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Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guderian
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937, the result ...Show more
Austerlitz 1805 by Christopher Duffy
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Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
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Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of World War II and an acclaimed film and TV drama. Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-b ...Show more
Fortress Malta: An Island under seige 1940-1943 by James Holland
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In just two months in 1942 - March and April - more explosives were dropped on this 17 x 9-mile Mediterranean island than on the whole of Britain during the entire first year of the Blitz. In 1942 Malta was the most important strategic piece of land in the w ...Show more
Midway - The Japanese Story by Mitsuo Fuchida; Masatake Okumiya
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First published in English in 1955, this was the first Japanese account of their decisive defeat to be made available to the general public. There has been a great deal of research since then, but modern scholarship shows these authors' judgement to be correct and their use of secret Japanese archives r ...Show more
Sea Harrier Over the Falklands by Sharkey Ward
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might ...Show more
The Dambusters Raid by John Sweetman
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a ...Show more
The Fall of Carthage:The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than i ...Show more
The Kappillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsarrat
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust. Now amid the catacombs discovered by a chance bomb, he cared for the flood of homeless, starving, frightened people who sought shelter from the death th ...Show more
The Puppet Masters Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by John Hughes-Wilson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officer John Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us 'behind the scenes' of military and political events from Elizabeth I to Osama ...Show more
The Somme by Peter Hart
Category: No Category | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it. On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambli ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War by Antony Beevor
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Best-selling author of Stalingrad. A comprehensive history of one of the most fiercely fought ideological wars of modern times. Now in new, updated and corrected edition.