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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 by Richard van Emden, with Harry Patch
    The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 - by Richard van Emden, with Harry Patch

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408897225 | ISBN 10: 1408897229

    On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy that had fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
    Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars - by Stephen Bourne

    £17.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784538743 | ISBN 10: 1784538744

    In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age by Laurie Calhoun
    We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age - by Laurie Calhoun

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783605477 | ISBN 10: 1783605472

    A disturbing and controversial exposé of the ethics of remote-controlled warfare in the twenty-first century.   Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front by Anthony Fletcher
    Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front - by Anthony Fletcher

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780300205381 | ISBN 10: 0300205384

    This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dispatches by Michael Herr
    Dispatches - by Michael Herr

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447275060 | ISBN 10: 1447275063

    With an introduction by Kevin Powers.  A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.  We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood by Andrew Borowiec
    Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood - by Andrew Borowiec

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964033 | ISBN 10: 0241964032

    Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. "The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Warsaw Rising"(Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year) Poland ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
    The Railway Man - by Eric Lomax

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099583844 | ISBN 10: 0099583844

    Now a major film starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jeremy Irvine (Warhorse).  During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Somme by Lyn MacDonald
    Somme - by Lyn MacDonald

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952382 | ISBN 10: 0241952387

    'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa
    Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War - by Ben Rawlence

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689651 | ISBN 10: 1851689656

    In this compelling debut, Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news that never travels far – the news of the uneasy peace being made in the towns of Congo’s silent quarter. Rather than taking the direct flight suggested by aid workers and mercenaries, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey with Rob Broomby
    The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz - by Denis Avey with Rob Broomby

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444714197 | ISBN 10: 1444714198

    The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.  In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan by Dahr Jamail
    The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan - by Dahr Jamail

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608460953 | ISBN 10: 1608460959

    A prize-winning, unembedded journalist tells the hidden story of American soldiers turning against an unjust war.  Dahr Jamail's comprehensive study of today's military resisters sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bomb by Howard Zinn
    The Bomb - by Howard Zinn

    £5.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780872865099 | ISBN 10: 0872865096

    As an active WWII bombardier returning from the end of the war in Europe and preparing for combat in Japan, Howard Zinn read the headline "Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan" and was glad — the war would be over. "Like other Americans," writes Zinn, "I had ... more

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  • Cover image of book Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia by Camilo Mejia
    Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia - by Camilo Mejia

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781931859530 | ISBN 10: 1931859531

    Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desertion Bloody Sunday by Colin E. Demet
    Desertion Bloody Sunday - by Colin E. Demet

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955131837 | ISBN 10: 0955131839

    This is a true story which has been written to portray and to share the experience of what it was like for soldiers and civilians on the streets of Belfast during the time period of what has become to be known as Bloody Sunday. A teenage soldier fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind the Lines: Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-Torn World by Andrew Carroll
    Behind the Lines: Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-Torn World - by Andrew Carroll

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408

    For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shockwave: The Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
    Shockwave: The Countdown to Hiroshima - by Stephen Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719566264 | ISBN 10: 0719566266

    6 August 1945, 9.15 a.m. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city is obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction is immediate and catast ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior by Horacio Verbitsky
    Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior - by Horacio Verbitsky

    £14.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849853 | ISBN 10: 156584985x

    Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo is the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing to his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissident ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full Spectrum Disorder:The Military in the New American Century by Stan Goff
    Full Spectrum Disorder:The Military in the New American Century - by Stan Goff

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781932360127 | ISBN 10: 1932360123

    Goff's career as a soldier in Army Special Operations (Delta Force, Rangers and Special Forces) took him from the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian and Peruvian armed forces. He taught military scienc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur
    Forgotten Voices of the Great War - by Max Arthur

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780091888879 | ISBN 10: 0091888875

    In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Th ... more

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