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Second World War (1939-1945) : North Africa

50th at Bay : The Years of Defeat. A History of The 50th Northumbrian Division 1939 to September 1942
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50th at Bay

The Years of Defeat. A History of The 50th Northumbrian Division 1939 to September 1942

Barrie S Barnes

276 pages 82 b/w photos, 10 b/w maps, 1 b/w ill

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A European Anabasis : Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS 1940-45
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A European Anabasis

Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS 1940-45

Kenneth Estes

210 pages 42 b/w photos, 8 maps

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A Stern Reckoning : XXX Corps: From Gold Beach to the Seine
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A Stern Reckoning

XXX Corps: From Gold Beach to the Seine

Barrie S Barnes

632 pages 232 b/w photos, 8 maps

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A Stretcher Bearer from El Alamein to Greece : The Diary of George Hopper, King's Royal Rifle Corps 1940-45
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A Stretcher Bearer from El Alamein to Greece

The Diary of George Hopper, King's Royal Rifle Corps 1940-45

Bob Hopper

166 pages profusely illustrated in colour

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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 5 : The Arab Air Forces and the Road to War 1936-1939
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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 5

The Arab Air Forces and the Road to War 1936-1939
Middle East@War #42

Air Vice Marshal Dr. Gabr Ali Gabr (EAF ret.), Dr David Nicolle

80 pages 118 b/w photos, 8pp colour plates, 21 colour profiles, 1 map

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An Active Service : The Story of a Soldier's Life in the Grenadier Guards and Sas, 1935-58
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An Active Service

The Story of a Soldier's Life in the Grenadier Guards and Sas, 1935-58

Richard Dorney

216 pages 55 b/w photos & ills, 3 maps

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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-43 : Helion Order of Battle Volume 1
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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-43

Helion Order of Battle Volume 1

Mark Bevis

96 pages

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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-45 Supplement Volume 1 : Helion Order of Battle Volume 3
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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-45 Supplement Volume 1

Helion Order of Battle Volume 3

Mark Bevis

96 pages

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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-45 Supplement Volume 2 : Helion Order of Battle Volume 4
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British and Commonwealth Armies 1939-45 Supplement Volume 2

Helion Order of Battle Volume 4

Mark Bevis

96 pages

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Churchill's Spaniards : Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46
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Churchill's Spaniards

Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46

Séan F Scullion

360 pages c 160 b/w photos, c 8 colour illustrations, c 8 colour photos, 1pp colour plate, c 10 b/w maps

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Damned Hunchbacks : Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War (1940-1943)
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Damned Hunchbacks

Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War (1940-1943)

Paolo Morisi

312 pages 64 b/w photos, 2 tables

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Eagles over Husky : The Allied Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign, 14 May to 17 August 1943
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Eagles over Husky

The Allied Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign, 14 May to 17 August 1943

Alexander Fitzgerald-Black

192 pages 32 b/w images, 4 b/w maps, 10 tables

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Eighth Army versus Rommel : Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-42
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Eighth Army versus Rommel

Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-42

James Colvin

262 pages 30 b/w photographs, 11 b/w maps

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Ever Glorious : The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers 1936-46
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Ever Glorious

The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers 1936-46

John Greenacre

248 pages 6 b/w photos & 1 b/w diag

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Everything Worked like Clockwork : The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942
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Everything Worked like Clockwork

The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942
Wolverhampton Military Studies #18

Roger Salmon

326 pages 53 b/w ills, 10 tables

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Fallschirmjäger! : A Collection of Firsthand Accounts and Diaries by German Paratrooper Veterans from the Second World War
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Fallschirmjäger!

A Collection of Firsthand Accounts and Diaries by German Paratrooper Veterans from the Second World War

Greg Way

308 pages 256 b/w photos/ills

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From Addis to the Aosta Valley : A South African in the North African and Italian Campaigns 1940-45
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From Addis to the Aosta Valley

A South African in the North African and Italian Campaigns 1940-45

Keith Ford

256 pages c 70 b/w photos, ills, maps

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From Tobruk to Tunis : The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943
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From Tobruk to Tunis

The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943
Wolverhampton Military Studies #16

Neal Dando

216 pages 12 b/w photos, 24 colour maps

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Infantrymen of the Air : An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943
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Infantrymen of the Air

An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943

Jeffrey W.S. Leser

542 pages 65 b/w photos, 10 colour photos, 54 colour maps

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Italian East Africa, Birth and Fall of an Empire : Italian Military Operations in East Africa 1941-43
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Italian East Africa, Birth and Fall of an Empire

Italian Military Operations in East Africa 1941-43

Massimiliano Afiero, Ralph Riccio

288 pages c 100 b/w photos, 16 pages colour illustrations, c 30-40 maps

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Italian Soft-Skinned Vehicles of the Second World War Volume 1 : Motorcycles, Cars, Trucks, Artillery Tractors 1935–1945
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Italian Soft-Skinned Vehicles of the Second World War Volume 1

Motorcycles, Cars, Trucks, Artillery Tractors 1935–1945

Ralph Riccio, Mario Pieri, Daniele Guglielmi

152 pages 334 b/w photos & illustrations, 7 colour photos & illustrations, 6 colour profiles

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Luck Was Lacking, but Valor Was Not : The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-1943
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Luck Was Lacking, but Valor Was Not

The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-1943

Ralph Riccio, Massimiliano Afiero

328 pages 199 b/w photos, 16pp colour plates, 5 b/w maps

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Nearer My God to Thee : Airborne Chaplains in the Second World War
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Nearer My God to Thee

Airborne Chaplains in the Second World War

Linda Parker

180 pages 20 b/w photos

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Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes : Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War
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Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes

Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War
War & Military Culture in South Asia 1757-1947 #8

Ashley Jackson

324 pages 2 b/w maps

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Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V 1918-1945 Part Two : June 1940-December 1945
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Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Volume V 1918-1945 Part Two

June 1940-December 1945

Jonathon Riley, Peter Crocker, Richard Sinnett

1000 pages profusely illustrated with b/w photos & maps

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Steel Centurions : Italian Armoured Formations of the Second World War 1940-43
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Steel Centurions

Italian Armoured Formations of the Second World War 1940-43

Paolo Morisi

442 pages 72 b/w photos, 4 maps

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Striking Back : Britain's Airborne & Commando Raids 1940-42
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Striking Back

Britain's Airborne & Commando Raids 1940-42

Niall Cherry

432 pages c 100 photos, 20 maps, 40 diagrams, charts, docs

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The Battle for Heraklion Crete 1941 : The Campaign Revealed Through Allied and Axis Accounts
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The Battle for Heraklion Crete 1941

The Campaign Revealed Through Allied and Axis Accounts

Yannis Prekatsounakis

306 pages 402 b/w photos, 27 b/w maps, 17 colour photos, 1 colour map

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The Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill : Tunisia April-May 1943
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The Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill

Tunisia April-May 1943

Ian Mitchell

376 pages 19 b/w photos/ills, 8 colour photos, 15 colour maps, 1 table

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The Black Beret The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 1 : Beginnings to the Invasion of Madagascar 1942
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The Black Beret The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 1

Beginnings to the Invasion of Madagascar 1942

Willem Steenkamp

368 pages c 150 b/w photos, maps

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The Black Beret The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2 : The Italian Campaign 1943-45 and Post-War South Africa 1946-1961
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The Black Beret The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2

The Italian Campaign 1943-45 and Post-War South Africa 1946-1961

Willem Steenkamp

368 pages c 275 b/w photos, maps

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The Diaries of Ronnie Tritton : War Office Publicity Officer 1940-45
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The Diaries of Ronnie Tritton

War Office Publicity Officer 1940-45

Dr Fred McGlade

594 pages c 64 b/w photos

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The Eyes of the Desert Rats : British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43
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The Eyes of the Desert Rats

British Long-Range Reconnaissance Operations in the North African Desert 1940-43

David Syrett

330 pages 15 photos, 24 colour maps

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The Fight for Life : The Medical Services in the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915-16
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The Fight for Life

The Medical Services in the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915-16

John Dixon, Ritchie Wood

342 pages 34 b/w photos, 6 b/w maps, 5 b/w sketches, 2 diagrams, 4 tables

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The History of the British Army Film & Photographic Unit in the Second World War
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The History of the British Army Film & Photographic Unit in the Second World War

Dr Fred McGlade

216 pages 29 b/w photos

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The Italian Folgore Parachute Division : North African Operations 1940-43
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The Italian Folgore Parachute Division

North African Operations 1940-43

Paolo Morisi

206 pages 84 b/w photos, 9 b/w maps

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The Long Range Desert Group : History and Legacy
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The Long Range Desert Group

History and Legacy

Lars Gyllenhaal, Karl-Gunnar Norén

160 pages 30 b&w ills, 31 colour ills, 5 maps

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The Royal Corps of Signals : Unit Histories of the Corps 1920-2001 and its Antecedents
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The Royal Corps of Signals

Unit Histories of the Corps 1920-2001 and its Antecedents

Cliff Lord, Graham Watson

416 pages 70+ b/w photos

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The Tanks are Coming Through Now : The Battles at Gazala, 27 May-18 June 1942
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The Tanks are Coming Through Now

The Battles at Gazala, 27 May-18 June 1942

Neal Dando

192 pages 8 colour maps, 3 tables

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Through Adversity : Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945 Volume 1
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Through Adversity

Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945 Volume 1

Ben Kite

492 pages 155 b/w photos, 14 colour maps, 6 figures

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Tigers in Combat Volume 3 : Operation Training Tactics
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Tigers in Combat Volume 3

Operation Training Tactics

Wolfgang Schneider

520 pages 1200 photos & drawings

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Tumult in the Clouds : Stories from the South African Air Force 1920-2010
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Tumult in the Clouds

Stories from the South African Air Force 1920-2010

Dean Wingrin

334 pages many b/w photos, 8 maps

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Tunisian Tales : The 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa 1942-43
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Tunisian Tales

The 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa 1942-43

Niall Cherry

368 pages c 100 photos, 10 maps

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Undaunted : Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-45 Volume 2
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Undaunted

Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-45 Volume 2

Ben Kite

568 pages 194 b/w photos, 16 colour maps, 12 b/w figures

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