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During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust unceremoniously into the frontline of the largest conflict the world has ever seen. Fortunately, many remembered...

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The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour...

Holder of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, Otto Weidinger was the last commander of SS-Regiment "Der Fuhrer." Among the best field officers of the Waffen-SS, he graduated from SS officer school and served throughout the war. This fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRebecca Greenwood Hardingis Head of Technological Objects at the Imperial War Museum.Book InformationISBN 9781912423538Author Rebecca Greenwood HardingFormat...

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Drawing on an extremely rare collection of photographs taken by the camera guns of Bristol Beaufighters deployed on ground-attack and anti-shipping operations, this book will form a rare indeed unique view of what it was like to fly dangerous strike...

One of the many wartime airmen who documented his day to day experiences in a diary, was RCAF navigator Jan Gellner. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Jan was a lawyer practicing in the Czechoslovak town of Brno. With the outbreak of...

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The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run" around the stalemate that had developed in Italy. The planners hoped that the Allied invasion would surprise the Germans and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658061Author Chris Sandham-BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)...

Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. With their diametrically opposed political philosophies, both of Poland’s neighbours...

A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, when only a boy, took part in the struggle against Mussolini's fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone's masterwork has become...

Want to know how to destroy a tank? Derail a train? Fell a tree? Break up a gun? Damage telephone wires? Destroy a bridge? Go back in time and become a partisan preparing for Nazi invasion with this original guerilla warfare manual produced for Russian...

Captain John Alexander served in the Royal Engineers and was posted to the 17th Indian Division, known as the Black Cats, which was sent into Burma against the Japanese as part of the 14th Army. John's unit was 60 Indian Field Company. After the...

Monty's desert legions - 7th Armoured Division, 51st Highland Division and 50th Northumbrian Division - helped him win at El Alamein and throughout North Africa, and eventually in North West Europe after D-Day. Monty's Northern Legions is the story of...

At the outbreak of war in 1939 British tank crews were ill-equipped, under trained and badly led. As a consequence the lives of hundreds of crewmen were wasted unnecessarily. This was due not only to the poor design and construction of British tanks, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786158007214Author Craig EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.Weight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

This volume carries on where FIRST OF THE FEW finished, in the same style and format. 10 July-the official first day of the Battle of Britain-witnessed increased aerial activity over the Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982135232Author Ronald H SpectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 43mm

Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war defeat seemed to many a certainty. With the United...

During World War 2, the Merchant Navy's main task was to run the German blockade, bringing essential food, fuel and materials to a besieged nation. The civilian crews came from all parts of the Empire and beyond - more than one in six were killed. Even...

The Twisted Florin details the incredible wartime bravery, amazing ingenuity and coincidences with daring and courage long associated with WW2 escape and evasion. It also offers fresh perspectives on the devastating personal effect of the war on...

Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085469Author Dennis E ShowalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from...

With Duel in the Sun, players can take command of the doughty Desert Rats of Montgomery's 8th Army, the fast-moving and hard-hitting raiders of the Long Range Desert Army (LRDG), or Rommel's mighty Afrika Korps, to recreate some of the most iconic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071557Author Alan OgdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

This book provides a day-by-day account of the forty-two days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-L. Follow Lt. Allsup from the beaches at Hill 108 (the 'bloody hill'), where he was injured, and Lt. Jones, who was among the first to enter Saint-L; a...

It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero's journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from...

It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero's journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from...

Volume 1 of this two-part work puts the reader firmly into the footsteps of the 2nd and 5th Rangers as they arrive in England in 1943. It follows them during their intensive training with the Commandos and the Royal Navy as they head towards D-Day...

Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fortresses. Indeed, many have ascribed the defeat of Germany in the Second World to its lack of a strategic...

This second of two volumes continues the P-38 story by focusing on the later, mass-produced models of this historic fighter-P-38J through P-38M. Each type is examined through carefully researched archival photos, as well as photographs of currently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544947290Author Neal BascombFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583179Author Matyas PanczelFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471180807Author Hiromichi YaharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313315Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

As Hitler's dreams of a Thousand Year Reich crumbled in the face of overwhelming assaults from both East and West in the first months of 1945 the heavily out numbered German armed forces were still capable of fighting with a tenacity and professionalism...

Organized and trained during 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944 during the relief of an encircled German army on the Eastern Front. Several months later, in response to the Allied invasion at Normandy, the...