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When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. A middling student, he was denied his first choice of posting, missed overseas service in World War I, spent a dozen years as a major, and...

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US...

The Second World War saw huge advancements in military tactics and technology occurring at an unprecedented pace. One such development was the employment of forces able to deploy at short notice by parachute across the globe, utilising the opportunities...

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats. When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the...

The Strasbourg liberation story has been both neglected by wider audiences in favour of the Battle of the Bulge, and disputed in France, between promoters of the recently commissioned Free French resistance fighters, and the claims of the colonial...

This third volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between P and Z. The set covers all branches of service, providing a brief but scholarly overview of each...

The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler started life as Hitler's personal bodyguard and would grow exponentially during the course of the Nazi regime to an absolute elite panzer division. Transferred from the Eastern Front, The 1st would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598106Author Richard EstepFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

The wartime interest in Greenland was a direct result of its vital strategic position-if you wanted to predict the weather in Europe, you had to have men in place on the vast, frozen island. The most celebrated example of Greenland's crucial contribution...

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As German forces took control of their country, a group of young Belgians conceived an audacious plan to smuggle downed Allied airmen and other evaders from Belgium, through France and over the Spanish border. So began the Comet line. Many incredible...

Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States’ treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, the extent of the country’s relocation, internment, and repatriation of German and Italian Americans, who...

When the Japanese attacked Wake Island in December 1941—the same day as Pearl Harbor—Marine pilot Henry Elrod took to the skies in his F4F Wildcat fighter to defend the American military base on the tiny Pacific atoll, battling swarms of enemy planes and...

In the spring of 1945, simultaneously with the battle of the Seelow Heights, powerful Red Army spearheads participated in a three sub-offensive operations in order to clear German resistance for the Berlin operation. Between April 13 and 17, 1945,...

'A worthy addition to any bookshelf.', The Naval Review A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War. Leyte was a huge and complex...

Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words Crystal-clear maps The U.S. Army's separate armored battalions fought in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811776608Author Henry de la FalaiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Brought to you by Penguin.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...

Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintelligence operation conducted by Germany's military intelligence (the Abwehr) between 1942 and 1944. On the night of 6-7 November 1941 two SOE agents, Huub Lauwers...

After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencies to get the new republic quickly on its feet. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512098Author Punyaphan KlykoomFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo,...

A harrowing chronicle about the murder of thousands of Polish officers in 1940, based on the accounts of perpetrators and witnesses.

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...

This fascinating collection of personal narratives challenges the view that all Germans knew of the crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich and were complicit. The five accounts recall the lives of individuals born in the 1920s who resisted joining the SS,...

The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British...

Some of the most daring naval raids undertaken during World War II involved the use of midget submarines - craft of under 150 tons and crewed by just a handful of men - including Japanese midget submarines deployed at Pearl Harbor, the British X-craft...

This collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler. It includes the first translations into English of pioneering studies on the role of a leading Nazi in the July Plot, the flight of Rudolf...

Details the difficulties encountered in defending against night-time intruders.

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans--many barely out of their teens--gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and...

A major international bestseller.The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way;...

This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history. Just as General de Gaulle did, Lieutenant Michel Hollard refused to accept France's surrender in June 1940. A spirited soldier during the First World War, a...

• Details on planes like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others • Riveting accounts of aerial combat • Includes maps, diagrams, tables, and photos For many, it is a dive bomber that...

While the Marine Corps island-hopped across the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Saipan to Iwo Jima, the U.S. Army was locked in a grueling, multiyear fight for the jungle island of New Guinea, which in Japanese hands threatened both Australia and the vital...

A chronicle of one of WWII's most dramatic and secret operations.Book InformationISBN 9781493086436Author Edwin P. HoytFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Did the bombing of Japan's cities—culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—hasten the end of World War II? Edwin Hoyt, World War II scholar and author, argues against the U.S. justification of the bombing. In Inferno, Hoyt shows...

On 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions, centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole Second World War in Europe...

The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS was a formation with a very unique history. Its members volunteered and were spirited out of Finland to Germany under watchful Russian eyes. Unlike other legions from various countries, the battalion did...

Before the Second World War ended the British were interviewing captured German general staff officers at Trent Park. Large numbers of General staff offices from all arms were interrogated – many relished their chance to portray their roles as successful...

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