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The Art of War
History
A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages Vol. 1: 378 - 1278 AD	Sir Charles Oman	Written in 1923 this book has a distinctly different perspective on events to writers in the Nuclear Age. Interesting background read to the history of warfare of our ancestors, exclusively European.	X
The Boer War	James Barbary	Interesting chronology and analysis of events in the first modern war.	XX XX
They Have Their Exits	Airey Neave	Wartime autobiography of one British officer, later a senior Conservative politician, and his repeated escape attempts from Colditz and other German POW camps.	X X
Strategy
Diary of the Sinai Campaign	Moshe Dayan	A detailed chronology and analysis of events in the short but notable Sinai campaign in 1956.	X
Makers of Modern Strategy	Peter Paret, ed.	From Machiavelli through Napoleon and Clausewitz to the Nuclear Age. A meaty collection of essays by a variety of experts.
On War	Carl von Clausewitz	Classic 1832 attempt to understand the internal dynamics of war and its use as an instrument of policy	cass
Strategy	B. H. Liddell Hart	Classic book on strategy by one of the 20th century's foremost military thinkers, draws on history from Greek-Persian wars up to the nuclear age. From 1954.	cass
Discursive
War and Anti-War	Alvin and Heidi Toffler	A study of how future wars might be fought and ther great cost to mankind.	X
The Armed Forces
Armed Forces - Central and Eastern Europe
Inside the Soviet Army	Viktor Suvorov	An analysis of the mindset, equipment, troops and command and control of the Red Army , written by a key defector in 1982.	X XX
The Good Soldier Svejk	Jaroslav Hašek	There is a verb in the Czech language, svejkovat - which is often used when talking about the tradition soldierly behaviour in the modern army. An classic, amusing insight into Czech character.
Armed Forces - General
The Guinness Book of Military Blunders	Geoffrey Regan	From ancient times to the late 20th century, classic errors in battle and preparation, and lesson learned from them.	X
Low Intensity operations Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping	Brigadier Frank Kitson	A study in understanding and combating revolutionary warfare, drawing on Kitson's colonial experiences, often cited by republicans as a source of British Army attitudes to Northern Ireland in the 1970s.	X
Army
A Breed of Heroes	Alan Judd	Early 1980s account of the life of ordinary soldiers in the routine and diverse soldiering in Northern Ireland.	X
Broken Lives	Lt Col Bob Stewart	Personal account of commanding a battalion in the midst of the destruction of the Bosnian conflict.	XX XX
Navy
Blind Man's Buff The untold story of American submarine espionage	Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew	Fascinating insight into the submariners' Cold War with many stories of unique espionage efforts	cass
Air Force
Aerospace Reconnaissance, Brasseys Air Power	Gp Capt G J Oxlee		X X
Bombers from the First World War to Kosovo	David Wragg	Detailed pictorial and textual information on bombers in all engagements this century	X
Brassey's World Aircraft and Systems Directory	Micheal J H Taylor ed.	The most comprehensive military and civil aviation reference work. 782 pages of detailed info.	X
Freedom of the Skies	Peter R March	An illustrated history of fifty years of NATO air power.	X
Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide	Jane's Defence	Over 500 military and civil aircraft recognition data, description and technical information	X
The Right of the Line The RAF in the European War 1939 - 1945	John Terraine	Comprehensive, meaty work tracing the origins of the wartime RAF and its operations throughout the conflict	XX
UK Special Forces / Operations
All Necessary Measures	Cameron Spence	SAS Sergeant's autobiography, focuses on Northern Ireland and a fascinating tale of freelance activity in Afghanistan	X
Big Boys' Rules The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRA	Mark Urban	A detailed analysis of the intelligence war and the use of special forces by a democracy fighting terrorism	XX
Bravo Two Zero	Andy McNab	The first of the genre of books covering real SAS operations of the late 20th century	cass (US) cass (UK)
Immediate Action	Andy McNab	Autobiography of one soldier's SAS career.	cass
Journeyman Tailor	Gerrald Seymour	Fictional, but highly regarded, account of multi-agency special operations in Northern Ireland	X X
The Operators - Inside 14 Intelligence Company (The Army's top secret elite)	James Rennie	Interesting account of training for covert anti-terrorist operations in Northern Ireland, although loses pace towards the end	X
Military Intelligence- The British Story	Peter Gudgin	Author casts a critical eye across the spectrum of the UK intelligence community	XX
Shadow over Babylon	David Mason	Account of an assassination plot on Saddam Hussein which is a very absorbing story of covert preparation and insertion, and using imagery intelligence to monitor remote events.	X cass
Intelligence - Armed Forces
Brixmis - The untold exploits of Britain's most daring Cold War spy mission	Tony Geraghty	Factual account of the British Military Exchange Mission as active in Soviet East Germany until 1989.	X
The Dirty War	Martin Dillon	An in-depth examination of the covert war between the British intelligence and military machinery and the republicans at their dirtiest.
Electronic Air Warfare	J P R Browne, Thurbon	The technology, techniques and tactics involved in electronic air warfare set within the overall context of modern air operations	X X
Forearmed - A History of the Intelligence Corps	Anthony Clayton	A detailed account of the history, work and formation of the Intelligence Corps, focussing on the post-1914 period (1993).	X
The Intelligencers The History of British Military Intelligence up to 1914	Brigadier B A H Parritt	Author was Director Intelligence Corps and wrote this detailed account of the predecessors of the modern-day Intelligence Corps with access to Corps archives.	XX XX
Military Intelligence Blunders	Colonel John Hughes-Wilson	An analysis of events conspiring to cause disaster and why crucial intelligence in so often ignored. International in scope.