New Title Information For Week Ending 31/10/2003

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Evidence, History and the Great War
by Gail Braybon; Price: £47.00
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Dog
by Norman L. R. Franks; Price: £18.99
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America in World War I
by Donald M. Goldstein; Price: £23.50
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Duty, Honor, Privilege
by Stephen Harris; Price: £6.75
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Harlem's Hell Fighters
by Stephen L. Harris; Price: £17.65
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Battling Buzzards
by Gerald Astor; Price: £4.12
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The Mighty Eighth
by Gerald Astor; Price: £4.12
Customer Review: Unbelievable. One of the first American pilots with the Eighth Air Force to arrive in England was told by RAF pilots ". . . . . . we would get our butts blown off if we persisted with daylight bombing. We were told that the Luftwaffe was highly skilled and that their 88s were very accurate, both of which were confirmed later... [read more]

 

Operation Iceberg
by Gerald Astor; Price: £4.99
Customer Review: I was reading this book primarily for details to add to a genealogy project. This book supplied me with an amazing amount of the basic information about the invasion. Price is OK for a paperback. [read more]

 

Terrible Terry Allen
by Gerald Astor; Price: £15.29
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Pearl Harbor Ghosts
by Thurston Clarke; Price: £10.99
Customer Review: ...Pearl Harbor Ghosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history. Full of gripping drama and vibrant details, here is the intimate human story of the events surrounding that fateful day of December 7, 1941-the glamorous tropical city that seeme... [read more]

 

G
by Jeffrey Ethell; Price: £12.99
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Death on the Black Sea
by Douglas, Collins Cather Frantz; Price: £14.00 (30% off)
Customer Review: A gripping story of the plight of a desperate group of jewish refugees who leave Romania to escape a brutal regime but end up facing an even worse fate. Despite being a true story, the tragic events unfold in a way that makes it compulsive reading. The factual information has been meticulously unearthed and the juxtoposition... [read more]

 

Black Sheep One
by Bruce Gamble; Price: £4.12
Customer Review: Having read this book I am left puzzled as to why it was written at all. Greg Boyington was a remarkable man: human dynamo, survivor, serial womaniser and heavy drinker. Add to this a difficult childhood and the pressures of media stardom as a war hero, and you have the makings of a great subject for a biography. But it̵... [read more]

 

General Henri Guisan
by Willi Gautschi; Price: £22.36
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Before Stalingrad
by David Glantz; Price: £9.99
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Biography of a Battalion
by James A. Huston; Price: £12.93
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Orders of Battle
by H.F. Joslen; Price: £48.00
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Hasag
by Felicja Karay; Price: £15.00
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The Filthy Thirteen
by Richard Killblane; Price: £17.48 (10% off)
Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, the paratroopers who led the Allied invasions into Nazi-held Europe. But within the ranks of the 101st, a subunit attained legendary status at the time, its reputation persisting among veterans over the decades. Primarily products of the ... [read more]

 

War Pilot
by Richard C. Kirkland; Price: £4.99
Customer Review: This easy but captivating read of short stories from a military pilot's accumulated and varied experiences gives the reader an incredible insight into our past world of war and aviation. Probably never again to be duplicated, the military flying career of the author left me aghast at the breadth of poignant events and weight... [read more]

 

Battered Bastards of Bastogne
by George Koskimaki; Price: £17.48 (10% off)
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Hell's Highway
by George Koskimaki; Price: £17.48 (10% off)
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All the Way to Berlin
by James Megellas; Price: £14.70
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The Golden Horseshoe
by Terence Robertson; Price: £18.99
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
by Rodlf Vrba; Price: £14.95
Customer Review: An excellent book from someone who has really been there. Moving and certainly gripping, at times the stories are so unbelievable you have to pinch yourself to remind you people can do this. Well worth reading [read more]