 | Berlin: the Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £4.89 Just perfect for anyone wanting to know about the last days of the Third Reich
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.57 There is a lot of Antony Beevor on this list, but that's 'cos he's good!
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 | Achtung Panzer !: The Development of Tank Warfare (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinz Guderian
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £0.01 What can you say? THE seminal work on Armoured warfare in the 1920's and '30's
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 | The Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Classics) by Musashi Miyamoto
Buy new: £11.25 / Used from: £0.17 Give yourself a whle new take on Tactics and Strategy. Even better than "The Art of War"
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 | Imperial War Museum's Spitfire Summer: When We Stood Alone by Malcolm Brown
Buy used from: £0.08 Okay, so it's populist and many 'real Historians' would have a Blue Fit over it, but I like it!
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 | The Spanish Civil War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.13 It's that man again! Another brilliant piece of work from Mr. Beevor
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 | A Bridge Too Far (Wordsworth Military Library) by Cornelius Ryan
Buy used from: £0.01 The classic true story of yet another Monty inspired Balls-up
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 | The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945 by Julian Thompson
Buy used from: £22.99 The Forgotten War. Everybody should read this and make damn sure it isn't forgotten anymore
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 | Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses (Wordsworth Military Library) by A.L. Rowse
Buy used from: £0.01 Not the best book on a complex part of history, but a very good starting point.
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 | The Great Boer War (Wordsworth Military Library) by Byron Farwell
Buy used from: £0.64 Another good, cheap primer and general history to get you started on the Boers.
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 | The Battle for the Falklands (Pan Grand Strategy) by Sir Max Hastings
Buy used from: £0.01 Written from a contemporary standpoint by people who were there, great for the British perspective.
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 | The Longest Day: June 6th, 1944 (Wordsworth Military Library) by Cornelius Ryan
Buy used from: £1.95 Never beaten, rarely matched. Unsurpassed access to many people, now dead, who were both on the beaches and in the maprooms.
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