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Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Simon Forty
Häftad, 2018
165 kr
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Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic …
Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare.The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition to conquer Stalin's Soviet Union. After the …
Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers
Sonderkommandos, Kapos & Trawniki - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2021
171 kr
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The Nazis' vast concentration camp network and, later, the 'Final Solution' programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of 'overseers' minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three …
Armour of Rommel's Afrika Korps
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Baxter, Ian
Häftad, 2019
166 kr
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The Deutsche Afrika Korps (best known as simply Afrika Korps) built up a well-deserved reputation as a superb fighting machine. While this was founded on the leadership and tactical genius of its legendary commander Erwin Rommel and the fighting skills of its officers and men, another vital element …
US Naval Aviation, 1945 2003
Rare Photographs from Naval Archives
Av Leo Marriott
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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In this the highly illustrated second volume of his history of US naval aviation, Leo Marriott takes the reader through the extraordinary developments in design and capability that transformed American aircraft and aircraft carriers after the Second World War, and he describes the succession of …
Eighth Army in North Africa
Av Simon Forty
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons and equipment of …
Hell in the Central Pacific 1944
The Palau Islands
Av Jon Diamond
Häftad, 2020
188 kr
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In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group of the Western Caroline Islands. Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third Fleet, feared the heavily defended …
Hitler's Panther Tank Battalions, 1943-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartimes Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2020
171 kr
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From July 1943 to the Nazis' final defeat in May 1945 the Panther main battle tank and its variants were the mainstay of Germany's armoured forces. This superbly engineered fighting vehicle offered a lethal combination of firepower, mobility and protection.As this classic Images of War series title …
Panzergrenadiers 1942-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2021
167 kr
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The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions.As this classic new Images of War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized infantry and escort for and in close …
Hitler's Heavy Tiger Tank Battalions 1942-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2020
191 kr
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With rare, often unpublished photographs and full captions Hitler's Heavy Tank Battalions provides a superb record of the Wehrmacht's Schwere Panzerableilung on operations between 1942 and 1945.In addition to the Tiger I and successor Tiger II heavy tanks, these battalions were equipped with …
Vought F4U Corsair
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any description. Powered by a huge 18-cylinder Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp engine driving an enormous 13 feet 4 inch propeller, the first Corsairs were capable of …
Battle of Tinian
The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944
Av Grehan, John
Häftad, 2023
214 kr
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At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Ocean on one of the most important missions in human history. The B-29 carried just one bomb; the target was Hiroshima.The …
Wingate's Men
The Chindit Operations: Special Forces in Burma
Av Colin Higgs
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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Possibly the most famous fighting formations of the Burma campaign during the Second World War were the Long Range Penetration Groups, more commonly known as the Chindits. Colonel Orde Wingate was given permission to attempt long-range operations deep within Japanese-held territory with the aim of …
Battle for Burma, 1942-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Häftad, 2021
188 kr
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The battle for Burma during the Second World War was of vital importance to the Allies and the Japanese. The Allies fought to protect British India and force the Japanese out of Burma; the Japanese fought to defend the north-west flank of their newly conquered empire and aimed to strike at India …
Battle of Peleliu, 1944
Three Days That Turned into Three Months
Av Jim Moran
Häftad, 2021
192 kr
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After the Allies had defeated the Japanese in the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies, the capture of the Philippines became General MacArthur's next objective. For this offensive to succeed, MacArthur felt compelled to secure his eastern flank by seizing control of the Palau Islands, one of which …
Waffen SS Ardennes Offensive
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
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In late 1944 under extreme pressure on both the Eastern and Western fronts, Hitler realized he needed to force the Allies into negotiating a truce thereby saving Germany from total defeat. Using the Christmas period to enhance the vital element of surprise, he ordered a devastating attack through …
Waffen SS at Arnhem
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
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The 1944 Arnhem airborne operation, immortalized by the film A Bridge Too Far, will forever be remembered as a great British feat of arms. British and Polish paratroopers displayed outstanding courage and tenacity in a desperate last stand situation. And yet, as this book describes, the plan was …
Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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Literature highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust has concentrated on the incarceration of Jews and others deemed hostile to Hitler's Reich in ghettoes and their fate in the death camps.Little coverage has been given to the role played by the Deutche Reichsbahn (German National Railway). In …
Allied Victory Over Japan 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Achieves
Av Jon Diamond
Häftad, 2023
214 kr
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In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies’ favour, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific.In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advances made by British-led forces …
Hermann Göring: The Rise and Fall
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2024
167 kr
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A former Great War fighter pilot, Hermann Göring became, at his height, the second most powerful Nazi. Ambitious and ruthless, in addition to being a primary architect of the Third Reich state police and Gestapo, his numerous appointments included Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Director of …
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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Formed in 1942 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was soon deployed to the Eastern Front where Hitler's ambition to conquer Russia was stalling badly. In common with other SS units the Division was responsible for razing towns and villages, poisoning wells and genocide often against unarmed …
Operation Hoss
The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
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Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about 12,000 per day. On arrival some twenty-five …
German Siege of Leningrad, 1941 1944
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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The historic 872 day siege of Leningrad by German Army Group North began in earnest on 8 September 1941 and was not lifted until 27 January 1944\. During this period the Red Army made numerous desperate attempts to break the blockade, which the Nazis and their Spanish and Finnish allies doggedly …
Dieppe Raid
The Allies Assault Upon Hitler s Fortress Europe, August 1942
Av John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll
Häftad, 2023
225 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 …
Italian Campaign, 1943 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Häftad, 2023
210 kr
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The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle of the Germans against the western Allies in north-west Europe and against the Soviet Union in the east. But, as this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war …
Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Häftad, 2024
192 kr
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June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division – dubbed the ‘Ghost Division’ — had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English Channel. Pushing south along the Channel coast past Le Harve, Rommel’s spectacular victory at …
Malayan Emergency
The Crucial Years: 1949-53
Häftad, 2022
210 kr
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From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the terrorists' resolve.1st Battalion The Suffolk …
Schnellbootwaffe
Adolf Hitler s Guerrilla War at Sea: S-Boote 1939-45
Häftad, 2021
162 kr
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The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine, and young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels.Working …
Himmler: Hitler's Henchman
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
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Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler's most powerful subordinate. He was certainly the main architect of the Holocaust. Appointed Reichsfuhrer-SS in 1929 he built the SS into a million strong paramilitary force and took control of the Nazi concentration camps system. From 1943 he …
Heydrich: Butcher of Prague
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Av Ian Baxter
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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Reinhard Heydrich along with Heinrich Himmler, whose deputy he was, will always be regarded as one of the most ruthless of the Nazi elite. Even Hitler described him as a man with an iron heart'.He established his fearsome reputation in the 1930s, as head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the …
