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  • Our Pathway to America Begins
    Winfried Goethert
    A German boy and his family find themselves as wards of the US military during WWII. This unique book documents the family’s journey to a US Army garrison in Bavaria, a voyage by ship to New York City, and life on an Army Air Force Base as undocumented aliens. ...
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    61,16 €

  • Every Ounce of Courage
    Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino
    It began with an unexpected phone call and a startling statement: 'You don’t know me, but your mother saved my life.'The late night conversation with an American World War II veteran revealed to Elizabeth Ann Besa Quirino the untold stories of her mother’s remarkable wartime heroism and sparked a twenty-year journey of discovery about her lifelong acts of bravery and compassion...
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    12,97 €

  • World War Two
    Ahoy Publications
    Uncover the fascinating history of World War Two with 500 interesting facts!From the invasion of Poland to V-J Day, this book is your definitive guide to understanding this historical event. Gain insight into pivotal battles, such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Stalingrad. Learn about the weapons and technologies used in the battles and discover how women played a significant rol...
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    12,94 €

  • Segunda Guerra Mundial
    Billy Wellman
    Descubra la historia de uno de los acontecimientos más determinantes del siglo XXIA pesar de lo mucho que se ha escrito sobre ella, siguen descubriéndose nuevos datos sobre los miles de acontecimientos que conforman los seis años que dieron forma al mundo en que vivimos hoy.La Segunda Guerra Mundial está indisolublemente ligada a Hitler y los nazis; sin embargo, hay mucho más p...
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    22,25 €

  • DEFENCE AGAINST BRITISH GANGSTER METHODS
    Wehrmacht
    In 1942 the Wehrmacht published a training manual with the goal of countering the 'silent killing' tactics used by the British commando units. The manual was - much in line with typical National Socialist terminology - titled 'Abwehr Englischer Gangster-methoden' or 'Defense Against English Gangster methods'. This book was compiled due the Wehrmacht intelligence operatives unco...
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    26,37 €

  • DEFENCE AGAINST BRITISH GANGSTER METHODS
    Wehrmacht
    In 1942 the Wehrmacht published a training manual with the goal of countering the 'silent killing' tactics used by the British commando units. The manual was - much in line with typical National Socialist terminology - titled 'Abwehr Englischer Gangster-methoden' or 'Defense Against English Gangster methods'. This book was compiled due the Wehrmacht intelligence operatives unco...
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    50,26 €

  • World War I
    A.J. Kingston
    Are you fascinated by the history of the 20th century and want to discover more about one of the most defining moments of that time period? Look no further than 'World War I: The End of an Era,' a comprehensive exploration of the war and its aftermath.In this book, you’ll explore the causes of World War I, the major battles and campaigns, and the political and social consequenc...
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    32,34 €

  • Dutch Defense
    Johanna Kinney
    If his friends’ resistance activities are exposed, he will be shot and they may be tortured to death. His houseguest happens to be a Nazi officer...Against his will, Alex has to share his home in The Hague with Gunther Blechmann, an SS officer of the occupying German forces. Liberation of the Netherlands by the advancing Canadians seems imminent, but meanwhile the Dutch are str...
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    21,20 €

  • History of the Twenty-Third United States Infantry 1812-1945
    History Delivered
    This book is an exacting reproduction of the 1945 original book on the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. There may be slight typographical errors including crooked or off-center pages because they are present in the original book. Please understand that this piece has been reproduced to these exacting standards. It is nearly identical to an original, including thes...
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    24,70 €

  • The 45th Infantry Division Field Artillery Unit History
    History Delivered
    This book is an exacting reproduction of the 1945 original book. It contains 65 plus pages of information and photographs related to the campaigns untaken during the Second World War. There may be slight typographical errors including crooked or off-center pages because they are present in the original book. Please understand that this piece has been reproduced to these exactin...
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    24,88 €

  • American Grit
    John Suzuki
    American Grit is a compelling narrative about racial identity, resilience, and heroism. In 2008, John Suzuki embarks on a poignant journey to Minidoka, one of the ten former U.S. concentration camps authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where tens of thousands of American men, women, and children were incarce...
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    12,67 €

  • L’operazione 'Mincemeat'
    Francesco Mattesini
    Nella preparazione dello sbarco in Sicilia del 10 luglio 1943, denominato in codice Operazione 'Husky', nel corso della primavera di quell’anno i Comandi d’intelligence britannici misero in atto misure molto elaborate per confondere il nemico circa la data e la destinazione dell’attacco. Tra l’altro, nella speranza di ritardare i rinforzi tedeschi alla Sicilia, di ridurre la mi...
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    25,66 €

  • Italian light tanks L6-40 & Semovente L40
    Luca Cristini
    The L6/40 Tank was the only true Italian light tank of World War II. Used during the Second World War mainly by the Regio Esercito, which employed it in practically all theaters of war: North and East Africa, Russia, the Balkans and the rest of Europe. Used mainly as a reconnaissance vehicle from the spring of 1941 until the armistice with the Allies in September 1943. A vehicl...
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    29,65 €

  • Slovensko Domobrantsvo (La guardia territoriale slovena 1943-1945)
    Gabriele Malavoglia
    Il generale Rupnik, insieme a Anton Kokalj, Ernest Peterlin e Janko Kregar, costituirono il 24 settembre 1943 la Slovenska Domobranska Legija (Legione Slovena delle Guardie), sostenuta dai rappresentanti dei partiti politici esistenti prima della guerra nella regione di Lubiana ed organizzata su 3 Battaglioni. Bisogna però sottolineare che, mentre Rupnik era propenso a collabor...
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    25,66 €

