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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515961Author Richard BreitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University PressWeight(grams)...

Determined to do his bit Des Evans absconded from a reserved occupation and joined the newly formed Reconnaissance Corps. He saw action in North Africa and Italy before being evacuated back to England with pneumonia in early 1944. Fully recovered he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390458Author Soviet General StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In the First World War many battles on the Western Front had lasted weeks or months. All too often they degenerated into glacial and indecisive campaigns of attrition. By the 1930s, however, military science had recreated the possibility of a decisive...

In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Yet even before Pearl Harbor, Americans feared foreign invasions, air attacks, biological weapons, and, conversely, the prospect...

On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the...

* The moving story of a WWII fighter-pilot's epic recovery after being shot down *A harrowing reflection on the ordeals of combat *Commemorative edition of a recognised classic Described by critics as 'not a book written by a pilot about the war, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512371Author Paolo MorisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. At that moment they spotted the approach of an object spurting red...

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian student working in New York when war broke out in 1939. While his family remained in France and was threatened by the Vichy regime's anti-Semitic laws, Bernard decided to enlist in the US Army, convinced that it would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385348713Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437389Author Mariusz LukasikFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian...

Like its predecessors, this fourth edition of Japanese Americans and World War II is intended as a succinct and affordable supplement to history and political science texts that minimize or neglect the Nikkei (Japanese American) experience in World War...

During the final weeks of World War II, the American army discovered multiple atrocity sites and mass graves containing the dead bodies of Jews, slave laborers, POWs and other victims of Nazi genocide and mass murder. Instead of simply reburying these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476541587Author Elizabeth RaumFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 363g

This is the first full study of an African country during the Second World War. Unusually, it provides both an Africanist and an imperial perspective. Using extensive archival and oral evidence, Ashley Jackson explores the social, economic, political,...

Through various hundreds of "cliches d'epoque", the journey of this American division that landed in Provence in August 1944 after a long campaign in Italy, leads us just to the heart of Germany, where this military unit is the first to enter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668011867Author Donald L MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063268647Author David de JongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Among many other developments, World War II saw naval warfare shift from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, which remains one of the iconic weapons of the war and the core of modern battle fleets. Developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the aircraft...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Bill Fisher Award - Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780578468853Author Kevin M CallahanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint...

The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be-that he in fact was-an artist. When he packed his seabag and took...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467139090Author Melissa AmateisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 408g

A compilation for aero modellers of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Lockheed P-38G-15-Lo Lightning, with scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909128392Author Dan SharpePage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 465g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620093Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725674Author Albert LulushiFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Construit a plus de 12 000 exemplaires dans six versions principales, utilise par certaines forces aeriennes jusque dans les annees 1970, mais surtout avion emblematique de la guerre du Pacifique et veritable vedette du petit ecran, le Chance Vought F4U...

The incredible story of the 'Flying Tigers', America's volunteer airmen in China. In Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America's Missing Airmen in China during World War II, historian Daniel Jackson, himself a combat-tested pilot, sheds light on the stories of...

A chronicle of one of WWII's most dramatic and secret operations.Book InformationISBN 9780812885620Author Edwin P. HoytFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Scarborough HousePublisher Scarborough HouseWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm * 12mm

In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day-to-day conditions in a Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560983743Author Robert V. BrulleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

During World War II, Axis prisoners of war received arguably better treatment in the U.S. than anywhere else. Bound by the Geneva Convention but also hoping for reciprocal treatment of American POWs, the U.S. sought to humanely house and employ 425,000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362264Author Charles SpicerFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g

" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the...

Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays...

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium. On the eve of the German invasion, in May 1940, the family began its second escape. Their sixteen-month...

More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictator's legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head. In the spring of 1945, as it became increasingly clear that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814122983Author Rachel EndoFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence -- and its implications -- by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke. He concludes that the Declaration must be read as an attack on two...