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	2012
Dorchester Remembers the Great War
	2010
The Burden of Guilt: How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
	2008
Exercise Tiger		The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914-1917
Evelyn Wood, VC		Weathered Witness - Relics of the Great War
9th Service Battalion the Sherwood Foresters: The Nott's and Derby Regiment During the First World War		The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Berlin Airlift - The salvation of a city		The Indian Mutiny
Slim's Burma Boys		The Mascot
Operation Epsom
	2007
Singapore Diary		Campaigning for Napoleon
Tip and Run		Old Soldier Sahib
The Further Price a Parish Paid		Old Soldiers Never Die
Operation Plunder - The British and Candian Rhine Crossing		Somme Harvest
The Affair at Néry		Monty's Highlanders
The History of the Artists Rifles 1859-1947		The Black Watch - A Concise History
British Army Handbook 1939-1945		Royal Navy Handbook 1939-1945
Lawrence of Arabia - Mirage of a Desert War		Hitler’s Panzers
Home Run - Escape from Nazi Europe		The Captain's Steward - Falklands 1982
Remembered - History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission		Old Ironsides - The Military Biography of Olivger Cromwell
Discovering British Regimental Traditions
	2006
The Battle for Hong Kong 1941-45		The Victoria Cross
Cassel's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland		Images of War - Flanders 1915
Passchendaele		Horrocks - The General Who Lewd From The Front
The War Lords		Aviation Archaeology in Britain
Last Post		Kampfgruppe Peiper
Discovering Battlefields of England and Scotland		Major and Mrs Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide The Western Front (South)
Wrapped in Whirlwinds - Poems of the Crimean War		Sir Edwin Lutyens
One Christmas in Washington		Under Fire in the Dardenelles
War Time Log for British Prisoners		Liverpool Scottish 1900-1919
With the 10th Essex in France		Rodney and the Breaking of the Line
Edgehill		Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors
Northamptonshire Regiment 1914-1918		Razors Edge - The Unofficial History of the Falklands War
Granny's Diaries		Blood, Sweat and Arrogance The Myths of Churchill’s War
The Ultimate Sacrifice		Veterans - The last Survivors of the Great War
Command and Control on the Western Front		The Somme - From Defeat to Victory
The British Grenadiers		Awards of the George Cross 1940-2005
Somme - The Battle Ninety Yewars On		British Campaign Medals 1914--2005
Before Endeavours Fade - A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War		Twenty Two Hundred Days To Pulo
A Century of Remembrance		Adolf Hitler - The Final Analysis
Suez - The Double War		Through German eyes: the British & the Somme 1916
Home Front 1914-1918 - How Britain Survived the Great War		The Great Escapers - The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape
Voices in Flight		The Germans at Thiepval
The Germans at Beaumont Hamel		The Kaiser's Memoirs - Wilhelm II
Twenty Days in the Reich		The British Officer
Discovering Fortifications		Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide - Somme
Major and Mrs Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide Ypres - Passchendaele		Ramillies 1706
Light Dragoons		Pals on the Somme 1916
White Death - Russia's War on Finalnd 1939-1940		Rogue Warrior of the SAS
Rat's Alley - British trench Names of the Western front 1914-1918		A Child at Arms
Adolf Hitler - A Portrait		An Unorthodox Soldier - peace and War and The Sandline Affair
The War for All the Oceans - The British Navy’s Struggle Against Napoleon		The British Army Handbook 1914-1918
Ruckmarsch		Cheshire Bantams
Douglas Haig - Diaries and Letters 1861-1914		Code Name Mulberry
Ypres - The First Battle 1914		Tracing Your Army Ancestors
Battle of the Bulge - Hitler's Final Gamble		Almost A Childhood - Growing Up Among The Nazis
The Germans in Normandy		The Royal Scots - A Concise History
The Pegasus Diaries - The Private Papers of Major John Howard DSO		100 Bomber Group (Bomber Support) RAF Bommber Comand in World War 2
The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War		Flak Houses Then and Now - The Story of American Rest Homes in England
North-West Aircraft Wrecks		There's a Devil in the Drum
The War of Wars - The Napoleonic Era		The Rhine Crossing 9th US Army & 17th US Airborne
The Crimean War		Cromwell's Masterstroke - Dunbat 1650
The Adventures & Inventions of Stewart Blacker		Blood - Red Desert Sand - The British Invasions Of Egypt & The Sudan 1882-1898
The History Of The Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918		Red Partisans
The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

	2005
Battlefields Annual Review		Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 - Version 2
Beneath Flanders Fields		War in the Air
Surviving the Sword		The True Glory Collector's Edition
Target for Tonight		Letters from the Front
VE Day - A Day to Remember		Hitlers Spy Chief
The Blockade Busters		Call To Arms
The Warlords Hindenburg and Ludendorf		Dieppe Operation Jubilee –Channel Ports
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War		Cassino
Trafalgar The Biography of a Battle		Crossing the Buffalo - THE ZULU WAR OF 1879
Bonaparte in Egypt		Bomber Boys
The Somme		Waterloo - In the footsteps of commanders
A Life in Secrets		Stalin's Folly
Wellington's Regiments		Yanagi
Operation Chariot		War Memorials in Britain
In action with the SAS		The British Army of 1914
The Battle for the Rhine 1944		British Military Rifles
Sharpshooter in the Crimea		Chapman-Andrews and the Emperor
Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War		Britains Last Tommies
From Dogfight to Diplomacy

	2004
The Civil War in Yorkshire (Fairfax Versus Newcastle)		D-Day by Those Who Were There
Without Tradition 2 Para 1941-1945		Villers Bocage
Major & Mrs Holts's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide The Western Front (North)		Discovering English County Regiments
The Forgotten Few (The Polish Air Force In World War ll)		TOMMY The British Soldier On The Western Front 1914-1918
JUNO BEACH Canadian 3rd Infantry & 79th Armoured Divisions		Sheffield Armourer to the British Empire
VC's of the Second World War		Secret Letters from the Railway
A Glint in the Sky		Battles of World War 1
The History Of The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey) Regiment (In The Great War)		Redcoats and Zulus
Secret Forces of World War 2		Just Soldiers
British Regiments 1914-1918		British Home Defences 1940-45
To Freedom Through China Escaping From Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong 1942		Forgotten Voices of the Second World War
Lost Souls of the River Kwai		Record of the Battles & Engagwments of the British Armies in France & Flanders 1914-18
Bomber Airrew in World War 2		XD Operations - Secret British Misisons Denying Oil to the Nazis
Billie - The Neville Letters 1914-1916		Tobruk 1941
Diary of an Old Contemptible		The Voice of War - The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It
Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662-1991		The West Yorkshire Regiment In The War 1914-1918
Fighter Pilots in World War 2		HMS Gloucester

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