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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538910Author Alexandra RichieFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063234581Author Larry LoftisFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Fighting the Bombers is an unrivalled look at the Allied bombing campaign of the Second World War from the point of view of the Luftwaffe establishment and command. The contributing authors were involved in all aspects of German attempts to stem the...

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force - flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units - made a tremendous contribution to the Allied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331492Author Edwin P. HoytFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *...

Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex- Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I...

Following his previous "Ultimate Look" volumes on the B-29, B-32, B-18, and B-25, Wolf has written the definitive book on U.S. aerial armament in World War II. Drawing from his extensive library, microfilm archives, and technical manuals Wolf covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250237095Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

This book is built around two recently discovered war diaries-one by a member of the 23rd Panzer Division which served under Manstein in Russia, and the other by a member of Rommel's AfrikaKorps. Together, along with detailed timelines and brief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483468548Author John HerseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DebolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390724Author Ken ToutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307262837Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Alfred A KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1978gDimensions(mm) 283mm *...

In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the 'Wright Project', departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609808443Author Bevin AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)...

Following his previous "Ultimate Look" volumes on the B-29, B-32, B-18, and B-25, and volumes one and two in this series, Wolf continues his definitive history of U.S. aerial armament in World War II. Drawing from his extensive library, microfilm...

An entire piece of Serbian history is missing. And in the middle of the latest Yugoslav war-Europe's worst blood bath since World War II-Serbian politicians, propagandists, and revisionist historians have made a cynical attempt at replacing the missing...

Hitler's Artillery 1939 - 1945 is a highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author's collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743413183Author Martin CaidenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ibooks IncPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 678g

According to bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, Col. Robert W. Black "is the dean of Ranger history," and Black proves it in this history of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II. Based on original documents from Allied and German sources,...

This lavishly illustrated and very personal book covers the history of the battleship USS Arizona from her launch to her loss on December 7, 1941 when she was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn about the ship's enduring legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596520189Author Ivo De JongFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

What do a 75-year-old American rocket engineer and an 11-year-old European schoolgirl have in common? Not much at first glance, but a closer look reveals that Arthur and Lilly greatly impacted each other's lives. A young German female had a chance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982781104Author Andrew J BrozynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Apidae PressPublisher Apidae PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This two volume set (companion volumes to the author's previous books on World War II German helmets) is packed with nearly 1000 full-color photographs of more than 180 helmets and covers, all shown at full page size and many in detail. The helmets shown...

Strafvollzugslager der SS- und Polizei: Himmler's Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals is a book that Heinrich Himmler would not have wished written. Preferring that this corner of the SS history remained forever in...

'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457216Author Genevieve DuboscqFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht's triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its...

Although there were many more Hawker Hurricanes than Supermarine Spitfires engaged in the epic conflict fought over southern England in the summer of 1940, the public's imagination was captured by the shapely and charismatic Spitfire. According to...

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun. They were usually used to support infantry...

In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intelligence group being trained in the mountains of northern...

Ever since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, the men who survived have sought to return, to honour their dead, and to teach others of what they went through to liberate Europe. Soldier Keith Nightingale has conducted terrain walks in...

Germany's Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the building, Adolf Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to design and build a newer, grander structure, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658351Author Adam LunneyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

A photo chronicle of the LAH in over 300 photos including formation and campaigns throughout WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887401657Author Herbert WaltherFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...

Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945, Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary,...

SS-168-the USS Nautilus--was the flagship of Submarine Division 12 operating out of Pearl Harbor throughout World War II. It was commissioned July 1, 1930, before international naval treaties limited future submarine size, and thus was among the largest...

In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second World War, but this extraordinary episode is often forgotten-it is overshadowed by the disastrous German attack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183090Author Martin DugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...