Wars & Conflicts

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061988356Author Mitchell ZuckoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to...

A Perfect Hell tells the story of the 1st Special Service Force (FSSF), America's first special-operations unit. Under the command of Lt. Colonel Robert T. Frederick, FSSF soldiers received intensive training in stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777763Author John GreenacreFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book is the latest in a new reference series for aircraft modellers called "Spotlight On" and presents detailed illustrations of the famous Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor fighter aircraft. Designed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628415Author Tony ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to...

The M40 Gun Motor Carriage and M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage are featured in over 200 photographs, providing a detailed study of the conception, development, testing, and combat use of these key vehicles. As the US entered WWII, the nation lacked heavy...

This book investigates how the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has affected the religious situation in these countries. It considers threats to and violations of religious freedom, including those arising in annexed Crimea and in the eastern...

A revealing and charming pocket book capturing the reality of civilian life during the war. In June 1940, following the BEF's scrambled evacuation from Dunkirk, the Second World War was brought home to Britain. As the Luftwaffe initiated their bombing...

Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd "All-American" and the 101st "Screaming Eagle" Airborne Divisions refused to remain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061375668Author Bill FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070753Author Linda Rios BromleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

to enter combat in WWII *Uncovers for the first time this important episode in history *Includes interviews with surviving members of the 716th Battalion From established military author Charles Sasser, comes the fascinating true story of the 761st...

This is the first of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and...

From 1967-1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where chemical and biological weaponry was stockpiled, staying there until July 1968...

Formed in August 1944, Jagdgeschwader 7 was equipped with the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter, which was faster than any aircraft in existence at the time. This unit experienced all of the highs and lows associated with the introduction of such a...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the...

Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting conflict involving many...

This book shows how pressure groups in this country work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449504Author Steve DrummondFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

The First World War (1914-1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated...

When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment of these newcomers was harboured by the English and expressed by many in the in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250006950Author Howard E WasdinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.Volume Three illustrates, by squadron, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 series medium bombers operating in New Guinea...

Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is far more complex. This seminal book traces the history of the German...

A groundbreaking history that radically changes our understanding of the Six-Day War, how it started, and what its adversaries were willing to do to win Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez's groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes...

Reviews for Hardback Edition: "In order to produce this fine book, the author has conducted extensive interviews with participants and consulted archival and published materials. This gives the book an excellent balance between the events as witnessed by...

The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345472649Author Harold G. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Cornelius Ryan tells the story of the hours that preceded and followed H-Hour of D-Day ? June 6, 1944, when as dawn approached, as paratroopers fought in the hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known assembled off the beach --...

The German heavy tank destroyer Panzerjager Tiger (P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand was based on the chassis of the Tiger (P) tank designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The vehicle was not accepted by army, but because 90 chassis have already been produced at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425232309Author Bill YenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

This volume in the series presents the light tank destroyers of the Wehrmacht with accurate scale drawings and previously unpublished photographs.Book InformationISBN 9780764326233Author Walter J. SpielbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Schiffer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512950Author William F. StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of...

Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state failure, military violence, and decolonization in a...

In his previous book, the author discussed a little-known and insufficiently examined area in the history of the Second World War: the fighting in Hungary during the winter of 1944 and 1945 and notably the war's final German offensive, initiated by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648554042Author Katrina KittelFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 581g