Wars & Conflicts

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By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport.Football has never been shy of politics. This is especially true for Israel and Palestine. A sport introduced by Victorian churchmen...

In July 1798 Napoleon invaded Egypt, landing an army in the stifling heat of a North African summer. His invasion came as a shock to the Egyptians but also as a surprise to the soldiers onboard his armada, for they had not been briefed on a mission...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183454Author John L PlasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

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The battles for the Germans' last line of defence in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and Metz. Built as a series of forts, bunkers, and tank traps, the West Wall - known as the Siegfried Line to the Allies - stretched along...

These are the compelling letters of Karl Fuchs, an ordinary German soldier who was completely convinced of the righteousness of his cause and who wrote them free of the recriminations and hindsight arising from the bitterness of defeat. Combining...

The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships. The history of one of World War II's most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories...

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine...

This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend. In Afghanistan's counterinsurgency environment, America leaned on militias to...

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This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of theoretical perspectives regarding the sources of and propensity for nuclear proliferation. The authors probe the broader questions of why states pursue or abstain from nuclear...

Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts-in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February 1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being...

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Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry, the famed Blackhorse Regiment, was a specialized cavalry outfit equipped with tanks and armored assault vehicles. On the morning of March 26, 1970, they began hearing radio...

During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Throughout the region, the realities of mass murder and incarceration meant that people learnt to live with daily public hangings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127907Author Mark BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061447Author Albert G SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 304g

The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have...

Without the advantage of birth or social connections, Horatio Herbert Kitchener rose rapidly in the Army, from obscure subaltern to the most acclaimed soldier in Britain. In August 1914, in the hour of his country's greatest need, he dutifully responded...

Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers .I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German...

There is a special breed of Marine for whom the prey is the enemy-and every day is hunting season. This Marine is a HOG-a Hunter of Gunmen. These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those Marines in Iraq whose sole purpose on the battlefield...

In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers. The battle, a major German offensive, caught the allied forces off-guard in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg and, lasting from...

When Stephen Ambrose became interested in American history at age 18, there was much that America had done that made him proud, but there were many things he condemned as well; slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, racist Southern politicians, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225844Author Micah Ian WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 228g

After an opening chapter that describes the treatment of the Jews in German society, the focus shifts to the government and administration of the conquered countries-ranging from those nations with a substantial population of ethnic Germans to those,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665123Author Steve RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565305Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788460894063Author Bruce ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bruce ReynoldsPublisher Bruce ReynoldsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

A description of the operational history of the new I-JG3 "Udet" which was formed at the beginning of 1942 and saw its first action during the German summer Russian offensive of 1942, then served a tough and costly tour of duty in the Defense of the...

When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirty-five countries led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm, which culminated in a one-hundred-hour coordinated air strike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599951508Author Robert M EdselFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Center StreetPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Private Albert Turley, an ordinary British soldier of the First World War, died on the Somme for King and Country. Like thousands more soldiers, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his story. This book focuses on the history of...

Eleven o'clock on the morning of 11 November 1918 was the end of an era. It marked the end of the bloody fighting and worldwide loss that characterised the First World War. It was finally time to set aside sadness and mourning as best the world could,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398483040Author Gary StolkinFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In the first volume in this series on the Korean War, North Korea Invades the South, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery crossed the 38th Parallel, and, in blitzkrieg style, rolled back UN and South Korean forces down the Korean peninsula...

* Covers the division's formation and its battles in Poland in 1939, France in 1940, and the Eastern Front in 1941 and 1942 * The division had nearly 50 Knight's Cross winners by the end of the war * Contains numerous photos of soldiers and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375525Author T M TerkelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 2mm

Pulitzer Prize finalist David Philipps brings to life the chilling story of how today's American heroes are slipping through the fingers of society - with multiple tours of duty and inadequate mental-health support creating a crisis of PTSD and a...

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