 | Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 The incredibly moving story of ordinary young men doing extraordinary deeds, trying to survive not only the savagery of war but also it's aftermath.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) by Dee Brown
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.00 Does exactly what it says on the tin; makes the head pound, the heart ache and the blood boil at the injustice perpetrated.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £5.62 / Used from: £4.00 Or what happens to those who blindly follow leaders.Left to rot amid the ruins of a Russian winter with rats,lice,starvation,disease and an enemy hellbent on revenge.
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 | Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £4.64 What happens to those who blindly follow leaders part 2.The death throes of a Reich ground to dust and rubble by the Red Army.
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 | We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Places the reader right at the heart of one of the most brutal battles of the Vietnam conflict.At the very edge of life and death.
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 | The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £3.12 An evil like no other.Man's inhumanity to fellow man.There but for the grace of God ...
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 | The Righteous by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.75 How light can still shine surrounded by darkness.Man's humanity to fellow man.He who saves one life ...
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 | Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.72 As Stalin looked on, Polish resistance fought so bravely that even the Nazi occupiers were forced to recognise their full military status.
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 | The Lance and the Shield: Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley
Buy used from: £0.75 A truly great figure; warrior,prophet, holy man,leader and defender of his Lakota people against the destruction wrought on it by the U.S. Government and citizens.
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 | D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: £6.07 / Used from: £0.01 Day of days.Details the start of the liberation of Europe and reminds us how much we all still owe those who took part.
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 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £1.72 Evil drips from every page and terror dwells in every chapter.How China fell from the wisdom of Confuscious to the cruelties of Communism.
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 | Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 From volunteering to victory, the humbling tale of the men of Easy Company.
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 | Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
Buy used from: £1.72 One of those books that turns your preconceptions on their head.If the American Revolution was so just why did tens of thousands of slaves flee to the British ?
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 | Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £17.34 A colossus amongst the major events of the 20th Century.From social reform to fighting fascism showed unmatched wisdom and foresight.
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 | Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Reminds us how history is written by the victors not the vanquished.Criminals can be turned into heroes and heroes can die a criminal death.
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 | The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.99 An all too rare example of a historical figure leading by pure example and gaining a following through a belief in tolerance above all.
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 | Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
Buy new: £6.15 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful people first history that makes the reader realise such a pivotal battle was not decided by strategy or weapons alone,but rather by the courage of the outnumbered RAF pilots.
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 | Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £0.01 Another fine example of bringing the participants to the fore in telling the neglected story of those brave men who took the fight to the enemy despite gruesome odds.
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