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  • High Noon of Empire

    The Diary of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tyndall, 1895–1915

    Edited by B A 'Jimmy' James ...
    "Henry Tyndall was a typical product of the Victorian age—an intensely patriotic army officer who served in India, on the North-West Frontier, on the Western Front and in East Africa at the height of the British empire. For 20 years, from 1895 to 1915, he kept a detailed diary that gives a vivid insight into his daily life and concerns, his fellow officers and men, and the British army of his day. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anatomy of a Raid

    Ypres Sector, 1914–1915

    by Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith ...
    Series Book 6 - Cameos of the Western Front
    A seemingly unnecessary raid made by men of the 10th Battalion A.I.F. on Celtic Wood, Broodseinde on the 9th October 1917 resulted in the unrecorded deaths of 37 of the raiding party. The mystery of how they died has never been solved. The conclusion reached in this book prompts thoughts as to why the military authorities never conducted an investigation at the time, and why the raid was planned ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli

    Edited by Ellis Silas, John Laffin ...
    Signaller Ellis Silas of the 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial force, was the only artist to paint and sketch actual battle scenes showing Australian soldiers in action at Gallipoli. With his mates he went ashore at Anzac Cove in April 1915 and for the next month he witnessed the terrible carnage at Gallipoli whilst performing his du¬ties as signaller in the thick of the fighting, until he was ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Israeli Army in the Middle East Wars 1948–73

    by John Laffin ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    Israel assumes in advance that defeat in war means an end to its state, and it wages war accordingly.This fact influences the Israeli approach to its army and to the strategy, tactics, training and conduct of war. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948 and 1973, despite having begun as an irregular, impoverished and improvised group.Backed by plenty of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Salient Points One

    Ypres Sector, 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 1 - Cameos of the Western Front
    Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith's Salient Points One collects obscure stories of soldiers, their units, and the actions they engaged in during World War I.Introduction by Jonathan NichollsCompiled together with stories of other points of interest along the old Western Front, each account in this unique history book about life in the Ypres Sector between 1914–1918 is supported with photographs and ... Read more

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  • Salient Points Two

    Ypres Sector, 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 2 - Cameos of the Western Front
    Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black ... Read more

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  • Salient Points Three

    Ypres & Picardy 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 3 - Cameos of the Western Front
    The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the Ard Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael OLeary ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle Tales from Burma

    by John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mons, Anzac and Kut

    By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)

    by Edward Melotte ...
    Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mission 101

    The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia

    by Duncan McNab ...
    In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War's most daring operations and the first for Britain's legendry Special Operations Executive.Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied Ethiopia and began waging a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Great Game

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling.When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Goodbye to All That

    by Robert Graves ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.It also contains memorable encounters with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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