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Dublin's Great Wars
2018
NON-FICTIONFor the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution as a series of i...
The Anzac Book
2021
NON-FICTIONSoldiers from the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) were formed into the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in Egypt in early 1915. This combined fo...
Shadows of Anzac
2016
NON-FICTIONOn 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having s...
Despatch dated 11th December, 1915, from General Sir Ian Hamilton, describing the operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula, including the landing at Suvla Bay
1916
NON-FICTIONStorm of Steel
1920
MEMOIRUnflinching memoir of a German stormtrooper on the Western Front, written without sentimentality. One of the most controversial war memoirs ever published.
Goodbye to All That
1929
MEMOIRBrilliant and bitter autobiography by the English poet-soldier, covering his harrowing service on the Western Front and disillusionment with England.
Infantry Attacks
1937
MEMOIRRommel's tactical manual drawn from his WWI experiences as a junior officer, describing the aggressive infiltration tactics he developed and later applied to devastating effect in North Africa.
Herbert Corey’s Great War
2022
MEMOIRIn 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain,...
Grant: A Biography
2006
MEMOIRThe newest biography in Wesley Clark's Great Generals series details the life and legacy of one of America's most ingenious military minds
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros
2015
MEMOIRA "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
The Soul of Battle
1999
MEMOIRFrom the author of the international bestseller "The Western Way of War" comes a fresh, exciting look at three armies whose intense spirit of mission, coupled with the genius of their leaders, led the...
Military Commanders
2004
MEMOIRFrom ancient Greece to Desert Storm, Military Commanders presents a chronological history of great battles and the men who won them. Beginning with Leonidas of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae and endi...
Shooting Up
2016
MEMOIRPharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the advent...
Persepolis
2003
MEMOIRThe great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and p...
She Captains
2000
MEMOIRIf a hen frigate was any ship carrying a captain's wife, then a she captain is a bold woman distinguished for courageous enterprise in the history of the sea. Tells us what life was like for the women...
Sailing True North
2019
MEMOIRFrom one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrio...
By the Spear
2014
MEMOIRAlexander the Great is arguably one of the best known and most exciting figures from antiquity. He waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhum...
Tribe
2017
MEMOIRFrom the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe ...
Asperger's Children
2018
MEMOIR"Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winn...