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The history of WW2 from September 1939 til VJ day through the personal accounts of soldiers , speeches, diaries and official records. A lot of primary source material from people who actually lived through it and survived. The stories are from all sides of the conflict.

A rare collection of first hand accounts tell the story of D-Day and that subsequent battle, in the words of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the war.

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The inside stories of 27 top-secret missions carried out by elite ‘shadow war’ units These are the true, behind-the-scenes stories of 27 of the most daring covert military operations, or black ops, of the past 60 years, from raids into Laos by elite unit MAC-V-SOG to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War to the US Navy SEAL 6 operation, Neptune’s Spear, in Abbottabad, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Lewis shines a br...

The First World War in vivid, personal detail, in the voices of those who lived itOne hundred years on, the First World War haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire and the supremacy of America. These compelling eyewitness accounts ...

The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam WarOver 40 definitive accounts: Michael Herr, Seymour M. Hersh, Ron Kovic, John Pilger, Nicholas Tomalin, Truong Nhu Tang Edited by Jon E. Lewis

Training secrets of the world’s elite forces, from the SAS to Shayetet 13What does it take, both physically and mentally, to join the world’s most respected – and feared – military units? In compelling detail, Jon E. Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, including the Navy SEALs, the Green Berets, Delta Force and Russia’s Spetsnaz....

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In the words of Malcolm Brown 'a rediscovered classic'. Sixty first-hand accounts of what life was really like in the Great War.

40 eyewitness accounts from the first attempts on the summit in the 1920s to the disasters of 2014

You can only truly understand the strengths and smarts required to be part of this elite group when you hear the stories from the warriors themselves.

The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies" uncovers 100 cover-ups "they" really don't want you to know about. This collection delves into some of the biggest lies in history.

Voices from the Holocaust follows the whole history of the "Shoah, ” from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials. But while the beginning stages of the Holocaust are discussed in detail, it is, of course, the later years of the atrocities that are focused on, the exterminations and death camps of "The Final Solution” take center stage. This intense and important collection of firsthand accounts tells the story from the perspective of t...

Voices From D-Day features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world's finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewife's story of what it was like ...

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Extraordinary eyewitness accounts of Operation Overlord, the greatest seaborne invasion in the history of the world, and the pivotal Battle for NormandyThis is the compelling story of 'the longest day', 6 June 1944 - D-Day - and the fighting that followed, told in the voices of those who were there. First-hand testimonies from French citizens and from soldiers on both sides, include classic accounts by leaders such as Rommel and Bradley and fr...

The story of the world's most famous special forces regiment, by those who truly know it - the troopers and officers themselves. More than 100 eye-witness accounts including rare SAS battle reports cover operations in France 1944, counter-terrorist work in Northern Ireland, raids in Indonesia, the heroic stand at Mirbat in Oman, 1972 and present-day duties in Afghanistan.

The one hundred conspiracy theories of all time

Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants