Wars & Conflicts

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613737583Author Joseph A. WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

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A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first...

The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea-what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre-in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a Russian...

Originally published in 1940, Why England Slept was written by then-Harvard student and future American president John F. Kennedy. It was Kennedy's senior thesis that analyzed the tremendous miscalculations of the British leaders in facing Germany on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345476746Author Sam MosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific-told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service. In this new...

This book tells of the courageous story of men who believed in their heritage, and who, through their heroic teamwork and dedication, stopped the main effort of the German Sixth Army. American veterans who participated in this battle remember the...

Twentyoneyearold Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. By the time World War One ended, he had seen action on both major fronts, witnessed the war from the back of a horse and the cockpit of plane, and amassed one of the more unique...

This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study of the Blue Division, a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some forty-thousand Spanish combatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives,...

Following the high casualties in close-quarter combat in Russia, in 1942 the Wehrmacht established the Close Combat Badge in three grades and was awarded to those after a specific number of battles. This concise book discusses the award's various grades...

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill...

On 30 November 1939 Stalins Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish defenders broke the Red Armys...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628156072Author MacKinlay KantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Speaking Volumes, LLCPublisher Speaking Volumes, LLCWeight(grams)...

On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an understatement - known for his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951989944Author Geoffrey J ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications

There have been many books on Adolf Hitler and specific military campaigns and battles during the time of the Third Reich. However, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of Hitler's role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802147172Author Patrick K O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095421Author Stephen FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding concise history of the Second World War written by one of Britain's foremost historians. The first of two...

At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were met by a group of Tito's Partisans. One of the OSS...

Detailed unit operations and individual accounts make for absorbing reading, and a rare chance for the reader to examine an early, yet very important, Russian front battle.Book InformationISBN 9780764301278Author Werner HauptFormat HardbackPage Count...

Days of Valor tells the story of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, a major combat unit of the US Army that served in the Vietnam War.The brigade was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was sent out to Vietnam in December 1966. In January 1968, the 199th...

On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted by a decoded radio intercept. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141798Author David ZucchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

For nearly half a century, the battleship was the most powerful weapon on the ocean, deployed by the US Navy and many other fleets. However, their time seemed to be at an end when Japanese carrier-based aircraft destroyed so many at Pearl Harbor in 1941,...

One of the many wartime airmen who documented his day to day experiences in a diary, was RCAF navigator Jan Gellner. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Jan was a lawyer practicing in the Czechoslovak town of Brno. With the outbreak of...

For many, the name of Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews. As a perpetuator of the Final Solution he stands alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as one of history's most notorious murderers, yet ever since Hannah...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471739050Author John C. McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612003245Author Stephen NapierFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CasematePublisher CasemateWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 163mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612036526Author Sir Norman AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739606909Author Sharifullah DoraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint S&m Publishing HousePublisher S&m Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113863Author Vivien RoworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174737Author Kenneth RadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

It is January 1942. Nazi Germany is about to commence an assault along the US East Coast, but this “Atlantic Pearl Harbor” would prove far more devastating than Japan’s attack on Hawaii five weeks earlier. The wolves are closing in, and few Americans...

A vivid account of the opening weeks of war by a volunteer despatch rider who may have prevented a swift German victory. Of Anglo-German stock, Roger West was conflicted when the war broke out but volunteered out of the strong sense of duty that was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804109154Author Dennis FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501135958Author Lynn VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935107181Author Wolfgang SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Schneider, Wolfgang. Armour ResearchPublisher Schneider, Wolfgang. Armour Research