 | The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £4.65 Probably the best history book I have read.
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 | The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: £12.56 / Used from: £6.99 Churchill's abridgement of his 6 volume history, you can get a box set of the full history from Amazon in the US.
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 | Decision in Normandy by Carlo D'Este
Buy used from: £13.85 The best D-Day / Normandy book bar none,
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 | Nelson and His Captains (Penguin Classic Military History) by Ludovic Kennedy
Buy used from: £1.16 A Lesson in Leadership
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 | Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 A remarkable study.
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 | Warrior Race: A History of the British at War (Abacus History) by Lawrence James
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Explains why the British are warriors but not martial; classic James
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 | Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf: The Story of Britannia's Sea Wolf (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Donald Thomas
Buy used from: £0.01 This is not fiction, read it and be amazed!
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 | Death of an Army (Wordsworth Military Library) by Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Buy used from: £0.99 The destruction of the Old Contemptibles, the oft ignored first battle of Ypres in 1914
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 | Britain's Forgotten Wars by Ian Hernon
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.95 So much for Pax Britanica.
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 | Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang by Rick Jolly
Buy new: £9.70 / Used from: £8.00 Essential if you want to speak to a matelot!
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 | The Autobiography of a Seaman by Thomas,Earl of Dundonald Cochrane
Buy used from: £38.00 In the great man's own words
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 | Finest Hour by Phil Craig
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspirational
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 | "Daily Telegraph" War on Saddam: The Complete Story of the Iraq Campaign 2003
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.43 The British perspective; best of the early books.
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 | The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £0.92 Not exclusively military but relevant
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