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The Burgoyne Diaries

These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, written from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.The author’s daughter, Cl ...


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Missing But Not Forgotten

The Thiepval Memorial commemorates over 72,000 men who have no known grave; all went missing in the Somme sector during the three years of conflict that finally ended on 20 March 1 ...


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We Fought at Kohima

The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 ...


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The Emperor Commodus

Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture ...


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From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his strip ...


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The Fighting Pioneers

Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in Apri ...


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Breaking Point of the French Army

In December 1916 General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high comm ...


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Faith, Hope and Rice

Fred Cox, a young soldier in the East Surrey Regiment, was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942. The next three and a half years were spent in a ...


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Fight the Good Fight

Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across all nations ...


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Gloucestershire Hero

Small in physical stature Colonel, later Brigadier, Patsy Pagan was seen as a giant by the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment, whom he commanded for over three gruelling years of ...


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Malta's Greater Siege & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA)

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the ...


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The Justice Women

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite t ...


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Visiting the Fallen-Arras South

Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under ...


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The Fallen Few of the Battle of Britain

'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' – Seventy-five years on the unforgettable words of Winston Churchill ring as powerfully as they did in ...


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Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France

The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Vict ...


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Fighting for Napoleon

The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers' memoirs. It ...


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The Battle for Burma

Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Ch ...


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Allt det vackra

 När Hunter Biden var två år gammal blev han allvarligt skadad i en bilolycka, hans mamma och hans lillasyster omkom. 2015 förlorade han sin älskade storebror Beau, som dog i hjärn ...


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Tove Jansson - Ett liv

Tove Jansson blev världsberömd för sina böcker om Muminfamiljen. som hon både skrev och illustrerade. Böckerna har översatts till mer än femtio språk och nått en världspublik. Berä ...


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Cancerbrev

"Alla som varit på magnetröntgen vet att det tar sin tid. Jag ligger där och lyssnar på den klassiska musiken som jag valt. Så blir det mera aktivitet bakom glaset. Läkaren kom- me ...


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Jag måste, när ingen annan vill : Kvinnosakskämpen Sophie Sager

Vem var Sophie Sager? Hon var misshandelsoffret som blev kvinnorättskämpe, sömmerskan som blev författare, kvin­nan på barrikaden som blev husmodern i Brooklyn. Hon blev riksbekant ...


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Inför Gud och kniven är vi alla lika

Lukten av desinfektionsmedel hänger tung i luften. Tystnaden är total, nästan hörbar. Spända koncentrerade blickar möter varandra över munskydden. Tiden står stilla. - Patienten so ...


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Secret Channel to Berlin

This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The a ...


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A Mighty Fortress

A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of the Second ...


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Unless Victory Comes

Gene Garrison spent a terrifying nineteenth birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar. He listened helplessly to cries of wounded comrades as explodi ...