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Up-dated on the 15th May 2012
Added Under the Queen's Colours: Voices from the Forces, 1952-2012

Listed below are some of the books we have used while researching for Britain's Small Wars. Not all the books are of great research value but they are a good read on the subject of some of Britain's "Bush Wars"

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General	Aden	Cyprus
The Falklands War	The Korean War	The Gulf War
India	Malaya	Northern Ireland
Palestine	Borneo	Suez

A Monk in the SAS
A Fighting Retreat	The British Empire in 1947 to 1997
Behind The Lines	Revealing & Uncensored Letters from our War-Torn World
British Post-War Jungle Webbing	A collector's and enthusiast's guide to webbing equipment used in the Malayan / Borneo conflicts. Includes 1944 pattern, 1958 pattern, special forces' equipment and customisation of kit.
Her Majesty's Vietnam Soldier	The Story of a British Army Officer who joined the New Zealand Army, and serves two tours in Vietnam
A Face Like A Chicken's Backside	A Gurkha Officer's Account of Service in Asia between 1948-1971
Aircraft Carriers of The Royal and Commonwealth Navies	The Complete Illustrated Encyclopaedia from World War I to the present
The Best Years of Their Lives	The National Service Experience 1945-1963
Brasso Blanco and Bull	National Service Officer in Training and Stationed in Germany
British Military Operations 1945 1984
Bosnia Warriors	Regular Officer on UN Peace Keeping duties in Bosnia
The Cambridge Illustrated History of The British Empire
Chinook	The Special Forces flight in War and Peace
C.Q.B.	2 Para in Falklands and with SAS in Gulf and Bosnia
Crater to the Creggan	A ten year history of The East and Royal Anglian Regiment
Dead Man's Click	A fictionalised account of two ex-soldiers¹ struggle to cope with life after the army
Forced Out	A brave man who served his country in war and on the streets
Former Soldier Seeks Employment	Scots Guardsman in Borneo NI & attempting kidnap of Ronnie Biggs in Rio
Get in, Get Out and Get Away	Memoirs of a National Serviceman
The Hidden Hand	British and American Cold War Intelligence
Hot War Cold War	The British Army'sway in Warfare 1945 to 1995
The Last Pink Bits	Travels through the remnants of the British Empire
The Joker	20 Years Inside The SAS
Looking for trouble	General Peter de la Billiere
Modern British Webbing Equipment	This book covers British equipment from 1958 pattern right up to the modular / body armour vests seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Phoenix Squadron	The daring tale of the Ark Royal and its' rush to demonstrate Britains' resolve to defend Belize in 1972.
Postwar Counterinsurgency & the SAS, 1945-52	Undisclosed special forces and COIN action
The Regiment	The first fifty years of the SAS
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire	The British Empire & its conflicts in detail from 1600 to present day. Extract and Conversation with the author included
The Savage Wars of Peace	Soldiers voices 1945 to 1989
Secret Classrooms	History of Joint Services School for Linguists
Seek on!	The True Story of Combat Tracker Teams of the Vietnam War
Six Campaigns	National Servicemen at War 1948-1960
Something Extra	28 Commonwealth Brigade 1951-1974
Storm Front	The Epic True Story of a Secret War, the SAS's Greatest Battle, and the British Pilots who Saved Them
The Unquiet Peace	Stories from the PostWar Army
The war That Never was	Story of unofficial intervention by British mercenaries in Yeman
Under the Queen's Colours	Voices from the Forces, 1952-2012
The Valetta	Vickers's Last Piston Transport

Last post: Aden 1964-67	The final years of british forces in Aden and the Radfan
Aden Insurgency	The Savage War in South Arabia 1962 - 67
THE ARMED FORCES OF ADEN AND THE PROTECTORATE 1839- 1967. (REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION)
The Barren Rocks of Aden
Last Sunset	"What happened in Aden "
The Armed Forces of Aden 1839-1967
Crater to the Creggan	A ten year historyo f The East and Royal Anglian Regiment
Having been a soldier	Lt. Col. Colin Mitchell Autobiography
Soldier J: SAS	Counterinsurgency in Aden

Confrontation; The War with Indonesia 1962-66	For over four years, British and Commonwealth forces fought a largely forgotten war against the geopolitical ambitions of Indonesia and 'Mad Doctor' Sukarno.
Jungle Conflict	The Durham Light Infantry in Borneo 1965-66
The Pools by the Shore	Poems from Borneo
The Last Conflict Of The Durham Light Infantry	Borneo 1966
The Undeclared War	Indonesian Confrontation 1962-1966

Aphrodite's Killers	Cyprus, the EOKA Conflict and the Road to Partition
Cyprus Scenes and Way of Life in 1954
Love and Death in Cyprus
A Game of Soliders	Diary of a National Serviceman 1957-1960

