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On June 6, 1944, paratroopers of the legendary 101st Airborne Division jumped into Normandy with the mission of seizing exits of beaches at night before the amphibious invasion of France. They were the elite of the U.S. Army and were primed and ready to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789082506303Author Jelle PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Odyssea PublishingPublisher Odyssea PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Focusing on the so-called 'Phoney War' at the start of World War II, this well-researched account concentrates on incidents when Britain stood alone during those tense and dark early days of hostilities. The book contains graphic accounts of enemy action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157195Author James HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Most books gloss over submarines at Midway and, if they are mentioned at all, conclude they failed miserably and had little impact on the outcome of the battle. It is undeniable that carrier aviation and intelligence saved the day, but the role of the...

Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin's restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism. Here,...

In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighbouring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000...

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The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked a critical turning point in the European theater of World War II. The massive landing on France's coast had been meticulously planned for three years, and the Allies anticipated a quick and decisive...

A compilation for aero modellers of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Potez 63-11, with scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.Book InformationISBN...

Churchills Few will forever be remembered by history as men who thwarted the seemingly invincible German war machine, when all seemed lost. They countered the full force of the Luftwaffe in the daylight battles during the summer of 1940, and in the night...

The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the U.S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger...

During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed-a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if...

Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American "Pax Atomica" in place, the free world held an apparent strategic advantage over the Soviet bloc and saw itself as a bulwark against communist expansion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583117Author Neil StokesFormat HardbackImprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

* Covers the division's formation and its battles in Poland in 1939, France in 1940, and the Eastern Front in 1941 and 1942 * The division had nearly 50 Knight's Cross winners by the end of the war * Contains numerous photos of soldiers and their...

Once the East African Campaign was concluded, some of the SAAF Fighter Squadrons, operating in Ethiopia and Sudan, moved north to Egypt to partake in the campaign in Palestine and the Desert War. 1 Squadron operated Hawker Hurricanes, while 2 Squadron...

During the Second World War, military gliders were used for carrying troops and heavy equipment silently into a combat zone. These engineless aircraft were towed into the air and most of the way to their target by military transport planes and once...

The Waffen SS were considered the elite of the German armed forces in the Second World War and were involved in almost continuous combat. From the sweeping tank battle of Kursk on the Russian front to the bitter fighting among the hedgerows of Normandy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496658585Author Luis Miguel SanchezFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Andrea PressPublisher Andrea PressWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 305mm...

There is much to commend this study. Emily Greble capitalizes on a recent historiographical trend which prioritizes the local to observe the national and international.... Greble has contributed an important study which should be useful to others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471457589Author Peter A. HuchthausenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching...

Having been lucky to suvive a German air raid on his Bristol home, Herbert Haddrell's personal account of the harrowing experience of being called up and sent to Normandy, where he was seriously wounded after 43 days of battle, is a fascinating and...

Having been lucky to suvive a German air raid on his Bristol home, Herbert Haddrell's personal account of the harrowing experience of being called up and sent to Normandy, where he was seriously wounded after 43 days of battle, is a fascinating and...

On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A. Beginning on December 8, 1941,...

This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill's early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars-on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African...

After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novel's characters were...

One of the many wartime airmen who documented his day to day experiences in a diary, was RCAF navigator Jan Gellner. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Jan was a lawyer practicing in the Czechoslovak town of Brno. With the outbreak of...

This book describes the action in the area southeast of Malmedy during the final stage--Christmas 1944 through the end of January 1945--of the Battle of the Bulge, focusing on the operations of the German 3rd Fallschirmjager (Paratroop) Division. This...

During World War II Nathalie "Lily" Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy. Little did they know that this striking woman--who turned heads when she...

A compilation for aero modellers of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the NAA P-51d-5-Na Mustang, with scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.Book InformationISBN...

This second of two volumes recounts the WWII history of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in vivid detail. The outfit, since upgraded from M5 light tanks to M4 'Sherman' mediums, claws through some of the toughest battles of WWII - from a horrific...

When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the German Army annihilated a substantial part of the Red Army. Yet the Soviets rebounded to successfully defend Moscow in late 1941, defeat the Germans at Stalingrad in 1942 and Kursk in 1943, and...

6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population...

The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan.In August 1945 the Soviet Union seized the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the colony of...

Two soliders of World War II, one American, a member of the Easy Company "Band of Brothers," and one a German, fight in the Battle of the Bulge, then meet decades later and help deliver one another from the nightmares of war. Stephen E. Ambrose and E.B...

The 15th Fighter Group was activated in December 1940 as part of the old Hawaiian Air Force. It served its baptism of fire a year later when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Oahu's airfields. Utilizing personal interviews with veterans as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250275851Author Dan HamptonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 548gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...