Military History & Warfare

Peter Wright (with Paul Greengrass) - Spycatcher : The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Hardback) - 1987 ( Australia Edition)

The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence, including his work on the Ring of Five and exposing Soviet espionage and the conspiracy to oust Harold Wilson from the...

Jozef Wittlin / The Salt of the Earth (Hardback)

'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength' At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian...

Peter Matthiessen / In Paradise (Hardback)

CURIOUS ANIMAL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2014 PICK In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration...

Nicholas Hobbes / Essential Militaria (Hardback)

A riotous collection of military facts and figures. Includes such categories as 'The Eight Wounds Sustained by Alexander the Great' and 'The Worst Reasons for Starting a War'. Essential Militaria is...

Clive Emsley / The Great British Bobby (Hardback)

The name 'Bobby' comes from Sir Robert Peel who, as home secretary, oversaw the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829. In spite of his position as a national institution and his appeal as a...

Brian Lavery / The British Home Front Pocketbook (Hardback)

In June 1940, following the BEF's scrambled evacuation from Dunkirk, the Second World War was brought home to Britain. As the Luftwaffe initiated their bombing campaigns and the threat of invasion...

Rana Mitter / Forgotten Ally (Hardback)

The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two...

Judith Lennox / Written on Glass (Hardback)

It is 1946 and the old families of the Temperleys and the Chancellors have been neighbours on the South Coast of England for many years. Now the younger generation has been touched by the second...

Traudl Junge / Hitler's last Secretary (Hardback)

n 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of 22, she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and...

Joe Duffy and Freya McClements - Children of the Troubles - HB

Children of the Troubles: The Untold Story of the Children Killed in the Northern Ireland Conflict is a 2019 non-fiction book by Irish broadcaster Joe Duffy and journalist Freya McClements. It...

Howard R. Simpson / The paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion (Hardback)

"The paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion are respected worldwide as some of the most skilled and dangerous soldiers on earth. This "elite of the elite," the Second Foreign Legion Parachute...

Brenda Ralph Lewis / Great civilisations (Hardback)

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Tom Pocock / Alan Moorehead (Hardback)

Alan Moorehead was lionized as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award-winning books; star travel-writer of "The New Yorker'; pioneer...

David Downing / Zoo Station (Hardback)

"The clever denouement will have readers clamoring for a sequel."- BookPage " Zoo Station is a beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending as John Russell learns the...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Frozen in Time (Hardback)

#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller...

Elie Wiesel / Night (Hardback)

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death...

Penrose Halson / Marriages Are Made In Bond Street (Hardback)

In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's...

Michael Smith / The Secrets of Station X

The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze. No one is...

Rose Warner / The Teacher Evacuees

'A war-time treasure' Donna Jones Alward, bestselling author of When the World Fell Silent 'A wonderful blend of friendship, romance and drama... Impossible to put down. This is such a satisfying...

Monika Helfer / Last House Before the Mountain

' Beautiful and heartbreaking... I absolutely loved it ' MONICA ALI 'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Téa Obreht'...

Arnold Zweig / The Case of Sergeant Grischa

Sergeant Grischa, an ordinary Russian soldier of World War I adopts the identity of a dead German soldier while escaping Germany. But when he is recaptured he finds he has taken the name of a...

James Webb / Lost Soldiers

Brandon Condley survived five years of combat in Vietnam as a marine only to lose the woman he loved to an enemy assassin. Now he is back, working to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers...

Allan Massie / Death In Bordeaux (Large Paperback)

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is...

Adrian Orchard / Joint Force Harrier (Large Paperback)

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Elizabeth Speller / The Strange Fate Of Kitty Easton (Large Paperback)

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; and a...

Dan Schilling / Alone at Dawn (Large Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life...

Frances M. Doss / Desmond Doss (Large Paperback)

Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmonds simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately 75...

Thomas E Ricks / Fiasco (Large Paperback)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - One of the Washington Post Book World 's 10 Best Books of the Year - Time 's 10 Best Books of the Year - USA Today 's Nonfiction Book of the Year - A New York Times...

Eric Williams / The Tunnel (Older Edition Small Paperback)

This book is a prequel to Eric Williams' *The Wooden Horse*. It describes his last mission, his being shot down, his capture, and his experience at his first prison camp, Oflag XXIB. Yes, there is a...

Erich Hackl / The Wedding in Auschwitz

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story of the love between Rudi and Marga. Rudi Friemel fights for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. When the Republican Front collapses,...

Joseph Roth / On the End of the World

In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before the end of the world', he wrote a series of articles. The end he...

William Sitwell / Eggs or Anarchy

Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed Britain. As a nation...

Agota Kristof / Notebook

Unavailable for over twenty years, Agota Kristof's modern European classic The Notebook is re-issued by CBe alongside the first English translation of The Illiterate, Kristof's memoir of how she...

Ella Leffland / The Knight, Death and the Devil (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The author pursues her fascination with war, evil, and moral choices, in this fictional account of Germany's Goring.   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition Small...

Madge Swindells / The Corsican Woman (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Judy Gardiner / All on a Summer's Day (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Lily Graham / The Last Restaurant in Paris

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spill through the door of a little...

Doug Armstrong / Soldier X

The anti-terrorist exercise on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another training job. But it leads Don Headley of the SAS to be reunited with some of the hardest troopers in...

John E. Lewis / Special Air Service and Elite Forces

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Michael Curtis Ford / The Ten Thousand (Older Edition Small Paperback)

In a novel of high adventure and riveting historical drama, Michael Curtis Ford brings to life an amazing true story from Ancient Greece - Xenophon's march of The Ten Thousand. A tale of war and...

Spike Milligan / Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Close...

Natasha Borovsky / A Daughter of the Nobility (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Tatyana, a descendant of Russia's founding princes and daughter of the Tsar's trusted advisor, is torn from Imperial Russia by the Great War, the Revolution of 1917, and the subsequent civil war.  ...

John Lewis / A Doctor's Occupation (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A Doctors Occupation is the story of Dr John Lewis running his general practice in Jersey during 1940-1945. The Channel Isles were the only part of Britain to be occupied by German forces during the...

Christopher Knight / The Hiram Key: Pharoahs,freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The lost secrets of freemasonry -- The search begins -- The Knights Templar -- The gnostic connection -- Jesus Christ: man, god, myth or freemason -- In the beginning man made god -- The legacy of...

Duncan Kyle / Stalking Point (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A covert game of cat and mouse will decide the victor of the Second World War. 1941. The battleship Prince of Wales races across the war-darkened Atlantic. Her secret human cargo makes her an...

Cameron Spence / Sabre Squadron (Older Edition Small Paperback)

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety. Sabre...

Chris Ryan / The One That Got Away (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission. Only one evaded capture. This is his true story. The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous true stories of courage and...

Padraig O'Malley - The Uncivil Wars : Ireland Today - PB ( US Edition) 1983

The Uncivil Wars, first published in 1983, continues to stand as one of the most thorough and balanced accounts of the troubles in Northern Ireland available. Based on original interviews by the...

Richard Marcinko / Rogue Warrior

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Barry Turner / Outpost of Occupation

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Richard Toye / Churchill's Empire

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Charles Whiting / Siegfried

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