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Hitler's Wolfsschanze
The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front - An Illustrated Guide
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2021
280 kr
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Set deep in the heart of the Masurian woods of northern Poland, in what was formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers and shelters that once constituted Hitler's headquarters - the Wolfsschanze or Wolf's Lair - for Germany's attack upon the Soviet Union in 1941.Built in …
Hitler’s Attacks That Ignited WW2
Operation Himmler: The Incidents at Mosty and Gleiwitz in August 1939
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2027
274 kr
Kommande
On 26 August 1939, Hitler planned his Blitzkrieg against Poland, advancing through the Jabłonków Pass to capture Warsaw. A key part of the strategy involved seizing the tunnel and station at Mosty on the Košice-Bohumín railway to prevent Polish resistance. Late on 25 August, a German Abwehr unit, …
Saipan 1944
The Most Decisive Battle of the Pacific War
Av John Grehan
Häftad, 2021
171 kr
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After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defensive. Yet there was no sign of an end to the war, as the …
Blitzkrieg in Poland
The Battle of Westerplatte – The First Battle of WW2
Av Steven Howard Casely, John Grehan
Inbunden, 2026
280 kr
Kommande
The important Baltic port of Danzig was a ‘free’ city, an independent city-state. It had been part of Germany until the area around Danzig was handed to the newly independent state of Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War. Though surrounded by Poles, Danzig’s …
Battle of Guam 1944
From Occupation to Liberation: Honor Restored in the Pacific
Av Alexander Nicoll, John Grehan
Häftad, 2026
225 kr
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At 16.00 hours on 27 July 1944, the Stars and Stripes were raised over the central Pacific island of Guam. The symbolism of this moment was not lost on the officers and men who saluted the raising of Old Glory. This was because the first American flag to be pulled down by the Japanese in the Second …
Atomic Attack
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
Av Alexander Nicoll, John Grehan
Häftad, 2026
348 kr
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At 08.15 hours on 6 August 1945, one of the most seismic events in human history unfolded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb, nicknamed _Little Boy_, exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. Around five square miles of the city were destroyed in …
Operation Anthropoid
The Assassination of Hitler's Hangman, Reinhard Heydrich
Inbunden, 2027
274 kr
Kommande
Czechoslovakia, a vital European economy, was dismantled by Nazi Germany. The Sudetenland was annexed, and the rest of the nation became the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler replaced Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath with Reinhard Heydrich in September 1941 due to unmet production …
Operation Forager
The Pacific War’s Decisive Campaign: Guam, Saipan and Tinian, 1944
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2027
373 kr
Kommande
Deep in the central Pacific sits a cluster of small islands, the Marianas, an archipelago that is just 900 miles from Japan. In 1944, that placed the main Marian Islands of Guam, Saipan and Tinian within range of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Under Operation Forager, the capture of these islands …
Death Railway in Numbers
The Human Tragedy of the Thailand-Burma Railway in WW2
Av John Grehan
Häftad, 2026
192 kr
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Between May 1942 and October 1943 Allied prisoners of war built and later helped maintain a railway which linked the rail networks of Thailand and Burma. Yet how many prisoners worked on the railway and how many died during its construction? How far did it run? How many stations and work camps were …
Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War
The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2022
274 kr
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The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skilful historians. Such histories are, of course, the products of many years, even decades, of accumulated knowledge, but also of a received consensus of …
Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War
The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal & Leyte Gulf
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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This volume of U.S. Navy reports offers an authoritatively detailed, refreshingly immediate perspective on the major battles of WWII in the Pacific.Scores of historians have chronicled the naval battles fought against Imperial Japan during the Second World War. But as we know, hindsight gives us …
Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War
The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal & Leyte Gulf
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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This volume of U.S. Navy reports offers an authoritatively detailed, refreshingly immediate perspective on the major battles of WWII in the Pacific. Scores of historians have chronicled the naval battles fought against Imperial Japan during the Second World War. But as we know, hindsight gives us …
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army
The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories
Häftad, 2021
181 kr
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Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones and …
Hitler Assassination Attempts
The Plots, Places and People that Almost Changed History
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie …
Hitler Assassination Attempts
The Plots, Places and People that Almost Changed History
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie …
Combined Operations
An Official History of Amphibious Warfare Against Hitler''s Third Reich, 1940–1945
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2023
132 kr
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From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway''s Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler''s Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to …
Crimean War
E-bok, 2014
132 kr
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The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. …
Crimean War
E-bok, 2014
132 kr
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The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. …
Dieppe Raid
The Allies Assault Upon Hitler s Fortress Europe, August 1942
Av John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll
Häftad, 2023
253 kr
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As dawn was breaking on the morning of 19 August 1942, Allied troops leapt ashore to the east and west of the French port of Dieppe. These were British commandoes accompanied by U.S. Rangers, tasked to silence the German gun batteries that flanked Dieppe. Other troops - the men of the 2nd Canadian …
Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved An Army
A Day by Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation
Av John Grehan
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author …
Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress
The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2023
280 kr
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Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to re-capture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens.Under the …
Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress
The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2023
154 kr
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Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially ‘severe’ loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens. Under the …
Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress
The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2023
152 kr
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Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially ‘severe’ loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens. Under the …
Battle of Tinian
The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944
Av Alexander Nicoll, John Grehan
E-bok, 2023
221 kr
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The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific." — National Maritime Historical Society At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the …
Okinawa: The Last Naval Battle of WW2
The Official Admiralty Account of Operation Iceberg
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2022
280 kr
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Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa.Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics …
Okinawa: The Last Naval Battle of WW2
The Official Admiralty Account of Operation Iceberg
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty …
Okinawa: The Last Naval Battle of WW2
The Official Admiralty Account of Operation Iceberg
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty …
Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway
Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force
Av John Grehan
Inbunden, 2022
219 kr
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In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor …
Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway
Accounts of Life, Death & War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force
Av John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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An account by British Medics of the treatment of the WWII PoWs by the Japanese in war camps of the Death Railway.In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the …
Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway
Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force
Av Grehan John Grehan, John Grehan
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor …
