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The Right to Know: Inside Story of the "Belgrano" Affair

By Clive Ponting

Making Sense of Suicide Missions

By Diego Gambetta (, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

By Annie Jacobsen

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By Chris Miller

Nelson and His Captains

By Ludovic Kennedy

Life in Nelson's Navy

By Dudley Pope

Nelson: A Personal History

By Hibbert, Christopher

Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors

By Sean Rayment

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

By Sir Lawrence Freedman

Darcy's Utopia (Flamingo S.)

By Weldon, Fay

Spitfire Manual 1940

By Dilip Sarkar

A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945

By Joe Bamford

Their Trade is Treachery

By Pincher, Chapman

The Right of the Line

By John Terraine

Honouring the Few: The Remarkable Story of the Battle of Britain Heroes and Our Tribute to Them

By Rupert Prior, Paul Day

Unseen Britain at War

By Hill

Churchill: A Life

By John Keegan

Cardiff & the Vale in the First World War

By Phil Carradice

The Complete History of the SAS: The World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force

By McCrery, Nigel, Davies B.E.M., Barry, McNab, Andy

War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970

By Brian Bond

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000

By Paul M. Kennedy

Churchill's Generals

By John Keegan

Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

By Richard Holmes

'Against All Odds': The British Army of 1939-40

By D Smurthwaite

The Somme

By Peter Hart, Nigel Steel

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Hastings, Max

Saladin and the Saracens

By Dr David Nicolle, Angus McBride

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

Deterrence Now

By Patrick M. Morgan (University of California, Irvine)

Humane Warfare

By Christopher Coker