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Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War.

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Gives an account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII. Drawing on documents in US and British archives, this title explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. It focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-combatant citizens.

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Offers an examination of the relationship between the Royal Air Force and the French Fighter pilots who flew for the RAF during WWII. This book analyses the relationship between the RAF, the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2011 by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

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Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real "Dad's Army".

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A thorough history of WWII in southeastern France, featuring previously unseen sources and photographs.

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A. W. Purdue provides one of the most concise yet comprehensive assessments of the entire course of World War II, covering both the European and the Asian Pacific conflicts. The second edition of this established text has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of recent research and current debates.

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Packed with rich detail and analysis, this exciting tale of war at sea relates the dramatic and moving true story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia and its consequences for the conduct of marine warfare.

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Presents the investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Exploring political discourse, state propaganda, and high and low culture, this book contributes to the study of the political culture of European history from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Presents the investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. This book explores political discourse, state propaganda, and high and low culture. It is suitable for both political scientists and twentieth-century historians.

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over the high seas, Malta, the desert battles and in the struggle with Japan.

This is the second volume in the unique Freedom's Battle trilogy, which provides intensely vivid accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land.

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In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania. They were members of Britain's Special Operations Executive, and their task was to find and arm bands of local guerillas and harass the Axis as best they could. This title draws on interviews with survivors, long-hidden diaries and more.

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Growing up, I was surrounded by military heroes. Herein are the stories they told of the rocky road traveled in the cause of freedom.

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The exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment have long been overshadowed by those of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion. Yet the actions of the 3rd Battalion during the D-Day landings were every bit as incredible. This title offers an account of the experiences of the 3rd Battalion from training through to D-Day and beyond.

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This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States.

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Anglo-American James Goodson's war began on Sept 3rd 1939, when the SS Athenia was torpedoed and sank off the Hebrides. Surviving the sinking and distinguishing himself rescuing survivors, Goodson signed on with the RAF. In this memoir, he presents full descriptions of aerial dogfights as well as the stories of others of the heroic 'few'.

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"Offley skillfully blends history and statistics and analysis as well as heart-pounding narratives of sea-battles that have the immediacy of a good novel, only they tell of real people and real events."--The American Spectator