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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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Codebreaking Sisters
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Codebreaking Sisters
Patricia Owtram
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Agent Sonya
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Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
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Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day
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Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day
Captain Tom Moore
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War Doctor
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War Doctor
David Nott
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The Spy and the Traitor
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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
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Sicily '43
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Sicily '43
James Holland
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MI9
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Helen Fry
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself
Florian Huber
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
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Chastise
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Chastise
Max Hastings
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Normandy '44
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Normandy '44
James Holland
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The International Brigades
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The International Brigades
Giles Tremlett
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War
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War
Professor Margaret MacMillan
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The Windsor Diaries
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The Windsor Diaries
Alathea Fitzalan Howard
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Dresden
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Dresden
Sinclair McKay
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The Good Germans
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The Good Germans
Catrine Clay
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
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A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
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Behind the Enigma
Behind the Enigma
John Ferris
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In this first-ever authorised history of the ultra-secret Government Communications Headquarters, Professor John Ferris digs deep into the past of Britain's biggest cyber-intelligence agency.

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Blitz Spirit
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Blitz Spirit
Becky Brown
£16.99
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Sisters in Arms
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Sisters in Arms
Julie Wheelwright
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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Jeremy Black
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Crucible of Hell
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Crucible of Hell
Saul David
£25.00   £21.99
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Agent Sonya
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Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
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Sicily '43
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Sicily '43
James Holland
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War
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War
Professor Margaret MacMillan
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MI9
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MI9
Helen Fry
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Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day
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Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day
Captain Tom Moore
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The Good Germans
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The Good Germans
Catrine Clay
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SAS Band of Brothers
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SAS Band of Brothers
Damien Lewis
£20.00   £14.99
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Britain at Bay
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Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
£25.00   £22.99
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
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Mussolini's War
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Mussolini's War
John Gooch
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Battle of Britain
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Battle of Britain
Simon Pearson
£20.00   £17.99
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The Infiltrators
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The Infiltrators
Norman Ohler
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq
James Bluemel
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself
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Florian Huber
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Dresden
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Sinclair McKay
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Crusaders
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Crusaders
Dan Jones
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
Serhii Plokhy
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Shockwave
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Shockwave
Stephen Walker
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A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
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Chastise
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Chastise
Max Hastings
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War Doctor
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War Doctor
David Nott
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Normandy '44
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Normandy '44
James Holland
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The Walls Have Ears
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The Walls Have Ears
Helen Fry
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D-Day Through German Eyes
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D-Day Through German Eyes
Jonathan Trigg
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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 British Are Coming
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The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson
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The Man Who Was Saturday
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The Man Who Was Saturday
Patrick Bishop
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Sand and Steel
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Sand and Steel
Peter Caddick-Adams
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Our Man in New York
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Our Man in New York
Henry Hemming
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Codebreaking Sisters
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Codebreaking Sisters
Patricia Owtram
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The Hard Way
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The Hard Way
Mark 'Billy' Billingham
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War
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Professor Margaret MacMillan
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The acclaimed author of Peacemakers and The War That Ended Peace examines the historical, cultural and ideological baggage of military conflict, asking probing questions about how integral war is to the human condition.

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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
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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
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Crusaders
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Crusaders
Dan Jones
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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
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Napoleon
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Napoleon
Adam Zamoyski
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The Longest Afternoon
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The Longest Afternoon
Brendan Simms
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This Dark Business
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This Dark Business
Tim Clayton
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Waterloo
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Waterloo
Tim Clayton
£12.99
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The Peninsular War
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The Peninsular War
Charles J. Esdaile
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Britain Against Napoleon
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Britain Against Napoleon
Roger Knight
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1812
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1812
Adam Zamoyski
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24 Hours at Waterloo
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24 Hours at Waterloo
Robert Kershaw
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Witnessing Waterloo
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Witnessing Waterloo
David Crane
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Russia Against Napoleon
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Russia Against Napoleon
Dominic Lieven
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In Nelson's Wake
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In Nelson's Wake
James Davey
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Military Dispatches
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Military Dispatches
The Duke of Wellington
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Napoleon: On War
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Napoleon: On War
Bruno Colson
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Napoleon in Egypt
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Napoleon in Egypt
Paul Strathern
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Waterloo
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Waterloo
Gordon Corrigan
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The First World War

