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  • Frontier Fighters: On Active Serivce in Warziristan

    The Memoirs of Major James Cumming

    by Walter Cummings ...
    These are fascinating memoirs of a British officer who fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the Northwest Frontier, right up to the beginning of WW2. He describes desperate battles against this highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace and no prisoners were taken.Cummings served in two Frontier units, the South Waziristan Scouts and the Corps of Guides. Waziristan, ... Read more

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  • The Desert War

    The classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-43

    by Alan Moorehead ...
    The seminal account of the battle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert.In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Khartoum

    The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

    by Michael Asher ...
    The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Desert Column

    by Ion Idriess ...
    One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917...'The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"... ... Read more

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  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    by Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Kabul (1879) - part of the Bretwalda Battles series

    Bretwalda Battles, #10

    by Oliver Hayes ...
    Series Book 10 - Bretwalda Battles
    With British & American troops again in Afghanistan, this book looks back to a previous conflict when Islamic fundamentalists again sought to overthrow the government of Afghanistan and British troops went in to pacify the area.In September 1879 rebels against Emir Yaqub Khan massacred the British residents of Kabul. The British put together a column of 7,000 men to march on Kabul, punish the ... Read more

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  • Secret Army

    An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords, a far flung corner of WWI

    by Barry Stone ...
    It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today.Barry Stone tells the story of these Australian, British, New Zealand, Canadian and South African men who ... Read more

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  • Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks

    The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman

    Edited by Tony Spackman ...
    This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

    by William Wright ...
    Series series Battle Story
    The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... Read more

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  • Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896

    The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia

    by Sean McLachlan ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies.Securing a foothold in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, the Italians quickly became embroiled in a shooting war with the Ethiopians. The war proved a disaster for the Italians, who suffered three ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN SINAI AND PALESTINE [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lt Col C. G. Powles ...
    Series series Official History Of New Zealand's Effort In The Great War
    Contains over 60 illustrations and 10 maps."The official account of the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade (Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington Mounted Rifles), which fought right through the Sinai and Palestine campaigns, gaining a high reputation....The Mounted Rifles Brigade had been fighting on Gallipoli as infantry, part of the New Zealand and Australian Division, and on 26th December 1915 they ... Read more

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