European Theater

The book challenges the preconceptions behind three of Great Britain's primary military leaders: Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten. Although their achievements during and immediately after the Second World War are widely celebrated, this book offers...

In 1939, Germany shattered the peace of Europe with a lightning-fast strike against Poland. The next year, it captured Denmark and Norway, before launching its famous Blitzkrieg against France, Belgium and The Netherlands. In less than two years of...

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Guy Burgess, an officer in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, convinced his superiors that a special school be opened to teach sabotage. Although his suggestion that it be called 'Guy Fawkes' School'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623827Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

Following the recent unveiling of the monument to Bomber Command in London's Green Park, the publication of this lovingly crafted account of the exploits of oft overlooked 1 Group is set to be a timely one. Patrick Otter combines an appropriate level of...

In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the...

Finally lays to rest the myth that the Hurricane won the Battle of Britain rather than the numerically inferior, yet more glamorous, Spitfire. Although there were many more Hawker Hurricanes than Supermarine Spitfires engaged in the epic conflict fought...

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled 1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall...

Douglas Bader remains a legendary figure, and the best known of all the Battle of Britain aces. Having lost both his legs in a pre-war flying accident, Bader overcame this disability to become not just a superb fighter pilot but a tough and charismatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982147631Author James SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831775Author Peter BunnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing

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,...

Draws attention to one of the secrets of the Second World War. This work explains the difficulties of the missions, utilizing the first-hand recollections of the men who completed the dive-bombing raids. It is intended for those who are interested in the...

Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909217188Author Pat MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Demand Media LimitedPublisher Demand Media Limited

In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited with igniting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425274187Author Bill YenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780722353097Author Robert E LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Arthur H.Stockwell LtdPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957610231Author Anne CopleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 493Imprint Monte San Martino TrustPublisher Monte San Martino Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997097030Author Ingrid Dolezal BensFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Facilitation Tutor, LLCPublisher Facilitation Tutor, LLCWeight(grams) 204g

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War...

On 12 June 1944, Winston Churchill crossed the English Channel to visit the Normandy beachhead. Relishing danger, he had insisted on coming on D-Day itself: ‘Nothing,’ he said, ‘is more exhilarating than being shot at without result.’ At first, the King...

Afterword with Count Berthold Von StauffenbergAlthough there were more than 40 plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, none came closer to success than the July Plot of 1944. The attempt was masterminded by Count von Stauffenberg, a member of the German...

The amazing story of one of 'the Few', fighter ace Tom Neil. This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first...

This title offers an account of the county's 28 airfields during the last war, including Duxford, Oakington, Waterbeach, and Wittering. It is fully illustrated.Book InformationISBN 9781853064562Author Graham SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

Of the many human characteristics, few evoke greater admiration and respect than gallantry in the service of one's country. Here, Graham Pitchfork describes the outstanding bravery of twenty-one air men who served in the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956328700Author Clifford Alain StosselFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Headcorn Instrumentation LtdPublisher Headcorn Instrumentation Ltd

For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort...

Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It is the story of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 to fighter...

By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in post-war Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made...

The extraordinary true stories of German resistance to Hitler's murderous orders at the end of the Second World War. In the last months of World War II, Hitler ordered destruction across Europe on a massive scale: wrecking towns, ports, industries,...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than...

The Anvil of War details the German strategies and tactics employed by the commanders on the cataclysmic Russian Front in the Second World War. Monographs by two officers who served in Russia - Military Improvisations during the Russian Campaign and...

This enthralling pictorial guide reveals the formidable power of one of the most feared warplanes of all time. The Ju 87 Stuka dominated the opening campaigns of World War II. It was a primary weapon of German Blitzkrieg tactics and the concept of...

The Battle of Britain was the World War II air campaign waged by the Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command...

On 19 July 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia sufferedits worst-ever military defeat when a British offi cer ordered 15,000 of our best andbravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later, morethan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788280235Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905095353Author Kevin Le CocqFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Channel Island PublishingPublisher Channel Island Publishing

For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained. Extensive use of aerial and other Intelligence...

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