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  • THE GUILDFORD HOME GUARD
    G. W. Geddes
    Though gently mocked as TV’s ’Dad’s Army’, the Home Guard was a deadly serious bid to thwart an expected German invasion in the Second World War. This unit history of the Guildford Home Guard explores the unit’s history chronologically. Listing of first and Stand Down officers, Disposition and Weapons in the Defence of Guildford Nodal Point (Nodal Points were towns and villages...
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    19,65 €

  • DORNIER Do 24 FLYING BOAT
    Dornier-Werke G.m.b.H.
    Detailed operating instructions for Do 24T-1 and Do 24T-2 Variants of the German three-engine flying boat ,designed in the 1930s by the Dornier Flugzeugwerke for maritime patrol and search and rescue purposes.With monochrome industrial photography and two colour line drawings and charts throughout, this is a very interesting factory manual for a rare aircraft of which a total o...
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    18,84 €

  • FROM THE BEACHES TO THE BALTIC
    Noel Bell
    A tightly typeset company history describing ’G’ Company’s exploits during the campaign through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany in 1944/45. The 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade was formed in early January 1941 by the re-designation of the 2nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade. As a motor battalion, it took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, as part of the 29th Armour...
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    19,53 €

  • HISTORY OF 2/6TH BN. QUEEN’S ROYAL REGT. IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
    Regimental History
    This is the story of the 2/6TH Bn. QUEEN’S ROYAL REGT fighting with determination against a formidable foe in the form of the German Army. From its arrival in Italy during the main invasion of Italy at SALERNO on 9 September 43, it continued applying pressure on the withdrawing Germans through to the hour of victory in Venice. It relates how the battalion, and it’s Rifle Compan...
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    25,14 €

  • Sniping, Scouting and Patrolling
    Anon
    At a time when practically the total manpower of England was being mobilised for war this manual was of great value to instructors and students in the art of shooting at the enemy from a position where you could not be seen,with illustrations on type of loopholes, camouflage,and observation posts. Gale and Polden’s Sniping, Scouting and Patrolling is one of the most sought afte...
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    25,67 €

  • Back to Mandalay
    Lowell Thomas
    Back to Mandalay, first published in 1951, is noted correspondent Lowell Thomas’s engaging account of the Burma Campaign in World War II. Led by British General Orde Wingate, the book describes the formation of the Chindits - troops specializing in operations in Japanese-occupied territory - and his innovative tactics and approach to war including the use of gliders to transpor...
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    20,40 €

  • A Promise is Forever
    Donald F Hrinya
    Ed Hrinya is the perfect soldier. Charismatic, noble, strong, and confident. He valiantly takes up the honor of serving his country during the most trying of times: World War II. But will a promise he made cost him everything?The daily struggles and stresses of war press in all around Ed and his small company of soldiers. They find themselves under fire more than once by variou...
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    15,69 €

  • Down to the Sea
    Bruce Henderson
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    16,85 €

  • 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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    30,87 €

  • Beach Moose & Amber
    Sharon Easton
    When Sharon found typewritten pages tucked in the back of her deceased father’s accordion folder, she had no idea she was holding an invitation to the greatest writing adventure of her life. The pages were her mother’s final attempt to record her Jewish family’s history - a history that she had kept secret for decades. Sharon’s mother was clear in her writing, 'All I ask is tha...
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    13,17 €

  • Lucky to be Here, Jack Bewes, 463 Lancaster Squadron
    Lyn McGettigan
    Jack Bewes’ story of war is seen through the eyes of the mates who flew Lancasters together from England to Germany and France and saw their best friends killed. There was the mate they celebrated with at the pub or the dance who did not return for breakfast, the uncertainty about the mate who did not reply to the letters written to him.These carefree, fun-loving boys of about ...
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    19,46 €

  • ’PLAYBOYS’
    Anon
    141 Regiment was the first RAC unit to be equipped with the ’Crocodile’ flame-throwing tank, introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart and converted from the Churchill tank for the role of close infantry support.B Squadron’s daring and costly close support of 1st Battalion 116th US Infantry’s assault on the heavily defende...
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    29,34 €

  • ’PLAYBOYS’
    Anon
    141 Regiment was the first RAC unit to be equipped with the ’Crocodile’ flame-throwing tank, introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart and converted from the Churchill tank for the role of close infantry support.B Squadron’s daring and costly close support of 1st Battalion 116th US Infantry’s assault on the heavily defende...
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    43,97 €

  • The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines
    Amanda Weinberg
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    15,58 €

  • 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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    32,24 €

  • COLONEL A. J. D. BIDDLE’S DO OR DIE
    Colonel A. J. D. Biddle
    An all-time classic from ’The Master of the Bayonet’ that has, for this revised edition, extensive full-page illustrations featuring Biddle himself, helping to clarify manoeuvres of his version of the deadly art of hand-to-hand combat.Biddle was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps. He taught cadets the use of the machete, sabre, dagger a...
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    37,89 €

  • COLONEL A. J. D. BIDDLE’S DO OR DIE
    Colonel A. J. D. Biddle
    An all-time classic from ’The Master of the Bayonet’ that has, for this revised edition, extensive full-page illustrations featuring Biddle himself, helping to clarify manoeuvres of his version of the deadly art of hand-to-hand combat.Biddle was a pioneer of bayonet and hand-to-hand combat training in the US Marine Corps. He taught cadets the use of the machete, sabre, dagger a...
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    25,71 €

  • Dresden
    Frederick Taylor
    'A picture markedly different from conventional accounts.' --New York Times Book ReviewThe dramatic and controversial account that completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany’s ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England....
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    15,44 €

  • A HISTORY OF THE BROMLEY HOME GUARD
    L.D.V.
    Though gently mocked as TV’s ’Dad’s Army’, the Home Guard was a deadly serious bid to thwart an expected German invasion in the Second World War. This unit history of the Bromley Home Guard explores the unit’s history and personalities. Almost half of this history usefully gives a nominal roll of the battalion, and a list of members who then joined the services, showing branch ...
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    19,43 €

  • 21 ARMY GROUP ORDNANCE
    Major J. Lee-Richardson R.A.O.C.
    This book was written and published in Germany in 1946, by 21st Army Group in 1946 as a record of the ordnance (military supplies, especially weapons and bombs) services of the Army Group from the invasion in 1944 to the end of the war. It is a fascinating read and is well illustrated throughout, it also has a good colour map to clarify the narrative. 21st Army Group operated i...
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    29,55 €

  • THE HISTORY OF THE 4th ARMOURED BRIGADE
    Brigadier R.M.P. Carver
    The brigade, now known as the ’Black Rats’, was formed in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa. The Black Rats were subsequently involved in the invasion of Sicily and fighting in Italy before taking part in the Battle of Normandy and the advance through Belgium, Holland and into Germany. A Roll of Brigade, commanders and an ord...
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    18,11 €

  • The History of The 107 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King’s Own)
    The Regiment
    The 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King’s Own) was a tank regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps, raised by the British Army during the Second World War. The regiment served with distinction in North-west Europe from July 1944 to May 1945. A Roll of Honour and Awards with citations complete this fine account, one that was originally published in occupied Germany shortly aft...
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    25,54 €

  • Holocaust
    A.J. Kingston
    Explore the tragic history of the Holocaust and the horrors of Auschwitz in this compelling book bundle. Through a careful examination of Nazi propaganda, the brutal reality of life in the Jewish ghettos, and the mechanics of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, readers will gain a deep understanding of one of the darkest periods in human history.The first book, 'The Untold History o...
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    37,86 €

  • Out of Coventry
    Helen Chinn
    June 1941 Helen was born in Ellen Badge Hospital in Shipton- on-Stour and only few days later she travelled with her mother to Coventry to face the height of the Blitz. She lived there with her parents until 1945, when a horrifying incident took place in their cockroach infested bedsit. As a result of this, at the age of four, she went to live with her grandmother in Lancashire...
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    22,83 €

  • Self-Financing Genocide
    Gábor Kádár / Zoltán Vági
    Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who- from the economic point of view - were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leadin...
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    44,95 €

  • Out of Coventry
    Helen Chinn
    June 1941 Helen was born in Ellen Badge Hospital in Shipton- on-Stour and only few days later she travelled with her mother to Coventry to face the height of the Blitz. She lived there with her parents until 1945, when a horrifying incident took place in their cockroach infested bedsit. As a result of this, at the age of four, she went to live with her grandmother in Lancashire...
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    30,97 €

  • OPERATIONS OF THE EIGHTH CORPS
    Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Jackson
    This is a complete account of operations of 8 Corps from the Normandy landings to the end of the war when the Corps was on the shores of the Baltic. Includes the role of the Corps in the invasion, and in operations Epsom, Goodwood and Bluecoat, and the advance to the River Maas. Rhine crossing to the end of the war. ...
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    56,69 €

  • Der SS-Orden
    Edwige Thibaut
    Wer war diese SS und insbesondere die Waffen-SS? Was wissen wir darüber? Was kann man darüber wissen? Das ist die Aufgabe, der sich Edwige Thibaut, der Leichtigkeit des Jahrhunderts trotzend, energisch gestellt hat. Diese wahre Enzyklopädie der SS hätte für immer in einer Schublade verrotten können. Nun riskiert ein wagemutiger Verleger die Veröffentlichung, trotz des enormen I...
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    45,21 €

  • L’Ordine delle SS
    Edwige Thibaut
    Chi erano le SS e, più specificamente, le Waffen-SS? Cosa ne sappiamo? Cosa possiamo sapere su di essa? Questa è la missione che Edwige Thibaut, sfidando la leggerezza del secolo, ha avuto l’energia di affrontare. Questa vera e propria enciclopedia delle SS avrebbe potuto rimanere in un cassetto per sempre. Infatti, fino ad oggi, pur essendo stata oggetto di migliaia di libri, ...
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    41,96 €

  • The SS Order
    Edwige Thibaut
    Who was this SS and, more specifically, the Waffen-SS? What do we know about it? What can we know about it? Such is the mission that Edwige Thibaut, braving the lightness of the century, had the energy to face. This veritable encyclopaedia of the SS could have remained in a drawer forever. In fact, until now, despite having been the subject of thousands of books, the SS is litt...
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    53,53 €


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