 | Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green by Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £12.95 A masterpiece on command, leadership and tactics at the Battlegroup and Company level. Hugely detailed and offering unsurpassed analysis.
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 | 18 Platoon by Sydney Jary
Buy used from: £40.00 The classic on leadership at Platoon level.
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 | Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command by S.L.A. Marshall
Buy new: £9.33 / Used from: £9.94 Key to understanding the actions and reactions of the individual soldier in combat.
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 | Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by William Slim
Buy used from: £12.03 An indispensable classic from a master of his profession; describes the British (Indian) Army's second greatest achievement of the 20th century: the reconquest of Burma.
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 | The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery by Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £9.10 Controversial, arguably self serving and egotistical, BUT these memoirs describe the thinking and methods employed by FM Montgomery from El Alamein, through Normandy and onto the Baltic.
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 | Colossal Cracks: Montgomery's 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Stackpole Military History) by Stephen Ashley Hart
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £7.40 A superb analysis of the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by FM Montgomery to consistently defeat the Wehrmacht.
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 | Out of Step by Michael Carver
Buy used from: £0.01 The autobiography of one of the two most influential British Army Officers since the Second World War (the other being FM Sir Nigel Bagnall). Candid and never sparing of reputations.
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 | Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign of 1940-1942 by Michael Carver
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £0.01 The reasons for the British Army's failure in the North African desert laid bare by a man who was there.
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 | 3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands: No Picnic (Pen & Sword Military) by Julian Thompson
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £9.94 Forthright account of Brigade command under inadequate command and control alongside political micro-management. Destined to be a classic work.
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 | Battle Tactics of the Western Front: British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18 by P Griffith
Buy new: £11.44 / Used from: £7.00 The genesis of modern infantry and combined arms tactics. Describes how the British Army evolved to defeat the German Army in 1918, its greatest accomplishment of the 20th century.
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