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73246 GURKHAS AT WAR: Eyewitness Accounts from


World War II to Iraq by J. P. Cross and Buddhiman Gurung


Gurkhas were originally a mongoloid people who migrated from the north- west of China to Nepal on the southern slopes of the Himalayas. They came from a hostile environment and displayed both fortitude to the point of fatalism and


an unwavering self-belief, without which two outstanding qualities they would never have evolved into modern military legend. This ground-breaking volume is the result of in-depth interviews with more than 100 Gurkha soldiers past and present and, for the first time, depicts key military campaigns in the words of the men who were there. These eyewitness accounts include the lengthy battles against the Japanese in the Burmese jungle, and the action against Communist rebels in Malaya and Hong Kong, as well as more recent deployments in the Falklands and Iraq. The authors also provide a thorough introduction to Gurkha culture and a historical overview of each campaign fought. With a foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Chapple. A fascinating 320 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with maps.


£16.99 NOW £6 72547 BOXER’S STORY: Fighting for my Life


in the Nazi Camps by Nathan Shapow Nathan Shapow was a member of the Zionist youth movement Beitar in the thirties, and boxed for the sporting organisation Maccabi. When the Nazis occupied his home town of Riga, the Jews were corralled into a Ghetto. Nathan’s fitness kept him alive when the Ghetto police selected the able-bodied men for slave labour, but his mother and brother were deported and he never saw them again. His good looks incurred the hatred of Obersturmfu?hrer Hoffman, who one day ordered Nathan to return to his cell. Nathan knew he was going to be killed but overpowered the SS man, grabbing his gun and battering him to death with a stool. Two innocent Jews were hanged for the murder the next day. He also tells the story of his friendship with the Ghetto Guard Rudi Harr. 246pp, photos. £16.99 NOW £6.50


72783 READER’S DIGEST WAR STORIES: Daring First- Hand Accounts of World War II from the Magazine Archives


edited by Gill Hudson


This thrilling anthology features true- life tales from World War II, specially selected from the archives of Reader’s Digest magazine. The


facsimile articles tell the story of the war as experienced by combatants and civilians across the globe, giving a powerful insight into the conflict that changed the world. There are profiles of famous war leaders, a feature on Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, untold stories of D-Day, and compelling accounts of history as it happened, by soldiers, seamen, pilots, prisoners and spies. The captain of a Canadian destroyer tells how his quick thinking saved an entire ship when a 600-pound warhead broke loose on deck. A leader of the French underground recounts how a cold-hearted Nazi guard melted before his prisoners’ makeshift crèche. 159 pages, original photos. £9.99 NOW £4


72785 SECRET DAYS: Code-Breaking in Bletchley Park by Asa Briggs


Since secrecy rules were relaxed during the 1970s, many books have been written about the Buckinghamshire mansion where a team of men and women worked round the clock to crack the enemy’s codes and ciphers. These memoirs, however, are different. Asa Briggs gives a vivid account of code-breaking and of Hut Six, where he worked under the guidance of the brilliant mathematicians Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. The account covers the whole range of work done at BP, from radio interception, to translation, to administration, to catering and maintenance work. It also provides a fascinating insight into the social life of the two camps that accommodated a great number of BP’s employees, where the vibrant and diverse community fostered many friendships. He did not tell his wife about his wartime career until 30 years later. 202 gripping pages with photos in colour and archive b/ w.


£19.99 NOW £7


70255 BRINGING UNCLE ALBERT HOME: A Soldier’s Tale


by David P. Whithorn This is the story of one man’s search for his distant relative, describing Private Turley’s active service with the 3rd Battalion at the Worcestershire Regiment. Whithorn’s painstaking reconstruction of Albert’s story from surviving records and histories led to a pilgrimage following his footsteps to the Somme hillside


where he fell in August 1916. What sets this book apart is its dual function as a tightly focussed history of the 3rd Worcestershires and a detective story. 234pp in paperback, photos and maps. £8.99 NOW £4


72452 FRONTIER FIGHTERS ON ACTIVE


SERVICE IN WAZIRISTAN: edited by Jules Stewart


Subtitled ‘The Memoirs of Major Walter James Cumming’. With dramatic fighting action throughout, and atmospheric descriptions of what life was like for a young British officer in Britain’s Indian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century, The setting for this incredible true story is Waziristan, the home of the Wazirs and Mahsuds, who are the most warlike of the Pathan tribes. It remains today one of the most dangerous


places on earth, and still acts as a sanctuary for Al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents. Major Walter James Cumming fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the North-West Frontier there for 20 years, right up to the start of the Second World War. During this time, he served in two Frontier units, the South Waziristan Scouts and the Corps of Guides. There was fun to be had with polo, hunting and pig-sticking, but also great danger, excitement and gallantry. The author vividly describes desperate battles against a highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace, and no prisoners were taken. Major Cumming went on to command a Pathan regiment in North Africa in World War II. 191 pages with archive photos and map. £19.99 NOW £7.50


72459 THE MAN WHO RAN LONDON DURING THE GREAT


WAR by Richard Morris Subtitled ‘The Diaries and Letters of General Sir Francis Lloyd GCVO, KCB, DSO 1853-1926’. General Sir Francis Lloyd was arguably the best known military figure in the capital during The Great War. In 1913 he was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of London District.


On the outbreak of war, his duties were greatly increased and, for the next five years, he exercised sweeping powers in the metropolis. These covered the running of hospitals and main railway termini. He also masterminded the construction of the defensive circle of trenches around London. Whether it was meeting hospital trains returning from the front full of wounded soldiers, or visiting areas of the City that had suffered from the Zeppelin and Gotha Bomber air raids, Francis Lloyd’s presence boosted the population’s flagging morale. He had the gift of oratory that so many Welshmen have, and also the reputation of a martinet. But this was no desk soldier. He had served in the Sudan and in South Africa during the Boer War, where he was severely wounded, and had commanded the Welsh Division of the newly formed Territorials. 196 pages with b/w archive photos, maps. £19.99 NOW £6.50


70707 JOHNNY CHECKETTS: THE ROAD TO BIGGIN HILL: A Gripping Story of Courage in


the Air and Evasion on the Ground by Vincent Orange


The story of how, in World War II, a handful of painfully young and barely trained young men flew their planes out of Biggin Hill in Kent and fought to the death against the might of the German Luftwaffe is one that surely must never be forgotten. One of those wartime aces was the New Zealander Johnny Checketts. This is the stirring account of how he was shot down and, with the help of the French Resistance, avoided capture by the Germans, finally by boat to Penzance. He later rose to the rank of Wing Commander. 192 pages, photos and maps.


£16 NOW £5


71259 DUXFORD AND THE BIG WINGS 1940- 45 by Martin Bowman


A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs told through first person accounts from RAF, German and American ‘Eagles’. Covers the Battle of Britain period when the RAF squadrons fought dogfights with the Luftwaffe and then fought them in gathering strengths using the ‘Big Wings’ to meet the bomber fleets attacking London then the Eagle Squadron period which was expanded with America’s entry into the war. The action moves to the USAAF ‘Big Wings’ of Thunderbolts and Mustang fighters that flew escort missions and duelled with the Luftwaffe. Incredible firsthand accounts by British, Polish, Czech, German and American fighter pilots and photos never previously seen. 282pp.


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71620 WORLD WAR TWO WITNESS ACCOUNTS by Janice Anderson


WWII was to be the greatest conflict the world had ever seen, involving six years of death and destruction on a scale almost impossible to comprehend. Pam Ashford, a secretary in a coal shipping firm in Glasgow, kept a diary for Mass Observation throughout the war and here are extracts from that alongside a young mother living in Canning Town, Evelyn Waugh describing his first days in the army in a letter to his wife, the young diplomat Fitzroy Maclean arriving in the Suez Canal Zone. 160pp.


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72189 I SANK THE BISMARK by Lt. Cdr John Moffat and Mike Rossiter In May 1941, the pilots of 15 canvas-covered biplanes struggled to hold their Swordfish aircraft steady as they headed towards the German battleship Bismarck. The Swordfish flew low over a wind-racked ocean, the mighty Bismarck’s guns firing a lethal storm of shells and bullets at them. Among these brave fliers was a young sub-lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm, John Moffat. This is his story. The Bismarck was hit, lost control and steamed in circles until the ships of the Royal Navy could close in and they pounded the great battleship reducing her to a lifeless hulk. Only years later was John told that the record suggested it was his torpedo that had prevented the Bismarck from outrunning her pursuers. 294pp with photos, some colour. £12.99 NOW £6


72448 EMBED: With the World’s Armies in Afghanistan by Nick Allen


Concerning the “end” of the Afghan War of 1878-90, General Sir John Miller Adye wrote “At [the war’s] close we had over 70,000 men in Afghanistan… even then we really only held the territory within the range of our guns.” In the summer of 2007 Nick Allen was in a secure job as a news agency writer based in Pakistan. Then he was invited to join the Gurkhas in Kandahar province as an embedded reporter for a month, to experience and report upon the daily life of foreign troops fighting the Taliban in their own back yard. Allen has


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72451 FROM THE FRONT LINE


by Hew Pike


Family letters and diaries 1900 to the Falklands and Afghanistan, the book is a unique record of one family’s military service. Eight soldiers of four generations write from the South African war and operations in West Africa, Korea, Aden, the Falklands and Afghanistan as well as from both


world wars. Three became generals, many were decorated. Lieutenant General Sir Hew Pike describes commanding 3 Para during their arduous advance across the Falklands and in the decisive battle for Mount Longdon. His son Will gives a revealing account of his 2006 tour in Helmand. Chapter one begins with Reggie Tompson in Southern Nigeria 1901-2 following an explanation of the family tree of Pikes, Thicknesses and Tompsons. Maps and photos. 237pp. £19.99 NOW £6.50


72455 GUNS


AGAINST THE REICH: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on


the Eastern Front by Petr Alexeevich Mikhin


The author served as an artilleryman on the Eastern Front, where he fought the German army in Russia, in the battles for Stalingrad, Kursk, Ukraine and Moldova, and then in central Europe in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia. He was wounded three times, suffered shell-shock, and finished the war as a highly decorated officer with the rank of captain. In this vivid memoir, he recalls distant but deadly duels with German guns, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, and murderous mortar and tank attacks. He remembers the pathos of defeat as well as the grief that accompanied victories that cost thousands of lives. 214 pages, archive photos. £19.99 NOW £7.50


72487 WE DIED WITH OUR BOOTS CLEAN


by Kenneth McAlpine At the age of 17, Kenneth McAlpine was the youngest Royal Marine Commando in World War Two. From an unusual encounter with


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provides a funny, touching and sometimes shocking tale of his experiences both in Normandy beaches and


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in an élite unit. With absorbing anecdotes from his time in a military prison and a rescue operation at a concentration camp. 189pp in paperback, photos. £8.99 NOW £3.50


72503 WITNESSES OF WAR: Children’s Lives under the


Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt As children absorbed the realities of Nazi occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children in ghettos pretended to be ghetto guards or SS officers. Within days of Germany’s surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers. Possibly the most shocking are the pictures drawn by


young Kalman Landau, a survivor of the death camps, of daily life in the camp - roll-call, beatings, hangings, death-march, the gas chambers and liberation - all drawn in a child’s hand which makes their graphic depictions all the more heart-rending. Drawing a wide range of new sources, including medical and welfare files, private diaries, letters and pictures. 36 b/w photos and drawings, 510pp. £20 NOW £7


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