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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625645739Author Peter J HaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The...

The attack by Rudder s Rangers on Pointe du Hoc, as one of the opening acts of D Day, is without doubt an epic of military history. As a result of Montgomery s upscaling of the invasion General Bradley s First US Army had to deal with a dangerous coastal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993523946Author David BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint The Real PressPublisher The Real Press

During the Second World War the Axis powers, most prolifically the Germans, deployed a vast array of armoured fighting vehicles to support their tanks and infantry. These included tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces,...

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and...

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945-Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Fuhrer's suicide did not...

"I am not pressing you to fight the weather as well as the Germans, never forget that." So wrote Winston Churchill to Arthur Harris, the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, after the terrible events of 16 December 1943. In the murky dusk almost...

This classic, now available in paperback, includes all varieties of American armor in Europe from D-Day, to Normandy, to southern France, the Siegfried Line, the push to the Rhine, and finally, the Battle of the Bulge. Shermans, Hellcats, and many more...

There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army's forces before Moscow had been smashed or encircled, and no reserves were available to defend the capital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430404Author Bill RussFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Hitler created the Sniper Badge on August 20, 1944, to impel soldiers to train and be used as snipers. Thus the strategic importance of single combat was stressed in highly stylized propaganda. Since the soldiers themselves to a special extent were in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294444Author Peter Preston-HoughFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345476104Author Georg GrossjohannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennessee,...

By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys...

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this...

Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to set-backs,...

Finland was the only nation with an elected and democratic government to fight on the German side in WWII. Despite being small, poorly armed and made up of conscripts, the Finnish army was probably the most effective fighting force at the time, managing...

This first of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for over 5,000 generals and admirals of the Third Reich. It covers all branches of service, ordered alphabetically, and provides a brief, scholarly overview of each individual,...

In 1941, before America entered World War II, determined young LeRoy Gover signed on with Britain's Royal Air Force to fly the plane of his dreams, the fast, sleek Spitfire. When America joined the fight, he transitioned to the powerful P-47 Thunderbolt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982987Author Andrew StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west of Moscow, Mars cost the Soviets an estimated 335,000 dead, missing, and wounded men and over 1,600...

This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including some new material on the post-war analysis made by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578438702Author Lewis S Robinson, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Bowker Identifier ServicesPublisher Bowker Identifier ServicesWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628842Author William Alan WebbFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Volume three (of a four-volume series) reveals the fate of the ninety-two German U-boats that passed through Lorient from August 1942 to August 1943. From October 1942, Type IX U-boats left Lorient for distant seas beyond the South African Cape and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061997204Author Tim TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was an advanced fighter developed by Germany to be the successor to the Mersserschmitt. Adapted to a wide variety of combat situations, Focke-Wulf soon began to dominate the skies, allowing Germany to take back their air superiority...

When Monty was given Allied command of the D Day landings he wasted no time gathering around him individuals and formations he could trust. Foremost among the latter were two armoured brigades: 4th (Black Desert Rats) and 8th (Red Fox's Mask). Both...

Late in 1938, the German Navy Supreme Command commissioned a report into the combat effectiveness of its airborne divisions. As a result of its findings, the German High Command instigated a major construction program for planes with a specifically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688122881Author James F. DunniganFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did-and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often perceived. Why Germany Nearly Won: A New...

The gripping stories of RAF escapes and evasions as detailed in Escape and Liberation, 1940-45 illustrate some of the difficulties and problems facing the prisoners of war. In the first chapter, an attempt was made to compare the conditions and problems...

A celebration of the machine and the men who took to the skies in defence of Britain. It is also the dramatic illustration of a little understood truth: the Spitfire did more than win the Battle of Britain - it won the war. It was not Stalingrad which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234100Author John D. LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams)...

While many films have attempted to convey the experience of the Second World War European battlefield, none adequately portray the mayhem and suffering that befell untold thousands of horses, their bodies impacted by bullet, flame and bomb as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476727981Author Fellow John KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777060Author Tim JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728256610Author Shannon McKenna SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...