Modern warfare

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A 1960s German perspective of the World War II battle in Libya and how the Allied and Axis commanders shaped the course of the action.

Come ride along and live the adventure of the men of Mjolnir (the name of the legendary hammer of Thor, the Norse god of war.

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THE FOURTH YEAR began with intensified fighting on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in September 1942.

Rebecca West’s gripping chronicle of England’s World War II traitors, expanded and updated for the Cold War era  In The Meaning of Treason, Rebecca West tackled not only the history and facts behind the spate of World War II traitors, but the overriding social forces at work to challenge man’s connection to his fatherland.

As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country.

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat.

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The Royal Naval Commandos had one of the most dangerous and important tasks of any unit in World War II – they were first onto the invasion beaches and they were the last to leave.

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The award-winning historian's acclaimed account of British sea power throughout WWII: "e;a must-read for anyone interested in Naval warfare"e; (PowerShips magazine).

'A remarkable act of imagination and filial homage' William Boyd, New StatesmanIn November 1944, Sub Lt Bob Clark, a twenty-year old agent with Britain's top-secret Special Operations Executive, parachuted into northern Italy.

On October 28th, 1940 Benito Mussolini at 5 am, sent a telegram to his ambassador in Athens to demand that prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas allow his Italian troops to invade Greece without incident or face war.

Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fictionEdith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary.

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis genocidal vision of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.

Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life.

It is the spring of 1944 and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance, everything now hinges on an imminent Allied Invasion into France, D-Day.

A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.

Ce livre en 2 tomes met au jour pour la première fois, l'essentiel des "Écrits de Jean Moulin" lui-même, puisque seul avait paru, posthume et préfacé par le Général de Gaulle, "Premier combat", en 1947 aux éditions de Minuit.

J'ai fait la connaissance de mon grand-père sur son lit de mort.

This important new book is one of few available eyewitness tales about the often overlooked role of the Air / Sea Rescue teams during World War II.

« Parce qu'il est un temps où il devient urgent de transmettre le passé dont on a hérité, je ressentis dans les années 2000 la responsabilité d'offrir dans la mémoire de notre famille une place à ceux qui avaient disparu dans la Shoah ».

Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War.

A comprehensive pictorial study of Germany's armored reconnaissance operations across all WWII combat zones.

Second in the definitive reference series on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division.

Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la Zentrale Stelle de Ludwigsburg, une institution judiciaire qui fut chargée, dès 1958, de conduire dans l'Allemagne de l'ouest les enquêtes préliminaires des crimes nazis.

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Sympathisant avant la guerre de 1939-1945 de l'Action française, Robert Daël est confronté au choc d'une défaite aussi rapide que brutale qui l'envoie jusqu'en Prusse orientale puis au Stalag XA à Schleswig, au nord de l'Allemagne.

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.