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From the Crusades to the Cold War, and from Spitfires to spies, our vast range of military history books spans centuries of global and local conflict. This is where you will find books on military operations, specific battles, World War One and World War Two, espionage and more. Reflecting on the impact of war on societies and economies worldwide, these books are essential guides to understanding the conflicts of the past and how they’ve shaped our world.

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Our Best Military History Books

Agent Sonya
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Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
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Brothers in Arms
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Brothers in Arms
James Holland
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The Spy and the Traitor
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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
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Spymaster
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Spymaster
Helen Fry
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
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SBS - Silent Warriors
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SBS - Silent Warriors
Saul David
£25.00   £21.99
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Sicily '43
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Sicily '43
James Holland
£9.99   £8.49
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Army Girls
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Army Girls
Tessa Dunlop
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SAS Bravo Three Zero
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SAS Bravo Three Zero
Damien Lewis
£20.00   £17.99
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Soldiers
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Soldiers
Max Hastings
£25.00   £21.99
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Codebreaking Sisters
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Codebreaking Sisters
Patricia Owtram
£8.99
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Secret Britain
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Secret Britain
Sinclair McKay
£16.99
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
£8.99
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Operation Pedestal
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
£25.00   £21.99
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Operation Jubilee
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Operation Jubilee
Patrick Bishop
£20.00   £17.99
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The Pathfinders
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The Pathfinders
Will Iredale
£20.00   £17.99
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Barbarossa
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Barbarossa
Jonathan Dimbleby
£25.00   £21.99
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Soldiers
Soldiers
Max Hastings
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From Queen Boudicca to the Duke of Wellington and from the fields of the Somme to present day Iraq, the bestselling military historian brings together over three hundred stories of soldiers, relating tales of bravery and glory as well as dreadful crimes and the horrors of war.
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SAS Bravo Three Zero
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SAS Bravo Three Zero
Damien Lewis
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Operation Pedestal
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
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Operation Jubilee
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Operation Jubilee
Patrick Bishop
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Barbarossa
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Barbarossa
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Secret Britain
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Secret Britain
Sinclair McKay
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The Pathfinders
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The Pathfinders
Will Iredale
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Tornado
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Tornado
John Nichol
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The Searchers
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The Searchers
Robert Sackville-West
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Blood and Ruins
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Blood and Ruins
Richard Overy
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The Spitfire Kids
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The Spitfire Kids
Alasdair Cross
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SAS Great Escapes
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SAS Great Escapes
Damien Lewis
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The Bomber Mafia
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The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
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The Shape of Battle
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The Shape of Battle
Allan Mallinson
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Eight Days in May
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Eight Days in May
Volker Ullrich
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Women in the War
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Women in the War
Lucy Fisher
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Hitler's American Gamble
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Hitler's American Gamble
Brendan Simms
£25.00
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The Shortest History Of War
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The Shortest History Of War
Gwynne Dyer
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Barbarossa Through German Eyes
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Barbarossa Through German Eyes
Jonathan Trigg
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World War II: Infographics
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World War II: Infographics
Jean Lopez
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A Dictionary of Naval Slang
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A Dictionary of Naval Slang
Gerald O'Driscoll
£8.99
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The Armchair General
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The Armchair General
John Buckley
£14.99
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Battles that Changed History
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Battles that Changed History
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The SAS Pocket Manual
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The SAS Pocket Manual
Christopher Westhorp
£9.99
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The Short History of War
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The Short History of War
Jeremy Black
£14.99
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Total War
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Total War
Kate Clements
£35.00
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As We Were: The First World War
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As We Were: The First World War
David Hargreaves
£100.00
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The English Civil War
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The English Civil War
Colonel Nick Lipscombe
£50.00
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World War II: Infographics
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World War II: Infographics
Jean Lopez
£29.95
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2021's Best Paperbacks

Agent Sonya
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Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
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The White Ship
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The White Ship
Charles Spencer
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
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Sicily '43
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Sicily '43
James Holland
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Behind the Enigma
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Behind the Enigma
John Ferris
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The Ratline
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The Ratline
Philippe Sands
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Under Pressure
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Under Pressure
Richard Humphreys
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SAS Band of Brothers
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SAS Band of Brothers
Damien Lewis
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Harrier 809
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Harrier 809
Rowland White
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Crucible of Hell
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Crucible of Hell
Saul David
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War on Peace
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War on Peace
Ronan Farrow
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The Splendid and the Vile
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The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
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War in the Shadows
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War in the Shadows
Patrick Marnham
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Active Measures
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Active Measures
Thomas Rid
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff
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The Happy Traitor
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The Happy Traitor
Simon Kuper
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Britain at Bay
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Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
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The First World War

Storm of Steel
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Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
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Where Poppies Blow
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Where Poppies Blow
John Lewis-Stempel
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Somme Mud
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Somme Mud
E P F Lynch
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The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
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Goodbye to All That
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Goodbye to All That
Robert Graves
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Catastrophe
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Catastrophe
Max Hastings
£12.99
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The Western Front
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The Western Front
Nick Lloyd
£25.00
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The First World War
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The First World War
Professor A J P Taylor
£12.99
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The World's War
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The World's War
David Olusoga
£10.99
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Testament Of Youth
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Testament Of Youth
Vera Brittain
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Passchendaele
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Passchendaele
Nick Lloyd
£10.99
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The Last Battle
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The Last Battle
Peter Hart
£12.99
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Gallipoli
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Gallipoli
Peter Hart
£12.99
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Somme
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Somme
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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The First World War
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The First World War
Hew Strachan
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As We Were: The First World War
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As We Were: The First World War
David Hargreaves
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The War that Ended Peace
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The War that Ended Peace
Professor Margaret MacMillan
£12.99
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The Second World War

The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
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Stalingrad
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Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
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Normandy '44
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Normandy '44
James Holland
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The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram
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The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram
David M. Guss
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Burma '44
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Burma '44
James Holland
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The Second World War
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The Second World War
Antony Beevor
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D-Day
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D-Day
Giles Milton
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Big Week
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Big Week
James Holland
£10.99
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Band Of Brothers
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Band Of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
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Kursk: The Greatest Battle
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Kursk: The Greatest Battle
Lloyd Clark
£12.99
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All Hell Let Loose
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All Hell Let Loose
Max Hastings
£12.99
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A Raid Over Berlin
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A Raid Over Berlin
John Martin
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Fighter Boys
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Fighter Boys
Patrick Bishop
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Quartered Safe Out Here
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Quartered Safe Out Here
George MacDonald Fraser
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Dresden
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Dresden
Victor Gregg
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Blood, Tears and Folly
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Blood, Tears and Folly
Len Deighton
£12.99
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Spitfire Women of World War II
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Spitfire Women of World War II
Giles Whittell
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Espionage & Secret Services

The Spy and the Traitor
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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
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Operation Mincemeat
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Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
Sinclair McKay
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A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
£9.99
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SAS
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SAS
Ben Macintyre
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A Spy Among Friends
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A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre
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Agent Zigzag
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Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre
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The Defence of the Realm
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The Defence of the Realm
Christopher Andrew
£18.99
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GCHQ
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GCHQ
Richard Aldrich
£12.99
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Soldier Spy
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Soldier Spy
Tom Marcus
£9.99
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The Walls Have Ears
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The Walls Have Ears
Helen Fry
£10.99
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The Billion Dollar Spy
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The Billion Dollar Spy
David E. Hoffman
£9.99
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Henry Hemming
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The Spy Who Changed History
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The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
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A Spy Named Orphan
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A Spy Named Orphan
Roland Philipps
£9.99
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The Secret World
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The Secret World
Christopher Andrew
£14.99
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MI6
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MI6
Gordon Corera
£12.99
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The Spy Who Loved
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The Spy Who Loved
Clare Mulley
£10.99
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Post-Second World War Conflicts

