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It took the US army two full years after the attack on Pearl Harbour to break the radio codes of the Japanese Imperial Army. But by 1944, the US was decoding more than 20,000 messages a month filled with information about enemy movements, strategy,...

A group of determined young human torpedoes and assault swimmers fought bravely for Italy in the Second World War, inspiring fear and respect from the British Navy. The actions of these few men severely reduced British naval power in the Mediterranean...

From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Banos in the Philippines-a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390472Author USA Soviet General StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

OSTFRONT 1944: The German Defensive Battles on the Russian Front in 1944 Alex Buchner. In 1944, when the entire Russo-German front was "ablaze" under continual Soviet attacks, wrong estimations by the highest German command led to critical decisions with...

This book is compilations of the colour profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Tiger I German main battle tank. Scale plans in 1/35 scale plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W...

The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the...

This new large format photo collection covers Luftwaffe aircraft from the years 1933-1945 and includes chapters on: Pilot Training Schools, Reconnaissance Units, Fighter Units, Zerstorer(Destroyer) Units, Bomber Units, Dive Bomber and Close Support...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742223Author Christopher McDougallFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742223Author Christopher McDougallFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

In Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years searching for it. At the height of World War II, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148964Author James HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

The men featured in this book originally came from Germany's big city police forces, where they had previously dealt with traffic control, street crime and the often violent street demonstrations occurring during Germany's politically turbulent 1920s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425273012Author Marlin GroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

This comprehensive treatment of post-World War II Allied war crimes trials in the Far East is a significant contribution to a neglected subject. While the Nuremberg and, to a lesser degree, Tokyo tribunals have received considerable attention, this is...

In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of...

Originally published in 1998 by Simon and Schuster, this book starts at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945, covering the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the liberation of...

Originally published in 1998 by Simon and Schuster, this book starts at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945, covering the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the liberation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621575009Author Richard WeikartFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 651g

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled 'degenerate' by Hitler's cultural apparatus, jazz was adopted by the Allies to win the hearts and minds of...

The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg,...

This is the story of the "Handschar," a Muslim combat formation created by the Germans to "restore order in Bosnia." What actually transpired was quite different.Book InformationISBN 9780764301346Author George LepreFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788458439Author David BruhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 558g

In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic...

The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining...

In the late 1930s, as Europe moved toward war, the peaceful kingdom of Norway found itself strategically vital to the interests of Germany, France, and Great Britain. Though Norway was strictly neutral, in April 1940 Britain and France mined Norwegian...

Among the military leaders of the Second World War, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply enigmatic figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Hitler - to whom he was...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. It was the start of a conflict that would erupt over every continent, see the deaths of tens of millions of people, much of central Europe destroyed, the development of jets, ballistic missiles and computers...

For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had...

The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316583053Author Samuel MorisonFormat HardbackPage Count 389Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788411496Author David BruhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 576g

Hitler's Secret Commandos is the history of the K-Verband naval commando unit, established in 1943 to reek havoc amongst invading allied forces involved in amphibious landings or actions, against German-occupied coasts. Following the Italian and British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437235Author Carlo CestraFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian Majsak

A detailed history of all 18 Waffen-SS grenadier divisions in World War II, including formation, combat operations throughout the war, and final disposition at war's end. Rare images-including soldbuchs and award documents-and personal veteran accounts...

Transport items of Polish (British) paratroopers shown in the detailed photos.Largely overlooked in other histories of parachute troops, the Polish unit differed in many ways from its British counterparts, and this book fleshes out the history and makes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365760Author Saul DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 46mm

Wiltshire was understandably one of the most militarised wartime counties, encompassing the whole of Salisbury Plain. But the story of Wiltshire at War is also about weapon development, tactics and planning operations. British, Commonwealth and American...

In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France's Normandy peninsula. Invasion '44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years...

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler's Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of an abhorrent regime. Lauren Faulkner Rossi draws on...