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Military history
Brand: Amberley Publishing
After the United States' entry into the Second World War in 1941, their war department realised that, due to the increasing dominance of air power, their troops would need some help identifying the aircraft active in the various theatres of the war,..
17.61£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as "a miracle." Yet fortune favored the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdo..
28.43£
Brand: University of Georgia Press
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. Thi..
32.28£
The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. Previously information on t..
26.20£
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
The famed German panzers of World War II in profile format including photographs, color schemes, and drawings. ISBN: 9780887409257Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.Imprint: Schiffer MilitaryPublished date: 10 Jan 1997DEWEY: 623.74752DEWEY edition:..
17.02£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleshi..
36.09£
Brand: Publishing Group
Discover the history of the US Army and explore the different jobs soldiers do, the technology and equipment they use, and more. ISBN: 9781728463575Publisher: Lerner Publishing GroupImprint: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published date: 01 Aug 2022DEWEY: ..
14.78£
Brand: Cornell University Press
The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side c..
34.10£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the AATSEEL Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize"Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad co..
25.70£
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character ..
31.69£
Brand: Yale University Press
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality "This brisk everyman's guide-straight-talking and free of jargon-is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . ..
25.16£
Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing opinions on myriad subjects,..
142.70£
Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing opinions on myriad subjects,..
64.53£
Brand: The History Press
This book brings together a wealth of black and white pictures which together record not only the operations of the WLA but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. Drawn from the worldwide albums of many ex-land girls at a time when fi..
18.59£
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
In the fifty-five years since World War II ended in Europe, there has never been a detailed book published in any country pertaining to the German police warrant discs (Erkennungsmarke-Dienstmarke) of the Third Reich era. Warrant discs were used in ..
23.50£
Brand: Cornell University Press
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel P..
26.36£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz..
17.50£
Brand: The History Press
Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectarian in nature and involved ordinary civilians, killed by the various paramilitary groups. These organisa..
25.09£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at..
15.60£
Brand: Harvard University Press
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance…You really ought to read it…A tour de force…While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully cons..
21.01£
Brand: Y Lolfa
The story of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, and Roger a conscientious objector who became a British Naval Liaison Officer with the Free French, and to who..
21.61£
Brand: US Naval Institute Press
Tribals, Battles and Darings describes the three classes, each designed under different circumstances along destroyer lines but to general-purpose light cruiser form, from the interwar period through to the 1950s, and Alexander Clarke explains the p..
50.61£
Brand: The History Press
Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Co..
21.79£
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Germany built the first operational jet aircraft during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 262. Siegfried Decher was part of the engineering team that designed the engines that powered the 262. At the end of the war, Decher was nearly stranded in th..
32.97£