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By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781472812735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Japanese solution to their rapidly deteriorating military situation in 1944--suicide missions--was not only terrifying and effective, but has fascinated military enthusiasts ever since.


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By: David Campbell

ISBN: 9781472828163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study assesses three battles in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations as American GIs try to find their feet on the battlefields of Tunisia against the German Afrikakorps.


(Paperback)

By: Jim Christley

ISBN: 9781841768595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781841768120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781780969152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The parachute infantry regiments were among the most highly decorated US Army units of World War II, and between them they saw action right across the world. This study traces the story of each of the 17 regiments, from their creation and training in the USA, through their deployments overseas, to their combat jumps and all their battles.


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By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781472817198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated study lifts the veil on two of history's last battleship-vs-battleship battles as the US and Japanese navies clashed in the Pacific during World War II.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781846034664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting. This title presents the cruiser clashes during the battles for Guadacanal , highlighting the Battle of Savo Island and the Battle of Cape Esperance.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781849086233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mark Stille

ISBN: 9781472820631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Employing archive photographs and full-color artwork, this study reassesses the role and record of Japan's formidable submarine fleet in the months after Pearl Harbor.


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By: Andrew Thomas

ISBN: 9781780962924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Shortly after the Allied landings in France the Germans unleashed the first of their so-called 'revenge weapons', the V1 flying bomb. The main element, however, were standing patrols by the fastest piston-engined fighters available to the RAF - the new Tempest V and Griffon-powered Spitfire XIV. This book deals with this aircraft.


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By: Bruce Newsome

ISBN: 9781472813756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Valentine was the most produced and most widely used British tank of the Second World War. This book describes the evolution of the Valentine design and weighs up its impact on the battlefield.


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By: Hans Gisevius

ISBN: 9780306817717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Hachette Books
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When on July 20, 1944 a bomb - placed inside the Wolf's Lair by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance - exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the coup d'etat against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were shot or condemned in show trials and hanged. This work traces its history, from the 1933 Reichstag fire to Germany's defeat in 1945.


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By: Peter Lieb

ISBN: 9781849086981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI, during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This title includes a discussion about this battle.


(Paperback)

By: Max Lambert

ISBN: 9781775540434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Priscilla Roberts

ISBN: 9780313386626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II-the most devastating war in human history.


(Hardback)

By: Adrian Gilbert

ISBN: 9780306824654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books
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From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SS


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By: Jim Moran

ISBN: 9781849086035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Wake Island 1941: A Battle to Make the Gods Weep".


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By: Richard Brooks

ISBN: 9781849082372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Walcheren 1944: Storming Hitler's Island Fortress".


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By: Worth C. Hampton

ISBN: 9781543937688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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One soldier's journey to get back home to the country and family that he loved.


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By: Robert Forczyk

ISBN: 9781849083577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Robert Forczyk

ISBN: 9781846033520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Defeated and occupied in 1939, Poland had suffered under the Nazi heel for nearly five years. Undaunted, however, the Poles formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for a moment of German weakness. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944 as the Soviet armies began to advance into eastern Poland.


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By: Al Murray

ISBN: 9780099580348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began.

Have you ever watched a film with someone who, at the most dramatic scene, argues that the plane on screen hasn't been invented yet


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By: Frank Shaw

ISBN: 9780091941574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2014
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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I lay there rather dazed for a while, expecting to be hit again at any moment.' John Hunter, Parachute Regiment, Northants.

Seventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, a great Allied Armada landed on the coast of Normandy.


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By: Frank Shaw

ISBN: 9780091941567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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As soon as I did, of course, I looked up and saw a man putting in the glass windows that had been blown out the night before.' Joan Adams, Lichfield

On the night of 7 September 1940, bombs rained down on the defenceless and unprepared population of London for nine long hours.

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