30 War and Militaria


not broken, at his journey’s end. Packed with masochism and self pity, his is a high energy travel book. 272pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £5


73332 A SINGLE SWALLOW by Horatio Clare


A journey of 6,000 miles across two continents and 14 countries is nothing to swallows - they do it twice a year. But for a writer and bird watcher, this is the expedition of a lifetime. By trains, cars, buses, motorbikes, trucks, canoes, planes, one camel and three ships, Horatio Clare followed migrating swallows (Hirundo rustica) from


reed beds outside Bloemfontein, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales where a pair nest in May, he found much more than he was looking for. Magical and gripping, the book combines the best of travel writing and nature writing in a thrilling and seductive account by the author of ‘Running for the Hills’. A beautifully laid out large square softback with illustrations, 327pp. £12.99 NOW £6


73055 BON VOYAGE! The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys


edited by Michael Kerr The contributors, in this collection of the best of the Telegraph’s articles on travel by river and sea, number among them such luminaries as Martha Gellhorn, Ellen MacArthur, Jenny Diski, Nicholas Crane of Coast fame, and many more. Here is the lonely, tragic demise of the round-the-world yachtsman


Donald Crowhurst, and here the sailing of the Task Force for the Falklands, which was watched by Michael Nicholson from the poop deck of HMS Hermes. There are historic events such as the D-Day landings and an incredible account from the 19th century of the arduous adventures in the heart of Africa of H. M. Stanley. There is the first transatlantic voyage of the new Queen Mary, and the last cruise of the QE2. 343 pages. £20 NOW £5


73056 SUNRISE ON THE SOUTHBOUND SLEEPER: The New Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys


edited by Michael Kerr With no fewer than 45 well-known, top-class contributors. Readers can be whisked back into a nostalgic past in the company of John Betjeman on the Great Western, or hauled reluctantly into a worryingly ominous future now that China has


a line across the permafrost to Tibet. They can share the giggles with Sandi Toksvig on a commuter train, or be treated to a dash of Alexander McCall Smith’s gentle humour when he travels by night. Here is Nicholas Shakespeare travelling around France, and piecing together the story of what happened to his aunt who was stranded there on the brink of war in 1937. A first- class ticket to ride on some of the most exciting journeys in the world. 335 pages. £20 NOW £6


71500 PARISIANS: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb


Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, the book begins at the dawn of the French Revolution with some excursions to the medieval and prehistoric past. It traces the spread of the city of Paris from the island in the Seine that was home of the Parisii tribe to the mushrooming suburbs that inspire fear today. Chapters cover Madame Zola, Marcel in the Metro, the Notre- Dame Equation, the Occupation and the Périphérique. Map of Paris and 25 illus. 476pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


71504 POLAR EXPLORATION: The Heroic Exploits of the World’s Greatest Polar


Explorers by Beau Riffenburgh Published in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society about remarkable men like Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton, the book takes us chronologically through man’s attempts on each pole, beginning with the first sightings of Antarctica and attempts to find the Northwest Passage to Asia over the uncharted wastes of the high Canadian Arctic, to Shackleton’s Endurance expedition. The book offers 14 removable facsimile documents of immense historical importance. These include journals kept and sketches made by explorers, ship’s logs, letters, ship’s plans, Amundsen’s diary (with translation at the back) and Scott’s diary. Colour, sepia and b/w illus. 64pp, 11½”×10". $29.95 NOW £5


71538 VENETIAN NAVIGATORS: The Voyages


of the Zen Brothers to the Far North by Andrea Di Robilant


Nicoló and Antonio Zen were alleged to have journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. For centuries, the brothers were international celebrities until, in 1835, their story was denounced as a ’tissue of lies’. But was it a hoax? Following in their footsteps, the author’s quest takes him on a fascinating journey from the crumbling Palazzo Zen in Venice to the Orkney Islands, Shetland, the Faroes, Iceland and to an isolated monastery in Greenland. 244 pages, illus. £14.99 NOW £4


72144 NEW GRANTA BOOK OF TRAVEL edited by Liz Jobey


Redmond O’Hanlon goes into the heart of the undernourished Republic of Congo in search of an apocryphal dinosaur. Kathleen Jamie takes a walk on a stretch of boggy moorland in her native East Ayrshire where she has a chat with a farmer. Bruce Chatwin,


Colin Thubron, W. G. Sebald, Paul Theroux, Thomas Keneally and Robert MacFarlane are among the writers of these 23 short stories. 429pp, paperback. £15 NOW £3.75


72988 GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA


by Ernest Hemingway 'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P.O.M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going to the left on a run, a strange, heavy-shouldered, foot- swinging, cat run. I hit him with the


Springfield and he went down...' Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. A classic of travel/autobiography here in 200 page paperback with line art. £6.99 NOW £3


72677 THE WAY OF HERODOTUS Travels with the Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi


During the Classical age of Greece, Herodotus was the world’s first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, reporter, foreign correspondent and enlightened multiculturalist. In his Histories, written some 2,500 years ago, we find unlikely tales of dog-headed men, gold-digging ants, flying snakes and bizarre sexual customs mixed in with his narrative of the Persian Wars, the tumultuous encounter from which the Greeks emerged victorious. Intrepid travelling historian Justin Marozzi here retraces the footsteps of the great Herodotus through Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq. 348pp in paperback, plates. £9.99 NOW £3.50


72678 THE WAY WE WERE - CALIFORNIA: Nostalgic Images of the Golden State by M. J. Howard and Laurie Mayer California is a place of extreme contrasts in scenery, culture and even climate. Here you will find forests, vineyards, hissing volcanic fumaroles, and plant and animal species not found anywhere else on the planet. Over the years, the state has attracted human beings of every kind from starry-eyed fortune seekers - especially during the years of the Gold Rush - to Nobel Prize winners, and from pioneer farmers to industrial magnates. This nostalgic book visits the state’s major attractions in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond, including the San Andreas fault. 128 pages to savour. Photos in colour. $19.95 NOW £4


72662 OXFORD BOOK OF EXPLORATION Second Edition


edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison Real explorers are driven by a desire to discover, and thus to advance knowledge, which transcends the urge to conquer, or the pursuit of trade. Many great moments and exceptional people are recorded in this awesome volume. Some, like Neil Armstrong’s first step on to the moon or Stanley’s encounter with Dr Livingstone, are well known. Others, such as Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, the first man to take a ship through the North East passage, and Ibn Battúat, who was the first explorer to cross the whole of Asia and bring back a description, are perhaps less familiar. 576 paperback pages.


£9.99 NOW £4 72153 WESTERN EUROPEAN


CITIES by AA Key Guide Expert travel writers help you choose the right restaurants and hotels and the leg work has been done in a super shopping guide. With super-clear colour street map, website reviews and lots of local tips, the countries covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Excellent transport maps and city centre maps including


cities and website references. Softback with laminated cover, 456pp, colour photos. £14.99 NOW £4


WAR AND MILITARIA


73268 WINGS: One Hundred Years of British Aerial


Warfare by Patrick Bishop As a young journalist during the Falklands conflict, the author witnessed the excitement of the RAF’s last real dogfight. Flight Lieutenant David Morgan and a colleague, both piloting Sea-Harriers, were keeping an eye on a friendly troop-carrier, when suddenly two


enemy A-4 Skyhawks dived out of the blue and launched an attack, obliterating the ship’s stern. Several more appeared as Morgan and his fellow-Harrier engaged in traditional aerial combat, wheeling and diving and managing to launch their sidewinders to deadly effect, bringing three planes down. The book ends with the 21st century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where aerial combat is remote-controlled and the adrenalin rush of the dogfight is a thing of the past. Bishop tells the story of the rise and fall of aerial combat in superbly readable style, drawing on personal reminiscences and archive records. In World War I, Lord Kitchener transformed the ragged Flying Club into the world’s most effective airforce, but in those early days “the main test was to get to the battlefield”, where “Archie”, or anti-aircraft fire, was more of a challenge than enemy aircraft. The task of expanding the RAF to include


people from all social classes gathered momentum in the 30s, and in 1940 the country was ready. Assurances that civilians would never be bombed soon disappeared and the obliteration of Dresden in 1944 was a blot on the RAF’s proud history. 412pp, black and white photos. £25 NOW £7.50


72521 EMPEROR’S CODES by Michael Smith


Subtitled ‘Bletchley Park’s Role in Breaking Japan’s Secret Ciphers’, here is a tale of the consequences for the Second World War. It tells the stories of John Tiltman, the eccentric British soldier turned code breaker who made many of the early breaks into Japanese diplomatic and military codes, Eric Knave, the Australian sailor


recruited to work for the British who pioneered breakthroughs in Japanese naval codes, and Hiroshi Oshima, the hard-drinking Japanese Ambassador to Berlin. It was his candid reports to Tokyo of his conversations with Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis that were a major source of intelligence in the war against Germany. Many of these revelations have been made possible only thanks to recently declassified British files and Australian secret official histories plus interviews with an unprecedented number of British, American and Australian codebreakers. 343pp in paperback with illus. £9.99 NOW £5


73423 BATTLE READY by Tom Clancy and General Tony Zinni


From one of America’s most prominent writers and one of the military’s most outspoken generals, here is a powerful assessment of modern warfare in today’s hottest battle zones in this front-row seat which will become a classic of military history. In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with General Chuck Horner


and Carl Stiner to provide a masterful blend of history, biography and you-are-there narrative insight into the practice of leadership. Here Marine General Tony Zinni, known as the ‘Warrior Diplomat’ during his first 40 years of service, has an impeccable military background. The book follows the evolution of General Zinni and the Marine Corps from the cauldron of Vietnam, through the operational revolution of the 70s and 80s, rescue operations in Somalia, CENTCOM, directing strikes against Iraq and Al Qaeda to peacemaking and serving as Special Envoy to the Middle East. Here is a military man with a radically different opinion. 519pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


72592 ANCIENT WORLD COMMANDERS: From the Trojan War to the Fall of Rome


by Angus Konstam From the mythological warrior Achilles to the Chinese general and strategist Zhou Yu, this superbly


illustrated book describes more than 160 prominent war leaders. These fascinating profiles of the great military commanders such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar are arranged alphabetically, while geographically the book covers wars and conflict that occurred in a vast region from Eastern Europe through the Middle East to India and China. The reader may compare the effectiveness of generals of the great formal armies of the Greeks and Romans with that of the devil-may-care yet nonetheless fearsome and successful barbarian hordes of Attila the Hun. 192 gory pages, colour illus. $19.95 NOW £6


72598 CAVALRY OF THE CLOUDS: Air War Over Europe 1914-1918 by John Sweetman


The author traces the evolution of air power in North- West Europe, which culminated in the formation of a separate air force - the RAF. Extensively researched, the book draws on a wide range of personal correspondence involving British, Australian, Canadian, South African, American and German airmen as well as a wealth of more formal records and documents. Here are all the details readers could want on: Airfields - from Brattlebury, Lincs to Fort Worth Texas - airplanes - from the Fokker D.VII to the Sopwith Dolphin - and airmen from Lt. A. E. Bonnalie to Major W. S. Douglas, among many, many more. 224 pages with a plethora of b/w contemporary photos, maps, list of abbreviations and appendix: Significant Dates. £20 NOW £7


71313 WAR MEMORIALS IN BRITAIN by Jim Corke


We are taken along the road to remembrance and encouraged to observe notable bronzes and architectural monuments like the Royal Dockyard in Chatham, Birmingham’s Hall of Memory, Herne Bay’s seafront clock tower, circular open colonnades such as the one in Cardiff’s Alexandra Park, the D-Day Museum at Portsmouth and the most stunningly beautiful liminal lights where heraldic symbols and stained glass portraiture makes beautiful window art. Useful gazetteer. 64 page paperback with colour photos. £5.99 NOW £2


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72219 AMAZING AND EXTRAORDINARY FACTS: The British At War by Jonathan Bastable


The book bristles with martial tales and military anecdotes. Every account is rooted in the battles that Britain has fought, from Hastings to Helmand Province, the doomed Belgrano, the Flagstaff Affair, the face of Kitchener, dirty tricks at Stamford Bridge, in Flanders’ Fields, pioneering moments, the Phoney War, gallant she-soldiers and Hobart’s funnies (the crazy but deadly tanks of D-day). 144pp with line art. £9.99 NOW £2.50


73787 NAPOLEONIC WARS IN CARTOONS


by Mark Bryant After Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul of France, what had been known as the French Revolutionary Wars, which had begun in 1792, became retrospectively known as the Napoleonic Wars - right up


until his defeat in 1812. Napoleon was the most caricatured figure of his time, with almost 1,000 satirical drawings being produced by British artists alone. Long before the advent of illustrated daily or weekly newspapers, these hand-coloured prints were a major source of news and opinion, and had considerable impact on the public at large. For nearly 20 years, the actions of Bonaparte and his opponents were the main focus of graphic satire worldwide. The allegedly diminutive emperor - actually, he was quite tall - was a gift to cartoonists, and James Gillroy’s transformation of him into the Lilliputian character Little Boney was immensely popular. He often appeared as various kinds of grotesque creature, from ape, serpent and dragon, to earwig, toadstool and crocodile, forever battling the mighty John Bull, Britannia and the British bulldog, as well as the Russian bear and the Austrian and Prussian eagles. The Allied monarchs and military commanders themselves were also custom-made for caricature. The Duke of Wellington’s nose, General Blücher’s flamboyant


moustache, the one- armed Lord Nelson, the pug-faced and mad Tsar Paul of Russia, the portly Prince of Wales and the wiry Prime Minister William ‘Bottomless’ Pitt all feature prominently. A magnificent 160 pages 31.5cm x 23.5cm with more than 300 cartoons and caricatures from both sides of the conflicts in colour and b/w.


£18.99 NOW £9


72540 SECRETS OF STATION X by Michael Smith


The definitive history of Bletchley Park by one of the world’s leading experts on Britain’s spies. This astonishing story tells how British code breakers cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War. Michael Smith revealed everything that happened at Bletchley Park from breaking the German, Italian and Japanese codes to creating the world’s first electronic computer. In fact two thirds of the people who worked there were young women, including around 2,000 Wrens. Here is the first full enthralling account of their enormous contribution towards the fight for freedom. 328pp, photos. £9.99 NOW £5


72443 CONCEAL, CREATE, CONFUSE by Martin Davies


In a year-by-year account, the author shows how Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig actively encouraged Army commanders to employ trickery. The real art lay in the development of geographically dispersed deception plans which disguised the real time and place of attack and forced the enemy to defend areas threatened by fake operations. Some of these plans such as disguising mules as tanks and the creation of dummy airfields bordered on the farcical, but were often amazingly effective. The driving force behind the plan was GHQ. 256pp in large paperback with maps. £14.99 NOW £4


72474 ROYAL AIR FORCE AT HOME: The History of RAF Air Displays from


1920 by Ian Smith Watson The military has always endeavoured to foster good relations with those whom they defend, and since early times the armed forces have put on entertaining spectacles for the public, typified by parades, bands, mock battles, drill


displays. In 1920 the first of the now legendary Hendon Air Pageants was staged, and today these are considered to be the world’s first military air shows. The author saw his first display sat on his father’s shoulders at RAF Finningley in 1962 and has been an avid fan, as well as an RAF radar operator, ever since. This account of the RAF’s major public displays since 1920 is generously illustrated with colour and b/w photos and features all the aircraft, pilots and display teams that have flown for the public’s entertainment since then. The first nine chapters, roughly a third of the book, look at the displays


themselves, then chapter ten Aircraft ‘At Home’, showcases in a further 80 pages every aircraft to have taken part in displays, 150 pages of


appendices cover aircraft and


statistics. 345pp. £30 NOW £11


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