Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781580561Author Bob CarruthersFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Coda Books LtdPublisher Coda Books LtdWeight(grams) 409gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb,boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d'etat against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149314Author Adam BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Just after its seventieth anniversary, the Battle of the Bulge has lost none of its impact. The largest battle fought by US troops on the continent of Europe started in a surprise attack on December 16, 1944, by four German armies, spearheaded by the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033217Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four victorious Allied forces of Great Britain, the USA, France and the USSR in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. Famous for prosecuting the major German war criminals, they also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033415Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316381673Author Sam KeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916891Author Ralph J. WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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“Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account.” Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513712Author Gustavo MaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition - the guerrillas - and their British and Portuguese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788360672112Author Roger LucyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Model Centrum ProgresPublisher Model Centrum ProgresWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 287mm...

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A little more than 30,000 men of the Wehrmacht and SS qualified to wear the famed Fallschirmschutzenabzeichen, or Paratrooper Badge, between 1936 and 1944. The badges they wore, and the images of the men who wore them, are avidly sought by collectors and...

**A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVORAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs...

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This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library...

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This is the first major work in the English language devoted entirely to the uniforms, insignia, and history of the female auxiliaries that served in the German armed forces during WWII. Using wartime photographs and references, along with contemporary...

This classic Images of War book covers the dramatic events that befell both the Gilbert and Ellis Pacific island groups using a wealth of well-captioned photos and informed text. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Gilbert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609808443Author Bevin AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059308Author Sanjay Badri-MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Amidst the many books written over the years about the Third Reich and German militaria, one subject has been largely overlooked - the subject of German military chaplains in World War II. Combining a large number of period photographs from private...

When many Americans think of George S. Patton, they conjure the image of George C. Scott. Yet the movie could only tell a compressed version of Patton's remarkable life. This book presents the full complexity of one of America's most famous generals...

The Japanese seizure of Rabaul on New Britain in January 1942 directly threatened Northern Australia and, as a result, General Douglas MacArthur took command of the Southwest Pacific Area. In July 1942, the Japanese attacked south across the Owen Stanley...

In a 1965 letter to 'Newsweek', French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the 'Number One Realist' on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096559Author Dennis WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

"No story of World War II" is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the Champs-Elysees. But one of the least-known stories from...

This is an account of the battle of Kham Duc, one of the least known and most misunderstood battles in the American Phase of the Second Indochina War (1959 to 1975). At the time it was painted as a major American defeat, but this new history tells the...

The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed...

This book explores the unlikely coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. An oft overlooked participant of the war, Finland fought against the Soviets in the infamous and illegal Winter...

Mark C. Yerger, responding to requests from readers of his previous books, this new photo album provides material for the model builder, vehicle enthusiast, memorabilia collector and those interested in SS holders of the Knight's Cross.Book...

This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century. The word "strategy" only came into usage in...

Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated...

Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars,...

On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their...