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The SS Division "30. Januar" was one of the last SS-Divisions formed during World War II and was almost entirely composed of training units and 16-18 year old boys (the honorary name "30. Januar" was the same date Hitler became Reich...

The Dornier Do 17 was one of three Luftwaffe's main bomber types early in the war. Designed as a passenger and mail plane, it ultimately proved true in the military version. Its last version, powered by Bramo 323 radial engines was the Do 17 Z. Based...

In November 1943, four years into World War II, Corporal Sid Wade, a conscripted and reluctant soldier in the British Army, was uprooted from a cold English winter and transported to the tropical coast of West Africa. Sid Wade was the author's father...

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy...

A little more than 30,000 men of the Wehrmacht and SS qualified to wear the famed Fallschirmschutzenabzeichen, or Paratrooper Badge, between 1936 and 1944. The badges they wore, and the images of the men who wore them, are avidly sought by collectors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499851Author Tim BouverieFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Tim Duggan BooksPublisher Tim Duggan BooksWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The C.710 was a series of lightweight fighter aircraft developed by Caudron-Renault for the French Air Force just prior to the start of World War II. One version, the C.714, saw limited production and it was assigned to Polish pilots flying in France...

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain's African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their...

New Revised Paperback Edition "This book will benefit any person carrying out serious research into Hitler's failure to subjugate Russia." * Crown Imperial "This serious study is a must for all interested in the history of World War Two...

Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Axis-controlled Yugoslavia during World War II, this book chronicles American policy, plans for sending aid and agents, and the establishment of the first training...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894384469Author Brendan CoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

With comprehensive captions and text this superb book is the latest in the best selling Images of War Series and the second instalment of the Author's pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous...

When Robert Brundle took the SS Harmatris to Russia with Convoy PQ8 he was 47 years of age. Both ship and master were veterans and had already sailed in convoys across the North Atlantic and to South Africa. The 5,395 ton coal fired ship, laden with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512592Author David RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Winner of THE GENERAL WALLACE M. GREENE, JR. AWARD for outstanding nonfiction In May 1943 a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were...

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "Spearhead" division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation...

In Volume 2, of a planned three-volume set, the author continues his definitive history of the 5th Fighter Command combining grand world strategy and Pacific strategy with subsequent land and air campaigns. This book describes the 5FC as it continues on...

This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. It explains why only a small minority of pilots those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything accounted for so large a proportion of...

"If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot," declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To the Nazi leaders, the Ukrainians were Untermenschen-subhumans. But the rich land was deemed prime territory...

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive...

The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. It was also the crucible of combat tactics and logistic techniques that would decide the outcome of the Second World War... The Battle of Normandy began on D-Day. June...

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "father of geopolitics." In 1945 the United States sought to put him on trial at Nuremberg as a major war criminal for being "Hitler's intellectual godfather" and the true...

Historians have hitherto devoted attention almost exclusively to political and diplomatic issues, more especially to Hitler and the Nazis, as the root causes of the Second World War. Economic affairs and trade and business investments in the prewar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033828Author P. L. G. Doorman OBEFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

From the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.In the first week of December 1941, four Pan American Airways System (Pan Am) flying...

From July 18 - 20, 1944, British and Canadian forces launched Operation Goodwood in order finally to capture Caen and push the Germans back towards the south, beyond Bourguebus. Among the armored divisions engaged in the fighting, the book follows the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116714Author Richard J. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This is the long-awaited second part of the author's meticulously researched and scrupulously impartial study of the complicated and anguished history of Yugoslavia during the years of World War II. The previous volume dealt with the Chetniks, the...

Maurice 'Moggy' Mayne was a cricket-loving air gunner in the Second World War, with a pretty girlfriend back home in rural England. His turret was in a Bristol Beaufort and his pilot had to fly with almost suicidal bravery at giant German warships before...

This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This book is the best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780572035761Author Paul LundFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint W Foulsham & Co LtdPublisher W Foulsham & Co Ltd

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre worthy of scholarly attention. In this illuminating study, S. P. MacKenzie explores the different ways in...

The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaboratorsOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513828Author Richard W HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book is the history of V./(Z)LG 1, a Zerstoerergruppe (destroyer-group) which, like most of the Luftwaffe destroyer units equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engined heavy fighter, was disbanded at the end of 1940 after suffering devastating...

Luftwaffe Panzer division formed from the paratroop corps was one of the elite units in the Wehrmacht and fought in North Africa and Italy.Book InformationISBN 9780887402067Author Alfred OtteFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Schiffer Publishing...

Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943, is the first published work to detail the situation of every German corps and division for every day of the six-month Stalingrad campaign. Derived from the Sixth Army daily operation...

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D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across the English Channel. The invasion force of 150,000...