Vietnam
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Vietnam
Max Hastings
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Bravo Two Zero
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Bravo Two Zero
Andy McNab
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Dispatches
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Dispatches
Michael Herr
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The Cold War
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The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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The Battle for the Falklands
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The Battle for the Falklands
Max Hastings
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Three Days In June
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Three Days In June
James O'Connell
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Chickenhawk
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Chickenhawk
Robert Mason
£9.99
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The Cold War
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The Cold War
Odd Arne Westad
£16.99
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Hue 1968
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Hue 1968
Mark Bowden
£11.99
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Boys in Zinc
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Boys in Zinc
Svetlana Alexievich
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Operation Mayhem
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Operation Mayhem
Steve Heaney
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The Operator
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The Operator
Robert O'Neill
£8.99
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The Outpost
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The Outpost
Jake Tapper
£9.99
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Directorate S
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Directorate S
Steve Coll
£16.99
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A Rumor of War
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
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Our Boys
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Our Boys
Helen Parr
£10.99
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The Crusades

A History of the Crusades I
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A History of the Crusades I
Steven Runciman
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A History of the Crusades II
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A History of the Crusades II
Steven Runciman
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A History of the Crusades III
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A History of the Crusades III
Steven Runciman
£10.99
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The Templars
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The Templars
Dan Jones
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The Crusades
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The Crusades
Thomas Asbridge
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The First Crusade
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The First Crusade
Peter Frankopan
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Chronicles of the Crusades
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Chronicles of the Crusades
Joinville and Villehardouin
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf
£14.99
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Crusaders
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Crusaders
Dan Jones
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Queens of Jerusalem
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Queens of Jerusalem
Katherine Pangonis
£20.00
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How to Plan a Crusade
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How to Plan a Crusade
Christopher Tyerman
£12.99
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Accursed Tower
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Accursed Tower
Roger Crowley
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The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191
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The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191
John D. Hosler
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The Albigensian Crusade
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The Albigensian Crusade
Jonathan Sumption
£14.99
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The Napoleonic Wars

Waterloo
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Waterloo
Bernard Cornwell
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Napoleon the Great
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Napoleon the Great
Andrew Roberts
£18.99
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Napoleon
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Napoleon
Adam Zamoyski
£12.99
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1812
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1812
Adam Zamoyski
£12.99
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The Peninsular War
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The Peninsular War
Charles J. Esdaile
£19.99
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Waterloo
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Waterloo
Tim Clayton
£12.99
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This Dark Business
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This Dark Business
Tim Clayton
£12.99
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Russia Against Napoleon
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Russia Against Napoleon
Dominic Lieven
£14.99
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Britain Against Napoleon
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Britain Against Napoleon
Roger Knight
£19.99
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The Longest Afternoon
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The Longest Afternoon
Brendan Simms
£9.99
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24 Hours at Waterloo
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24 Hours at Waterloo
Robert Kershaw
£12.99
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Witnessing Waterloo
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Witnessing Waterloo
David Crane
£9.99
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Military Dispatches
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Military Dispatches
The Duke of Wellington
£12.99
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Waterloo
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Waterloo
Gordon Corrigan
£20.00
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In Nelson's Wake
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In Nelson's Wake
James Davey
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Napoleon: On War
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Napoleon: On War
Bruno Colson
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SAS Great Escapes
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Damien Lewis
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The Greatest Raid
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Giles Whittell
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Battle of Britain The Movie
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Battle of Britain The Movie
Dilip Sarkar MBE
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Resistance
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Resistance
Halik Kochanski
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Home Guard Manual of Camouflage
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Home Guard Manual of Camouflage
Roland Penrose
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The Facemaker
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The Facemaker
Lindsey Fitzharris
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The Taliban at War
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The Taliban at War
Antonio Giustozzi
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
Simon Parkin
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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier
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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier
Chris Terrill
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Rebels Against the Raj
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Rebels Against the Raj
Ramachandra Guha
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Culloden and the '45
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Culloden and the '45
Jeremy Black
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Dowding and Churchill
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Dowding and Churchill
Jack Dixon
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The Decline of Empires in South Asia
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The Decline of Empires in South Asia
Campbell
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The Black Watch
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The Black Watch
Victoria Schofield
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The Somme
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The Somme
John Harris
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