(Hardback)

The brutal months of fighting that finally brought an end to the Second World War in the west are recreated through first-hand testimonies in this vivid new history.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

During the later stages of the Vietnam War, the US-made M41 Walker Bulldog light tank fought the Soviet-designed T-54 main battle tank in a series of battles in Laos and Vietnam. Fully illustrated, this engaging study investigates the origins, combat record, and legacy of these two armored fighting vehicles.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A fascinating and lively new history of four bows that changed warfare - the composite bow, the longbow, the crossbow, and the Japanese bow, the yumi - by a world-renowned expert.

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Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving SOE, British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French Resistance

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Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv. The SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far. Espionage can stop them - if Washington wakes up to the danger.

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WAR REPORT, the landmark BBC radio program, first broadcast after the nine o-clock news on D-Day, 6 June 1944 and provided an almost-daily chronicle to millions of listeneres of the final year of World War II. This title collects the dispatches of War Report to provide a visceral account of Allied efforts to liberate Europe and end the war.

(Hardback)

The stories of the Native Americans encompass heroism and tragedy, humour and stoicism, loyalty and conflictall part of the riveting experience of Warriors in Uniform

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The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days.

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An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

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Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. Drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed illustrations, this volume is suitable for studying the intense fighting at the battles of Waterloo and Wavre, the final, decisive engagements of the Waterloo campaign.

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The authors receive letters from readers wanting to know what's happened to the characters of "We Were Soldiers Once And Young" (1992). This title answers these questions. It takes us back to the battlefields by the commanders and veterans of both sides.

(Paperback)

Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front.

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The Lost Voices of our 'Forgotten Army' in the war with Japan 1941-45.

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This study explores, in fascinating detail, the story of how the skill of codebreakers and fighter pilots terminated the career of Admiral Yamamoto--and the subsequent controversy over who fired the fatal shots.

(Hardback)

"A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home"--

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This devastating account of the battles against the North Vietnamese at the Ia Drang Valley, November, 1965, rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge--and dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier.

(Paperback)

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war.

(Paperback, Main)

From the author of Matterhorn comes a vivid, visceral examination of what happens to a young man when he is sent into battle, based on Karl's own experiences as a decorated Marine.

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The 1814 invasion of Washington.

(Paperback, Main)

A compelling work of political and military history, this is a highly original account of the conquest of Mesopotamia in 1914 - Britain's first invasion of Iraq.