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The Flowers of the Forest

The Flowers of the Forest


ISBN: 9781843410409
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Trevor Royle
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: Paperback (eBook also available)
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes – the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarisation of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women’s role in society following on from wartime employment.

            


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Polar Crusader

Polar Crusader


ISBN: 9781841585437
Category: Exploration, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Smith
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:

In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.

                
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The Seawolves

The Seawolves


ISBN: 9781841585802
Category: Maritime, Military and Adventure
Author: Eric Graham
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

Seawolves is an exciting and thorough examination of Scots connected to piracy, whether they are victims or villains, real or literary.


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The Tartan Pimpernel

The Tartan Pimpernel


ISBN: 9781843410355
Category: Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Donald Caskie
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

The Tartan Pimpernel is the remarkable autobiography of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940. A true story of heroism and sacrifice in occupied France during the Second World War. 
    

                    
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No More Beyond

No More Beyond


ISBN: 9781841585192
Category: Exploration, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Simon Nasht
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

An astonishing biography of a little-known Australian explorer.


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Shipwrecks of the North of Scotland

Shipwrecks of the North of Scotland


ISBN: 9781841582337
Category: Maritime, Military and Adventure
Author: Robert N. Baird
Publication Date: October 2003
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

This meticulously researched book is a reference guide to shipping losses off the coast of Scotland from Stonehaven northwards to Duncansby Head, then westwards to Cape Wrath and the Minch. A thoroughly informative read aimed at both specialists and the general reader with an interest in this specialist area.

    
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Glasgow: A City at War

Glasgow: A City at War


ISBN: 9781841582764
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Brian D Osborne, Ronald Armstrong
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: not in stock  

Synopsis:

Including a unique selection of war-time photography, Osborne and Armstrong draw on a wide variety of sources in writing this fascinating and moving book.


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The Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War


ISBN: 9781843410416
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Evan Mawdsley
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: Paperback (eBook also available)
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:

’The best book ever written on the Russian Civil War … a first-rate work of scholarly synthesis’ – Robert McNeal

’A miracle of concision, clarity and completeness’ – Michael Malancon

Evan Mawdsley’s lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.


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Churchill 1940-1945

Churchill 1940-1945


ISBN: 9781843410447
Category: Military and Adventure, Military History
Author: Walter Reid
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: Hardback (eBook also available)
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
"This is an outstanding account and to be recommended to all students of the high strategy of the Second World without reservation," - British Army Review  
 
Walter Reid brings together the result of recent research to create a powerful narrative that reveals how much time and energy Churchill devoted to fighting the war that was excluded from the official accounts: the war with the allies.

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Flodden

Flodden


ISBN: 9781841582658
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Peter Reese
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting  

Synopsis:

Flodden is widely regarded as one of Scotland's most ignominious military defeats; a battle that need never have been fought and a historical event that has been firmly engraved in Scotland's national consciousness ever since.


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The Mirror of Monte Cavallara

The Mirror of Monte Cavallara


ISBN: 9781843410317
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Ray Ward
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

After his passing, Ray Ward’s son discovered his father’s memoirs of the Second World War in the basement of their family home. The Mirror of Monte Cavallara is a very personal, poignant and revealing account.

    
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Expeditions to the Hebrides

Expeditions to the Hebrides


ISBN: 9781899272068
Category: Exploration, Military and Adventure
Author: George Clayton Atkinson
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the naturalist and ornithologist George Clayton Atkinson set out from Newcastle to explore Skye and the Outer Hebrides, including the remote island of St Kilda.


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Six Months Without Sundays

Six Months Without Sundays


ISBN: 9781843410522
Category: Military and Adventure
Author: Max Benitz
Publication Date: November 2011
Format: Hardback (eBook also available)
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

'Six Months Without Sundays is very much the Scots Guards’ tour in their own words ... rings true' - Soldier Magazine 

Aged twenty-five, Max Benitz lived alongside his peers in The Scots Guards in Helmand Province, experiencing first-hand what it is to risk your young life every day in a war zone.


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Six Months Without Sundays - SIGNED COPIES

Six Months Without Sundays - SIGNED COPIES


ISBN: GUARDSSIGNED
Category: Military and Adventure
Author: Max Benitz
Publication Date: November 2011
Format: Hardback (eBook also available)
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

'Six Months Without Sundays is very much the Scots Guards’ tour in their own words ... rings true' - Soldier Magazine 

Aged twenty-five, Max Benitz lived alongside his peers in The Scots Guards in Helmand Province, experiencing first-hand what it is to risk your young life every day in a war zone.


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