Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons by Ward Wilson
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Category: MILITARY
""Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" is accessible, short and breathless. It has the tone of a TED talk: an avid speaker bursting with one big idea and eighteen minutes to hold your attention." --"New York Times" Nuclear war would be an apocalypse. Nuclear deterrence is effective in a crisis. Nuclear wea ...Show more
The Backwash of War: Inspired the BBC Dramatization 'the Crimson Field' by Ellen N. La Motte
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Category: MILITARY
* An inspiration for the BBC One Drama 'The Crimson Field' *'The classic account of a First World War Field Hospital 'War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the e ...Show more
No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G. Malone by John Crawford & Peter Cooke (Editors)
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Category: MILITARY
Perhaps the greatest leader of men during the Gallipoli campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone was commanding officer of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He is probably the best-known individual from that ill-fated campaign, a result both of his humanity a ...Show more
The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Bombing of Broome, and its Tragic Aftermath by Ian W. Shaw
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Category: MILITARY
The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put ...Show more
Back in the Fight: The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up by Joseph Kapacziewski
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Category: MILITARY
On October 3, 2005, Sergeant Joseph Kapacziewski and his soldiers in a Stryker vehicle were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski's right leg below the knee, damag ...Show more
War Dog : The No-Man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies by Damien Lewis
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Category: MILITARY
After getting shot down in the skies over France during a daring mission over the trenches in the winter of 1939, airman Robert Bozdech stumbled across a tiny German Shepherd puppy while engaged in his own nail-biting escape from no-mans-land. He hid the dog, who he named Ant, inside his jacket, and fro ...Show more
HHhH by Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor (Translator)
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
"Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942- two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangero ...Show more
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver
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Category: MILITARY
This is the New York Times bestseller. With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even scratched the surface of ho ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
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Category: MILITARY
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
Undaunted : From Clearance Diver to Mercenary by Hugh O'Brien
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Category: MILITARY
'Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown, full of devil-may-care attitudes. It welcomed you with one hand and cast you asunder with the other. It was a hideous bitch goddess and it drank the blood of the unprepared.' After an ordinary childhood, Hugh 'Obi' O'Brien's life has been surpri ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
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Category: MILITARY
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
World War Two From Above: An Aerial View of the Global Conflict by Jeremy Harwood
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Category: MILITARY
World War Two From Above retells the fascinating and hitherto little-known story of the battle waged by Allied and Axis spies in the skies to obtain accurate aerial intelligence during the Second World War. Featuring dozens of eye-catching aerial reconnaissance photographs drawn from the archives compil ...Show more