5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands
9 Battles to Stanley
One Hundred Days	The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
Above All Courage	30 'oral history'interviews with veterans from all aspects of the Falklands war
Air War South Atlantic
Amphibious Assault Falklands	The Battle of San Carlos Water
A Soldier's Song	True stories From the Falklands
Blindados Argentinos de Uruguay y Paraguay	Argentinian AFV and from Uruguay and Paraguai
The Battle for the Falklands
C.Q.B.	2 Para in Falklands and with SAS in Gulf and Bosnia
Diver	Royal Navy Clearance Diving in the Falklands and beyond.
Don't cry for me Sergeant Major	A unique portrait of the Falklands War from the sharp end
Excursion to hell	The Battle for Mount Longdon
Falklands Commando
The Falklands War
Hostile Skies
"I counted them all out and I countedthem all back"	The battle for the Falklands
Green Eyed Boys	3 Para and battle for Mount Longdon
Memories of the Falklands	Collection of more than 80 remiscences by soldiers, politicians & Falklands Islanders.
N.P.1480 The loss of the Atlantic Conveyo	A true account of the events leading up to the sinking of the Atlantic Conveyor by an Argentine Exocet during the Falklands war
Not Mentioned in Despatches	The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green
Reasons in Writing	A Commando's View of the Falklands War
Sea Harrier over the Falklands	A Maverick at War
The Secret War for the Falklands
Summer Soldier	The true story of the missing Falklands Guardsmen
The Jungle is Neutral
Two Sides of Hell	The bloodiest battle of the Falklands from both sides
The Captain's Steward: Falklands, 1982	The bloodiest battle of the Falklands from both sides
Victory in the Falklands
Vulcan 607	The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII
Walking Tall	Welsh Guardsman injured on Galahad
With 3 Para to the Falklands	Remembering the Falklands Campaign, 1982

Air War Korea
A Barren Place	National Servicemen in Korea
A Call to Arms	National Service Officer in Korea
Battleground Korea	The British in the Korean War 1950-51
Britain and the Korean War	Institute of contemporary British history
The British Part in the Korean War
The Edge of the Sword	The Gloucestershire Regiment in Korea
Green Berets In Korea	Story of 41 Independent Commando Royal Marines in Korea
Korean Atrocity
O'Kane's Korea	Regular Soldier, RUR , Fought and Captured at Imjin
One Man's War in Korea	A Soldier in Korea, Fought and captured at Imjin
One Road to Imjin	National Service Officer at the Imjin with the Glosters
Red Winds From The North	Personal memories and experiences of a Royal Signals Junior NCO
Scorched Earth, Black Snow	The First Year of the Korean War
Strange Battleground	Official history of the Canadian Army in Korea.
The Sum of Things	Brigadier David Wilson Autobiography/Memoirs
With the Carriers in Korea	The Sea and Air War in SE Asia 1950-1953

Bravo Two Zero
Into the Storm	A Study In Command (Of VII Corps in the Gulf War)
Pablo's War	A Gulf War Tornado Pilots Story
Sabre Squadron	The longest mission behind enemy lines during the Gulf War
Storm Command
The One That Got Away	My SAS Mission behind Iraqi Lines
Tornado Down

Armies of the Raj

The Indian Army from the Great Mutiny to Indian Independence

Ruslan of Malaysia	The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall
The War of the Running Dogs	The Malayan Emergency : 1948-1960
Jungle Bashers	A British Infantry Battalion in the Malayan Emergency of 1951-1954
The Door Marked Malaya	A National Service Infantry Officer's experiences Malaya 1954-55
Jungle Campaign	A Memoir of National Service in Malaya 1949-51
Last Post Malayan Emergency 1948-1960
A County Regiment	1st Battalion the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Malaya 1951-1954
Malayan Patrol
"GOD's LITTLE ACRE"	A Commemorative Book 50th Anniversary,Malayan Emergency 1948-60
Malayan Tales of the Yorkshire Light Infantry
A Musket For The King	The Malayan Campaign 1949-51
The Malayan Campaign 1948-60	Osprey:Men-at-Arms Series 132
Malayan Scouts SAS	A Memoir of the Malayan Emergency, 1951

The Bloodiest Year	British Soldiers in Northern Ireland 1972, in Their Own Words
Death of a Hero	Captain Robert Nairac GC and the undercover war in Northern Ireland.
Fishers of Men	Force Research Unit -Undercover British Army Unit in Ulster
The Irish War	The Military History of a Domestic Conflict
Killing Rage	The true story about a man who was recruited into the IRA
Shoot to Kill	A Soldiers Journey Through the Violence

Cordon and Search	With 6th Airborne Division in Palestine 1945-1948
The British Army & Jewish Insurgency in Palestine 1945-47
Epitaph for an Army of Peackeepers	British Army in Palestine, 1945-1948
The British Army & Jewish Insurgency in Palestine 1945-47
Mandate Days	British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948
Ploughing Sand	British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948
The Sum of Things	Brigadier David Wilson Autobiography/Memoirs

Airborne to Suez	3 Para in Cyprus and subsequently the Suez
Suez Touchdown	A Soldier´s tale about the battles of Port-Said 42 Marine Commandos were involved in
Suez	The Forgotten War
Wings over Suez