  • Operation 'Mincemeat'
    Francesco Mattesini
    In the run-up to the landing in Sicily on 10 July 1943, code-named Operation ’Husky’, during the spring of that year the British Intelligence Commands implemented very elaborate measures to confuse the enemy as to the date and destination of the attack. Among other things, in the hope of delaying German reinforcements to Sicily, to reduce the air threat to their invasion convoy...
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    25,66 €

  • Carro leggero italiano L6-40 e Semovente L40
    Luca Cristini
    Il Carro Armato L6/40 fu l’unico vero carro armato leggero italiano della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, utilizzato prevalentemente dal Regio Esercito che lo impiegò praticamente in tutti i teatri di guerra: Africa settentrionale e orientale, Russia, Balcani e resto dell’ Europa. Venne utilizzato soprattutto come mezzo di ricognizione a partire alla primavera del 1941 fino all’armist...
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    29,65 €

  • Slovensko Domobrantsvo (Slovenian home Guard 1943-1945)
    Gabriele Malavoglia
    General Rupnik, with Anton Kokalj, Ernest Peterlin and Janko Kregar, constituted the Slovenska Domobranska Legija (Slovenian Legion of Guards) on 24 September 1943, supported by representatives of the pre-war political parties in the Ljubljana region and organised it into 3 Battalions. It must be emphasised, however, that while Rupnik was inclined to collaborate with the German...
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    25,66 €

  • The Texas 36th Division
    Bruce Brager
    Here is an encompassing and insightful history of the distinguished 36th Division, which traces back to the 1870s and officially formed for World War I. In the Second World War, the 36th led the first contested Allied landing in Europe and gave the Fifth Army 'the key' to Rome. Readers interested in early Texas and Western history, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the world wars,...
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    39,93 €

  • The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
    Robert J. Cressman
    The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II, published in 1999 and updated here in a new format and with a complete index of all ships mentioned in the text (absent from the 1999 edition), is the authoritative resource on the war at sea between 1939 and 1945. Author Robert Cressman provides a nearly day-by-day account of navy-related engagements, operations, and ac...
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    24,37 €

  • Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
    Harry Elmer Barnes
    A series of essays on the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941-a seismic event which led to the United States of America officially entering the Second World War.This deep-delving overview of the events, published only twelve years afterwards, was edited by the Bibliographical Editor of the Council on Foreign Relations journal 'Foreign Af...
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    32,97 €

  • Back Door to War
    Charles Callan Tansill
    Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion: that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration activel...
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    36,63 €

  • At His Side
    George Korson
    At His Side: The Story of the American Red Cross Overseas in World War II, first published in 1945, is the authoritative work on the many important overseas activities of the Red Cross during the Second World War. From field hospitals, nursing, blood collection, prisoners of war, entertainment, to simply providing coffee and fresh doughnuts to exhausted troops, the dedicated wo...
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    18,11 €

  • Dear Mum
    Susan Tyzack
    Susan was always a bit of a nomad. From reporting an attempted coup in Seychelles, via hand-feeding rhinos in Tanzania, she has now landed in Orkney.Unaccountably drawn to the islands to the bemusement of friends, she learns about milling and becomes immersed in the landscape and the people. Will she settle? Will this be 'home'? And what is home anyway?September 1944 and the wa...
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    15,74 €

  • The Issei of the Salinas Valley
    Mae Sakesagawa
    In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered 120,000 Japanese/Japanese Americans to be compulsorily incarcerated in concentration camps (often referred to as war relocation camps) during World War II. This evacuation affected all Japanese Americans and Japanese living on the West Coast, including men, women, children, the elderly, and the ...
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    47,42 €

  • At Close Quarters
    Robert Bulkley
    At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the U.S. Navy, first published in 1962, is the official Navy history of Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats during World War II. The book opens with a look at PT boat design and construction, naval activities in the Philippines and the evacuation of MacArthur from Corregidor (conducted via PT boat by the book’s author, himself a PT skipper), followed by cha...
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    20,16 €

  • Five Down and Glory
    Gene Gurney
    Five Down and Glory, first published in 1958, is the authoritative record of America’s top fighter pilots from the early 1900’s through the Korean War. Beginning with a definition of the term 'ace,' the book details the exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille in France, the Flying Tigers in China, the Eagle Squadron in England, pilots of the U.S. Navy and Marines, the 8th Air Forc...
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    20,43 €

  • Into Enemy Waters
    Andrew Dubbins
    With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the elite Underwater Demolition Teams, precursor of the Navy SEALs-who were given nearly impossible pre-invasion missions from D-Day to the most crucial landings in the Pacific Theate...
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    16,12 €

  • Carpe Diem
    Anneli Jones
    This sequel to 'Reflections in an Oval Mirror' details Anneli’s post-war life. The scene changes from life in Northern ’West Germany’ as a refugee, reporter and military interpreter, to parties with the Russian Authorities in Berlin, boating in the Lake District with the original ’Swallows and Amazons’, weekends with the Astors at Cliveden, then a new family in the small Kentis...
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    31,28 €

  • Juno Beach
    Mark Zuehlke
    On June 6, 1944 the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and dee...
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    22,46 €

  • Breakout from Juno
    Mark Zuehlke
    On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly against Hitler’s finest armoured divisions, at a great cost in bloodshed. Initially, only the 3rd Division was involved, but in a couple of weeks two other Canadian division...
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    22,01 €


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