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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: PB
Price: £9.99
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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: PB
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 Histor, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Donald Caskie
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
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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The Seawolves

The Seawolves


ISBN: 9781841583884
Category: Military and Adventure, Maritime
Author: Eric Graham
Publication Date: July 2005
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: not in stock  

Synopsis:
The 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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No More Beyond

No More Beyond


ISBN: 9781841585192
Category: Exploration, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Simon Nasht
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: HB
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: HB
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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The White Cockade

The White Cockade


ISBN: 9781841584416
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A great collection of tales from an exciting period of history retold by one of Scotland’s most well-known storytellers.

    
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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: HB
Price: £20.00
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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 History, Military and Adventure
Author: Evan Mawdsley
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

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 History, Military and Adventure
Author: Walter Reid
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
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: PB
Price: £9.99
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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 Flowers of the Forest

The Flowers of the Forest


ISBN: 9781843410409
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Trevor Royle
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
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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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: PB
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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To War With the Black Watch

To War With the Black Watch


ISBN: 9781843410324
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Gian Gaspare Napolitano, translated and annotated by Ian Campbell Ross
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

To War with the Black Watch is a sharp, witty and moving insight into Scots–Italian relations in the latter part of the Second World War.

    
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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: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: not in stock  

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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