Wars & Conflicts

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Design, development, and deployment of the Wildcat, America's naval fighter during the early days of WWII. The F4F and FM Wildcat aircraft was the US Navy's front-line fighter in the early days of WWII. This iconic aircraft was designed and...

Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, but within the ranks of the 101st there existed a notorious sub-unit whose formidable reputation has persisted among veterans over the decades...

Like any war before or since, the First World War formed the catalyst for a wealth of technical inventions with only one goal in mind: to inflict as much damage on the opponent as possible. No one would have dreamed that as a result of these new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190495855Author Jonathan DimblebyFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 48mm

In September 1944, three months after the invasion of Normandy, the Allied armies prepared to push the German forces back into their homeland. Just south of the city of Aachen, elements of the U.S. First Army began an advance through the imposing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294000Author Neal DandoFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174782Author Paul MartelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This account of the life of Jacques Vaillant de Guelis follows him from his birth in Cardiff, through school and University and French Military Service. Newly married he was recalled to France in 1939 and was assigned to a company of British engineers ...

June 7, 1944. The Allies have landed in Normandy, where they have set a bridgehead : yet this one is narrow and fragile. The Canadians sprint on to Carpiquet, but their attack is crushed by panzers of the Hitlerjugend Division that have just rejoined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907677090Author Joel G. BaretFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the...

On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at Sachsenhausen violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510438Author Jim SmithsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276246Author Anna KohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The Allied bombing of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. The Berlin Blitz By Those Who Were There is a compelling, gripping and thought-provoking story of the Allied bombing forces and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345465382Author Rick NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House Publishing GroupPublisher Random House Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days...

Between the closing battles of the Second World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War cast a shadow over the lives of people throughout the world. Whilst open conflict was avoided between the ideologically competing superpowers...

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "Long Wars" for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. ...

Corporal Eric Gunton of the Royal Engineers, landed on Gold Beach on 8 June 1944, carrying his camera into the aftermath of battle. His photographs, though lost until 2005, are an evocation of life in Normandy in the months after D-Day, seen through the...

The B-24 Liberator-equipped organization that evolved from its original 2nd Bomb Wing status to a Divisional level commenced operations out of East Anglia in late 1942. Over the ensuing two-and-a-half years it prosecuted the Daylight Bombing Offensive in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420871449Author Peter TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 210mm * 10mm

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767932424Author Robert GandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky - that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was...

In this book, I would like to introduce to our readers the first major campaign of the Royal Hungarian Army fought against the Red Army in Ukraine from July until November of 1941. The Barbarossa campaign started 80 years ago, on 22 June 1941, pitting...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and...

On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy...

Other Clay is a survivor's account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the Elbe. Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National...

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033491Author Major H. Hesketh-Prichard DSO MCFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

'From one former Screaming Eagle to another, an excellent book and a real credit to the story of the 101st Airborne Division during the cold days and nights of Winter 1944, leading to Victory in Europe (VE) day.' - The NCO Journal (USA) 'Highly...

When talking about the Spanish intervention in the Second World War, the first thing that comes to mind is the Blue Division. However, although it is true that this was the main Spanish involvement in the conflict, there are other much less known aspects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130774Author Tim TateFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm * 41mm

From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy's Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an...

The mainly forgotten story of the British and Australian tunnellers and their work on the Belgian Coast during the Great War. Based on historical documents, military archives, regimental records, testimonies and more than 350 photographs and pictures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393080841Author George GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033484Author Richard DorneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514689Author Simon J HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company