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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464871081Author R a B BruijnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Aspekt PublishersPublisher Aspekt PublishersWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464870183Author Marcel ReijmerinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Aspekt PublishersPublisher Aspekt PublishersWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464870121Author Dr Perry PierikFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464628692Author Dr Perry PierikFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 256g

Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in the crucial first years of World War II. Throughout its history, the Royal Navy's most powerful fleet has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398836990Author Al CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius Entertainment

The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063234598Author Larry LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Mere decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the promise of European democracy seems to be out of joint. What has become of the once-shared memory of victory over fascism? Historical revisionism and nationalist propaganda in the post-Yugoslav...

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It...

This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France...

The Messerschmitt ME 163 Komet was the most dangerous production fighter ever built by Germany, and Sgt. E.R. Jones of Stockton, California received the unique credit of jointly shooting down a Komet over Germany in 1944.Using information written by Sgt...

IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Drawing on this unique collection, Fighter Command showcases 50 photographs of...

Guy Gibson's 617 Squadron was founded for one reason only - Operation Chastise - the raid on the Ruhr dams. Using Barnes Wallis' revolutionary bouncing bomb, the hand-picked crews trained day and night over British reservoirs, perfecting the techniques...

A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fresh recruits spontaneously standing and doffing their caps to a new song, thereby creating the new wartime...

In the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece. This 'dark side' of the fascist war, however, is not present in the national memory built after 1945. To distinguish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524689841Author Michele MakrosFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 1483g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685624309Author Amelia McNuttFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685624286Author Amelia McNuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802159083Author James HollandFormat HardbackImprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included...

John R. Deane Jr. (1919-2013) was born with all the advantages a man needs to succeed in a career in the US Army, and he capitalized on his many opportunities in spectacular fashion. The son of one of George C. Marshall's closest assistants, Deane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603063876Author Daniel HaulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190658489Author Daniel TodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 976Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

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December 7, 1941 changed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who became "enemy" in the eyes of the United States government within hours. With Pearl Harbor still smoldering, these men would be arrested and put into the enemy alien internment...

Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected the D-Day invasion and its aftermath.In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-Day comes this fresh...

"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals in the wartime and immediate postwar period. Introduced by an extensive historical survey putting these...

Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that of the official German position and that it had no...

This work explores the experiences of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, authors who served in the German army during World War II, were captured by U.S. forces, and enlisted into a secret program to promote American democracy to their fellow POWs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570982569Author Thomas WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams) 395g

Before this book, general readers who wanted a compact but comprehensive history of American military action in World War II had nowhere to turn. Now, in this concise, lucid, and balanced account, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provide the first...

This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral...

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation...

In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for...

Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce...

John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths - some as young as fourteen - who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors'' popular 2013 book Old Enough to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439199657Author Bill SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400216864Author Jon ErwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 139g

There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith. Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the...