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 The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria, Simon Dunstan. A well balanced account of the fighting on the Syrian and Jordanian fronts of the Six Day War, two short but critically important campaigns that saw the Israelis capture all of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, with an interesting post-script on the war's political impact in Israel and the Arab world. [read full review] |
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 Israel's Lightning Strike: The raid on Entebbe 1976, Simon Dunstan. This second entry in Osprey's new Raid series looks at the long range operation mounted by the Israelis to rescue terrorist hostages being held at Entebbe in Uganda. After sections on hijacking and the Palestinian terrorist organisations, we get a day-by-day account of the crisis, while the second half of the book focuses on the raid. A well organized and clearly written account of one of the most daring anti-terrorist operations ever carried out. [Read Full Review] |
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 F-14 Tomcat Units of Operation Enduring Freedom, Tony Holmes. This book covers the use of the F-14 Tomcat in Operation Enduring Freedom to conduct long range bombing strikes in Afghanistan. It shows how a combat aircraft can be adapted when it is fairly redundant in its original role. A well illustrated Osprey, full of comments from the actual pilots. [see more] |
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 Royal Marine Commando 1950-82 - From Korea to the Falklands, Will Fowler.
This book focuses on the daily life of the Royal Marine Commando, from enlistment to combat, with an emphasis on how things changed over the thirty two years covered, a period bookmarked by conventional wars in Korea and on the Falkland Islands, but that was largely dominated by a wide variety of more unusual engagements that tested the flexibility of the Commandos. Fowler's book helps explain why the Royal Marine Commandos were so successful at adapting to these different difficult conditions [see more]. |
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In a Bosnia Trench, A Wartime Memoir of a Muslim Bosnian Soldier, Elvir Kulin with Maury Hirschkorn. A impressively un-judgemental account of the Bosnia War as seen by a young Bosnian Muslim from the Sarajevo area, of value both for its account of the fighting, and of the rapid descent into civil war in the former Yugoslavia. [read full review] 
Mirage III vs MiG-21, Six Day War 1967, Shlomo Aloni. Looks at the development of both aircraft, their entry in Israeli and Arab service and the actual fighting during the Six Day War, a short enough conflict to allow the author to look at every clash between the Mirage III and MiG 21 [read full review] 
Operation Iraqi Freedom: US Army Abrams, Bradley & Stryker, Andy Renshaw & Ryan Harden. Combines a look at the history and development of each type of vehicle with a detailed illustrated walk-round of real machines and an interesting modelling guide, in each case taking a base kit and at least one or two upgrade or modification kits, and giving useful advice on how to combine the various components to produce an impressive final model. [read full review] 
