 | Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Buy used from: £4.77 Everything you wanted to know about 'nam - brilliantly written and completely enthralling.
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 | The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £9.36 Chairman Mao, warts and all.
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 | Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
Buy used from: £0.95 Not exactly modern history but the best history of the US of A
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.47 The Turning point of WW2, Russian do the do....
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 | Das Boot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Lothar Gunther Buchheim
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.01 Yes, a novel, but what a novel, should be a history book!
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 | Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
Buy new: £11.86 / Used from: £9.76 The most famous revolutionary, reads like a novel
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 | Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 The best personal perspective of 'nam, I may be biased as I like helicopters though!
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 | Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Hew Maclean
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £3.07 Pre, during and Post WW2 adventurer - model for James Bond
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 | Truman by David McCullough
Buy new: £9.94 / Used from: £3.58 My favorite biography - about one the best, though mostly forgotten, president.
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 | Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.24 An excellent accout of mis-directed, misled warfare. Horrible.
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