Wars & Conflicts

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144139Author Hugh BoscawenFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 703g

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During the Second World War the Axis powers, most prolifically the Germans, deployed a vast array of armoured fighting vehicles to support their tanks and infantry. These included tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces,...

The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Utah Public Radio Historians have become increasingly interested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526746313Author Martin W BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pen and Sword AviationPublisher Pen and Sword AviationWeight(grams) 152g

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Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using...

This is the first volume of a new collection dedicated to the evolution of techniques and materials used by special services and special forces. To open this new collection dedicated to the evolution of technics and materials used by Special services and...

An authoritative and timely book shedding new light on the role of religion during World War II and its impact on post-war American society. America's armed forces played a critical part in the defeat of Hitler's Germany and made by far the biggest...

Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic WritingNearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them.For many families the Vietnam...

During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war in the West. But the ultimate victory of that partnership has obscured many of the conflicts behind Franklin Roosevelt's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983576105Author Lyndon ShubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Flashback PublishingPublisher Flashback PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War (1950-1953) American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in...

In May 1943 a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. His sole combat veteran was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067241Author Henry BordeauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 304g

Frank Luke, Jr. was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air," Luke was an ungallant loner a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918,...

"Vigorous training, hazardous duty." These were the words that lured prospective volunteers to the First Special Service Force, and that promised, for those who measured up, the chance of getting into the war quickly. Unique during World War II, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583001Author Neil StokesFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.Weight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684869315Author CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Long Gray Line journeys into the heart of the conflict in Iraq to provide an eyewitness account of life on the frontlines and a vivid portrait of the remarkable soldiers and leaders of the 101st Airborne Division...

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "father of geopolitics." In 1945 the United States sought to put him on trial at Nuremberg as a major war criminal for being "Hitler's intellectual godfather" and the true...

The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war in Europe from May 1943 through the war's end and was awarded an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations. Flying the...

Those with any interest in the First World War will have have heard of the planes most associated with that conflict - the legendary Sopwith Camel and Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.5a, which are often called the "Spitfire" and "Hurricane" of the Great War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831222Author Ronald T. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 8Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340g

German Flamethrower Pioneers of World War I is the definitive reference on the topic. Lavishly illustrated, its main sources are the history of the flamethrower regiment, written by its former commander; a manual of assault-troop and flamethrower...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345463906Author Bill AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059087Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A new and fresh roll of Papal Arms from 1012 to Benedict XVI. This work gives a new and fresh roll of Papal Arms from 1012 to Benedict XVI: the arms are drawn in the style used during the period in history when each pope reigned. MICHAEL MCCARTHY...

The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies...

Following his previous "Ultimate Look" volumes on the B-29, B-32, B-18, and B-25, Wolf has written the definitive book on U.S. aerial armament in World War II. Drawing from his extensive library, microfilm archives, and technical manuals Wolf covers...

The story of the French units of the Waffen-SS in World War II-the Franzoesische SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Regiment; Franzoesische SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade, Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne"; 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS...

The Tet Offensive of January 1968 was the most important military campaign of the Vietnam War. The ancient capital city of Hue, once considered the jewel of Indochina's cities, was a key objective of a surprise Communist offensive launched on Vietnam's...

Assault guns were the first armoured vehicles in Waffen SS divisions to be used at the beginning of their military history. This first volume presents Abteilung "Schoenberger" from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in the frontline since 1941 which...

How the startling image of an anti-war protested spitting on a uniformed veteran misrepresented the narrative of Vietnam War political debate One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester - often a woman -...

This is the story of the single-seater fighter operations over the Western Front flown by the fighter pilots of Great Britain and her Commonwealth. Along with their opposite numbers from Germany and her allies, these pilots of the Royal Flying Corps, the...

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous...

The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine...

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939. The City of Flint, an American freighter, had been instrumental in rescuing 1200 passengers from a torpedoed ocean liner, making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. She was captured by a...