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  • Missing Believed Killed

    The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939–1952

    During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence reports from a wide variety of official, unofficial and covert sources in an attempt to ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt & Palestine Campaigns

    A Guide for Family Historians

    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestors actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different to those who served on the Western Front, and yet have never before been explored from this angle ... Read more

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  • From Gaza to Jerusalem

    The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917

    The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new technology and tactics, and managed to advance over 50 miles, from Gaza to Jerusalem, in only two months.As well as discussions of military strategy, ... Read more

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  • Pyramids and Fleshpots

    The Egyptian, Senussi and Eastern Mediterranean Campaigns, 1914-16

    Pyramids and Fleshpots tells the true story of the experiences and achievements of British military personnel serving in Egypt in the First World War fighting a determined enemy to protect the Suez Canal – the lifeline of the Empire. The popular impression that the campaigns were merely a sideshow, with troops enjoying a holiday among the pyramids and the 'fleshpots' of Cairo, is far removed from ... Read more

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  • Sinai 1916–17

    The Fight for the Suez Canal

    Series Book 421 - Campaign
    A fascinating dive into the overlooked fight between the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Suez Canal.The Battle of Romani was fought between Britain's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Empire's Sinai Expeditionary Force in the Sinai Desert in early August 1916. The Ottoman objective was to disrupt and cut off the Suez Canal, ... Read more

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  • British Airfields of the Second World War

    Series Book 872 - Shire Library
    The Second World War airfields peppered around Britain are among the most visible and widespread reminders of this devastating conflict.Some are now almost forgotten or built over; others have become museums, industrial estates or parkland; and some have been adapted and remain in operation today.In this beautifully illustrated history, aviation historian Stuart Hadaway explains the crucial part ... Read more

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  • Gallipoli

    A Ridge Too Far

    For the first time showcasing a unique and extensive range of Australian War Memorial photographs, Gallipoli: a Ridge too far describes the pivotal events of that momentous year as they affected all the countries involved. The book combines fresh perspectives from the worlds leading authorities, including Turkish and German historians, together with soldiers letters and diary accounts. In early ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gallipoli 1915

    The Fight for the Dardanelles Strait

    by Peter Doyle ...
    In a campaign part sponsored by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 remains one of the most resounding Allied defeats of the First World War, with both the Allied and Ottoman armies suffering in excess of 200,000 casualties.Despite this, many believed it would be a sure-fire success due to the preceding naval campaign, but increased losses at sea prompted ... Read more

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  • Gallipoli

    The battlefield guide

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

    Series series Battle Story
    The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... Read more

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  • Special Forces Commander

    The Life and Wars of Peter Wand-Tetley OBE MC Commando, SAS, SOE and Paratrooper

    Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for special service. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. Operations with the LRDG in the Western Desert were followed by SAS actions as Rommel retreated to Tunis. Remarkably he then transferred to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted ... Read more

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  • Australia's Palestine Campaign 1916-1918

    by Jean Bou ...
    Series series Australian Army Campaigns Series
    With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. In ... Read more

    $6.04 USD