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The Siege of Vienna

The Siege of Vienna


ISBN: 9781843410379
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
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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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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The Flowers of the Forest

The Flowers of the Forest


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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St Valery

St Valery


ISBN: 9781843410393
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: (Editor) Bill Innes
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

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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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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The Naked Island

The Naked Island


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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The Flowers of the Forest

The Flowers of the Forest


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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The White Cockade

The White Cockade


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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The Sledge Patrol

The Sledge Patrol


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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The Mirror of Monte Cavallara

The Mirror of Monte Cavallara


ISBN: 9781843410317
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
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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The North Atlantic Front

The North Atlantic Front


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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To War With the Black Watch

To War With the Black Watch


ISBN: 9781843410324
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
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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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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Morningside Mata Haris

Morningside Mata Haris


ISBN: 9781843410218
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
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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The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home


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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The Last Full Measure

The Last Full Measure


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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Jutland to Junkyard

Jutland to Junkyard


ISBN: 9781843410102
Category: Maritime, Military History
Author: S. C. George
Publication Date: March 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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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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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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The Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War


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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The People's Army

The People's Army


ISBN: 9781843410430
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Brian D. Osborne
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
The Home Guard, and its forerunner the Local Defence Volunteers, was genuinely a 'people's army' with its own ethos, character and political influence. This book examines the human story of the Home Guard in Scotland and the impact that this remarkable organisation had on society and on those that became involved with it.
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The Sea King

The Sea King


ISBN: 9781843410461
Category: Military History, Biography
Author: Gary McKay
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
As the rogue captain of the last Confederate commerce raider, the Shenandoah, James Waddell was a huge thorn in the side of the post-Civil war administration who singlehandedly destroyed the US whaling fleet and finally surrendered after a 22,000-mile journey at Liverpool. This title presents the story of the Shenandoah.
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Architect of Victory

Architect of Victory


ISBN: 9781843410454
Category: Military History, History
Author: Walter Reid
Publication Date: September 2009
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:
The first biography of Douglas Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available. What emerges is a picture of a comprehensible human being, not necessarily particularly likeable, but honourably ambitious, able and intelligent, and the man more than any other responsible for delivering victory in 1918.
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Sea Dog Bamse

Sea Dog Bamse


ISBN: 9781841588490
Category: Military History, History
Author: Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr
Publication Date: September 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:
This is the remarkable - and bestselling - 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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The Polish Invasion

The Polish Invasion


ISBN: 9781843410485
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Ksawery Pruszynski
Publication Date: February 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
With a new introduction by Neal Ascherson.

This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the impact of Poles coming into Scotland, following their contribution to the Second World War.
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The Tartan Airforce

The Tartan Airforce


ISBN: 9781841588063
Category: Military History
Author: Deborah Lake
Publication Date: September 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Spanning a century, this book investigates Scotland’s contribution to military flying in Britain.  
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Scottish Battles

Scottish Battles


ISBN: 9781843410478
Category: Military History
Author: John Sadler
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

From Celtic warfare to the feudal host to the professional armies of the eighteenth century, from guerrilla warfare to the pitched battle, from siege to Border Reiver, Scotland is unique in having had almost every major type of warfare taking place within its frontiers. John Sadler weaves chronicle, narrative, and analysis together in a masterly way, recreating the drama and passion of centuries past.


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When I Heard The Bell

When I Heard The Bell


ISBN: 9781841588582
Category: Military History
Author: John MacLeod
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. This work tells the story of the Iolaire, the commitment of the people of Lewis to the war against the Kaiser, and the way of life that was destroyed.


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Blood on the Wave

Blood on the Wave


ISBN: 9781841588650
Category: Military History, Maritime
Author: John Sadler
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

A brilliant, insightful and unique portrait of the Scottish war at sea, examining an array of skirmishes including the Wars of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second World War, and cold war spying missions.


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