Wars & Conflicts

In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060746384Author Donovan WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American "Pax Atomica" in place, the free world held an apparent strategic advantage over the Soviet bloc and saw itself as a bulwark against communist expansion...

All variations on the 20mm FLAK anti-aircraft gun, including towed versions, and self-propelled as used by all arms of Wehrmacht.Book InformationISBN 9780887407581Author Werner MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859595138Author Phillip WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Class WarfarePublisher Class WarfareWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and defeated three days of determined German counter attacks. This spectacularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839272554Author Azra LimbadaFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these...

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an...

Hitler's Wehrmacht led the way in armoured warfare as the successful blitzkriegs in Poland and North West Europe in 1940 so convincingly proved. The contribution of light tanks such as Panzers I, II and 35(t) was critical. As the war spread to the...

One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes.These are typical...

My Boyhood War, Warsaw 1944 is an intensely personal account of Hryniewicz' life in Poland during the Second World War, centered primarily on the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. Despite being the longest urban battle between lightly armed irregular...

Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies' formal sanction for the...

By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476677767Author Dennis D BlessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conflict that affected the world forever. However, it wasn't only in terms of bloodshed that the war rocked the nation: it also massively impacted the industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464064Author Matthew Haultain-GallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Over sixty years after the end of the Pacific War, the United States and Japan have still not come to terms with the consequences; despite their postwar alliance, memories of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima-Nagasaki continue to remind that the decision to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479319Author David JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

German Order of Battle is the definitive reference on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division. Volume One covers the 1st through 290th Infantry Divisions; Volume Two, the 291st through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425223703Author Flint WhitlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Dutton CaliberWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm...

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American...

They were sometimes the butt of jokes, the ""comical chemical corporals."" Officially they were the British Special Brigade, sent to retaliate against German chemical warfare, selected, as one of their members said, almost willy-nilly. ""They wanted...

Since ancient times, there have been military operations that attempted to produce tectonic shifts in the balance of power. In this volume, historians demonstrate how knowledge of past military operations can inform current policy discussions by...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of...

On November 20, 1943, the United States invaded the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands as part of the first American offensive in the Central Pacific region during World War II. This invasion marked more than one first, as it was also the introductory...

August 1914. Flags waved, people cheered and armies mobilised. Millions of citizens throughout Britain responded to the call-to-arms. War fever was contagious. In the far reaches of empire, young men also pledged their allegiance and prepared to serve...

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berlin. General George S. Patton's Third Army would carve its way into the German heartland, the Fourth Armored...

It was common knowledge among American soldiers in Vietnam that women were sometimes brave and even ferocious fighters for the North. This text provides vivid accounts of training, deployment, strategy and tactics, propaganda, support services and...

The Last Knight of Flanders is the story of the Flemish volunteers of Germany's famed Waffen-SS, told by those who were there. The book centers around Remy Schrijnen, the only Flemish volunteer to win the heralded bravery award, the Knight's Cross to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316245395Author Saul DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

In a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects of the world's only 'total war' upon the civilians who often faced bewilderment, fear, death, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936629480Author Monk MoiseFormat PaperbackImprint Reflection Publishing Co.Publisher Reflection Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. That year was very nearly the end of Australia as a country. To those men the present nation owes a debt. A massive Japanese...

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. Unlike many of his Nazi colleagues who denied either knowing about or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063731Author A Stanley BlicqFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 286g

They marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired M16s out of the windows of military vehicles, defending their units in deadly firefights. And they did things that their male counterparts could never do--gather intelligence...

The legendary "Fighting 69th" took part in five major engagements during World War I. It served in the front lines for almost 170 days, suffering hundreds killed and thousands wounded. This highly decorated unit was inspired by its chaplain, the famous...

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities. Placing the camp's story in the wider history of the Pacific war, this book tells...