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By: Hiroshi Ichimura

ISBN: 9781846034084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dubbed the 'Oscar' by the Allies, the Ki-43 Hayabusa Peregrine was the most prolific Japanese fighter of World War 2. Focusing on the exploits of the Ki-43, this book charts the experiences of the pilots and discusses the early stages of the war in South-East Asia, China, Burma and New Guinea.


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By: Nicholas Millman

ISBN: 9781849084406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Ki-44 'Tojo' Aces of World War 2".


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By: Nicholas Millman

ISBN: 9781780962955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tells the story of the elite Japanese Army Air force (JAAF) aces that flew the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow), and the Ki-100 Goshikisen in the Pacific Theatre of World War 2. This book provides an account of some of the most hard-pressed fighter pilots of the war.


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By: Rose Mary Sheldon

ISBN: 9781538114889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Exploring the history of internal security of the first Roman dynasty, this book answers the enduring question: If there were nine thousand men guarding the emperor, why did Rome have the highest rate of assassination of any empire Sheldon concludes that the repeated problem of killing Caesar reflected the empires larger dynamics and turmoil.


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By: Neil Short

ISBN: 9781780962580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Although far from a typical raid, the 20 July Plot - Operation Valkyrie - was still a daring and audacious attack undertaken by a small, very brave, group of individuals, determined to kill Hitler. Hitler was badly shaken by the blast and, despite the fact that numerous other attempts had been made on the Fuhrer's life since he came to power.


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By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472801098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast.


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By: Peter Panzeri

ISBN: 9781472804082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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On May 2, 2011 a ten-year manhunt drew to a deadly end as the men of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (a k a SEAL Team Six) closed in on their prey, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. This book tells the story of the raid is told, from start to finish.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Leong Kok Wey

ISBN: 9781350153912
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Adam Leong Kok Wey

ISBN: 9781784530723
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new history focusing on the British Special Forces and their attempts to assassinate enemy leaders during WWII


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By: Gregg Adams

ISBN: 9781472813275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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For those interested in World War I beyond the Western Front, this fully-illustrated book explores clashes between British and German troops in colonial East Africa.


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By: John Nagl

ISBN: 9780143127765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: David Greentree

ISBN: 9781849086011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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On 25 May 1944, 800 men of the 500th SS Parachute Battalion descended on Drvar, a town behind enemy lines in north-western Bosnia. Their aim was to kill or capture Tito, the leader of the partisan movement in the region. This title deals with this episode.


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By: Graeme Davis

ISBN: 9781782004097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on the notes of the deceased historian, Dr Emile Fouchet, this book attempts to unlock the secrets of the Knights Templar. It offers an examination of their historical origins, their growth in the early middle-ages, and their supposed destruction under the charges of heresy.


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By: Ernest R. May

ISBN: 9780691610177
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the World Wars. This cautionary tale, warns that intelligence agencies can do certain things very well--but other things poorly, if at all. Originally published in 1


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By: Ernest R. May

ISBN: 9780691638331
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert Lyman

ISBN: 9781846039393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go. But British forces employed defensive techniques to counter the Japanese infiltration tactics.


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By: Robert Forczyk

ISBN: 9781782008194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focusing on the northern front of the battle with Generaloberst Walter Model's forces pitted against General Rokossovsky's Central Front between 5 July and 18 August, this title helps you explore both the German offensive and the Soviet counteroffensive.


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By: Mark Healy

ISBN: 9781855322110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the largest tank battle of World War II, the Soviet army successfully resisted the German Panzer offensive in the Kursk Salient on the Eastern Front, and in the counter-offensive that followed, began an advance that finally ended in Berlin. This book is a history of the battle.


(Paperback)

By: Dmitriy Khazanov

ISBN: 9781849084734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"LA-5/7 Vs. Fw 190: Eastern Front 1942-45".


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By: Jeremy Black

ISBN: 9781442276901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground.


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By: Jeremy Black

ISBN: 9781442276895
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground.


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By: Michel Paradis

ISBN: 9781501104732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Max Arthur

ISBN: 9780753522295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Britain's very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer's battle.

Britain's air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom - many with their lives.


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By: Philip Jowett

ISBN: 9781472826282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Early 20th-century Latin America was regularly convulsed by war and revolution. With detailed color plates and contemporary photographs, this Men-at-Arms title examines the soldiers and revolutionaries that fought in these conflicts.

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