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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113733Author Arthur Gwynn-BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 238g

'I can't understand the mentality of the Australian people. One day they are in a panic about the war and the next they want more race meetings.' - John CurtinBy March 1942, the Japanese had steamrolled through Malaya, laid siege to Singapore, and bombed...

With a reputation for being hard to discipline, generosity to their comrades, frankness and sticking it up any sign of pomposity, Australian soldiers were a wild and irreverent lot, even in the worst of circumstances during World War II. In Larrikins in...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of historical documents to provide a concise, readable history. The historiography of the war is well...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of historical documents to provide a concise, readable history. The historiography of the war is well...

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...

"[An] excellent popular history... a sprightly and evocative tribute to the troops of Operation Dragoon" (Publishers Weekly). This is a rarely detailed, "you are there" account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody...

Alice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars. But there is more to the story than that. Across the nation, wherever one of the seventy-seven Angels of Bataan returned home, there was a...

This is perhaps the most revealing case history of the politics of modern warfare ever set down. It is a story of a time when image making and public relations took precedence over strategy at the cost of thousands of lives. It is the story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340344Author John L. LowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attache accredited to the United States between the world wars. As such, he was Germany's official military observer in the capital of the nation whose potential as an ally of those powers arrayed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498593236Author Harry J WrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Harry Wray and Seishiro Sugihara transcend the one-sided Tokyo Trial view of the war in an effort to conduct a balanced exchange on historical perception. This will be of interest equally to both those inside and outside Japan who are perplexed by...

In Polish Hero Roman Rodziewicz: Fate of a Hubal Soldier in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Postwar England, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm traces the remarkable and tragic tale of Roman Rodziewicz, a true Polish hero of the Second World War. Roman's childhood...

Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard,...

The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most...

This is a unique document published here for the first time, giving new insights into Hitler's personality and how Nazi Germany's military and intelligence apparatus operated. Published for the very first time, the top secret report "Some Weaknesses in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451660500Author Craig NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 458g

The authorized illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ...

Jordan Braverman's eloquent narrative account of media participation in World War II is comprehensive enough to satisfy the most rigorous academic standards, but written to be accessible to all readers. To Hasten the Homecoming is an important cultural...

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy--a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on...

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch Naval Air Force--or Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD)--played a significant but largely overlooked role in the opening months of the Pacific War. With 175 aircraft, the MLD greatly outnumbered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197694701Author Diya GuptaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 621g

In this fully revised edition of Finding Your Father's War, military historian Jonathan Gawne has written an easily accessible handbook for anyone seeking greater knowledge of their relatives' experience in World War II, or indeed anyone seeking a better...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743223096Author Stephen E. AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This work "browses" into Hitler's library:it investigates the collection by shedding new lights on the readings and reading habits of Hitler.About the AuthorAmbrus Miskolczy teaches at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.Book InformationISBN...

Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the...

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing...

At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia,...

On August 18, 1945,three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender,US Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal...

On October 24, 1944, more than two hundred American soldiers realized they were surrounded by German infantry deep in the mountain forest of eastern France. As their dwindling food, ammunition, and medical supplies ran out, the American commanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566490849Author Maureen HillFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,USWeight(grams) 1747g

Jerome Corsi's newest opus, No Greater Valor, examines the Siege of Bastogne-one of the most heroic victories of WWII-with a focus on the surprising faith of the Americans who fought there.In December of 1944, an outmanned, outgunned, and surrounded US...

Fueled by recent films and TV series such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has soared. As a result of this surge of attention, the number of websites on World War II...

Anzio, a small town a mere hour's drive from Rome, became a battleground on which both Allies and Germans paid a bloody price. Planned by Churchill as a swift amphibious flanking maneuver, the 1943 battle of Anzio has been viewed by some as one of the...

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...

This is the compelling story of an American crash boat crewed by unknown heroes during World War II in the South Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held islands were done at great peril and with little...

True to My God and Country explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War. Patriotic Americans determined to fight, they served in every branch of the military and every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760419Author Tom BrokawFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 494g