Wars & Conflicts

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The very name Stalingrad has become synonymous with military folly and political arrogance. Its capture by the Wehrmacht was a crushing defeat, both militarily and politically, for the Red Army. The 6th Army was a highly experienced key element of Army...

Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000...

During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler's armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the country's safety from invasion. The men and women of...

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men...

After the Second World War military analysts thought that the only place significant armoured forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the Nato alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. But then during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316337052Author Robert WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just...

Basking in the summer sunshine of July 1914, the west coast of Wales seemed far away from a war on mainland Europe. However, its effects were soon felt, as within days the Territorial Army camped nearby were marched off to go to - well, no one knew quite...

Market Garden was a bold plan, designed to capture the Rhine crossings along the Dutch-German border and establish a foothold for an advance into Germany. A massive combined arms operation involving airborne landings and an armoured thrust, it was one of...

During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles. Two tanks in particular took momentary prominence in the later years of the conflict...

While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres. Rather than relying on size or...

Finally a book that unveils the shroud of mystery surrounding Waffen-SS camouflage clothing. Illustrated here, both in full color and in contemporary black and white photographs, this unparalleled look at Waffen-SS combat troops and their camouflage...

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps' top-scoring aces in the skies over Guadalcanal. Marine Corps aviation began in 1915, functioning as a self-contained expeditionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857802344Author David GunbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 16mm

Motivated by anti-communist zeal and a burning desire for Flemish self-rule, the men of the SS Langemarck answered Himmler's call to arms and earned a reputation for steadfastness in battle from friend and foe alike, right through to their eventual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642185Author Sol LittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998900506Author Marty Skovlund, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint A15 PublishingPublisher A15 PublishingWeight(grams) 540g

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war... After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992972356Author Rose DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Eve, Eden Valley EditionsPublisher Eve, Eden Valley EditionsWeight(grams) 405g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510292Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed. Fifth Army's VI Corps' amphibious landing at...

A vivid narrative history of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns of World War II, which represented key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought...

After Napoleon's victories over Austria and Prussia, he rearranged the map of Germany. In 1807, he created the Kingdom of Westphalia as a model state within the Confederation of the Rhine. The Kingdom, with its French-based internal organization, was...

By 1945 the British Army numbered 3 million men and was about three times as large as it had been when the Second World War broke out in 1939. British soldiers could be found fighting all over the world, from France and Belgium via North Africa and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258168Author Guy HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113993Author David ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book brings together the best and most iconic fighters of World War II, pitted against one another in desperate aerial combat. The battle for the skies in World War II fuelled a race between rival air forces to develop ever faster and more...

On 24 February 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine, intending to overthrow the Zelensky government and bring the former Soviet republic back into the Russian sphere of control. Vladimir Putin clearly expected a quick victory and many in the West also...

The invasion in 1837 of the Zulu kingdom by Boers migrating from the British Cape Colony, and the massacres, battles and civil war that ensued between 1838-1840 as the Zulu resisted the settlers with spear against musket, was a critical moment in South...

"A spellbinding tale of those who paid the ultimate price for freedom. - Damien Lewis, author of _SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII. _ In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777572Author Brian BondFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn’t diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their...

The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who...

In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be...

Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links...

"Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II's largest airborne operation-one...

This book will be the first complete account of the operations of the German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914/. The main emphasis will be placed on the battles around Ypres against the Old Contemptibles of the BEF, but the...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.Volume Two illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) bomber and other supporting aircraft types...

1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates...