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A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters;...

On August 1, 1943, an enormous armada of America B-24 Liberator bombers roared at nearly treetop level over the peaceful farms and villages of Romania. This mission was Operation Tidal Wave. Its target-"the taproot of German might," Hitler's giant oil...

On October 27, 1943, a force of New Zealanders and Americans invaded the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific, retaking them from their Japanese occupiers. Codenamed Operation Goodtime, the action marked the first time New Zealand forces took part in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439264799Author Dalton EinhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 654Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 862g

In a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects of the world's only 'total war' upon the civilians who often faced bewilderment, fear, death, and...

The routing of the British and French Armies in May and June 1940 by the Wehrmacht's armoured divisions caused a major rethink by the US Army's senior leadership. The result was the formation of the two armoured divisions in July 1940; the first named...

During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26,000 men were killed, while 30,000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487133Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

In January 1943, and as World War II entered its second year it was evident that U.S. tanks were outgunned, under-armored, and underpowered. In short, they weren't cutting the mustard, but there was no time for a long development project. At Fort Knox,...

"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine duringWorld War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of anyrevisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert forsharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451229984Author John WukovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036913Author Peter Leighton-LangerFormat HardbackPage Count 401Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

El Alamein. C'est la que l'offensive de Rommel, qui semblait irresistible, est stoppee sur la route d'Alexandrie, a l'ete 1942. S'ensuivent de longues semaines de guerre de position dans les sables et roches du desert egyptien, sous un soleil de plomb...

Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and...

New York Times Best Seller! “So soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it.”—New York TimesPulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte...

When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250777287Author Brad MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891415466Author Charles ProvinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio PressWeight(grams) 147g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199245Author Daniel AkstFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

"The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War in its coverage of all the major themes and all the fronts. Willmott's fresh insights into the war on the Eastern Front are an outstanding feature."Book InformationISBN...

At the beginning of the Second World War there was no thought of delivering planes by air across the Atlantic. It was assumed to be too costly and too dangerous, especially in winter. Despite this initial reluctance, between the fall of 1940 and the...

Four months before Pearl Harbour, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in secret aboard a ship in a secluded Newfoundland harbour. This was the first summit conference of World War II. Although it would soon be overshadowed by the events to...

By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to black history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474441155Author Clive JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The dramatic life story of one of the legendary USAAF fighter pilots of World War II who fought across the skies over the Mediterranean and southern Europe in the great aerial campaigns against the Luftwaffe - Herschel H. "Herky" Green. By the time...

All variations on the 20mm FLAK anti-aircraft gun, including towed versions, and self-propelled as used by all arms of Wehrmacht.Book InformationISBN 9780887407581Author Werner MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479319Author David JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were shipped to concentration camps; those deemed most dangerous to the Reich were executed. Yet a few slipped through the Gestapo's net and organized resistance cells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761263Author Joseph E. PersicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 675g

One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes.These are typical...

The attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941, has been portrayed by historians as a dazzling success, "brilliantly conceived and meticulously planned". With most historians concentrating on command errors and the story of participants' experiences,...

Stanislaw Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace and the first Allied fighter ace of World War II. His combat career began on the war's very first day, September 1, 1939, and within two weeks, Skalski had achieved ace status, with six German kills to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294659Author Mikhail MaslovFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

"I do not know whether I dozed off or passed out, but the nextthing I remember is gradually becoming aware of a blunt objectstriking my body over and over. Just as I realized it was a bootkicking me in the side, I felt my arm being grabbed roughly, and...

Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War...

Our understanding of the origins of the Second World War have been transformed in recent decades. The opening of the archives of the major combatant powers, changing perspectives, and the reorientation of international history away from a narrow...

Our understanding of the origins of the Second World War have been transformed in recent decades. The opening of the archives of the major combatant powers, changing perspectives, and the reorientation of international history away from a narrow...

Packed with rich detail and analysis, this exciting tale of war at sea relates the dramatic and moving true story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia and its consequences for the conduct of marine warfare. Duffy discusses in rich detail the dire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626541320Author R P HunnicuttFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...