Our Finest Day by Mark Bowden

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In "Our Finest Day, " the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" reveals the human faces behind D-Day, using reproductions of personal letters, poignant journal entries from soldiers, secret dispatches and pages from code books, and strategic battle plans and maps. Interactive pull-out historical docum ents. ...Show more

The Fading Light - SIGNED by John Gartner

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Category: MILITARY HISTORY

AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-45 - 22 VOLUME SET

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Alone - Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda

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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perh aps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war.12 maps; 68 illustrations ...Show more

The Armoured Campaign in Normandy, June-August, 1944 by STEPHEN NAPIER

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No End Save Victory - New Second World War Writing by Robert Cowley (ed)

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This collection of writings gathers together 45 writers, some world-famous, some unknown, to give a brand new perspective on the Second World War. The reader can therefore enjoy Antony Beevor's work on Stalingrad, David Fraser on the battle for Normandy, and John Keegan's writing on the siege of Berlin between the same covers as the memoirs of an intelligence officer at El Alamein and a Kamikaze pilot who survived the Pacific War. Other writers include the novelist Caleb Carr, Alistair Horne, Stanley Weintraub, Victor Davis Hanson, David Glantz, and many more.The anthology covers the war in the west, on the Russian front, and in the Far East, and pursues themes as diverse as desert warfare, the submarine war, strategic bombing, prisoners of war, tactics and espionage. ...Show more

The Photographic History of the Civil War - The Opening Battles / Two Years of Grim War by Theo F. Rodenbough; Blue and Grey Press Staff (Produced by)

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Volume 1. "The Photographic History of the Civil War "was first published in 1911 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the great conflict. Extremely popular then, it has become a rare book. Here, in five double volumes, is the complete and unabridged original edition, text and photographs carefull y reproduced in the original format and full size. The thousands of photographs contained within are remarkable in their immediacy, spontaneity, and authenticity. They demonstrate the power of the camera as well as the importance of the photographer. This series is a unique record of one of the greatest conflicts in the history of mankind. Also included in this series are maps to mark the battles, and line-art decorations that give a feel of the era in which they were composed. These pictures can be viewed as art, as history and as journalism. Covering every aspect of the war - from the front to weapons, from tactics to the wounded, from everyday life to grief, from victory to defeat - these volumes are a testament to a mighty conflict and to the great nation which emerged from it. The first volume of The Photographic History of the Civil War is a record of the the opening battles of the war. It spans two years and is 732 pages in the hardcover edition. ...Show more

The Civil War in 500 Photographs by Time-Life Books

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The Civil War - An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ric Burns; Ken Burns

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good

The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs--many never before published--as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest wa r in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places--from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction--together with the birth of photography--were to make the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Thousands of books have been written about it. Yet there has never been a history of the Civil War quite like this one. A wealth of documentary illustrations and a narrative alive with original and energetic scholarship combine to present both the grand sweep of events and the minutest of human details. Here are the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the siege of Vicksburg; Sherman's dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. Here are the superb portraits of the key figures: Abraham Lincoln, claiming for the presidency almost autocratic power in order to preserve the Union; the austere Jefferson Davis, whose government disappeared almost before it could be formed; Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, seasoned generals of fierce brilliance and reckless determination. Here is the America in which the war was fought: The Civil War is not simply the story of great battles and great generals; it is also an elaborate portrait of the American people--individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural--caught up in the turbulence of the times. An additional resonance is provided by four essays, the work of prominent Civil War historians. Don E. Fehrenbacher discusses the causes of the war; Barbara J. Fields writes about emancipation; James M. McPherson looks at the politics of the 1864 election; C. Vann Woodward speculates on how the war has affected the American identity. And Shelby Foote talks to filmmaker Ken Burns about wartime life on the battlefield and at home. A magnificent book. In its visual power, its meticulous research, its textual brilliance, and the humanity of its narrative, The Civil War will stand among the most illuminating and memorable portrayals of the American past. ...Show more

Spin Me a Dit : Tales of the Royal Australian Navy by Iris Nesdale

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A WAR OF SHADOWS by W STANLEY MOSS

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Oceans of Love: Narrelle - An Australian Nurse in World War I by MELANIE OPPENHEIMER

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Based on 70 unusually vivid letters home, Melanie Oppenheimer traces the life of an intrepid and extraordinary young Australian woman who took herself off in 1915 to nurse on the battlefields of a war halfway around the world.