Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783314621Author Baron JominiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 857gDimensions(mm)...

Commanding the legendary Afrika Korps in the sands of North Africa during World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the "Desert Fox." After a string of early victories, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles...

In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second Worldi?1/2War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupationi?1/2of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German...

Photo chronicle of Patton's Americans versus Rommel's Afrika Korps in World War II In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, its first major offensive against the Germans. This photo chronicle covers the...

On August 1, 1943, an enormous armada of America B-24 Liberator bombers roared at nearly treetop level over the peaceful farms and villages of Romania. This mission was Operation Tidal Wave. Its target-"the taproot of German might," Hitler's giant oil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578565026Author Rosalie HewinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint AehPublisher AehWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

On October 27, 1943, a force of New Zealanders and Americans invaded the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific, retaking them from their Japanese occupiers. Codenamed Operation Goodtime, the action marked the first time New Zealand forces took part in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234100Author John D. LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams)...

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984715107Author Phil NordykeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Historic Ventures, LLCPublisher Historic Ventures, LLCWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

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The routing of the British and French Armies in May and June 1940 by the Wehrmacht's armoured divisions caused a major rethink by the US Army's senior leadership. The result was the formation of the two armoured divisions in July 1940; the first named...

A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in VietnamYou know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a Fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, Ted Arthurs was in the thick of it, humping an eighty-pound rucksack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn J. Stephan was awarded the Japan Culture Translation Prize in 1973. From 1970 until 2001 he taught modern Japanese history at the University of Hawai'i,...

The Battle of Fromelles - until recently largely forgotten in the accounts of Australia's experiences in World War One- remains the single bloodiest day in terms of numbers of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia's military history. The...

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a construction programme to gain naval pre-eminence. But Reagan had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645174229Author Douglas NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Longueville MediaPublisher Longueville MediaWeight(grams) 170g

After the United States' entry into the Second World War in 1941, their war department realised that, due to the increasing dominance of air power, their troops would need some help identifying the aircraft active in the various theatres of the war,...

In January 1943, and as World War II entered its second year it was evident that U.S. tanks were outgunned, under-armored, and underpowered. In short, they weren't cutting the mustard, but there was no time for a long development project. At Fort Knox,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013621Author Helen FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine duringWorld War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of anyrevisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert forsharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult...

From the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.In the first week of December 1941, four Pan American Airways System (Pan Am) flying...

This book - the third in a new series called INSIDE - features detailed colour illustrations of the instrument panels from the most famous Polish aircraft from 1939 in very great detail. Additionally, every single instrument is shown in a separate...

In the First World War German soldiers received the Iron Cross for valor. During the Second World War there were many additional decorations established to award various deeds in combat. The German assault badges in its various grades were awarded for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780572035761Author Paul LundFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint W Foulsham & Co LtdPublisher W Foulsham & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451229984Author John WukovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621575009Author Richard WeikartFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 651g

In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North...

For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was that of occupation by one or more of the Axis powers. In this ambitious and wide-ranging study,...

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096368Author Joseph MoretzFormat HardbackPage Count 594Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This new photo-album in the "Camera On" series contains over 150 photographs of private cars adapted for military use by the German forces during WWII. With mobilization of the German armed forces in 1939, the lack of motorized transport was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975485910Author Thomas A RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint American Heritage PublishingPublisher American Heritage PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060679Author W Hyde KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033422Author Linda ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a month of the launch of the Soviet counteroffensives of the winter of...

El Alamein. C'est la que l'offensive de Rommel, qui semblait irresistible, est stoppee sur la route d'Alexandrie, a l'ete 1942. S'ensuivent de longues semaines de guerre de position dans les sables et roches du desert egyptien, sous un soleil de plomb...

This comprehensive treatment of post-World War II Allied war crimes trials in the Far East is a significant contribution to a neglected subject. While the Nuremberg and, to a lesser degree, Tokyo tribunals have received considerable attention, this is...

In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic...

New York Times Best Seller! “So soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it.”—New York TimesPulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte...