Rorke's Drift (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)
By: Adrian Greaves
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The story of the bravest battle ever fought. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhel…
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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
2. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.14
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
3. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780006511250 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, … read more
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- war
"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I’d never seen him with his breeches down,…"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth …"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
4. The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation
By: James Donovan
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The gripping and definitive chronicle of the iconic battle that inspired a nation--a sweeping saga … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
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6. Horus Rising
By: Dan Abnett
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream… read more
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- war
7. Sharpe's Enemy (Sharpe, #15)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and … read more
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- military fiction
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8. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
9. Sharpe's Devil (Sharpe, #21)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author Bernard Cornwell, another exciting adventure in the world-ren… read more
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- military fiction
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10. Waterloo (Sharpe, #20)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield.… read more
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11. Sharpe's Revenge (Sharpe, #19)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1814 and the defeat of Napolean seems imminent - if the well-protected city of Toulouse can b… read more
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12. Sharpe's Regiment (Sharpe, #17)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A corrupt political plot threatens to put an end to the South Essex regiment and the life of Major … read more
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13. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
By: Max Hastings
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more
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14. London
By: Edward Rutherfurd
2.69
Format: 88 pages,
Here is Edward Rutherfurd's classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years… read more
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15. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.22
Format: None pages,
The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more
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16. Sharpe's Company (Sharpe, #13)
By: Bernard Cornwell , None
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback
To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are … read more
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17. Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In volume 2 of The Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardl… read more
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18. Sharpe's Sword (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadlies… read more
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19. Sharpe's Siege (Sharpe, #18)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon… read more
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20. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more
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21. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
22. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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23. No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
By: Lee Child
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a su… read more
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24. Making History
By: Stephen Fry
3.93
Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition
Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerma… read more
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"Dieu n’est pas l’Auteur de l’Univers, c’est le scénariste de votre biopic."-Stephen Fry, Making History
"Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards."-Stephen Fry, Making History
"We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation."-Stephen Fry, Making History
"Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life …"-Stephen Fry, Making History
25. Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
By: Al Murray
4.10
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run para… read more
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26. Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
By: John C. McManus
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen… read more
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27. To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
By: John C. McManus
4.59
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McMan… read more
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28. Lions of Medina: The True Story of the Marines of Charlie 1/1 in Vietnam, 11-12 October 1967
By: Doyle D. Glass
4.41
Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition
Thursday, 12 October 1967 Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Cahill stepped onto a trail deep in the remo… read more
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29. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle
By: Iain MacGregor
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Pa… read more
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- history
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30. Whirlwind: War in the Pacific
By: Richard Freeman
4.28
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
In just six months, America turned the rout of Pearl Harbor into the victories of Coral Sea and Mid… read more
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31. Rorke's Drift (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)
By: Adrian Greaves
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The story of the bravest battle ever fought. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhel… read more
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