Télécharger le livre :  Bugles and a Tiger
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The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in...

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Parution : 2022-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Road Past Mandalay
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The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warThis is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to...

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Parution : 2022-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
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The controversial first-hand account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skiesSharkey 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...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2022-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby
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'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred Owen' TLSA classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Das Boot
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'Breathless, terrifying U-boat drama... a masterclass in economical, tight-space storytelling, piling the pressure on both characters and audience'Time OutIt is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Reach for the Sky
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The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air Force in aerobatics...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Seize and Hold
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SEIZE AND HOLD vividly demonstrates how military objectives can be seized by clever tactics and ruthless action.From the First World War to Vietnam, this collection gives exciting, atmospheric descriptions of eleven twentieth-century battlefield triumphs. Portraying...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear
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The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese warThe Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the Japanese were a week or so from their bases.The Russian command structure was hopelessly confused,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A Storm in Flanders
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A fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18. Switching seamlessly between the generals' headquarters, the politicians' councils and, above all, the mud and blood of the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2016-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Somme
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On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous seven-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with horrendous losses to...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Road To Stalingrad
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In The Road to Stalingrad, Professor Erickson takes us in detail from the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Barbarossa onslaught, until the tide...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The War of the Running Dogs
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'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday ExpressOnly three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to...

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Parution : 2013-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Fortress Malta
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The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Achtung Panzer!
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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...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Last Stand
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What do soldiers do when all is lost?They keep fighting! In this best-selling anthology, Bryan Perrett provides gripping accounts of close-quarter battles and hard fought victory against all the odds. His journey from Napoleonic Europe through to the Korean War...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Against All Odds!
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The story of dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success.From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success....

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Parution : 2012-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Iron Fist: Classic Armoured Warfare
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The greatest tank battles of history from the Great War to the Gulf, examined by one of Britain's bestselling military writers.The story of the evolution of armoured warfare in the 20th century, which has seen tanks and other armoured vehicles develop from lumbering,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-10-11
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