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Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality in this tumultuous political drama of his last 10 years of public life, following WWII. I'm an obstinate pig is how he described himself. Two months after Hitler's defeat, Churchill was hurled from power by the British electorate. This book chronicles how, when it seemed impossible, he fought his way back over the next 6 years to become prime minister once more.

Harper, 2010; 355 pp.; EN; index; hb

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For British historian Paul Johnson, the oft-biographied Winston Churchill remained both a fascinatingly complex subject and an enigma in need of unraveling. His life of Churchill is a concise, lively portrait full of anecdotes and is a pleasure to read.

Viking, 2009; 181 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hb

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Carl von Clausewitz's On War, first published after the Napoleonic Wars, is perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written. Strachan tells how and why On War was written, explains what Clausewitz meant, and its significance today.

Atlantic Monthly, 2007; 238 pp.; EN; index; hb

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In 1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, more than 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start. Those who reached the New World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny, and desertion, yet those who endured made key contributions to Bolivar's success. An entertaining story of the British volunteers.

Osprey, 2010; 376 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Contary to popular belief and scholarly bias, LeBlanc argues that warfare has always been a part of human existence. He examines prehistoric warfare, ancient foraging, agricultural patterns and the ways people interact with each other and the environment.

St. Martin's, 2003; 271 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Jennet Conant here brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child's experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services -OSS- in the Far East during WWII. Here too are the tumultuous years when they, with their cohort Jane Foster, were caught up in Joseph McCarthy's spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honour. This is a fascinating portrait of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts.

Simon and Schuster, 2011; 395 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of WWI. Acclaimed naval military historian Van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged the war for 2 years and brought Britain to the brink of starvation, but also led to the Russian Revolution and contributed to the rapid destabilization of the Middle East.

Overlook, 2009; 226 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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Illustrated with personal photos throughout, this history of the D-Day invasion at Normandy is based on a new international archive of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and reminiscences by Americans, Canadians, and Britons -paratroopers, RAF, Merchant Navy a.o.- as well as recently unearthed German material.

Pen and Sword, 2004; 256 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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On April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot -codenamed Mincemeat- to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique and macabre was that the Major was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted ahore carrying false documents indicating that the Allies were set to launch an attack on Greece, rather than Sicily.

Oxford, 2010; 367 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Empires of the Sea is a thrilling account of a decades-long battle in the early 1500s between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe from Istanbul to Gibraltar, with some extraordinary characters such as Barbarossa, Charles V, Knights of St John.

Faber and Faber, 2008; 341 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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