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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405971942Author Martin ClunesImprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

With the SAS – Across the Rhine is the story of the latter part of Captain Ian Wellsted’s military career with the Special Air Service, the first part of which was detailed in his well-received SAS: With the Maquis. After he had spent three months behind...

The meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party cowed the masses into a sense of false utopia. During Hitler’s 1932 election campaign over half those who voted for Hitler were women. Germany’s women had witnessed the anarchy of the post-First World...

During the Polish campaign, SS combat units were seconded to various formations of the Heer. Still considered more parade troops than frontline soldiers, they did not prove a decisive factor in the fighting, but the campaign was important for their...

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the...

For the first time, here is the true story of the Second World War top secret British invention of the Dome Trainer by Lieutenant Commander Henry Stephens, Royal Navy, from 1939. After naval service in the First World War, including serving on HMS...

This is the first book in a series that describes in detail the establishment and combat history of the 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Gotz von Berlichingen”. By order of Adolf Hitler, this division was established in October 1943 in France and...

Stories of the bravery and loyalty behind the animal recipients of the Dickin and PDSA Gold Medals, from national treasure Martin Clunes In 1942, a downed RAF bomber's crew placed their hopes for survival on Winkie, a blue chequered homing pigeon. Winkie...

American troops invaded North Africa in November 1942, but did not face serious resistance until the following February, when they finally tangled with Rommel’s Afrika Korps—and the Germans gave the inexperienced Americans a nasty drubbing at Kasserine...

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into...

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Illustrated with original artwork and archive photos, this is the history of Germany's extensive use of captured tanks in World War II. In this book Steven J. Zaloga, one of the world's leading armor authorities, uncovers the history of one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785908668Author David LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing

A detailed exploration of a critical month-long battle, which set the stage for German strategic-level defeats on both the Eastern and Western fronts. In February 1944, 1st Panzer Army (under Generaloberst Hube) played a major role in the relief...

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The Post Office was central to Britain’s effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sense of common purpose and camaraderie, but also...

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008704179Author The Imperial War MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II. In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis to relieve...

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year Award The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more...

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together. With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal...

A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa. The Greece campaign was launched by Italy in October 1940, the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542935Author Gregg JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070821Author Valeriy ZamulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't...

This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515716Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

World War II issues relating to race, ethnicity, and class make the work timely and relevant The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing...

The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War. The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In this...

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942. By July 1942, the Allied troops fighting in North Africa, the multinational...

A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms. The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598397Author Richard EstepFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063064Author Pamela D. TolerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa. In mid-1940, Italy’s East African colonies posed a significant threat to the...

The war in the Far East from 1939 to 1945, as witnessed first-hand by Scottish soldier and celebrated documentarian Harry Birrell From the moment he received a cine-camera at age 10, Harry Birrell devoted his life to documenting the world around him,...

An illustrated study of the uniforms and personal equipment worn by the personnel of the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy of the Third Reich, from 1935–45. Founded in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, the Kriegsmarine was established in 1935 and reached...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398842816Author Michael FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd