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Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike
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In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their… Read more...
Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers
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"Nuclear Bunkers" tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned… Read more...
Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers
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In 2009 the Sri Lankan government forces literally eradicated the Tamil Tiger insurgency after 26 years of civil war. This was the first time that a government had defeated an indigenous insurgency by force of… Read more...
Crime and Punishment in Victorian London
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'Crime loomed large in the minds of Victorian Londoners. All over the city, watches, purses and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets, goods migrate from warehouses, off docks and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting… Read more...
Five Days that Shocked the World Eyewitness accounts of the final days of World War II from Audrey Hepburn to Spike Milligan
RRP: £8.99On 28 April 1945 Benito Mussolini was dragged from his mistress’s bed, taken outside and executed. Only two days later, surrounded by the Soviet Army, Adolf Hitler put a gun to his head and committed… Read more...
SR-71 The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane
RRP: £25.00The complete story of the world’s highest, fastest plane. At the height of the Cold War in 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird… Read more...
Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
RRP: £20.00During World War II, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia found themselves trapped between the giants of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Over the course of the war these states were repeatedly occupied by different forces… Read more...
CRUCIBLE OF COMBAT. GERMANY'S DEFENSIVE BATTLES IN THE UKRAINE 1943-44
RRP: £29.95In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the… Read more...
Brown Waters of Africa. Portugese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974
RRP: £22.50During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into the Atlantic… Read more...
With the Courage of Desperation. Germany's Defence of the Southern Sector of the Easter Front 1944-1945
RRP: £35.96In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern… Read more...
After Austwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the sister of Anne Frank
RRP: £20.00Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who… Read more...