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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595137503Author Tony FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 39mm

A behind-the-scenes look into the shadows of espionage during WWII Through over eighty intriguing tales of World War II, author William B. Breuer reveals previously unknown nuggets of espionage lore that involved deceptions, illusions, and masquerades...

The Luftwaffe began World War II as a deadly efficient part of the German blitzkrieg in 1939-40, its Stuka dive bombers and Messerschmitt fighters unleashing terror across Europe. But its superiority would not last long. Fuel shortages, a numerically...

A concise history of the development and use of incendiary weapons--flamethrowers, incendiary bombs, napalm, and more--by the American military in the twentieth century, with a focus on World War II.* Describes how the U.S. created its incendiary weapons...

During the first week of the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans' 6th SS Panzer Army rolled down the road to Butgenbach, where the 26th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division held out against constant attacks at the southern end of Elsenborn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811733434Author M. H. GillieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062298614Author Tim TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998661599Author Robert McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Regent Square PressPublisher Regent Square PressWeight(grams) 133g

From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II-told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998649511Author Greg BabinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Orzel BooksPublisher Orzel BooksWeight(grams) 971g

In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school near Heidelberg. Founded in 1910 by educational reformer Paul Geheeb, the Odenwaldschule was a crown jewel of the progressive education movement,...

Tank Driver is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat...

Beginning with the 1939 invasion of Poland and ending with Germany's surrender in 1945, this book reviews all aspects of the war which resulted in the greatest devastation that Europe had ever seen. With a concluding look at the Nuremberg Trials,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744048391Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DKWeight(grams) 567g

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An authoritative account of perhaps the least-known major campaign of World War Two, the Battle of the Atlantic, in which Allied merchant seamen heroically kept Britain in the war and eventually defeated Hitler's U-boats. Between 1939 and 1945 almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039126725Author Clifford Patrick HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621574255Author Peter F. StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 347g

The battlefields of the USSR witnessed the most devastating confrontations of World War II. In every one of those battles, Communist dictator Josef Stalin exercised his influence, meddling with (and executing) his generals, hurling unprepared armies into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684829470Author TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams) 395g

Illustrated by over 300 exciting photographs and contains maps of all the major campaigns. It covers the social, military and political history of Nazi Germany and provides a chronological account of one of history's most infamous regimes. Includes boxes...

A visual history of the German armed forces at war on the brutal Eastern Front during World War II. The Third Reich began its war against the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. After a series of lightning victories in which millions of...

New Guinea describes in archival photographs with accompanying detailed captions and chapter narratives the conflict between the Australian-American forces under General MacArthur in combating the tenacious Japanese first in Papua in 1942-43 and then...

This final installment of a trilogy details the U.S. Army's battles in France following the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. It is based on interviews with more than 200 veterans and has contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.About...

A poignant and powerful portrait of Europe in the years between 1939 and 1941-as the Nazi menace marches toward the greatest man-made catastrophe the world has ever experienced-Under A Darkening Sky focuses on a diverse group of expatriate Americans...

In late November 1941, two college football teams - Willamette University and San Jose State - set sail for Honolulu for a series of games with the University of Hawaii. Instead of a festive few weeks of football and fun, the players found themselves...

One of the great debates to come out of World War II surrounds the question of who had better equipment, the Americans or the Germans. This new book approaches that question in two ways. First, it reprints a report published by the U.S. Army analysing...

Battling frigid weather, malnutrition and the constant onslaught of enemy fire, those who took part in the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad were sujected to some of the most challenging conditions of the battlefield. At times during the five bloody and...

Few American prisoners of war during World War II suffered more than those captured when the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942. In a horrifying captivity that lasted until the war's end, US troops endured the notorious Bataan Death March,...

In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, J. E. Kaufmann and H. W. Kaufmann weave together firsthand accounts of American soldiers to capture the complete experience of the individual...

As June began, the situation in France was bleak for the Allies. With the evacuation of the BEF, the French Army and remaining British troops were left to defend a long front from the Channel to Sedan with minimal forces and no reserves. This was...

One of the most famous units of World War II and all of military historyFirst Americans to see active combat in the European theaterExpands on events described in Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn and The Day of BattleIn this gripping companion to his...

Before Allied soldiers set foot on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, American and British bombers helped pave the way by pounding German positions on the shoreline and farther inland, a vital mission that continued as the troops waded...

Generals like Heinz Guderian have received most of the credit for devising and executing the German blitzkrieg, but without the field commanders who led armored corps, divisions, and regiments, the lightning offensive that overtook France in 1940 could...

From the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, through Japan's surrender in September 1945, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theatre of World War II, seven by the U.S. and five by Japan. ...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal, northeast of Australia, launching the first major Allied offensive against Japan. In one of the best-known campaigns of World War II's Pacific Theater, the Marines and then the U.S...

The authors weave together first-hand accounts of American soldiers to capture the complete experience of the individual GI in World II, from stateside training to overseas combat. Based on interviews with over 200 veterans, this book also tells the...

Although naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships--larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction when war broke out in 1939. The war would hasten the battleship's...

* Features his decorated service in World War I, postwar duties in Japan, and role in the Korean War * Perfect complement to narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series * Compelling reference for military history fans, scholars,...

Formed in the fall of 1944, the 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division was composed mainly of ethnic Germans living in Hungary. After a brief period of training, the division endured its baptism of fire against the Red Army in the Hungarian sector...