activist -- the most influential female philanthropist of her day -- is now considered by many to be the embodiment of pious morality and reactionary anti-feminism. Largely because...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345453266Author Robert W. BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

On a cold day in January 1944, as war raged in Europe, Betty Hussey and Jack Stoate were married. In so doing they brought together two families, whose members fought across the globe to defeat the Axis. In Called to Arms, Edward Lambah-Stoate traces the...

The product of nearly 25 years of research, Pershing: General of the Armies remains one of the most authoritative biographies of the man known as "Black Jack." Newly appointed head of the American Expeditionary Forces, Pershing sailed for Europe in May...

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324797Author Rorke DenverFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 27mm

As the author, a young Army bandsman lies wounded at the Battle of Corinth, he is shot between the eyes at point blank range. Miraculously he survives but is blinded. In a makeshift hospital a young Greek volunteer saves his life with slices of boiled...

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General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory-Manassas in July 1861-and at its last-Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest southern field commander of the war;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759659407Author Albert AtkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 239g

Revolt in the Desert is the extraordinary story of the war in Arabia between 1916 and 1918, written by one of the war's most extraordinary characters, Lawrence of Arabia. It tells of his adventures and life amongst the Arab tribesmen, the daring raids on...

A celebrated journalist finds himself reporting on the savage war in Vietnam while in combat with his own network. In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645431671Author David SearsFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Ballast BooksPublisher Ballast BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 144mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595165247Author L H BurrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

One woman's professional battle against systemic gender bias in the Marines and the lessons it holds for all of us. The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation...

A "very dramatic [and] compelling" World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times). Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065926Author James ColeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 145g

Medicine and Duty is the World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. McGill attempted to have his memoir published by Macmillan of Canada in 1935, but, unfortunately, due to...

"Life," writes Joseph Rutter, "was all fun and games with very expensive toys during those bright June days in 1944." Rutter was a pilot in the Army Air Force, and the expensive toys were airplanes-A-20s. He had just completed replacement crew training...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062970Author Robert C LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755207466Author Pat ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, where his roommate was John McCain. Despite incredible...

General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months, Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate; when Jackson died, Ewell took command of the Second Corps, leading it at...