Modern warfare

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.

Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.

A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war liberated from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family.

*; A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes *; The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller *; Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.

Covers the D-Day airborne drops and amphibious landings at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach.

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.

Gripping firsthand accounts.

Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today.

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

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

Field Marshal Erwin Rommels heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life.

Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Usta e), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941.

At the end of World War II, Gen.

In the final, desperate months of World War Two, at a time when the German war machine was considered by the Allies to be an almost spent force, Adolf Hitler unleashed a new weapon against England and western Europe that fell from the silence of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and the edge of space.

On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission.

Occupied Iran in World War II became the most important supply route to Russia and source of fuel to the Allies.

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II.

During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

How big is Germany's Air Force?

Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II.

Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.

James Arness gives the full story on his early years, his family, his military career and his film work in Hollywood, including appearances in the cult-favorite science fiction movies Them!

On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

"e;"e;Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were.

Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research.

A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.

"I hob nix zum Dazöhn!

Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations.

Frank Dell’s experience as a Second World War pilot with the Royal Air Force’s Light Night Striking Force takes an even more dramatic turn when his Mosquito is shot down over Germany on the night of 14/15 October 1944.

Minute-by-minute account of the offensive.

When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past.

From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club.

In 1943, German forces launched a counteroffensive, reclaiming Kharkov during a crucial Eastern Front crisisAt the beginning of 1943, the German armed forces were in crisis on the southern front in Russia.

Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "e;a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience .

The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories, and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a more nuanced picture from both sides of the front.

'Lord Haw-Haw' (William Joyce) was Hitler's secret weapon of the airwaves.

"e;To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope?

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature.