 | The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Popular Classics) by Erskine Childers
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book. Sailing high adventure and a battle of wits. Completely enthralling.
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 | The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber Paper-Covered Editions) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £3.14 Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Plus his return to the front line. An English classic.
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 | Maquis: The French Resistance at War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by George Millar
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.50 How to set up a guerilla unit. See also Horned Pigeon and George Millar's autobiography. Wonderfully described true adventures.
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 | Prisoners of Hope (Pen & Sword Paperback) by Michael Calvert
Buy new: £14.94 / Used from: £20.66 Michael Calvert's history of his column in the 2nd Wingate operation in Burma A tribute to the troops and their training and leadership.
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 | Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (World's Classics) by R.S. Surtees
Buy used from: £0.39 Meet Soapy Sponge and his friends, Mr. Facey Romford et al. Surtees brings the times to life.
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| The Deceivers by John Masters
Buy used from: £12.40 William Savage surpresses the thugee cult in India. Read also the other Savage family books and Masters' autobiographical Two Bugles and a Tiger plus The Road Past Mandalay.
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| The Hour of the Donkey by Anthony Price
Buy used from: £0.15 A novel about Hitler's decision to halt his tanks before Dunkirk. All Anthony Price's books are very satisfying. Intelligence work with a twist of history.
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 | Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
Buy used from: £7.77 A gripping story of codes and agents in the SOE, by the author of Peeping Tom. It is both witty and serious. A great read.
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 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £0.01 Patrick O'Brian brings his charachters so much to life that it is easy to be wholly absorbed in his tales. Rattling good stuff.
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 | Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.25 Seeing with the heart. See also Night Flight and his other work.
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.90 Such a good story. It stays with you. See also Trustee From the Toolroom.
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 | The War the Infantry Knew: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium by J.C. Dunn
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £2.75 A riveting record of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welch Fusiliers in France from 1914 - 1919. A remarkable achievement. Frank Richards, Siegfried Sasoon and Robert Graves served with the Battalion.
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 | The Reivers (Vintage classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £3.87 A high comedy that deserves to be far better known.
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 | Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.20 GMF's account of his service in the Border Regiment in Burma. A lasting achievement. See also his other work Flashman, Black Ajax, Macauslan and the Border Reivers.
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 | A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
Buy used from: £0.68 Meet Ricky Pym master con-man and his son Magnus master spy. A perfect tale.
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 | About Face by HACKWORTH
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £1.37 A first class warrior describes his profession, and how the dead hand of bureaucracy and politics affects it. A remarkable insight.
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 | Winged Dagger: Adventures on Special Service (Cassell Military Classics) by Roy Farran
Buy used from: £0.01 Roy Farran's account of his very active service in WWII.
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 | The Black Arrow (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: £0.01 The most ripping of yarns by the master storyteller. More popular than Treasure Island in it's day.
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 | Love and War in the Apennines (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 All Eric Newby's writing is good. This particularly brings a time to life in a rural community.
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 | A Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 What an interesting life. He can write about it.
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 | Ice! by Tristan Jones
Buy used from: £4.98 Tristan Jones is astonishing. All his books are highly readable.
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 | The Password Is Courage by John Castle
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £1.68 The true story of a British RSM who sneaked into Auschwitz. Incredible.
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 | An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.50 A story of Canton, Macau and Hong Kong beautifully told.
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 | The Jungle Is Neutral by F. Spencer Chapman
Buy used from: £10.63 F, Spencer Chapman's memorable account of his time in the Jungle behind Japanese lines.
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 | Captain Blood (Penguin Classics) by Raphael Sabatini
Buy used from: £7.91 A swashbuckling tale. It will make you cheer out loud. Give a copy to a youngster with an interest in history.
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