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  • Otto Skorzeny
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Quella di Otto Skorzeny è sicuramente una delle figure più controverse ed interessanti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, alla quale molti storici hanno dedicato articoli e libri, per esaltare o denigrare le sue azioni che nel bene o nel male furono comunque straordinarie: la liberazione del Duce sul Gran Sasso, l'operazione 'Panzerfaust' nell'ottobre del 1944, l'operaz...
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    28,71 €

  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C. McDonald III
    Born to Fly China’s wide-open skies were perfect… if you didn’t mind typhoons, sand storms,  blizzards, uncharted mountains and  Japanese Zeros hunting you. Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II.  He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flyin...
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    34,81 €

  • Renatus' Kayak
    Rozanne Enerson Junker
    Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus...and to his daughter, Harriot?Woody had seldom spoken about his World War II service when he and six other G.I.s manned a secret American weather stat...
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    14,59 €

  • Operation Barbarossa
    Nigel Askey
    In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Sovie...
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    40,02 €

  • The Axis Forces 4
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Book magazine dedicated to the German, Italian and Japanese armed forces and their allies during WW2.In this issue. The battle of Narva 1944, The japan in war, The Italian Alpine Division Monterosa of RSI. Eastern Volunteer insignia. Heinrich Sonne. Knight Cross Holder. ...
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    12,71 €

  • Frecce Nere
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenzione su un periodo di un mese, sino al marzo del 1937, quando avvenne la battaglia di Guadalajara, enfatizzando l’unico insuccesso del C.T.V. (presentato comunemente come una sconfit...
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    33,56 €

  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their...
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    10,86 €

  • Waffen-SS 1939-1945, A ruthless Enemy
    Perry Pierik
    The Waffen-SS, as fourth ’army branch’ of the German army, is still surrounded with a certain mystical fog. Some divisions, mostly from the first levies, have general fame, like Hitler’s body guard division, the ’Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, or the ’Das Reich’ division. However, the fact that Waffen-SS grew into a significant force - 38 divisions - during the war, is largely un...
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    27,85 €

  • 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber
    Paul Bewsher
    'Green Balls' by Paul Bewsher is a riveting account of military aviation during World War II, offering a firsthand glimpse into the harrowing experiences of fighter pilots. As one of Paul Bewsher’s notable works in military aviation fiction, this book stands as a compelling testament to the courage and sacrifice of those who served in the air. Through vivid aerial combat narrat...
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    13,83 €

  • After the War is Over
    R.B. Rosenburg
    Made public for the first time, this collection of more than 150 personal letters, telegrams, and V-mails sent to his parents in Atlanta, Georgia, from mid-1942 through December 1945, provides an eyewitness portal to the past that sheds light on a cast of characters from the greatest generation. A treasure trove of humor, anxiety, and hope, the letters reveal a young white Sout...
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    55,22 €

  • Walking Backward in My Father’s Footsteps
    William J Burghardt
    The story my father told me long ago goes like this.Sometime during his Army career, at a time and place unknown, probably 1943 or early 1944, he would routinely check a certain bulletin board for the names or numbers of those soldiers slated to go overseas. One day, he noticed his name had 'flopped' from the 'not going overseas' list to the 'going overseas' list. My father als...
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    12,22 €

  • Malta’s Savior
    John Henshaw
    Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire’s strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II--and taking it was essential for Axis victory. German forces laid siege to the island beginning in June 1940, and it soon became the most bombed place on Earth. By August 1942, with supplies running out, Malta was in dire need ...
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    80,88 €

  • Germania
    Anthony Gordon Pilla
    in this 'what if' fictional tale of Hitler’s world, we see in his neurotic mind the conflict of Evil versus Good. In his sleep, he takes us on a journey in which his twisted fantasy will reveal thoughts of World War II events such as the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Lebenstraum, Oktoberfest Blitzkrieg, Operation Barbarossa, Lindbergh-Hitler Connection, the Jewish Exodus Plan, the Paci...
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    13,69 €

  • Resistance Girl Renée
    Ruth Uzrad
    She will do anything to bring her family back together.Berlin, 1939. When her beloved hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, 14-year-old Ruth takes her younger sisters by the hand and boards a train bound for Belgium. Courageous and resourceful, she vows to do all she can to keep the three of them safe and together.But as the war progresses swiftly through Europe, even Belgi...
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    22,59 €

  • The Secret Diary
    Michelle Wright
    If caught, his captors would have killed him but Marvin Doyle was determined to document the truth in case he didn’t make it out alive.  There was also another reason; Marvin thought the sooner he’d write down what happened the sooner he’d be able erase it from his tortured mind.             This is the true story of aerial gunner Sergeant Marvin Doyle, a World War II prisoner ...
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    12,38 €

  • We Called Ourselves Rocketboatmen
    Jr. William Howard Palmer
    D-Day, June 6, 1944--a day never to be forgotten. More than 156,000 troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy, making it the largest seaborne invasion in history. Leading the pre-invasion ashore were the brave, but little known, rocketboatmen, as they called themselves. Their job, as the first close up Naval offense, was to soften up the German beach defenses ...
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    14,45 €

  • THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940-43
    India Ministry of Defence
    The North African Campaign 1940-43 covers the operations conducted on the northern coast of Africa and the desert lands to the west of Egypt. In this theatre, India was saddled with the responsibility to defend Egypt. More than two Indian divisions were involved in the fighting in Africa, over the territory expanding from Egypt to Tunis. The theatre remained active from 1940 to...
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    66,24 €

  • THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940-43
    India Ministry of Defence
    The North African Campaign 1940-43 covers the operations conducted on the northern coast of Africa and the desert lands to the west of Egypt. In this theatre, India was saddled with the responsibility to defend Egypt. More than two Indian divisions were involved in the fighting in Africa, over the territory expanding from Egypt to Tunis. The theatre remained active from 1940 to...
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    85,22 €

  • Battles of the Ages World War II 1940
    Marcus Caldwell
    In 1940, as the world was embroiled in the Second World War, several key battles shaped the trajectory of global events. The relentless advance of Nazi forces across Europe met with formidable resistance from the Allied powers, setting the stage for historic confrontations.The Battle of Britain, a significant aerial combat, unfolded in the skies over England. Here, the future o...
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    16,03 €

  • The Unknown Warrior
    James Leasor
    'A volunteer was urgently required for a secret assignment of the highest priority. He must be of non-Jewish appearance, speak German perfectly, and preferably have a German or Austrian background. A good knowledge of French on a conversational level was also desirable. ...This man would be required to work in dangerous circumstances, totally on his own.'James Leasor first hear...
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    13,35 €

  • AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
    George Aspley
    Amphibious Assault First Wave on Guam & Okinawa. Another Pacific War memoir about one young man’s wartime experience. First Wave on Guam & Okinawa is not written as a novel with characters, it is written more as a military report which also gives it legitimacy as being a good historical research book on the topic. ...
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    12,63 €

  • World War II
    L. D. Manera
    In 1945, John Russell (Russ) Kerr provided a poignant narrative of his experiences as a left gunner on the B-29 Super-fortress engaged in the struggle against Japanese forces. Stationed on Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean, Russ articulates his wartime journey through a series of handwritten letters addressed to his brother, Robert (Bob) Kerr, and their ...
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    27,88 €

  • THE ARAKAN OPERATIONS 1942-45
    India Ministry of Defence
    The Arakan Operations 1942-45 describes the operations in the coastal belt of Arakan in Burma from 1942-45. After the reverses suffered by the Indian forces in Burma, the issue confronting India was to stem the tide of Japanese advance and retrieve the situation in Burma. At this stage, the Indian Army chose Arakan and Chindwin for conducting operations. The 1944 winter operati...
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    84,54 €

  • THE ARAKAN OPERATIONS 1942-45
    India Ministry of Defence
    The Arakan Operations 1942-45 describes the operations in the coastal belt of Arakan in Burma from 1942-45. After the reverses suffered by the Indian forces in Burma, the issue confronting India was to stem the tide of Japanese advance and retrieve the situation in Burma. At this stage, the Indian Army chose Arakan and Chindwin for conducting operations. The 1944 winter operati...
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    65,56 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    In this gripping account, the turbulent first year of World War II, a period that reshaped the global landscape forever, is brought to life. As 1939 unfolds, the world is thrust into an era of unprecedented conflict, marked by groundbreaking strategies, heroic sacrifices, and the relentless advance of military technologies.Through a blend of historical facts and compelling stor...
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    10,84 €

  • OPTIMIZING YOUR GIFTS FOR CAREER SUCCESS
    Ronald Edward Smiley
    This book describes my unique journey that culminated in a dynamic and successful career as an engineering professional and senior executive working in the public service sector. It illuminates the importance of self-awareness in discovering one’s innate gifts and talents and strengthening and optimizing them to achieve our goals. Further, it offers practical advice and lessons...
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    14,52 €

  • OPTIMIZING YOUR GIFTS FOR CAREER SUCCESS
    Ronald Edward Smiley
    This book describes my unique journey that culminated in a dynamic and successful career as an engineering professional and senior executive working in the public service sector. It illuminates the importance of self-awareness in discovering one’s innate gifts and talents and strengthening and optimizing them to achieve our goals. Further, it offers practical advice and lessons...
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    21,61 €

  • High and Dry on the Beach
    Philip Hoekstra
    -ABOUT THE BOOK: In July 1941 Winston Churchill sent a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt stating that in the fight to save the world from the Nazis it would be necessary not only to have great numbers of tanks but also to have sea-going vessels capable of landing them directly onto the beaches of Europe. Soon thereafter the Landing Ship Tank was designed, and by late 1942, there w...
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    50,98 €

  • The Last Great Banzai
    Brad Gates
    On July 7, 1944, all remaining Japanese forces on Saipan conducted a massive suicide attack against the American forces that had landed on the island several weeks earlier. At approximately 3am, the Japanese forces rushed southward on the Tanapag Plain and overwhelmed the soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 27th Infantry Division. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers continued unimpeded for 1...
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    141,48 €


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