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The Ismaili Assassins

The Ismaili Assassins

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The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. These devoted murderers were under the powerful control of… Read more...

Tracing Your Female Ancestors

Tracing Your Female Ancestors

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Everyone has a mother and a line of female ancestors and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, accessible handbook is of such value, for it explores the… Read more...

Creating Hitler's Germany

Creating Hitler's Germany

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Germany's defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just for the country but for the world itself. Weaving the stories of three… Read more...

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet

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On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet – interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice – began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed… Read more...

The Last British Battleship

The Last British Battleship

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The ninth HMS Vanguard, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain’s battleships and was commissioned in 1946.… Read more...

Operation Totalize

Operation Totalize

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By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch… Read more...

James Taylor: Cut Short

James Taylor: Cut Short

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James Taylor was born in Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, in 1990. A sporting phenomenon from an early age, he chose to forge a life in cricket, establishing himself as one of the country’s leading… Read more...

Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar

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It’s almost impossible to think of Monty Panesar without smiling. A world-class spin bowler, but an economy-class fielder, Monty remains one of England’s most popular cricketers and an inspiration for British Asians. Monty Mania swept… Read more...

A Railway History of New Shildon

A Railway History of New Shildon

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On the 27th September 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the ‘Locomotion No.1’. It set off from… Read more...

Chieftain

Chieftain

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The British Chieftain – designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion – was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled… Read more...

Fight, Dig and Live

Fight, Dig and Live

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The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea,… Read more...

The Battle of North Cape

The Battle of North Cape

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Transcribed from a hand-typed manuscript, this is a poignant eye-witness account of the Battle of North Cape, as witnessed by a young signal-boy aboard the British warship HMS Belfast. This crucial battle to protect the… Read more...

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

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Agin Court was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general. King Henry V's exhausted troops were preparing for certain defeat as they… Read more...

Grunt

Grunt

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This new title from Mary Roach, author of other books such as Gulp, Stiff, Bonk, Spook and Packing for Mars, offers a fresh look at the aspects of war that not many people talk about;… Read more...

X Platoon

X Platoon

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For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number… Read more...

A Dying Breed

A Dying Breed

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Kabul, Afghanistan. William Carver, a veteran but unpredictable BBC hack, is thrown into the unknown when a bomb goes off killing a local official. Warned off the story from every direction, Carver won't give in… Read more...

Socket Bayonets

Socket Bayonets

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Socket Bayonets is a richly informative title covering the history of the socket bayonet. Graham Priest uses clear and detailed images to explore the role of the bayonet, showing common examples and rarer versions to… Read more...

Over There: America in the Great War

Over There: America in the Great War

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More than 400 photographs detail the American military experience in World War I on the ground, in the air, and at sea, from recruitment to the Armistice. This richly informative new release features the infamous… Read more...

Sniper on the Eastern Front

Sniper on the Eastern Front

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This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript… Read more...

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

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This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of… Read more...

Dates in History

Battle of Ramillies

23rd May 1706

On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. The French army was shattered physically and morally and, as a result, Marlborough's army overran almost all of the Spanish Netherlands in the next six weeks, and gained an unshakeable advantage over the armed might of Louis XIV's France during the long War of the Spanish Succession.

Further Reading

Ramillies - 1706
(Paperback)
by James Falkner

On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. Marlborough's triumph on that day ranks alongside Blenheim as one of the great… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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