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By: Steven J. Zaloga

ISBN: 9781846033940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the early hours of D-Day, 1944, a group from the US Army 2nd Rangers Battalion were sent on one of the legendary raids of World War II. The mission was to scale the cliffs overlooking Omaha beach and assault the German coastal artillery at Pointe-du-Hoc. This book analyses various details of this assault.


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By: K. D. Richardson

ISBN: 9780313361791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on American bases in Hawaii, the people of the United States knew instantly that the nation was at war.


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By: Konrad H. Jarausch

ISBN: 9780691161976
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch,


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By: Michael Fullilove

ISBN: 9780143571995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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In the dark days between Hitler's invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of highly unorthodox emissaries dispatched to Europe by President Franklin D. Roosevelt paved the way for America's entry into the war.


(Paperback)

By: Prof. Tim Luckhurst

ISBN: 9781350149489
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Prof. Tim Luckhurst

ISBN: 9781350149496
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Robert Forczyk

ISBN: 9781846034626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The rescue of imprisoned Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from atop the Gran Sasso plateau was one of the most dramatic special forces operations in military history. The Germans, led by SS Haupsturmfuhrer Otto Skorzeny, launched a daring Glider-borne assault, which surprised the Italian guards and secured Mussolini without a shot being fired.


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By: Bob Welch

ISBN: 9780425257746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Jeremy Black

ISBN: 9781472583222
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Jeremy Black

ISBN: 9781472583239
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Angus Konstam

ISBN: 9781472817952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first major naval action of World War II, the Battle of the River Plate was a British victory. Highly-illustrated, this engaging study will appeal to military and naval historians alike.


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By: Herbert Feis

ISBN: 9780691620619
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and


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By: Herbert Feis

ISBN: 9780691647364
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Kevin Maurer

ISBN: 9781524744779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Ken Ford

ISBN: 9781849085700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942".


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By: Victor Kulikov

ISBN: 9781780960593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs, each controlling three or four smaller AOIs equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of themselves. This title reveals how some of the aces' fighters were in this often-forgotten theatre of World War 1.


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By: M R D Foot

ISBN: 9781847922939
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze. Their job as saboteurs, informers, partisans, couriers or secret agents was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines;


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By: Marc Diaz

ISBN: 9781098362270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781841768045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work details the 24-day Saipan and 8-day Tinian operations, fom the difficulties the Marines faced establishing themselves ashore, through the largest tank battle in the Pacific, and the horrors of Japanese civilians committing suicide to avoid capture.


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By: Angus Konstam

ISBN: 9781780962498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Using documentary records, memoirs from all sides, this title recreates the battle day by day, hour by hour.


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By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781849086059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Despite myth, the Japanese carrier force was not destroyed at Midway but survived to still prove a threat in the Pacific Theater. Nowhere was this clearer than in the battle of Santa Cruz of October 1942. The Japanese were able to gain a tactical victory at Santa Cruz. This book deals with this topic.


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By: Timothy M. Gay

ISBN: 9780451419149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Originally published in hardcover in 2013.


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By: Marco Mattioli

ISBN: 9781472818836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Donald Nijboer

ISBN: 9781846034336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Products of different design philosophies, the Seafire F III and the A6M Zero were never intended to meet in combat. This book examines these two iconic fighters and their two different histories, using artwork to illustrate the aerial duel of World War II, as the British Seafire overcame its critics to emerge victorious over the Japanese Zero.

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