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Finnish Aces of World War 2
Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945...
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and...
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: A True Story
WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A...
Borneo 1945: The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific
A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December...
Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943: The USN and IJN fight the
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed....
Rhineland: Hitler's Last Defence, 1944-45
A dramatic retelling of the desperate battle of the Rhineland during World War II from the German perspective. 'A masterful analysis of a vital campaign.', Professor Peter Caddick-Adams, Author of...
Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942-45
A vivid history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi...
The Aleutians 1942-43: Struggle for the North Pacific
A highly illustrated study of the Japanese conquest and American reconquest of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, one of the most inhospitable theatres of World War II....
Robert Taylor: Air Combat Paintings: v.4
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This volume features 31 colour reproductions of some of Robert Taylor's most popular works, supported throughout with a wealth of colour details and pencil sketches. His introduction illuminates his painting...
The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named...
To Conquer Hell: The Battle of Meuse-Argonne 1918
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"Each First World War battle deserves a historian; not every battle finds one...A moving, dramatic, and intensely human account. One of the most powerful war books that I have read'...
The Somme 1916: Touring the French Sector
With a few notable exceptions, the French efforts on the Somme have been largely missing or minimised in British accounts of the Battle of the Somme. And yet they held...
Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
Drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, this is a gripping history of the experiences of the Commandos and their unsung allies in one of the bloodiest battles of the Burma Campaign....
South Atlantic 1982: The carrier campaign in the Falklands War
A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible sailed...
Devil's Fire, Southern Cross: The Conclusion of the
A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox. This page-turning history examines...
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign,
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War
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Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street...
The Military Propeller Aircraft Guide
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The book titled The Military Propeller Aircraft Guide by the author David Donald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
B-29 Superfortress vs Japanese Nightfighter: Japan 1944-45
An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944-45. The USAAF's B-29-led strategic bombing offensive against...
RAF Fighters vs Ju 87 Stuka: In the West 1940-41
An illustrated account of the clashes between RAF Fighter Command's Hurricane and Spitfire and the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka in the skies over France, the Channel and southern England. The...
Hurtgen Forest 1944 (1): The US First Army's Route to the Rhine
The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II. In September 1944, the Allied High Command continued to...
Me 163 vs Allied Heavy Bombers: Northern Europe 1944-45
An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffe's Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the closing years of World War II. In the summer of 1944, US...
Operation Barbarossa 1941: The Luftwaffe opens the Eastern Front
Barbarossa was the biggest German invasion of World War II. Comprehensively illustrated, this study explores the air campaign that spearheaded it, and how it evolved during the rest of 1941....
Chrome Dome 1960-68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation
In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome...
The Union Army 1861-65 (3): Midwestern and Western States
This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for the Union during the Civil War. During...
Operation Steinbock 1944: The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over
The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. Operation Steinbock , or as it...
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942-43
This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese...
Unknown Warrior: The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace
Lest We Forget'-that mantra of military remembrance-failed for Captain Alec Little, Australia's greatest fighter Ace. Despite the recent outpouring in interest in our military heritage, the young Victorian credited with...
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and...
Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported...
Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
Drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, this is a gripping history of the experiences of the Commandos and their unsung allies in one of the bloodiest battles of the Burma Campaign....
Tanks in Ukraine 2022
A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks. The invasion...
Luftwaffe Bombers vs British AA Defences: Britain 1940-41
An illustrated study of the British Army's Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command's performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. When the Battle of Britain commenced in July...
D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector: The US Navy's Western Task Force
A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg. The D-Day...
American Civil War Amphibious Tactics
Reveals the tactics, technologies, and specially raised units at the heart of the Union's conduct of combined operations in the American Civil War. During the Civil War, as well as...
The German Navy 1935-45: The Kriegsmarine in World War II
An illustrated study of the uniforms and personal equipment worn by the personnel of the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy of the Third Reich, from 1935-45. Founded in defiance of the...
Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943: The USN and IJN fight the
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed....
German Soldier vs British Soldier: Spring Offensive and Hundred Days
This illustrated study pits the Kaiser's troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw...
Yom Kippur War 1973: Airpower in Israel's hardest-fought war
The story of the hardest-fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match against Egypt and Syria's high-tech MiGs and missiles. The...
Spitfire I: Phoney War and Battle of France
An illustrated study of the legendary Spitfire and the evolving tactics behind its early defence of Britain's shores. The Spitfire endures as one of the most iconic aircraft of World...
To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
Operation Steinbock 1944: The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over
The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. Operation Steinbock , or as it...
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that...
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa'
This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR...
Japanese Conquest of Burma 1942: The Advance to the Gates of India
This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and China. The Japanese invasion of Burma...
US Soldier vs Chinese Soldier: Korea 1951-53
This book examines the US infantry against the Chinese Army amid the unforgiving terrain of Korea during the first real clash of the Cold War. On June 25, 1950, North...
German Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining...