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£19.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786990808 | ISBN 10: 1786990806
The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408897225 | ISBN 10: 1408897229
On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy that had fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian ... more
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£12.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674979840 | ISBN 10: 0674979842
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784538743 | ISBN 10: 1784538744
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509810604 | ISBN 10: 1509810609
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781760293260 | ISBN 10: 1760293261
In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers. Now married and living in suburban Sydney, this i ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780300205381 | ISBN 10: 0300205384
This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447275060 | ISBN 10: 1447275063
With an introduction by Kevin Powers.
A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum b ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964033 | ISBN 10: 0241964032
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland.
"The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Warsaw Rising"(Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year)
Poland ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099583844 | ISBN 10: 0099583844
Now a major film starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jeremy Irvine (Warhorse).
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846273186 | ISBN 10: 1846273188
On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and naïve arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a conce ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680926 | ISBN 10: 1781680922
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan.
When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952382 | ISBN 10: 0241952387
'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393025 | ISBN 10: 0141393025
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689651 | ISBN 10: 1851689656
In this compelling debut, Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news that never travels far – the news of the uneasy peace being made in the towns of Congo’s silent quarter. Rather than taking the direct flight suggested by aid workers and mercenaries, ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330447447 | ISBN 10: 0330447440
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister wh ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241951415 | ISBN 10: 0241951410
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444714197 | ISBN 10: 1444714198
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.
In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labo ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608460953 | ISBN 10: 1608460959
A prize-winning, unembedded journalist tells the hidden story of American soldiers turning against an unjust war.
Dahr Jamail's comprehensive study of today's military resisters sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781852248765 | ISBN 10: 1852248769
Shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize
Brian Turner's first book of poems, Here, Bullet, was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In Phantom Noise he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780872865099 | ISBN 10: 0872865096
As an active WWII bombardier returning from the end of the war in Europe and preparing for combat in Japan, Howard Zinn read the headline "Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan" and was glad — the war would be over. "Like other Americans," writes Zinn, "I had ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141047027 | ISBN 10: 014104702x
Nixon: I'd rather use a nuclear bomb. Have you got that ready?
Kissinger: Now that, I think, would just be, uh, too much, uh -
Nixon: A nuclear bomb, does that bother you?
[Kissinger response virtually inaudible]
Nixon: I just want ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121253 | ISBN 10: 0349121257
The extraordinary and inspirational story of a boy soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when Sudan's bloody civil war separated him from everything he knew. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanue ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781931859530 | ISBN 10: 1931859531
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to r ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672301 | ISBN 10: 1844672301
Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties - not of shrapnel and gas, but of the bleak trauma of the slaughter they escaped. In this p ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007247097 | ISBN 10: 0007247095
The first-person account of a 25-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955131837 | ISBN 10: 0955131839
This is a true story which has been written to portray and to share the experience of what it was like for soldiers and civilians on the streets of Belfast during the time period of what has become to be known as Bloody Sunday. A teenage soldier fin ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408
For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719566264 | ISBN 10: 0719566266
6 August 1945, 9.15 a.m. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city is obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction is immediate and catast ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780743275378 | ISBN 10: 0743275373
Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineag ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849853 | ISBN 10: 156584985x
Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo is the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing to his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissident ... more
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£31.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781842774519 | ISBN 10: 1842774514
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders. Many of these 'refuseniks' have faced prison sentences rat ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781932360127 | ISBN 10: 1932360123
Goff's career as a soldier in Army Special Operations (Delta Force, Rangers and Special Forces) took him from the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian and Peruvian armed forces. He taught military scienc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780091888879 | ISBN 10: 0091888875
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Th ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780922915866 | ISBN 10: 0922915865
New edition of the anti-war classic from 1935 by America's most decorated soldier. Smedley Darlington Butler took his Constitutional vows seriously, repelling threats to America both without and within. Shortly after retiring from a lauded career, t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141183053 | ISBN 10: 0141183055
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it."Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish C ... more
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