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Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe – John Buckley

February 2, 2014June 19, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'history book review', d-day, monty

The author travels on much trodden ground in discussing the events from D-Day to the end of the war. Nevertheless,

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Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II – Donald Nijboer

May 21, 2013June 18, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'history book review', 'military aviation', 'operation husky', 'Peter Castle'

It is a truism that a picture tells a thousand words. Thus it was that during the Second World War

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In Support Of The Few: From an Erk to Chief Technician, the Diary of Joe Roddis

May 21, 2013June 18, 2020 John Grehan 1 Comment 'battle of britain', 'history book review', 'Spitfire ML407', 'wwii book', groundcrew, RAF

It was so often the case that the pilots of Fighter Command were the ones who received all the glory

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Churchill’s Secret Defence Army: Resisting the Nazi Invader – Arthur Ward

May 21, 2013June 18, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'Colonel Colin Gubbins', 'guerrilla warfare', 'history book review', 'home guard', 'wwii book'

Of the many ‘what ifs’ in history, the German invasion of Britain in 1940 is one that has been replayed

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The Spy Who Loved – Clare Mulley

May 21, 2013June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'Christine Granville', 'Francis Cammaerts', 'history book review', 'Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek', 'Secret Intelligence Service', 'special operations executive', SOE

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek was born into a wealthy Polish Jewish family in Warsaw. The economic collapse of the 1920s

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I Survived The Somme: The Secret Diary Of A Tommy – Charles Meeres

May 21, 2013June 17, 2020 Martin Mace 0 Comments 'history book review', somme, wwi

It is wonderful that documents from the First World War are still being uncovered. Often though, the letters and journals

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Murderous Tommies – Julian Putkowski and Mark Dunning

May 21, 2013June 17, 2020 Martin Mace 0 Comments 'history book review', 'wwi books', murder, tommies

War, of course, is a violent affair. Even though it may result in the death of thousands, and it may

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Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War – Leo Marks

March 25, 2013June 17, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'history book review', 'Maurice Buckmaster', 'special operations executive', 'wwii spies', Archambault, Englandspiel, espionage, prosper, SOE

Leo Marks first wrote his book about his time during the Second World War in the Special Operations Executive, Between

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Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in Modern Conflict Archaeology – Nicholas J. Saunders (Ed.)

March 25, 2013June 17, 2020 Mark Kahn 0 Comments 'battlefield archaeology', 'history book review', 'modern conflict archaeology'

The study of modern conflict archaeology is a relatively new and developing discipline, and interest is growing in this subject.

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Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II – David Rigby

March 25, 2013June 17, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'alan brooke', 'arcadia conference', 'charles portal', 'Combined Chiefs of Staff', 'dudley pound', 'history book review', 'world war ii', churchill, roosevelt, wwii

This book is an analysis of the men that ran the war. Though Churchill and Roosevelt provided the general direction

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