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Military & Aviation
-250x250h.jpg "Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie by Penny Perrick - Paperback")
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for the popular biographies of her extraordinary relatives, including Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) and sculptor Clare Sheridan, was also a most unlikely war heroine. In 1940 Anita volunteered for active service, and by the end of the war she had been awarded..
N6,500
Ex Tax:N6,500
Brand: Simon & Schuster
What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert.Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and..
N10,000
Ex Tax:N10,000
Brand: Penguin Books
Here is a unique book that emphasizes the attainment of military excellence through reading and field experience. Written to help men and women prepare for positions of command in the American Armed Forces, it is a product of the author's years of discussion with military commanders about their rol..
N7,000
Ex Tax:N7,000
Brand: Penguin Books
An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much-needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head fu..
N15,500
Ex Tax:N15,500
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from fifty-two countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini.Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fueled by..
N16,800
Ex Tax:N16,800
Brand: Simon & Schuster
In 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year, the treaty signed that day, known as the Peace Pact, had been ratified by nearly every state in the world. War, for the first time in history, had become illegal. But within a decade of its signing, each state that ..
N9,650
Ex Tax:N9,650
In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women - Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca - living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to o..
N11,500
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Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War. "A ..
N9,900
Ex Tax:N9,900
-250x250h.jpg "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery- Hardback")
Brand: Little Brown and Company
The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground ..
N14,000
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Describes the principles and techniques of contemporary fighter plane combat as it has developed since the Vietnam War, including maneuvering, using pulse-Doppler radar, and training with computerized simulations..
N7,500
Ex Tax:N7,500
Brand: Harper Collins
All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas-exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals that it was collective mentalities..
N12,500
Ex Tax:N12,500
-1-250x250h.jpg "Chronicle of Aviation")
Utilizing a fascinating "chronicle" format that records historical events as if they had just occurred, this book recounts the history of aircraft--a history encompassing less than 100 years--with an exciting immediacy & urgency. Each year begins with a page chronologically summarizing major eve..
N9,850
Ex Tax:N9,850