Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804176729Author Adam MakosFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

The Supermarine Spitfire is probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, with a distinctive shape and sound that mark it out from most other aircraft of the World War II period. Alfred Price employs first-hand accounts to evoke a series of...

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The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were felt keenly all over America the war in Europe had hit home. But nowhere was American life more immediately disrupted than on the West Coast, where people lived in certain fear of more...

The monograph on the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D and Ta 152 discusses their origins and development, technical details of subsequent variants and sub-variants, and camouflage and markings. The book also describes the operational history of both aircraft during...

Over 150 wartime photographs give a graphic snapshot of the dramatic tank battles fought by the Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions during 1944-5 on both the Eastern and Western fronts. By this stage of the Second World War these formations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467137676Author Jim BunchFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Luftwaffe Panzer division formed from the paratroop corps was one of the elite units in the Wehrmacht and fought in North Africa and Italy.Book InformationISBN 9780887402067Author Alfred OtteFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Schiffer Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956246820Author John CoppackFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Follifoot Publishing LimitedPublisher Follifoot Publishing Limited

Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943, is the first published work to detail the situation of every German corps and division for every day of the six-month Stalingrad campaign. Derived from the Sixth Army daily operation...

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Synopsis coming soon.......AwardsCommended for Great Lakes Book Awards (General) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781416580515Author Doug StantonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

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While the Big Three and their continental Allies fought against Nazi Germany, another war was under way on the continent: the war to shape the political landscape of post-war Europe. In the Balkans, the war overlapped with political and ethnic conflicts,...

From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In...

1942 would prove crucial for the United States in the Pacific following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks in the Southwest Pacific late in 1941 into 1942. As the first ship commissioned following America's entry into World War...

Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a fascinating visual introduction to the armoured battles of the Second World War in the Far East and Asia-Pacific regions, from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to the experience of the armies that fought in...

A compilation for aero modellers of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL P.11a, with scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500500903Author Richard TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648740827Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Robert ChapmanPublisher Robert ChapmanWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to...

"Deeply researched and carefully nuanced . . . Barrett shrewdly integrates essential military realities with the potent domestic cross currents affecting leaders on both sides of the Pacific." -Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall ...

This chronicle of the 7.Panzerkompanie follows the unit history of a "Leibstandarte" tank company from its creation in 1942 to the end of World War II. Compiled by former company commander and German Cross in Gold holder Ralf Tiemann, the detailed text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578430287Author Eugene H PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eap Media Int'lPublisher Eap Media Int'lWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937868345Author Major Bruce H NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Quadrant Books(r)Publisher Quadrant Books(r)Weight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534834958Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294659Author Mikhail MaslovFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510717756Author David LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a...

This book covers the last chapter, the decline and fall of the air defense of Germany. It is a diary of losses and a chronicle in which the fighter pilot plays the lead. It tells of the young men who joined their squadrons full of optimism and...

Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by...

As part of the famous 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles), the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion saw nearly constant action during World War II, from assisting the infantry by landing supplies and providing combat support to fighting on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510754355Author Mike SpickFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The bold campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi tyranny was the outcome of years of close co-operation and meticulous planning by the Western Allies. Eleven months of vicious fighting followed the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916242Author Keith FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384521Author Kenneth EstesFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-Fiction The story of Pec-Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in Serbia For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has...

The 1st Air Commandos were sired by General of the Army Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and brought to life by the imagination of two men, Lieutenant Colonel Philip G. Cochran and Lieutenant Colonel John R. Alison. In gathering men of character and tenacity, these...

Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. When did oil become such a powerful commodity-during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the First World War. In his...

Many believe that World War I was only fought "over there," as the popular 1917 song goes, in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgium - they are wrong. There was a secret war fought in America; on remote railway...