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.Lancaster Target
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by: Jack Currie

2004-02
I must admit I didn't buy this book from Amazon, in fact I have had it more than 25 years and I still enjoy reading it.

Gripping descriptions of bombing missions are interspersed with other anecdotes, often very funny and irreverant. You get a real feeling of what it was like and how Currie and his crew coped when others didn't.

Highly recommended.
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.Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
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by: John Plaster

1998-07
firstly, just buy this book and read it you will not be dissapointed.
this book details many missions that the sog went on during the vietnam war, and one thing that gets you almost immediately was the sheer loss of life that these units experienced. the missions they went on were virtual suicide missions. they knew they would have contact with the enemy as soon as they had been inserted,they knew there was a mole in saigon relaying their mission details to hanoi, and they knew they would be persued constantly while they were in cambodia and laos, yet they still went on the missions. this book is gripping, if you can cope with the many deaths described in the book.
excellent read, not glorified or gung ho at all.
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.Fate Is the Hunter
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by: Ernest K. Gann

July 01, 1986
Its an interesting book but not the easiest to read because the author is prone to over-elaborate, flowery discriptions and philosophising every few paragraphs. This slows things down and makes it all a bit like wading through treacle. You really want to hear what he's got to say but wish he'd get to the point a bit quicker.
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.Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement (Cambridge Perspectives in History)
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by: Frank McDonough

April 04, 2002
for a level students studying this period of time this book is a god send! it covers all the major ideas and facts about hitler, chamberlain and the policy of appeasment. this book contains a excellent conclusion on hitler and his policies and neville chamberlains pursuit of appeasement. the section on post-war, revisonist and post-revisionist on appeasment is excellent for students studying appeasement as it fully analyses why people criticised the policy and why the men who purused the policy were seen as the'guilty men'. an excellent, really accessible book for this period of history
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.Nine Lives
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from: Goodall Publications Ltd

1999-07
Nine Lives is a book that once you pick it up you dont want to put it down because you realy get a feel as to what it must of been like during air combat. The excitement,concentration and the fear. I found Alan Deere to be a very likeable character who not only shows immense courage but humility too. If your an aviation buff and want something thats not too detailed then I'm sure you will find this book an enjoyable read.
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.Infantry Tactics of the Second World War (General Military)
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by: Stephen Bull

July 02, 2008
It gives a moderate idea about the tactitcs used during second world war. It's a shame that it focus on the american side, but the editor calls the dice. Nevertheless i've learn a littlemore on the subject, after reading this 64 pages book.
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.An Ordinary Soldier: Afghanistan: A Ferocious Enemy. A Bloody Conflict. One Man's Impossible Mission
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by: Doug Beattie

October 06, 2008
It gives a moderate idea about the tactitcs used during second world war. It's a shame that it focus on the american side, but the editor calls the dice. Nevertheless i've learn a littlemore on the subject, after reading this 64 pages book.
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.Ivan's War: Inside The Red Army, 1939-45
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by: Catherine Merridale

September 07, 2006
I am very much interested in the Great Patriotic War and the Eastern Front campaigns. The difficulty I have with this type of book is that when you move away from grand stratagy & conduct a series of personal interviews then, inevitably, you'll end up with much the same result. War is war, is war........whether it's World War II or Korea or Vietnam or any one of half-a-hundred conflicts since. The experience of the guy at the front is nothing short of visceral horror. By it's very nature it's never a pleasant experience. The spoken history in this volume can only but reflect this. What else would one expect to hear? It is specific to World War II in name only because the author chose to interview these people at this time. Given the subject matter it was ... Read More:
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.The Pity of War
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by: Niall Ferguson

September 30, 1999
I read the book with the hope to find out why and how could this madness have happened, but did not. It seems that Ferguson sets out with the aim to refute truisms about the WW I. His main propositions are:
- the war could have been avoided
- there was lack of militarism among masses
- media played a big part in whipping up patriotism and war hysteria, and keeping war going
- Britain could have stayed out of war being better off without fighting it
- there was economic and human (in numbers) superiority of the Entente Powers over the Central Powers but still Germany could have won the war
- Germany was much more effective in killing enemies than the Entente
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.Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
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by: Margaret Macmillan

March 01, 2003
MacMillan's The Peacemakers fails to live up to its promise of providing a fresh look at the Treaty of Versailles.

`In many cases the peacemakers found themselves dealing with faits accomplis', says MacMillan and `Hitler did not wage war because of the Treaty of Versailles'. True, and very right for a historian to point her finger at commonplace views that only reflect hindsight. The trouble is that this appears in the conclusion, and that the rest of the book gives the opposite impression.

The Peacemakers read to me like a laundry list indictment of the Versailles treaty. On each issue, the problems the treaty set in store take centre ground. It is blamed for an endless list of ills ranging from Eastern Europe in the 1930s to the Middle East ... Read More:
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