Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595187584Author Richard L SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 159mm * 23mm

This work tells the full story of the weapons, including fighter-planes, tanks, ships, and guns, that America produced during the war to defeat the Axis powers, and how they were "sold" to those at home through the countless advertisements that appeared...

1944 Atomic testing at Los Alamos opens a rift in the fabric of space, while the detonation of the Fat Boy atomic bomb over Dresden creates a second. German and American scientists determine that signals are being transmitted through the rifts, many...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Division and their Polish comrades would be killed, wounded or captured as Germany secured her last great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425227626Author Forrest Bryant JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187296Author Don KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspective. This book fills an important gap in the literature by giving an insight through annotated...

‘A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting’ – Philippe Sands, author of East-West Street.From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, a landmark, magisterial history of the postwar trial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033767Author Duncan RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126249Author Professor of History Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 454g

The American experience during the Vietnam conflict is universally known: the brutalization of the US fighting men, the drug abuse and the trauma. Even today the very word 'Vietnam' is too often interpreted as referring to this conflict (and specifically...

The Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945 was the longest struggle of the Second World War. It started with the Japanese aggression in July 1937 and soon accelerated into a full-scale war with the Chinese Kuomintang government. The Chinese Air Force was to...

Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German mountain corps fought on every front in the Second World War - in the tundra of Lapland, in the gorges of the Balkans, on Crete, in the High Caucasus, at Monte Cassino and finally in Upper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008984233Author Bernard O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

After the fall of France and the allied retreat from Dunkirk, Hitler proposed the planned invasion of Great Britain. A secret aerial reconnaissance of the United Kingdom (and all of Europe) had been undertaken by the Luftwaffe several years prior to the...

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In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save tens of thousands of Jews, defying mass murderer Adolf...

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Sheffield offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the Great War for five years. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183403Author Stephen L. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a...

In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O'Donnell, a promising young poet who became a soldier and helicopter pilot in Vietnam. O'Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force about his world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425225691Author Jim DefeliceFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Over seventy years on the terrible events and outcome of the Second World War remains hugely relevant and important. Far from diminishing interest in this truly global conflict is increasing. The internet has enabled detailed research into ancestors' war...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist has set off a crisis in Europe. Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, peace had largely prevailed among the Great Powers, preserved through international conferences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066626Author A Nursing SisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 204g

When the Wehrmacht rolled into the Soviet Union in World War II, it got more than it bargained for. Notwithstanding the Red Army's retreat, Soviet citizens fought fiercely against German occupiers, engaging in raids, sabotage, and intelligence gathering...

German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of enemies, both foreign and domestic: German and Russian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437846Author Witold KoszelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian...

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In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler's elite armored spearhead - the Hitler Youth Panzer Division - in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II's biggest battles, the Battle of the...

Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemysl were pivotal to victory on the Eastern Front during the early years of World War I. Control of the fortress changed hands three times during the fall of 1914. In 1915, the Austro-Hungarian armies...

Lost in the air combat and air ace fanfare of World War II was the dangerous, unheralded and vital role played by USAAF fighter-bomber pilots over the Mediterranean and northwest Europe. Four times as many pilots were lost during strafing and ground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496658585Author Luis Miguel SanchezFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Andrea PressPublisher Andrea PressWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 305mm...

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To observers of the Iran-Israel conflict, its vitriolic rhetoric might suggest an ancient hatred between Jews and Muslims--a biblical feud dating back hundreds, or thousands, of years. But this rivalry is a far more modern development. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998685144Author Ira a Hunt JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint IahuntPublisher IahuntWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

The 389 Bomb Group was unique among all Groups assigned to the 8th USAAF because it actually commenced operations in July 1943 out of North Africa that culminated in the infamous Ploesti mission on 1 August. After returning to England in September, the...

In the great and gallant tradition of the Royal Navy, Captain Bernard Warburton-Lee followed the call of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to lead his flotilla into hostile waters through 50 miles of blizzards. His ships delivered a...

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