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Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the...

During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Throughout the region, the realities of mass murder and incarceration meant that people learnt to live with daily public hangings...

In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers. The battle, a major German offensive, caught the allied forces off-guard in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg and, lasting from...

When Stephen Ambrose became interested in American history at age 18, there was much that America had done that made him proud, but there were many things he condemned as well; slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, racist Southern politicians, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788460894063Author Bruce ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bruce ReynoldsPublisher Bruce ReynoldsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389626Author Laurence ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 426g

Right after Pearl Harbor, the author joined the Marines at 17. After boot camp, he went to the First Marine Division, taking part in some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific, including the landing on Okinawa where he was wounded. Fighting under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895561206Author Paul M A LinebargerFormat PaperbackImprint Gateways Books & TapesPublisher Gateways Books & TapesWeight(grams) 567g

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"Dear Joan" comprises a unique series of letters between a young airman, Tony Ross, and Joan Charles, a girl whom he met briefly in England before he was posted to the Mediterranean during the Second World War. Through these letters, the book...

"A nation that forgets its past has no future." Winston Churchill When Britain Went To War everyone in the country was involved, whether they were in the military or civilians whose jobs were vital to the war effort. Additionally, every woman in the...

This well-researched study explores a virtually unknown and largely enigmatic aspect of World War II--the nature of amphibious operations in the Aegean Sea in 1943. More than an historical account, it is designed to interpret and reassess the crucial...

This is the fascinating story of the Admiralty's Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, the so-called 'Wheezers and Dodgers', and the many ingenious weapons and devices it invented, improved or perfected.The author was one of a group of officers...

Ronald Koorm has given talks and lectures on the codebreaking outstations for several years - this is the last piece of the amazing Bletchley jigsaw. Full of extraordinary stories: who built the first electronic digital computer? Tommy Flowers - but not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144542Author Robert E HumphreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997655704Author Ann Williams WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Plantation PressPublisher Plantation PressWeight(grams) 499g

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During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738853604Author William D BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 349g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955250Author Terry ParssinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial

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The U.S. military's use of smart bombs and guided missiles has become commonplace in modern warfare. The ability to destroy a single floor of one building in a densely populated metropolitan area, while minimizing civilian casualties stands in stark...

After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806146805Author Bobby C BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 476g

On July 11, 1942, the USS North Carolina steamed into Pearl Harbor. She was a magnificent ship-the first in a new class of battleships, simultaneously monstrous and fast. She was two-and-a-half-football-fields long and so wide she could barely pass...

Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the...

When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany - totaling more than 1.4 million missions - took out oil refineries, industries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299205249Author Stuart J WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Taking a new approach to an old story, Harold Winton widens our field of vision by showing how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820470719Author Robert P. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 320g

Despite their undeniable historical importance, the leaders of the Fascist and Nazi youth organizations have received little attention from historians. In Shaping the New Man, Alessio Ponzio uncovers the largely untold story of the training and education...