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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

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

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    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

  • Lawrence of Arabia's War

    The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

    by Neil Faulkner ...
    This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today's violent conflicts.Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. ... Read more

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  • Pathan Rising

    Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898

    by Mark Simner ...
    Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact causes of the unrest remain unclear, it was likely the result of tribal resentment towards the establishment of the Durand Line and British ... 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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  • The Australian Army in World War I

    Series Book 478 - Men-at-Arms
    The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated.Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per cent of the entire (white) male population, a number so great that the Australian government was never forced to rely on conscription. Casualties were 52 per cent of all those who served, ensuring that ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Secret Army

    An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords, a far flung corner of WWI

    by Barry Stone ...
    It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today.Barry Stone tells the story of these Australian, British, New Zealand, Canadian and South African men who ... 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