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America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged
On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form....
Voices Against War
On 15 February 2003, an estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London to protest against the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of that tragic conflict, the...
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W.
The Endgame is a gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access...
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and old ideas of warfare came to an end. This book tells how the power of the atom was harnessed to...
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese offensive in the Far East seemed unstoppable. Allied forces engaged in a futile attempt to halt their rapid advance, culminating in the...
Chief of Staff: Vol. II: World War II to Korea and Vietnam
The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the...
Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group
The art of successful night fighting was not something that could be easily learnt. Pilot and navigator had to work together as a team, to think and move as one...
Kill Anything That Moves
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai...
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America October
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey...
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the...
Engage the Enemy More Closely: Royal Navy in 2WW
The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials,...
Moral Combat: A History Of Word War Ii
From pre-eminent historian Michael Burleigh comes a brilliant new examination of the Second World War and a magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and bestselling THE THIRD REICH. Literature on the...
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War
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The book titled Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War by the author James Rusbridger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That LED America into
Valley of Death is a gripping, panoramic history taking the reader from 1940 through the aftermath of the harrowing, monumental French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, which ended colonial rule...
Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
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"Bitter Ocean" is a masterful, authoritative account of perhaps the least-known major battle of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic. British, Canadian, and American air and sea forces...
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944
The book titled Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944 by the author Sir Max Hastings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Storm Passed by: Ireland, 1941-42
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This book is a well-written and extensively researched account of the effects on neutral Ireland of those crucial early years of the Second World War when the fear existed that...
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon:...
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life a flawed and troubled FDR struggling to manage World War II. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan,...
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II
"A superb book-an American equivalent to John Keegan'sThe Face of Battle. I sincerely believe thatGruntsis destined to be a classic."-Dave Grossman, Author ofOn KillingandOn Combat From the acclaimed author of...
Blood, Tears and Folly
This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence...
The Illustrated History of the Third Reich
The book titled The Illustrated History of the Third Reich by the author John Bradley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
US Small Arms in World War II: A photographic history of the weapons
US Small Arms in World War II is a detailed photographic study of the wide array of weapons that American troops were issued during World War II. Packed with rare...
World at War
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Discover all you need to know about World War I and II in this enthralling account of the greatest wars the world has seen. Complete with authentic and striking photography...
Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing
In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever
Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
An Eyewitness History of World War II
Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Charles Lindbergh, James Farmer, John Steinbeck, George Marshall, James A. Michener, Douglas MacArthur, and...
Uniforms of the Third Reich: A Study in Photographs
This new book takes a close look at a variety of authentic World War II era German uniforms including examples from the Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Allgemeine-SS, Hitler Youth and...
War on Wheels: The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second
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The story of the British Army's transformation into a fully mechanised force in World War Two During the Second World War the British Army underwent a complete transformation as the...
Ghost Platoon
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold...until now. thoroughly researched and compelling a chilling account The Sunday Telegraph In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together...
Memoirs of the Second World War
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Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Nobel Prize-winner Winston Churchill's quintessential account of the Second World War. As not only the most powerful player in World War II, but...
To Hell and Back
Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
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Arcturus Military Classics discuss the strategies, tactics and weapons of the two World Wars, and vividly bring to life how these were employed on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa...
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men - along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley - who...
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors lived, fought and died in
2024 winner of the Australian Naval Institutes Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one...
Hitlers Death: Russia's Last Great Secret
At last one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War has been solved. Since historian Hugh Trevor-Roper made his name with the publication of "Hitler's Last Days", it...
With Britain in Mortal Danger: Britain's Secret Army
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In 1938 the War Office ordered the Director of Military Intelligence to create a unit that would research the tactics and organisation needed in the event of an invasion. After...
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he...
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Abandoned?
The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend
After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Though the belief that it had been the...
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Stories of Captivity and Escape from the 1st
This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...
Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear Conflict
In 1999, less than one year after both countries tested nuclear weapons, India and Pakistan found themselves locked in another armed conflict. In spite of a ray of hope for...
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German...
Corsair: Vought's F4U in World War II and Korea
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The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up an impressive 11:1 kill ratio against...
Out of the Depths of Hell: A Soldier's Story of Life and Death in
While the Burma railway has been well chronicled, the hell of the Kinkisaki copper mine has not been revealed until now. John McEwan was a slave labourer, working naked in...