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Red Platoon(2016) ROMESHA, CLINTONThe Taliban can see every move and attack is imminent. OutnumberedJust before sunrise on 3 October 2009, hundreds of Taliban insurgents open fire from all angles.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Battles of Conscience(2022) KELLY, TOBIASThese are people who have gone on to leave an important but often hidden trace in the moral and cultural life of Britain and beyond. The story of the Second World War is usually told in tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the BVezava: Trda30,84 €
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Flag(2019) RICHARDS, ANDREWThis is the story of Revd David Railton MC, who after his harrowing experiences as a chaplain on the Western Front conceived the idea of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Carmen Pomi s(2022) ROWE, CHRISCarmen Pomi s' life is terrific life story, linking a fascinating individual to the events of the 20th century: two world wars, the advance of women's rights; society in France; migration; culture and society in post-war America.Vezava: Trda35,05 €
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Where Men Win Glory(2010) KRAKAUER, JON (AUTHOR)Where Men Win Glory is a profoundly eloquent and affecting account of heroism - a millionaire sports star who gave it all up after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to fight for his country with the US Army in Afghanistan: only to be killed by one of his ownVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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And The Dawn Cane Up Like Thunder(2015) RAWLINGS, LEOLeo Rawling was an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese in 1942. His story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. For the first time the cruelty inflicted on the prisoners of war by their own offVezava: Mehka35,05 €
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Nimrod Boys(2021) BLACKMAN, TONYNimrod Boys is a complementary book to Nimrod Rise and Fall from acclaimed author Tony Blackman. It is a collection of over twenty first-hand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod – an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War(2018) RUANE, KEVIN (CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY, UK)Vezava: Mehka42,76 €
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Priscilla(2014) SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLASFor Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precariouVezava: Mehka26,62 €
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British Way of War(2021) LAMBERT, ANDREWHow a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyondVezava: Trda47,52 €