 | Caen: Anvil of Victory by Alexander McKee
Buy used from: £3.42 The British in the greatest battle of WW2.
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 | A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Buy used from: £5.00 An excellent low level account of the operation.
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 | Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
A Japanese fighter aces story - excellent
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 | The Day the Devils Dropped in: The 9th Parachute Battalion in Normandy D-Day to D+6: Merville Battery to the Chateau St Come by Neil Barber
Buy new: £8.59 / Used from: £6.30 How a unit history should be written - paras at D-Day and after.
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 | Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army by Evgeni Bessnov
Buy new: £10.96 / Used from: £6.92 Memoir of how the Russians tore the Germans apart in the later years.
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 | Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Guy Sajer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.66 Powerful memoir of a German soldier appalled by war.
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 | Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanalm Midway - The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Tameichi Hara
Buy new: £12.76 / Used from: £11.70 Japanese experience of war at sea.
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 | I flew for the Fuhrer: Story of a German Airman (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinz Knoke
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.50 Memoirs of a German fighter pilot
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 | The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo by Glover S. Johns
Buy used from: £9.52 American infantry in the bockage of Normandy.
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 | Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy (Stackpole Military History) by Joseph Balkoski
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £3.41 Excellent analysis of the 29th Div on Omaha.
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 | Mailed Fist by John Foley
Memoirs of British tanker in NW Europe.
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| Tail End Charlie by John Wainwright
Buy used from: £43.87 A tail gunner in the RAF heavies tells what it was really like.
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 | Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot Over the Eastern Front by Vasily B. Emelianenko
Buy new: £14.75 / Used from: £12.88 Shturmovik pilot on the eastern front, shows how hard the Russians drove their units.
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 | Motor Gunboat 658: The Small Boat War in the Mediterranean (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Leonard C. Reynolds
Buy used from: £2.00 Coastal warfare in the Med, exciting small scale action.
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 | To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
Buy new: £6.03 / Used from: £3.77 Infantryman's war in Italy, so few survived.
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 | The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
Buy used from: £2.11 Overtaken by recent works but still a classic good read.
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