War & Defence Operations
BIC code: JWL
See also: Warfare
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£9.00Addicted To War: Why The U.S. Can't Kick Militarism - - Paperback
Joel Andreas takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. He reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read this book to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays - and who dies. -
Add to BasketBorder Bloodshed: Scotland And England At War, 1369-1403 - - Paperback
£20.00
Scottish military offensives against the English from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, and involved the participation of the political community of the realm. This text traces the reasons that inspired the conflict. -
Add to BasketDoing His Bit: A Shetland Soldier In The Great War - - Paperback
£8.99
Between January and August 1920, The Shetland Times reporter Robert M. Greig wrote a series of articles on his experiences on the Western Front in the First World War. Gathered together for the first time these notes give a startling insight. -
Add to BasketGlencoe: The Story Of The Massacre - - Paperback
£10.99
Prebble evokes the massacre of the Campbells at Glencoe in 1692. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions, and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders, the end of which is recorded in Culloden and The Highland Clearances. -
Add to BasketGrampian Battlefields: The Historic Battles Of North East Scotland From AD84 To 1745 - - Paperback
£12.99
Grampian Battlefields covers a time-span of 1,661 years. It forms an exercise in historical reasoning and historical imagination. -
Add to BasketJihad!: The Secret War In Afghanistan - - Paperback
£7.99
Jihad! provides an account of combat espionage & high adventure, against the backdrop of the last truly wild and lawless country on earth. It sheds light on the sharp edge of the Cold War and the conduct of special operations in the modern era. -
Add to BasketThe Lion And The Eagle: Reminiscences Of Polish Second World War Veterans In Scotland - Paperback
£9.99
In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and crushed Poland. In the ensuing chaos, a few Poles embarked upon a hazardous journey of escape. This is the story of the Poles who ended up in Scotland, where they built new lives for themselves. -
Add to BasketThe Second Scottish Wars Of Independence, 1332-1363 - - Paperback
£16.99
Drawn from English and Scottish state papers and chronicle accounts, this text tells the story of the armies and campaigns that would develop the tactics that gave English forces the dramatic triumphs of the Hundred Years War. -
Add to BasketA Separate Little War: The Banff Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus The Kriegsmarine And Luftwaffe, September 1944 To May 1945 - - Hardback
£18.99
This title is a detailed history of a microcosm of Coastal Command. Supported by many photographs, the author has drawn on the personal accounts of British and Norwegian pilots, ground crew and civilians which augment the official sources, to give a depiction of an aerodrome at war. -
Add to BasketSt Valery: The Impossible Odds - Paperback
£7.99
'St Valery' re-examines the fateful chain of events in 1940 of the gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux. The vivid accounts in this collection of soldiers' reminiscences bring alive the horror of war and the camps and forced marches.