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The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic.

In 1914, Europe was not the only continent coming to terms with a new form of conflict.

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This book is based on more than a hundred letters sent home by three Swansea brothers during the First World War, almost all of which relate to the period 1916-18 when Richard, Gabriel and Ivor Eustis were serving in different theatres.

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

"e;An engaging and often frightening story"e; of a member of the 305th Engineering Battalion of the 80th Infantry Division (Andrew Z.

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This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Auden’s earlier poetry and poetics.

The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.

This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Auden’s earlier poetry and poetics.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W.

'For the first time Australia speaks, not for herself alone, but for the whole British Commonwealth.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W.

Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnam's unforgiving jungles.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the ability and pluck to face fear and move on.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II.

In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the third Thousand Bomber Raid.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the ability and pluck to face fear and move on.

From the skies above Europe to the beaches of Normandy, the Allied air campaign of 1943-44 orchestrated one of historys most decisive military victories.

Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnam's unforgiving jungles.

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II.

From the skies above Europe to the beaches of Normandy, the Allied air campaign of 1943-44 orchestrated one of historys most decisive military victories.

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.

This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II.

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This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II.

This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.

For thirty years the war in Vietnam consumed everything it touched: a French empire, an American presidency and then another, three million Vietnamese lives by the highest estimates, and 58,220 American ones — along with America's certainty about itself.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.

The true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.

Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all frontsNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front.

The Armchair General team has done it again.

From the outbreak of war in 1914 to the creation of the Mercantile Marine Reserve and the eventual introduction of convoys in 1917, this book charts the experiences, contribution and sacrifices made by merchant mariners from Wales.

In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht.

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In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht.

'What is it that makes the history of the Second World War so compelling?

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