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Assault guns were the first armoured vehicles in Waffen SS divisions to be used at the beginning of their military history. This first volume presents Abteilung "Schoenberger" from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in the frontline since 1941 which...

An authoritative and timely book shedding new light on the role of religion during World War II and its impact on post-war American society. America's armed forces played a critical part in the defeat of Hitler's Germany and made by far the biggest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544227842Author Nigel HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Women's participation in the Second World War is often overlooked, yet thousands of them wore their uniform, working mainly as nurses, but offering also other services, such as managing the enrollment of men in military units. The movement started on a...

Extremely well researched, well documented, and well illustrated, this fast-paced tale of aircraft carrier and submarine operations, codebreaking, undersea research, maritime leadership, and perseverance against almost insurmountable odds will appeal to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804176729Author Adam MakosFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

This is a history of the 370th Fighter Group in World War II, conveyed in the words and photos of the veterans. The 370th was organized in 1943 to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt. When the group arrived in England in early 1944, they were assigned to the 9th...

Scouts Out is the definitive account of German armored reconnaissance in World War II, essential for historians, armor buffs, collectors, modelers, and wargamers. The first extensive treatment of the subject in English, it features:* Profiles of the...

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based-but not just the "great" people. Biographies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579939Author Crecy PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190495855Author Jonathan DimblebyFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 48mm

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines' bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in...

The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The...

In the summer of 1942, the Germans launched Case Blue, a strategic offensive into the Caucasus, a region rich in oil, birthplace of Stalin, and gateway to Iran and the Middle East, where the Germans could obtain more oil, cut off a vital corridor for...

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1944 Atomic testing at Los Alamos opens a rift in the fabric of space, while the detonation of the Fat Boy atomic bomb over Dresden creates a second. German and American scientists determine that signals are being transmitted through the rifts, many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583209Author Vyacheslav KozitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany's Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammerblows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912423057Author The Imperial War MuseumFormat PaperbackImprint Imperial War MuseumPublisher Imperial War Museum

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399583551Author Stephen L. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"It involves some tense moments, and these are recorded vividly in this book, including interviews with many TD veterans, plus official reports and documents."The Tank Killers is the story of the American Tank Destroyer Force in North Africa, Italy, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937859237Author Douglas DietrichFormat PaperbackImprint Sky Books (NY)Publisher Sky Books (NY)

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American...

The Thought War is the first book in English to examine the full extent of Japan's wartime propaganda. Based on a wide range of archival material and sources in Japanese, Chinese, and English, it explores the propaganda programs of the Japanese...

From their first introduction at the Battle of the Somme in the First World War, tanks proved to be one of the most important military developments in the history of warfare. Such was their influence on the battlefield, both as infantry support and as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384521Author Kenneth EstesFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999151402Author James FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Uncle Matty Comes Home LLCPublisher Uncle Matty Comes Home LLCWeight(grams) 653g

Dan van der Vat's naval histories have been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as "definitive," "extraordinary," and "vivid and harrowing." Now he turns to the greatest naval conflict in history: the Pacific campaign of...

Through the medium of period photography, Star-Spangled Spitfires chronicles the combat operations of the USAAF units equipped with the iconic Supermarine fighter whilst employed in both the European and Mediterranean theatres of war, from the summer of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493067992Author Vincent dePaul LupianoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510712393Author Evgeni BessonovFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a month of the launch of the Soviet counteroffensives of the winter of...

Col. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2nd and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437129Author Dick TylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian Majsak

This book is the result of nearly six years of research, gathering of materials and interviews. It presents a chronological listing of the 479th Fighter Group's activities during the World War II era, from its beginnings until its deactivation. Based...

A captivating story of German submarines that fled to Argentina on the eve of the Third Reich's capitulation, unwilling to surrender to the Allies. The authors of the book discovered numerous unpublished documents in England, Argentina, Germany and the...

Using history as a backdrop, author Craig Gottlieb offers a study of Gau Ehrenzeichen, or District Honor Badges. Although useful both as the first-ever collector's manual devoted exclusively to the subject, this study can also help historians understand...

In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M. McKale contends that the persecution and murder of the Jews, Slavs, and other groups was Hitler's primary effort during the war, not the conquest of Europe. According to McKale, Hitler and the Nazi...

The Second World War transformed British society. Men, women and children inhabited the war in every area of their lives, from their clothing and food to schools, workplaces and wartime service. This transformation affected the landscapes, towns and...

Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize"The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and...