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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001585Author Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 607g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063000230Author Howard BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628738179Author Jon E LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Kelsey's observations range from descriptions of the Battle of Britain from the ground, bombing raids on civilian populations, and a meeting with a possible German spy, to more personal accounts of the difficulties of obtaining a bath. She and her...

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II-Robert de La Rochefoucald, an...

Preserving the personal histories of civilians and soldiers who united to defend America during the Second World War, this oral history tells the stories of ordinary citizens who left behind jobs and families to contribute to the war effort. Chronicling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063070660Author Nina SiegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513651Author Michal A PiegzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814351195Author Siang Yong YapFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte LtdPublisher Marshall Cavendish...

On June 22nd, 1941 Hitler launched his invasion of Russia Operation Barbarossa. Eighty per cent of all German soldiers lost in World War II were killed on the Russian Front. Here were the greatest civilian losses the largest battle and the biggest tank...

Over the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States-the nation's oldest such professional military organization-invited its members to write about their experiences in World War II. The response was an impressive...

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division-America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, "Slim Jim" Gavin, as he was...

Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805003482Author Martin GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 1160g

About three weeks after Japanese troops captured Nanjing when the worst of the atrocities was over, American diplomats were allowed to return to the city to re-open their embassy on January 6, 1938. Three days later, British and German diplomats arrived...

To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States. Her book explores the relationship between ideology and policy, challenging...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News anchor of The Story with Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063000209Author Dan HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 616gDimensions(mm)...

A comprehensive examination of Hitler's military strategies. As Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Hitler was responsible for deciding the German war aims in 1939. As head of the Armed Forces from February 4th, 1938, he was also responsible for the overall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840374391Author Robert JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher Airlife Publishing Ltd

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb...

The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay Stout has saved an exciting collection of those accounts from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602392694Author Michael BaigentFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

On a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the GaspT coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the Allies. Thanks to an alert hotel-keeper's son, Abwehr agent 'Bobbi' was captured and forced by the RCMP to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786077471646Author Mark RieblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.Publisher Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C...

This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of...

When the US Marine Commandant, Major General Thomas Holcomb, announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps' Women's Reserve, legend has it that the portrait of the fifth Commandant, Archibald Henderson, fell off the wall and crashed to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725155Author Gen Julian ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002902Author Samuel HynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 221g

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." General Erwin Rommel A fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military tacticians of last century. Illustrated throughout...

Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex - a set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death. This...

A powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634505307Author Danny S ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the various German agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these...

Winner of The Page Turner Non-Fiction Book Award, The Page Turner Golden Author Award, and The Page Turner Best Book Award in True Stories What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore's story special is what happened in World War II's closing days and the...

"On 6 June 1944, on the beaches, as well as inland, with very few exceptions, all orders and reports for all the fighting arms were transmitted by electric radios." Until now, no encyclopaedia has ever presented so much transmission equipment...

The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063242074Author Nicholas ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift...

A compelling account of the personal experiences of groups who were affected by World War II, both on and off the battlefields. Personal Perspectives: World War II brings to life the experiences of specific segments of soldiers and civilians as they...