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  • The Crimean War at Sea

    The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854-56

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • British Military Medals

    A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian Second Edition

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals.This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • British Campaign Medals 1815-1914

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Collections Livre 384 - Shire Library
    This book outlines the medals issued to British soldiers and sailors for military service across the globe.At a time of imperial expansion, British forces were almost constantly in action against major powers, in wars of conquest, or in expeditions on the fringes of Empire, such as the North West Frontier, southern Africa or Burma.Their campaign medals have become a popular field for collectors ... En savoir plus

    $9.39 CAD

  • British Campaign Medals 1914-2005

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Collections Livre 393 - Shire Library
    Surveys the medals awarded to British personnel for military services from the First World War to operations of British forces in the opening years of the twenty-first century. The campaign medals awarded for the military actions have become a popular field for collectors, since the majority of British awards were officially named. ... En savoir plus

    $10.39 CAD

  • British Campaign Medals of the First World War

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Collections Livre 636 - Shire Library
    Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce.However, few families escaped some involvement with the 'Great War' of 1914–18 and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000

    par Peter Duckers ...
    Collections Livre 394 - Shire Library
    An illustrated survey of the British decorations and medals, from their origins in the Crimean War of 1854-6 up to the end of the twentieth century.Since ancient times soldiers have been honoured for gallantry in battle, and since the 1850s specific acts of bravery 'in the face of the enemy' by British and Imperial forces have been recognised by the award of a range of wearable decorations. These ... En savoir plus

    $9.89 CAD

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  • Tribals, Battles & Darings

    The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer

    par Alexander Clarke ...
    The conception and evolution—through inter-war tensions, global war, and years of Cold War hostility—of the Royal Navy's large fleet destroyers.The Tribal class destroyers are heroes of the Altmark incident, of the battle of Narvik, and countless actions across all theatres of operation. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about these critical ships, still less about their wartime ... En savoir plus

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  • Special Forces Commander

    The Life and Wars of Peter Wand-Tetley OBE MC Commando, SAS, SOE and Paratrooper

    par Michael Scott, David Richards ...
    Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for special service. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. Operations with the LRDG in the Western Desert were followed by SAS actions as Rommel retreated to Tunis. Remarkably he then transferred to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted ... En savoir plus

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  • SAS Zero Hour

    The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service

    par Tim Jones, Rannulph Fiennes ...
    The historian and author of Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS reveals the full story of how the Special Air Service Regiment began during WWII.Britain's elite Special Air Service Regiment is one of the most revered special-ops units in the world. Its high-profile operations include the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 and the hunt for Osama bin Laden in southern Afghanistan ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • He Who Dares

    Recollections of Service in the SAS, SBS and MI5

    par David Sutherland, Lord Jellicoe ...
    A British Army veteran offers a glimpse of the action undertaken by special forces during World War II in this memoir.With so few survivors of the Second World War military generation alive today, it is extremely fortunate that men like David Sutherland recorded their experiences for posterity. There can be few veterans whose contribution to victory can rival Sutherland's as readers of this superb ... En savoir plus

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  • Scapegoats

    Thirteen Victims of Military Injustice

    par Michael Scott ...
    At all costs avoid blame.” Such is the creed of dictators and politicians, tycoons and company chairmen, media celebrities, and spin doctors the world over. But what about men at war, where the penalties for errors of judgment can be devastating? History is full of tales of those who have been wrongly castigated in the rush to find a culprit; only later, sometimes much later, when the real truth ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Intelligence In War

    par John Keegan ...
    From the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have?In this magisterial new study, the author of A History of Warfare goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about intelligence in ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD