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Undated. An account of wartime travel which begins with a party of twenty-four Ordinary Seamen, which eventuates to a lucky thirteen.
1939. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war.
1971. This blistering bestselling novel, based on documented fact, is the gripping story of the sex and money deals that exist in the backrooms behind the polished brass front of the military.
1997. 1st edition. A study of the evolution of special forces from 19th-century imperialists to the SAS.
2007. 1st edition. There have been many books written on the SAS, most telling of individual events in the Regiment's history.
1976. 1st edition. Tells how American airmen managed to emerge from their aerial battles with both victories and honor.
1949. Tells the story of military aeronautics in the United States from the early 19th century through World War II.
1985. 1st edition. This history covers the entire Vietnam War.
1983. 1st edition. Sir David Lee, an official RAF historian of the Ministry of Defence, tells a light-hearted and humorous tale of a life which few will remember.
1963. 1st edition. Variety of wartime air adventure is the theme of this book, in which all stories are new or different, and true.
1971. The history of the No.1 Fighter Squadron in the Royal Air Force.
2011. Traces 5,000 years of armed conflict around the globe.
1988. 1st edition. A frank and revealing account written by a British ex-legionnaire who signed up for five years in the Legion, served for seven and wished it had been fifteen.
1983. Provides a fairly comprehensive view of the evolution of the Air Service in 1917-1918.
1984. 1st edition. SIGNED. The medal (Pour le Merite) and the early German airmen who sought to achieve the distinction of wearing it.
1974. Small photographic book depicting the battlefields of Papua New Guinea.
1991. From the formative years of Germany's first air force in 1910 and 1911, the book covers the development of fighter aircraft such as the Albatros and Fokker series as well as the AEG Gothan and
2012. If any one airfield in the world could claim to be the home of military aviation, RAF Hendon has to be the no.1 contender.
1954. The story of one of Britain's greatest fighter squadrons, told by its oldest member, famous air ace, Wing Commander Ira 'Taffy' Jones.
1939. An absorbing and informative account of the development and work of the Royal Air Force and of the part which it plays in our scheme of National Defence.
1946. 1st edition. An anthology of the best stories and articles which appeared during the war in the "Royal Air Force Journal", the official magazine of the Royal Air Force.
1988. A pictorial book on the 1988 Japanese Air Self Defence Force gunnery meet.
2002. Celebrates the U.S. Navy's Submarine force by setting forth in prose and pictures the story of its development through the first 100 years. SCARCE
1961. 1st edition. Here is the fascinating history of the submarine.
1932. 1st edition. Signed by author. A fascinating account of the author's Service in the British Merchant Service.
2003. 1st edition. From the moment that Master and Commander, the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleag
1945. A history of the English, later British, fleet through most of its major events and engagements, and the growth of the tradition which developed into the Royal Navy.
1982. Tells the story of the RFC and the RAF in both words and pictures, from the earliest days of ballooning, through to the supersonic Tornado multi-role combat aircraft of today.
1944. Depicts practically every effective warship in existence (at time of publication), together with the date of launch or laying down, displacement, designed speed, armament and aircraft equipment.
1989. 1st edition. The first book to trace the evolution of battlefield air attack and its impact on military operations worldwide.
1968. Tells for the first time the story of Independent Force, abounding in amazing incident and revealing squadron and intelligence records which disclose how Germany's morale was cracked.
1970. 1st edition. For the interest of collector and general reader alike some of the most significant and attractive mile-stones in the evolution of military dress.
2001. Richard Tomlinson was recruited initially by MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during his senior year at Cambridge University.
1959. 1st edition. The astonishing feat of the first atomic submarine and its voyage beneath the polar ice pack.
2001. Veteran correspondent D. C. Waller takes you on a tension-packed, three-month patrol deep in the Atlantic Ocean and inside one of these Tridents, the U.S.S. Nebraska.
1944. 1st edition. An authoritative history of the origins and development of the RAF up to the beginning of World War II.
1993. The true story of a solder in the Vietnam War and the emotional wounds inflicted, who climbed back from hell to create a new life.
1969. Forming the second part in Grant's biography, the sequel to "Grant Moves South" follows his victory at Chattanooga and subsequent promotion to Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces.
1975. Phillip Knightley, a special correspondent for the London Times compiled an account of war
1999. Covers all the major conflicts of the 18th century.
2002. Kaplan traces the development of the modern submarine from the 75-ton USS Holland to the nuclear-powered vessels of the modern day.
1956. 1st edition. The submarine's first commission as part of the First Submarine Flotilla operating out of Alexandria in 1942.
1979. Narrative accounts of main battles, explanation of historical background, guide to battlefields etc.
Appears as hundreds of newspaper wartime cuttings from WW1 onwards
2008. The inside story of the search for Saddam Hussein - as told by the soldier who masterminded his capture.
1958. The story of the death of Germany's greatest warship
2003. 1st edition.
1988. 1st edition. Pilots relate their combat experiences in Vietnam between 1961-1972.
1976. 1st edition. The Israeli raid on Entebbe to rescue the hostages hijacked on the Air France Airbus.
1972. 1st edition. An excellent compilation of Naval and Wartime information.
2001. Essential summary of the famous U-boat Commander's handbook.
1981. 1st edition. Investigation into the sinking in Nov.1941 of the Royal Australian Navy light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with the loss of all 645 crew.
1978. 1st edition. Aspects of War and Literature.
2010. An illustrated history of battleships of the world from 1860 to the present day.
1971. Illustrated guide to collecting medals of the United Kingdom and other nations.
1982. An illustrated history of the SAS from World War 2 to special roles, their training and dangerous missions.
1970. 1st edition. A masterly reconstruction of the background to the conflict, the battle itself and a deeply moving account of the fate of Nelson.
1986. 1st edition. This chronicle 'looks at the development of the U-boat, its designers, promoters, adherents, detractors, officers and men.
2004. 1st edition. This book examines critically the development of intelligence studies and assesses its contribution to the study of international relations.
2002. A thrilling insight into how SAS soldiers are trained and fascinating details about recent deployments.
1987. The Story of Compulsory National Service in The British Armed Forces.
2004. 1st edition. In 11 essays, contributors describe new policies, models and techniques in place or being considered to combat terrorism after 9/11.
1979. The book that led to the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as the Fourth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.
1984. Biography and military history of Lord Raglan.
2009. The definitive account of the insurgency with the US military that led to a radical shift in their strategy in Iraq.
2004. An unprecedented look at the front line of the war against terror through the eyes of five interrogators
1970. 1st edition. Examines one of the great fighting legends of the world.
2009. This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
2010. Geoffrey Rothwell used up many of his nine lives during the Second World War, when he flew bombers over Germany and flew on Special Duties to supply the Resistance in enemy-occupied countries.
1962. 1st edition. History of the Soviet Air Force.
1974. Story of the American submarine that sank in 1963. The USS Thresher, the USN's most modern submarine, was lost on trials after a refit.
1913. 1st edition. (110 yo). From personal accounts, official records and regimental tradition.
1980. 1st edition. Accounts of six 20th century spies and their lasting impact on world affairs.
1985. Reviews submarines at both extremes of the size scale of the past, present, and future.
1991. Documents all the conventional submarines of the three major classes operated by the US government during World War II.
1982. A carefully researched and entertainingly written account of the role of this remarkable craft in military and scientific history.
Rarely seen colour photos of the worlds secret submarine fleets.
2004. Cutting edge analysis of recent global terror attacks and the role they play in modern society
1974. The gripping story of the death of Germany's greatest warship in 1941.
1976. 1st edition. SIGNED. A first hand account of a British soldier who served undercover in the Polish Underground during World War 2.
2005. Early in 1968 a nuclear armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been.
2005. Covers submarines from the first advanced diesel subs in the 1950s to the Kursk in 2000 this book tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War.
1972. The development and career of the French Submarine RUBIS.
2002. 1st edition. The most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the Cold War era.
1994. 1st edition. The evolution of submarine tactics and technology during WW2.
2000. Lt. Gibson's narrative shows the constant struggle of the Submariner with the element on which he works - the sea and the grand comradeship engendered officers and men by service in submarines.
1942. 1st edition. Keble Chatterton is unquestionably one of the most important and vivid nautical authors of the past century.
2004. Tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties.
2002. 1st edition. A gripping account of the Russian Navy's greatest peace-time disaster, the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk.
1989. This fast moving study is the first to be written by a professional army historian and capably challenges many of the traditional interpretations.
1955. This is a naval history told from the point of view of signalmen, their signals, flags and customs.
1972. 1st edition. The memoir of a young Brit who was in the French Foreign Legion in the years between 1910 and 1930.
2002. Military barracks have played an important part in the social as well as the military history of Britain.
2009. Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs, no. 29
1976. Explains exactly how modern weapons, from handguns to guided missiles, work.
2002. Incisive study of the notorious terrorist organisation examining its leadership, ideaology, tactics and finances.
2006. 1st edition. SIGNED. English-language edition of D. A. Romanov's vigorous defence of the people and institutions that built the ill-fated Soviet nuclear attack submarine Komsomolets.
