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A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942--the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.

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The breathtaking story of the most successful female fighter pilots in history

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This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.

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A unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein -'the end of the beginning' -and the bloody battle that followed .

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The battle history, men and equipment of the most famous Free French unit of World War II, led by France's best fighting general.

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From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace

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The lives of six women on the home front 1939-1945: the true history of what our grandmothers did in the war.

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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II

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Tracing the final operations of the war, this title analyses how the Allied strategies in the final days of the war were a hint of the future suspicion that would drive the Cold War.

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Originally published in 1945: 'A.D. Divine's Dunkirk is the best contemporaneous account, detailing all the big and little ships that rescued the men trapped on the beaches in late May 1940.' - Nicholas Rankin

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A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa.

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This study describes the air-sea offensive supporting the ground-force invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February and April 1945, which led to the sinking of the Yamato and the onslaught of the Japanese kamikaze.

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After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book presents his adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.

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Takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne.

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Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.

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Eyewitness to World War II brings you closer than ever before to the greatest challenge a generation of Americans had ever faced.

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Examines the clashes between the Corsair and Ki-84 in the closing stages of the war, revealing how Corsair pilots had to adapt their techniques and combat strategies to adapt to these newer types.

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"First published in Allen Lane hardcover by Penguin Canada, 2015"--Title page verso.

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.

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The classic bestseller on the Battle of Britain, revised and updated.

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The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders.

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Now publishing in paperback, this is a rigorously detailed and utterly compelling guide to Finland's vital, but almost forgotten role in the desperate struggle against Soviet Russia in the Winter War.

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Focusing on three key battles of the epic David-and-Goliath Winter War, this illustrated study assesses the combat performance of Finnish and Soviet forces during this short but savage war.

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When does war end...and slaughter begin