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Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651, A    Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651, A
ISBN:9781904607182
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Edward M. Furgol
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis:

This definitive work details the commissioning of regiments, recruitment, individual military careers, and the disbanding of units. It is an indispensible aid to anyone interested in the Covenanting armies.


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Under the Hammer    Under the Hammer
ISBN:9780859766067
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Fiona Watson
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis: Fiona Watson examines the process of conquest and attempted colonisation of one medieval kingdom by another, concentrating on that most vital aspect of conquest: the maintenance of garrisons.
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Jungle is Neutral, The    Jungle is Neutral, The
ISBN:9781843410294
Category: Military History
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A world famous story of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in Malaya.



    
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Pillar of Fire    Pillar of Fire
ISBN:9781841580784
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Ronald Atkin
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Pillar of Fire is the epic story of the journey of the British Expeditionary Force from hope to despair, to triumph in the midst of defeat - a triumph that may have saved Britain from Nazi tyranny.


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Flowers of the Forest, The    Flowers of the Forest, The
ISBN:9781843410409
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Trevor Royle
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes – the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarisation of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women’s role in society following on from wartime employment.
            
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Gods and Generals    Gods and Generals
ISBN:9781841580654
Category: Military History
Author: Jeff Shaara
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Gods and Generals is the epic story of great military leaders of the American Civil War.


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Flodden    Flodden
ISBN:9781841582658
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Peter Reese
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Flodden is widely regarded as one of Scotland's most ignominious military defeats; a battle that need never have been fought and a historical event that has been firmly engraved in Scotland's national consciousness ever since.


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Fate of Admiral Kolchak, The    Fate of Admiral Kolchak, The
ISBN:9781841581385
Category: Military History
Author: Peter Fleming
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

In one year Admiral Kolchak fell from being Supreme Ruler of All the Russias to the victim of a show trial.


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Naked Island, The    Naked Island, The
ISBN:9781843410201
Category: Military History
Author: Russell Braddon
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
The Naked Island vividly portrays battle and prison life as experienced in the ranks. It is a tale of heroism, horror, squalor, starvation and disease endured with fortitude, ironic humour and extraordinary ingenuity.

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Dangerous Devotion    Dangerous Devotion
ISBN:9781843410331
Category: Military History
Author: Christopher Portway
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A Gripping tale by one of the few men who risked his life breaking east through the Iron Curtain.


    
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Flowers of the Forest, The    Flowers of the Forest, The
ISBN:9781843410300
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Trevor Royle
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

Trevor Royle is one of Britain’s major military historians and this is the first study to show the massive importance of Scotland in the defeat of the Kaiser’s Germany.


        
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White Cockade,The    White Cockade,The
ISBN:9781841584416
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A great collection of tales from an exciting period of history retold by one of Scotland’s most well-known storytellers.

    
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Glasgow: A City at War    Glasgow: A City at War
ISBN:9781843410287
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Brian D Osborne, Ronald Armstrong
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This lavishly illustrated book explores the impact of the First and Second World Wars on the city of Glasgow, its people and its industries.


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Sledge Patrol, The    Sledge Patrol, The
ISBN:9781843410096
Category: Exploration, Military History, History
Author: David Howarth
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Crucial to control of the North Atlantic during the Second World War was knowledge of the weather: for the wolf packs and German raiders that lurked in these bitter seas this was the vital ingredient that would enable them to cut the vital arteries t

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North Atlantic Front, The    North Atlantic Front, The
ISBN:9781843410119
Category: War, The Sea, Scotland, Military History, Maritime, History
Author: James Miller
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

During the two world wars, the chain of island groups ­ Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes and Iceland ­ linking Europe to North America, acquired great strategic significance.


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Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945    Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945
ISBN:9781843410140
Category: Military History
Author: (Editor) Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This book presents all of Hitler's directives, from preparations for the invasion of Poland (31 August 1939) to his last desperate order to his troops on the Eastern Front (15 April 1945), whom he urges to choke the Bolshevik assault 'in a bath of bloo

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News from Tartary    News from Tartary
ISBN:9781843410034
Category: Military History
Author: Peter Fleming
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

'There is not much to say about this book by way of introduction. It describes an undeservedly successful attempt to travel overland from Peking in China to Kashmir in India. The journey took seven months and covered about 3,500 miles . . .'


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Long Way Home, The    Long Way Home, The
ISBN:9781843410225
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: John McCallum
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This is a true story of romance and escape during World War Two.


