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Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman

2016

MEMOIR

Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Easter...

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The Last Years of Austria-Hungary
The Last Years of Austria-Hungary

Mark Cornwall

1990

NON-FICTION

The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fa...

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The Times History of the 20th Century
The Times History of the 20th Century

R. J. Overy

1999

NON-FICTION

A major new edition of a best-selling classic of contemporay history

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The Longman Encyclopedia
The Longman Encyclopedia

Asa Briggs

1989

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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

1992

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Definitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.

Tags: Aerial, Cold War, Combined Arms
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An Army at Dawn
An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson

2002

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Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

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Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

Chris Bellamy

2007

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Comprehensive history of the Soviet-German war drawing on newly opened Russian archives. Covers the full sweep from Barbarossa to Berlin.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941–45

Alan Clark

1965

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Gripping operational narrative of the Eastern Front campaign from the 1941 invasion to Germany's defeat. A foundational text of Eastern Front history.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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A Bridge Too Far

Cornelius Ryan

1974

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The definitive account of Operation Market Garden — the bold Allied airborne assault into Holland that ended in catastrophe at Arnhem.

Tags: Aerial, Combined Arms
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944

Rick Atkinson

2007

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Second volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, covering the brutal Allied campaign through Sicily and up the Italian peninsula.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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The Rommel Papers

Erwin Rommel (ed. B.H. Liddell Hart)

1953

MEMOIR

Rommel's own diaries and notes from the North Africa campaign, edited by military historian Liddell Hart after Rommel's death.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1990

FICTION

Landmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
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Dispatches

Michael Herr

1977

MEMOIR

Iconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
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States and Power in Africa
States and Power in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

2014

NON-FICTION

Originally published: A2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa

David M Glantz

2011

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On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht ...

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Barbarossa Derailed
Barbarossa Derailed

David Glantz

2014

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The supplemental companion to a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II. Volume three, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, conta...

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941
Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941

David M. Glantz

2016

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This groundbreaking new study, now significantly expanded, exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, a...

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Together We Stand: North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West
Together We Stand: North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West

James Holland

2015

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From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This book looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the in...

Tags: Armored, Combined Arms
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Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

William Craig

1973

NON-FICTION

The definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.

Tags: Armored