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Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian relations have a long history of conflict. Under Ataturk...

'From one former Screaming Eagle to another, an excellent book and a real credit to the story of the 101st Airborne Division during the cold days and nights of Winter 1944, leading to Victory in Europe (VE) day.' - The NCO Journal (USA) 'Highly...

This book is a compilation of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photographic details of the IIa variant of the Supermarine Spitfire, featuring scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals and also photographs of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629145068Author Philip CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883911621Author John K. RiethFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Brandylane PublishersPublisher Brandylane Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

12 pages of 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale plans for all variants of the MiG-17, including the Polish-built versions in the Polish Air Force. The MiG-17 was a subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many...

In Dawn of D-Day David Howarth weaves together the testimony of hundreds of eyewitnesses and has produced a breathtaking and atmospheric account of the greatest amphibious landing ever attempted. Based on interviews with survivors and accounts by...

In this astonishing portrait of a society at total war, we learn: the total casualties sustained by the UK up to the beginning of May 1945 amounted to close on one million. Of this total 746,109 were suffered by the Armed Forces (228,383 killed, 59,476...

During the dark days of the Second World War, the wartime diet's low fat, high fibre and sensibly sized portions meant that the British population enjoyed a level of health and fitness that has never been matched since. Using the wartime diet as a model,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908336026Author Leighton BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Menin HousePublisher Tommies Guides

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783312504Author G a WadeFormat PaperbackImprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 54g

Operation Nordwind is one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II yet one of the more intriguing. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north, Nordwind was the last great operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west,...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive...

In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France's Normandy peninsula. Invasion '44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years...

The soldier slang of World War II was as colourful as it was evocative. It could be insulting, pessimistic, witty, and even defeatist. From 'spam bashers' to 'passion wagons' and 'roof pigs' to 'Hell's Ladies', the World War II fighting man was never...

Drawn from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this is a photographic record of Britain's victory over Nazism in 1945, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day.Book InformationISBN 9780091808280Author John DelaneyFormat HardbackPage...

This is the full story of the Battle of the Ardennes. In the last weeks of 1944 the German armies in the West, after a continuous retreat since the Battle of Normandy five months earlier were regrouping in what they thought was to be the last battle in...

A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war William Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had been killed fighting in Europe during World War II before Walker was born...

Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight...

Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes readers on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration...

Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes readers on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration...

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The epic true story of an American hero who flew during the Second World War, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994409Author Bernard LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

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In this sequel to his epic Saipan, James Hallas tells the dramatic story of the battle for Guam in World War II, the next stage of the United States’ pivotal campaign for the Mariana Islands—and the beginning of the end for the Japanese Empire.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800962194Author Garrett M. GraffFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MonorayPublisher Octopus Publishing Group

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The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II. In September 1944, the Allied High Command continued to press eastwards with both the First and Ninth US Armies under Courtney Hodges and...

Pre-order these stories of the bravery and loyalty behind the animal recipients of the Dickin and PDSA Gold Medals, from national treasure Martin ClunesBook InformationISBN 9780241723784Author Martin ClunesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Michael...

As They Were offers an inciteful and evocative glimpse of France during the “phony war” period between the September 1, 1939, German invasion of Poland and the Nazi attack on the Netherlands, Belgium, and France in May 1940. A. Peter Dewey, a young...

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From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War. The Sea War is a wonderful, accessible history rooted in the Second World War. As the Soviet...

From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War. The Sea War is a wonderful, accessible history rooted in the Second World War. As the Soviet...

From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War.

'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that...

During winter 1944/45 few German officers believed that the Allies would attack the wooded Reichswald Plug on the narrow neck of land between the rivers Rhine and Maas. Consequently, relying on the natural defences of the forest, the vaunted Siegfried...

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