Storm of Steel
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Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
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World War One
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World War One
Norman Stone
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1914-1918
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1914-1918
David Stevenson
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The First World War
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The First World War
Hew Strachan
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Passchendaele
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Passchendaele
Nick Lloyd
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The First World War
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The First World War
Professor A J P Taylor
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Where Poppies Blow
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Where Poppies Blow
John Lewis-Stempel
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Gallipoli
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Gallipoli
Peter Hart
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The Last Battle
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The Last Battle
Peter Hart
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Somme
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Somme
Lyn Macdonald
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Somme
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Somme
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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Catastrophe
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Catastrophe
Max Hastings
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The War that Ended Peace
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The War that Ended Peace
Professor Margaret MacMillan
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The World's War
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The World's War
David Olusoga
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The Guns of August
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The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
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Ring of Steel
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Ring of Steel
Alexander Watson
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Undertones of War
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Undertones of War
Edmund Blunden
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The Second World War

The Second World War
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The Second World War
Antony Beevor
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Normandy '44
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Normandy '44
James Holland
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World War Two
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World War Two
Norman Stone
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Arnhem
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Arnhem
Antony Beevor
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Dresden
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Dresden
Sinclair McKay
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Dunkirk
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Dunkirk
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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A Raid Over Berlin
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A Raid Over Berlin
John Martin
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Stalingrad
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Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
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The Battle of the Atlantic
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The Battle of the Atlantic
Jonathan Dimbleby
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All Hell Let Loose
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All Hell Let Loose
Max Hastings
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Monte Cassino
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Monte Cassino
Peter Caddick-Adams
£9.99
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
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Burma '44
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Burma '44
James Holland
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Band Of Brothers
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Band Of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
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Berlin
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Berlin
Antony Beevor
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Dresden
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Dresden
Victor Gregg
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Big Week
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Big Week
James Holland
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The End
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The End
Ian Kershaw
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The Battle of Britain

Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
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The Battle of Britain
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The Battle of Britain
James Holland
£12.99
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Defiant
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Defiant
Robert Verkaik
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Battle of Britain
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Battle of Britain
Simon Pearson
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Britain's War
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Britain's War
Daniel Todman
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First Light
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First Light
Geoffrey Wellum
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Royal Air Force: The Official Story
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Royal Air Force: The Official Story
James Holland
£25.00
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Fighter Boys
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Fighter Boys
Patrick Bishop
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The Bombing War
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The Bombing War
Richard Overy
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The Most Dangerous Enemy
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The Most Dangerous Enemy
Stephen Bungay
£14.99
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Fighter
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Fighter
Len Deighton
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Battle Of Britain Manual
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Battle Of Britain Manual
Andy Saunders
£22.99
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Hurricane
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Hurricane
Leo McKinstry
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The Battle of Britain
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The Battle of Britain
Richard Overy
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Last of the Few
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Last of the Few
Max Arthur
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Post-Second World War Conflicts

Boys in Zinc
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Boys in Zinc
Svetlana Alexievich
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Our Boys
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Our Boys
Helen Parr
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Dispatches
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Dispatches
Michael Herr
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The Korean War
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The Korean War
Max Hastings
£14.99
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Directorate S
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Directorate S
Steve Coll
£12.99
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The Cold War
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The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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Vietnam
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Vietnam
Max Hastings
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The Battle for the Falklands
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The Battle for the Falklands
Max Hastings
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Born on the Fourth of July
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Born on the Fourth of July
Ron Kovic
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Fiasco
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Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks
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The Cold War
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The Cold War
Odd Arne Westad
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Chickenhawk
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Chickenhawk
Robert Mason
£8.99
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Katanga 1960-63
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Katanga 1960-63
Christopher Othen
£10.99
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Generation Kill
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Generation Kill
Evan Wright
£9.99
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Operation Mayhem
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Operation Mayhem
Steve Heaney
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A Bright Shining Lie
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A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan
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Espionage & Secret Services

Agent Zigzag
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Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre
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GCHQ
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GCHQ
Richard Aldrich
£12.99
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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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A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
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Game of Spies
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Game of Spies
Paddy Ashdown
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The Spy Who Changed History
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The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
£9.99
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Operation Mincemeat
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Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre
£10.99
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A Spy Among Friends
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A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre
£10.99
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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 Spy and the Traitor
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The Spy and the Traitor
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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Soldier Spy
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Soldier Spy
Tom Marcus
£8.99
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SAS
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SAS
Ben Macintyre
£9.99
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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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A Spy Named Orphan
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A Spy Named Orphan
Roland Philipps
£9.99
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MI6
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MI6
Gordon Corera
£10.99
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The Spy Who Loved
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The Spy Who Loved
Clare Mulley
£10.99
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