 | Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Max Hastings Sir
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.48 Military history of the last year of WW2 in Europe.
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 | Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
Buy new: £16.50 / Used from: £7.72 Another masterpiece by the great British military historian. This time its the Pacific war.
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 | Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 The most comprehensive book on Dunkirk.
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 | Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £25.50 / Used from: £2.91 This is a truly great work of history.
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 | Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation by David Stafford
Buy new: £15.49 / Used from: £8.50 Very much from the ground up perspective.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.45 A powerful and gut-wrenching modern classic.
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 | Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.02 Another Beevor triumph.
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 | The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £3.75 The best book on the Spanish Civil War.
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 | 1914-1918: The History of the First World War by David Stevenson
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.50 The best single volume of the First World War.
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 | The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £5.02 Superb revisionist history of WW1 asking counterfactual questions. Tough in places, but worth the intellectual and historical exercise.
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 | The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: £8.72 / Used from: £3.41 Massive volume by the brilliant British revisionist historian.
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 | The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.13 Short, pungent and destined to be classic, history of the Cold War. (ignore the idiot reviewer who called it pro-American).
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 | The D-Day Companion (Special Editions (Military))
Buy used from: £3.99 Essays by the worlds leading historians on the largest amphibious assault in history.
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 | Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The best Somme book.
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 | Yom Kippur War by Abraham Rabinovich
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.28 The best and most thorough volume of the Yom Kippur War.
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 | Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
Buy used from: £14.44 Evenhanded history of the Six Day War.
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 | Official History of the Falklands Campaign: v. 1 (Cabinet Office Series of Official Histories) by Sir Lawrence Freedman
Buy new: £37.74 / Used from: £33.50 Official history using archives, documents and new interviews.
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 | Official History of the Falklands Campaign: v. 2 (Whitehall Histories) by Lawrence Freedman
Buy new: £45.85 / Used from: £32.25 Official history using archives, documents and new interviews.
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 | The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
Buy used from: £2.98 A great companion volume to the classic TV series. Epic oral history of the Second World War.
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 | Warrior Race: A History of the British at War (Abacus History) by Lawrence James
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.26 A massive volume and a tribute to the British warrior instincts.
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 | The First World War by John Keegan
Buy new: £11.59 / Used from: £4.99 All of Keegan's books are a necessary read for the student of military history. .
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 | The Second World War by John Keegan
Buy new: £11.38 / Used from: £2.98 One of Keegan's most popular books. A classic.
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 | The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.19 Widely acknowledged to be his masterpiece. War and the human condition.
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 | A History of Warfare by John Keegan
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.61 Very controversial at the time (because of his interpretation of Clausewitz) but another triumph.
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 | Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship by John Keegan
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £18.52 Masterful study of Generals and military leadership -- Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and Hitler.
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