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Marijuana Time by Ken Lukowiak Synopsis "In Soldier's Song", Ken Lukowiak described the nightmare of war in the Falklands. "Marijuana Time" recalls the years after the war, in which Lukowiak struggled to come to terms with what he had experienced.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal Publisher Comments R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, sportsman, and female impersonator. In this absorbing and humane account of Baden-Powell's extraordinary... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indian Mutiny by John Harris Publisher Comments The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Churchill's War Lab: Code-Breakers, Scientists, and the the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory by Taylor Downing Publisher Comments AHistory Book Club selection. As a young boy he re-enacted historic battles with toy soldiers, as a soldier he saw action on three continents, and as the Prime Minister only a direct edict from King George VI could keep him from joining the troops on D... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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War of the Running Dogs: Malaya 1948-1960 by Noel Barber Publisher Comments Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eyewitness in the Crimea: The Crimean War Letters of Lt. Col. George Frederick Dallas by George F Dallas Publisher Comments The thoughts of an officer at the forefront of the fighting, portraying the daily hardships experienced by the soldiers.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stress of Combat - The Combat of Stress: Caring Strategies Towards Ex-Service Men & Women by Roy Brook Synopsis Here is an essential guide to a wide range of battle stress, war experience and mental conditions. The case histories and types of patient will be of interest to the caring professions, the social services, the Armed Forces, and to all families with... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight Synopsis The Zulu kingdom established by King Shaka was robust and self-sufficient, but royal rivalries and newly arrived white colonialists made it a bloody period that shaped the face of modern Africa. This much-deserved, detailed depiction of day-to-day combat... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Battles in Britain by William Seymour Synopsis A detailed account of all the major battles fought on British soil from 1066 to 1746. This text sets them against their political and historical background, and provides an analysis of each action and the results of the battles.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Lads: RAF National Service Remembered by Alf Townsend Publisher Comments Between 1945 and 1963, over two and a half million eighteen year olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story - the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early '50s... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Montgomery (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments This fascinating study of military leadership follows British general Bernard Law Montgomery's military career from his cadet days and service in World War I to his great victories of World War II, including his defeat of the great German panzer... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Haig by Andrew A. Wiest Publisher Comments Examines Haig??'s continuing controversial role in British national... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Norfolk Soldier in the First Sikh War -A Private Soldier Tells the Story of His Part in the Battles by J W Baldwin Publisher Comments A PRIVATE SOLDIER TELLS THE STORY OF HIS PART IN THE BATTLES FOR THE CONQUEST OF INDIA - The First Sikh War is facinating to many readers interested in Victorian Warfare. More than any adversary the Sikh's Khalsa army, modelled on European lines was the... (read more) List Price $14.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wellington: The Iron Duke (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Phi Haythornthwaite Publisher Comments One of the Duke of Wellington's officers once remarked, "We would rather see his long nose in the sight than a reinforcement of ten thousand men." Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (17691852), was one of the greatest military commanders in... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbol of Courage by Max Arthur Publisher Comments The Victoria Cross can only be awarded for 'most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy.' It has been awarded only 1,354 times since 1856, the majority... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle of Bannockburn 1314 by Aryeh S Nusbacher Publisher Comments A history of the most celebrated battle in Scottish history, where Robert the Bruce defeated the forces of Edward II and won independence for Scotland.... (read more) Your price: $7.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Ironsides: The Military Biography of Oliver Cromwell (Phoenix Press) by Frank Kitson Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Military Biography Of Oliver Cromwell". How a country gentleman with no military experience rose to become the greatest general of the English Civil War.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Destruction of Lord Raglan by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts.... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men by Byron Farwell Publisher Comments This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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