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Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armoured charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a back door into Germany - the famous ...

The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia...

This is a compelling account of the German defense of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Against overwhelming Soviet forces the book shows how the German Army Group North was driven across the Baltics from Leningrad and fought a number...

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a coup-de-main force consisting of D Coy, Ox and Bucks LI reinforced with two extra platoons from B Coy and a...

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation...

This is the little-known story of the 406th Fighter Group, a famous but unsung P-47 unit in the European theater of operations (ETO) in WWII. The 406th was the first unit in the ETO to employ the 5-inch, high-velocity aerial rocket (HVAR) secret weapon...

During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. Sometimes equipped with firearms no better than those of their infantry brethren, they fought in a manner reminiscent of Napoleonic-era light infantry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526799951Author Ian BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 191g

In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. This was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain its war economy. There were only a few purpose-built ASW...

This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air forces in history at the very peak of its powerface=Calibri>-unveiling the and machines as they truly existed dayface=Calibri>-to-day, underneath the propaganda of their own regime and the...

Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,...

The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274531Author Enrico AcerbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

The siege of Leningrad was the longest ever endured by a modern city, and the deadliest siege in recorded history. It lasted for nearly 900 days, from late August 1941 to late January 1944, bringing unparalleled hardship to the population. Out of over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925161298Author Gare DeborahFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 844g

From the early days of World War II, it was clear that the Wehrmacht's antitank units would need to be motorized as existing horse- or automobile-drawn units were too slow to be effective. Initially, antitank guns were mounted onto available, usually...

The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 12 January 1945 and paved the way for the Battle of Berlin. Its main objective was a major advance from the River Vistula to the River Oder,...

This book is a detailed history of the 23rd Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland," the Dutch volunteer SS combat formation. Employed exclusively on the eastern front, except for a brief period in Croatia, the "Nederland" formations participated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274845Author Enrico AcerbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945. Normally...

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there...

At the beginning of 1942, the Tirpitz, the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy was on the cusp of breaking out into the north Atlantic. The prospect of a huge German battleship patrolling the Atlantic posed a grave threat to the convoys...

The story of the French units of the Waffen-SS in World War II-the Franzoesische SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Regiment; Franzoesische SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade, Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne"; 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS...

The term camouflage only came into widespread use during the First World War, and the specialist camouflage units developed by the combatants at the time put the bulk of their efforts into the concealment of artillery, vehicles, observation posts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990364948Author Vincent W. RospondFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams)...

At once an examination of gender ideology in the Third Reich, a history of women in uniform as photographic theme, and an analysis of the functions of wartime photography, The Woman in My Uniform compiles original Third Reich photos of German women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274838Author Enrico AcerbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893278959Author Giancarlo BoeriFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991119813Author Sf TomajczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Call to Arms BooksPublisher Call to Arms BooksWeight(grams) 263g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578937755Author Daniel M McClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Dangerpig LLCPublisher Dangerpig LLCWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578931753Author Daniel M McClintonFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Dangerpig LLCPublisher Dangerpig LLCWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474804158Author Chris McNabFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ParragonPublisher ParragonWeight(grams) 1100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969461647Author Michael A. DoroshFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds FoundationPublisher Calgary Highlanders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788896519486Author Giuseppe PoglianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893279178Author Antonio TalilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893277303Author Paolo CrippaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893271196Author Luca Stefano CristiniFormat PaperbackImprint SoldiershopPublisher SoldiershopWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893275125Author Luca Stefano CristiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...