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Border Bloodshed    Border Bloodshed
ISBN:9781904607663
Category: Military History
Author: Alastair J. MacDonald
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and in the reign of Robert II Involved close co-operation with France.


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Fleet That Had to Die, The    Fleet That Had to Die, The
ISBN:9781843410157
Category: Military History
Author: Richard Hough
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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This is the story of the Russian fleet's seven-month 18,000-mile odyssey from Kronstadt to the Far East, a venture which began in 1904 and turned into a mission of heroic futility after the fall of Port Arthur and, with it, the entire Russian pacific

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Great Naval Race, The    Great Naval Race, The
ISBN:9781843410133
Category: Maritime, Military History
Author: Peter Padfield
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in Dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War; a story of two great empires set on a collision course to the Armageddon of 1914.


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Last Full Measure, The    Last Full Measure, The
ISBN:9780862418113
Category: Military History
Author: Jeff Shaara
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

The sequel to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels.


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Glasgow: A City at War    Glasgow: A City at War
ISBN:9781841582764
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Brian D Osborne, Ronald Armstrong
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

Including a unique selection of war-time photography, Osborne and Armstrong draw on a wide variety of sources in writing this fascinating and moving book.


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Mons Star, The    Mons Star, The
ISBN:9781841581279
Category: Military History
Author: David Ascoli
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

David Ascoli's account of Britain's crucial contribution to the opening months of the Great War is a worthy monument to those who gave so much to save France.


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Siege at Peking, The    Siege at Peking, The
ISBN:9781841580982
Category: World History, Military History
Author: Peter Fleming
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

On 29 June 1900 the foreign legations at Peking were attacked by troops of the Boxer rebellion and Imperial Chinese troops. The ensuing siege lasted fifty five days and shook the world.


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Goodbye Darkness    Goodbye Darkness
ISBN:9781841581255
Category: Military History
Author: William Manchester
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

William Manchester fought his way from Guadalcanal to Okinawa in the front line of the American war in the Pacific. His account of this war combines searing observation and powerful commentary.


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Sea Dog Bamse    Sea Dog Bamse
ISBN:9781841587486
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes – a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe.


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Russian Civil War, The    Russian Civil War, The
ISBN:9781843410416
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Evan Mawdsley
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Evan Mawdsley’s lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.


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Churchill 1940-1945    Churchill 1940-1945
ISBN:9781843410447
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Walter Reid
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
Walter Reid brings together the result of recent research to create a powerful narrative that reveals how much time and energy Churchill devoted to fighting the war that was excluded from the official accounts: the war with the allies.

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Morningside Mata Haris    Morningside Mata Haris
ISBN:9781843410218
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Douglas MacLeod
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: Douglas MacLeod delves beneath the surface of the Scottish League for European Freedom to reveal its more hair-raising activities as a front for MI6.
    
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Mirror of Monte Cavallara, The    Mirror of Monte Cavallara, The
ISBN:9781843410317
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Ray Ward
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

After his passing, Ray Ward’s son discovered his father’s memoirs of the Second World War in the basement of their family home. The Mirror of Monte Cavallara is a very personal, poignant and revealing account.

    
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To War With the Black Watch    To War With the Black Watch
ISBN:9781843410324
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Gian Gaspare Napolitano, translated and annotated by Ian Campbell Ross
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

To War with the Black Watch is a sharp, witty and moving insight into Scots–Italian relations in the latter part of the Second World War.

    
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Siege of Vienna, The    Siege of Vienna, The
ISBN:9781843410379
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: John Stoye
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the major turning points in European history. The hot September day that witnessed the last great trial of strength between Cross and Crescent opened an epoch in European history that lasted until the cataclysm of the First World War in 1914.


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St Valery    St Valery
ISBN:9781843410393
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: (Editor) Bill Innes
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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This book illuminates an event often over-shadowed by the tragedy of Dunkirk in the Second World War - that of the capture and valour of the 51st Highland Division in St Valery.

            
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Jutland to Junkyard    Jutland to Junkyard
ISBN:9781841580012
Category: Military History, Maritime
Author: S. C. George
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: In 1919 the German High Seas Fleet began in unison to sink in Scapa Flow. Shortly after the Admiralty stated that salving the ships was an impossibility. From 1924, using techniques at the frontiers of science, the battlefleet was raised and scrapped. This is the story of the salvage operation.
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