2003. Reproduced from confidential reports first released by the United States Government in 1945 for limited circulation to officers involved with the bombing campaign.
1999. The deeds of dedication and heroism in the pages of this book will astonish and amaze, 23 classic examples of bravery in all.
1944. 1st edition. The first book to come from the marines' special corps of fighting writers who report on the battles they fight in.
1975. 1st edition. The main battles fought on British soil between 1066-1746, together with an assessment of the commanders and their strategies.
1978. 1st edition. True account of the 1968 explosion and sinking of a Russian Golf-II submarine and the secret US Trojan Horse efforts to recover it from the Pacific.
1986. No 1 Squadron had its beginnings in 1930 at Hobsonville airfield and was formed as a territorial unit.
1962. The history of weapons and the exciting tale of the rise and fall of empires, of unforgettable men, of great victories and terrible defeats.
1963. 1st edition. First-hand account of what went on during secret orders to take the Triton 36,000 nautical-mile voyage around the world!
2008. A gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice facing America.
1973. 1st edition. The Camera's Battlefield View of man's most terrible Adventure, from the first photographer in the Crimea to Vietnam.
1986. Japanese naval history includes strategy and operations; construction and losses
2010. An authoritative guide to current naval thinking and is thus a vital component of the training and education of all the RAN's men and women.
2017. 1st edition. Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character as an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
1986. Naval history illustrated throughout with monochrome images and line drawings.
1998. 1st edition. Captures that critical stage of Russian submarine development in a series of extremely rare and historic photos, many never before published in the West.
1986. 1st edition. Provides an excellent if grim chronological account of all British submarine losses, half of which relates to World War 2.
1987. Reference book on submarines.
1961. 1st edition. The author commanded the nuclear submarine sent to find out if a submarine could safely navigate below ice flows beneath the Arctic Ocean.
1983. 1st edition. The development of the Submarine, including much technical detail with plans and diagrams.
1968. 1st edition. The greatest submarine rescue of our time, when the US Submarine Squalus sank to the bottom of the Atlantic in May 1937.
1998. A former member of the U.S. Navy's submarine service describes a number of the expeditions under the arctic ice shelf.
2006. 1st edition. The gnawing enigma of the tragic 1968 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion.
1982. 1st edition. Shows missile-launching, nuclear, and conventional subs used by the world's navies, and provides a description and technical information about each.
2002. 1st edition. In 1920, one of the American Navy's new-but-untested submarines, the S-Five, was stranded 180 feet beneath the Atlantic.
1967. 1st edition. This is the richly colored, action-filled autobiography of a Missouri country boy from the rolling prairies west of the Ozarks who heard and answered the call of the sea.
2014. A rare insider's view of the challenges, pressures, and excitement unique to submariners.
1980. 1st edition. Comprehensive review of Major Warships since 1945, including Battleships, Aircraft carriers, Aircraft maintenance ships, Cruisers and Monitors.
1980. 1st edition. The 3 Decker, HMS Excellent, was destined to become the first Gunnery School and firing ship of the Royal Navy.
1974. The development of the submarine HMS Sovereign.
1959. 1st edition. Herbert Kitchener was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator.
1959. 1st edition. Illustrated throughout with colour frontis by Conrad Bailey
1986. The history and development of the submarine.
2000. 1st edition. American submarine espionage has been a great secret few knew about or talked about. The exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, and disaster beneath the sea.
2007. The dramatic and definitive account of the sinking of the Belgrano which was one of the most iconic moments of the Falklands war.
1992. The author was a squadron and wing intelligence officer and kept long and detailed diaries of the day to day life in the Desert Group, and on these the book is largely based.
1993. A tribute to the RAF published on its 75th anniversary.
2017. 1st edition. Renowned author Sinclair McKay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War.
2002. A history of terrorism that explains why terrorism ultimately fails.
2008. This seminal work on modern terrorism assesses the changes and continuities in Osama bin Laden's thinking since 2002.
1998. This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union.
1951. The story of Lincoln's famous Army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of General George B McClellan.
1986. 1st edition. Study tracing the course of the war from 1936 to 1939.
1948. 1st edition. Report of one of the War Crimes Trials of Heinz Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter Weisspfennig, Hans Richard Lenz and Wolfgang Schwender.
2003. 38 year old John Johnson enlisted as an infantryman in the Second AIF.
2004. Rare insight into the realities of liberation and the limits of US power by an author unafraid to say what the press cannot
2005. A self-described hypochondriac and neat freak reveals how he stumbled upon the job of a lifetime in war-torn Iraq
2005. English translation of author's diary and letters covering his wartime capture and time in Mexico and England