Free/Promotional/Cheap Ebooks on Amazon etc.

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  1. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    Read that book years ago Mark, bought a paperback copy for a quid:). A great read.

    Lesley
     
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  2. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    Straight in and now on my Kindle. Thanks very much for the tip.
     
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  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Amazon Prime members:
    Free Audible talking books trial is on again.
    2 free to keep, and cancel within a month - no charge.

    I went for Mel Brooks and Bob Mortimer :unsure:, but there's quite a bit of History on there.
     
  4. Observer39

    Observer39 Active Member

    N Davies-Williams Gerald's War: The true and tragic tale of one man's life in peace and war .
    The story is a novel, about the RAF service of Gerald Davies, the author's uncle.

    Just released on Amazon as Kindle, PB (rapid del thanks to POD) and HB.
    £2.99 to buy Kindle, free in Kindle Prime
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geralds-Wa...1_1?keywords=gerald+war&qid=1639860347&sr=8-1

    Davies joined the RAF in 1936 as an AC2, trained as an armourer, then as an Observer, and by 1940 had been commissioned Pilot Officer Observer and posted to the Middle East for service in Egypt and Greece. He badly wanted to be a pilot, and had been twice recommended for training. KIA 13 April 1941, on an unescorted daylight 6-aircraft sortie by 211 Sqn Blenheims, all destroyed by the Luftwaffe with just 2 survivors on the day. He had by then about 70 Blenheim I ops to his credit, as Observer to 211 Sqn CO Gordon-Finlayson DSO DFC, with P/O Arthur Geary DFC in the turret. Irvine, the new CO, Davies as Observer, and Geary as WOp/AG were all killed.

    The author's long toil in finding a great many original records, all included in the book, is highly creditable.
    On this framework he has aimed to create a life for Gerry Davies, in highly fictionalised form. This he is careful to explain, from start to finish.
    His aim was to create a readable memorial memoir of the service life of a cherished relative in World War 2 and in this the book succeeds.
    Historical purists will find much to shake their heads or wag their fingers over, but in compiling his information the author can hardly be faulted, nor in the sincerity of his highly fictional account.
     
  5. Observer39

    Observer39 Active Member

    My above post is about a book, an e-book on Amazon.

    So not an excuse to bignote self/own work. Should however mention that I've known Nigel since 2001, off and on. He's a good bloke.

    And my page for Observer P/O G Davies 44072 RAF is here on my 211 Squadron site
    G Davies ... my own work from info supplied by family, and from own research.

    I had not realised how brief the edit window is here.
     
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  6. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    Amazon Daily Deal
    Today Only!
    James Holland's Brothers In Arms for £1.99
     
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  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I believe (long time since I set it up) now you've hit ten posts, you should find the edit window pretty much infinite now.
    (Might be 15, but I'll knock you onto the full status if so.)
    Cheers,
    ~A
     
  8. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    Cheers for this!
     
  9. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Is Alamein to Zem Zem now in the public domain? I'm looking at the amazon entry for it, and the Kindle edition seems to be from " ‎ Spitfire Publishers LTD". Searching for that led me to an entry on LinkedIn. I didn't bother to log in, but the google search result reads as follows:

    Jonathan Reeve - Spitfire Publishers LTD - LinkedIn
    <snip>
    Bath, England, United Kingdom · Publisher & Business Owner · Spitfire Publishers LTD
    Publishing company specialising in public domain military history and genre fiction selling exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
     
  10. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    Several days ago I found--literally found--a hardbound copy of Monty, Master of the Battlefield by Nigel Hamilton sitting on a hedge along with some other books in my neighborhood. That is a local custom here, just put stuff you don't want out on the sidewalk for people to take.

    It's a well-written and well-researched book, marred by the author's disdain for everyone who ever disagreed with Montgomery. Nigel Hamilton is a nice guy though, I interviewed him years ago.
     
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  11. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    Available here: [ Keith Douglas] Alamein To Zem Zem(b Ok.xyz) : Keith Douglas : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
     
  12. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Yeah, but the Internet Archive is extremely sketchy. Basically, what they're doing is copyright violation if the book is in copyright. (The IA's original premise was they'd hold one digital copy of each book and "loan" it out. That's reasonable.) Even if the main text itself isn't, they've actually reproduced an exact edition, with a preface written by someone else.

    Now, don't get me wrong, I think existing copyright laws are grotesque in their degree of overreach.

    That aside, I'm actually more interested in getting a paper copy.
     
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  13. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

  14. hucks216

    hucks216 Member

    Until 10th October, Helion are having a sale of all their e-book titles with each being £4.99. The topics are very wide-ranging covering Scottish battles, Portugese efforts in Africa, The Rhodesian War, South American conflicts, Northern Ireland, Falklands War (British ASW efforts, Argentine naval ops etc), Chechen tactics v Russia, Japanese tactical organisation of ground forces and pretty much everything in between. Some are the 90-page type of books while others run to hundreds of pages:

    Military History Books | Books Beginning With A | Helion & Company
     
  15. idler

    idler GeneralList

    Back in the realm of hardcopies, Lulu.com has 30% off this weekend with the code JOYFUL30.

    It's the home of P M Knight's tank development series:
    Lulu Logo
    as well as my own humbler offerings:
    Lulu Logo
     
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  16. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    "Pawn Books" is you, then? I have to say, it's good to make original texts available. I am intrigued by the Tank-Infantry Cooperation volume!
     
  17. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Clicked link & got this message.
    Put in a made up birthday & saw them.
     
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  18. idler

    idler GeneralList

    I did try to flag them as 'not for children' but that wasn't quite the effect I was after.

    Sorry for the disappointment. I'll PM you some photos of me...
     
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  19. idler

    idler GeneralList

    I'm surprised you had to ask.

    TICBA ended up a lot bigger than I thought it would. It started off as a more practical alternative to loads of rather small pamphlets, then I started adding in extracts from ATMs and the like.

    The intent was to put it all out there so people could make up there own minds. The academic coverage tends to be lots of smoke on top of very little fire.
     
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  20. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

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