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On March 1, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe at a terrifying pace, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable...

The Imperial War Museum s archive is home to more than 20,000 hours of moving image material spanning the twentieth century in Britain. The clips range from documentary film and...

The book titled The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940 by the author Dr Alfred Price. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

As the new Scout District Commissioner, he officiated in welcomes to the then Queensland Head Scout Governor Henry Abel Smith, and Lady May. Les died -- on 11 December 2000...

For the US airman in World War Two, flying was not just a test of skill, but it was also a feat of stamina, endurance and, often a matter of...

Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here,...

Len Deighton's skill as a novelist is used to show how the human factor influenced every twist and turn of this close-fought battle. His encyclopedic knowledge of technology makes clear...

Volume I in a unique trilogy of books which comprise brilliantly vivid eyewitness accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land in the Second World War. Here...

Within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese struck the small U.S. garrison on Wake Island. As his squadron's engineering officer, Marine pilot John F. Kinney used all...

The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled their short and...

The Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability...

Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour,...

While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's...

The book titled August '39: The Last Four Weeks of Peace by the author Howarth/Stephen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Take These Men by the author Cyril Joly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Britain, with the profits from the book donated to the Douglas Bader Foundation, this book uses first-hand accounts of...

Re-published with seven new chapters that tell the story from both sides, this is an account of airborne action at Arnhem. The airborne troops who landed at Arnhem in September...

The Fifteenth Air Force took the air battle against the Axis powers and Nazi Germany to areas England-based bombers could not reach, contributing significantly to the Allied victory in World...

Johnny Kent grew up in Winnipeg and was bitten by the flying bug at an early age. He grabbed experience and flying hours wherever and whenever he could and was...

It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...

The book titled Colditz Story: The Latter Days of Colditz by the author P. R. Reid. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the real story of the genuine and terrifying threat the Imperial Japanese Navy posed to Australia in 1942.On the beautiful Inland Sea of Japan - the heartland of...

In a ferocious gun battle lasting over an hour Glorious and the two destroyers escorting her were all sunk. Drawing on Admiralty records and the testimony of those who served...

The book titled Round the Clock: The Experience of the Allied Bomber Crews Who Flew by by the author Philip Kaplan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The Battle of Midway was perhaps the most significant naval battle since Trafalgar. With the infamy of Pearl Harbor still fresh in minds, the men of the US Pacific Fleet...

Anne Frank's diary is the most widely-read book after the Bible, yet never before has a biography of her been published. Carol Anne Lee has been allowed access to previously...

Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of 29 German women during the Third Reich. Working for the Resistance, joining the Nazi Party, outsmarting the Gestapo, hiding a Jewish...

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...

An assured supply of armaments, petrol and foodstuffs from the US was vital to the British war effort, especially in the early days of the Second World War. The route...

The book titled Siege: Malta 1940-1943 by the author Ernle Bradford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Arnhem Spearhead: A Private Soldier's Story by the author James Sims. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the darkest times in modern history; the twelve years when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army ruled over Germany. This is an eyewitness account...

The powerful history of the evacuation of Dunkirk in the words of those who were there. The subject of the new major film by Christopher Nolan It could have been...

The book titled Annabel Karmel's Quick & Easy Series: Parties by the author Annabel Karmel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Eighteen days before Pearl Harbour, Japan opened fire on Australia. The RAN's cover-up of the action that sank HMAS on the 19th November, 1941 has been a public scandal for...

The air force of Tito's Yugoslavia has had many different peculiarities - from a unique Cold War position of having operated a mix of US, Soviet, and indigenous aircraft and...

A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope, an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland, a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler or a Japanese...

The outcome of the Pacific War was heavily influenced by the results of naval battles between the Imperial Japanese fleet and the US Navy. One of the key elements was...

Author of "The Hardest Day" and "The Spitfire Story", Alfred Price describes the events of this "turning point" battle in a style which will inform the general reader and trigger...

To patrol stormy seas or fly high into a sky filled with flak bursts, fighters and searchlights, and then to return to the thatched cottages and ancient churches of English...

The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal...

p>span>This is the story of HMAS Canberra from from the time the ship was commissionednbsp;in 1928 to the last terrifying moments when HMAS Canberrarsquo;s fate was sealed./span>br />span>Some may know...

"Gavin at War provides a lively selfportrait. His diary is especially notable for its skeptical assessments of his comrades and his Army." - The New York Times Winner, 2022 Army...

Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in use around the world from the end of World War...

A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed. On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers...

The true story of one of the men who took part in the famous Great Escape. When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the...