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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512240Author James RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991352050Author Carl OglesbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Protean PressPublisher Protean PressWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593511350Author Sam KleinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the earliest operations in the Pacific through the decisive...

The outbreak of war in 1914 was greeted with euphoria by many in Europe, and it was widely believed that the conflict would be 'over by Christmas'. In the event, millions of men were destined to spend the first of four seasons away from their families...

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a...

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a...

The outbreak of war marked a new era for the people of Cumbria. Many young men and women enlisted in the Forces, while older people joined the Home Guard or became Air Raid Precaution Wardens. Children from cities were sent to Kendal to escape the threat...

'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days...

Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans at the fall of Crete in June 1941. This book documents...

After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army's front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033538Author Evan McGilvrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

What was it like to confront the German panzer armies as an anti-tank gunner on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How could you hope overcome of one of the best-equipped, well-trained and tenacious armoured forces of the time? And how did...

"A quintessential tale. Once read, never to be forgotten." -Erik Jendersen, lead writer of Band of Brothers on HBO Saving My Enemy is a "Band of Brothers" sequel like no other. Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon-jumping off roofs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501181139Author Andrew NagorskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

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...

An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993336058Author Francois YdierFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Mention the War PublicationsPublisher Aviation Books Ltd.

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in...

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National Guard's 28th Infantry Division from its peacetime status through training and into combat in Western Europe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402243578Author C. Brian KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 619gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Photo chronicle of Patton's Americans versus Rommel's Afrika Korps in World War II In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, its first major offensive against the Germans. This photo chronicle covers the...

Located in an Observer Corps post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent, Mr E.E. Woodland and Mr A.M. Wraight were on duty on the morning of 13 June 1944. Shortly after 04.00 hours they spotted the approach of an object...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033200Author Albert BlockwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of...

This new book is the follow-on work to the author's well-received Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II. Aided by the discovery of a large body of wartime British Government intelligence reports this volume helps to further unravel the...

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)-commonly called the Tokyo trial-established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814793Author John M. BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny,...

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983886914Author John Gordon LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 898Imprint John G. LambertPublisher John G. LambertWeight(grams) 2223gDimensions(mm) 284mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743633Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

When Hitler unleashed his V1 and V2 rockets on Great Britain in 1944, it was the first military attack on the British civilian population without invasion. Innocent families were wiped out without mercy and terror gripped the nation. Churchill and the...

The 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or s.FH 18 (heavy field howitzer, model 18) was the basic German division-level heavy howitzer during the Second World War. The gun was officially introduced into service on 23 May 1935 and by the outbreak of war the...

The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed...

Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945. Normally...

After the Allies had defeated the Japanese in the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies, the capture of the Philippines became General MacArthur's next objective. For this offensive to succeed, MacArthur felt compelled to secure his eastern flank by seizing...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, playing vital roles in the war effort: from passing the mail at sea to screening larger ships from hostile torpedo attacks. This book covers the 175 ships of the 2100-ton...

The bold campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi tyranny was the outcome of years of close co-operation and meticulous planning by the Western Allies. Eleven months of vicious fighting followed the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982871Author Michael D. MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company