Army At Dawn - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

Army At Dawn - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

* First volume of Rick Atkinson's monumental trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World War. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

Day Of Battle - The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

The Desert Air War 1940-1943 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

The war in air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War has long been overshadowed by the battle on the ground. Between 1940 and 1943 Italy's Regia Aeronautica and then Germany's Luftwaffe waged a concerted aerial campaign against the British, yet apart from the bitter

Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

The magnificent conclusion to Atkinson's monumental and highly acclaimed trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World

The Eighth Army in North Africa (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the men, weapons and equipment of

Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943 (Harmsen Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even

The Invasion of Sicily 1943 (Diamond Jon)(Paperback)

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and

Luftwaffe in Africa, 1941-1943 (Roba Jean-Louis)(Paperback)

Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean an unimportant theater of the war, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the 'Mare Nostro.' Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the beginning of 1941, the F hrer was forced to help

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare.The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition to conquer Stalin's Soviet Union. After the

Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, 1942-1945 (Oliver Dennis)(Paperback)

Summary of design and operational history

Dynamo - Defending the Honour of Kiev (Dougan Andy)(Paperback / softback)

In 1942 at the centre point of World War II an extraordinary event took place not on the battlefield but in a municipal stadium in Kiev. This is the true story of courage, team loyalty and fortitude in the face of the most brutal oppression the world had ever

Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress (Lardas Mark)(Paperback)

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard-fought two-year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them

War in the Mediterranean, 1940-1943 (Ireland Bernard)(Paperback)

For 1,000 days the Allied and Axis armies fought for the domination of the North African shores knowing that defeat would bring disastrous consequences. Much has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other yet, as the main protagonists realised at the

Down to Earth - Memories of a Young Woman Joining the Women's Land Army in 1943 (Cooper Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

North Cape 1943: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst (Konstam Angus)(Paperback)

A beautifully illustrated study of the Battle of North Cape in 1943, a dramatic clash of British and German battleships in the North Sea which resulted in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst.The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war,

The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 (Citino Robert M.)(Paperback)

Arthur Goodzeit Award Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author

Knitting From the North (Grant Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

In Knitting from the North Hilary Grant - who lives in Orkney, at the very north of Scotland, closer to Norway than London - has translated her most popular patterns from her luxury Scottish knitwear range into 30 colourful hand-knitting projects - hats, mittens, scarves and jumpers - to keep your

The Land Beneath Us (Sundin Sarah)(Paperback)

In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for--fulfilling the recurring dream of his death.Leah

REFUSING TO FIGHT THE "GOOD WAR" - Conscientious objectors in the North East of England (Anderson Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

World War II Desert Tactics (Griffith Paddy)(Paperback)

Osprey's study of desert tactics employed in North Africa during World War II (1939-1945). In 1940-43 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanized armies. The British, Italians, German Afrika Korps and US Army all addressed and learned from the special problems - human,

Princes at War - The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa (Peterson Brian J.)(Paperback)

Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting

Regeneration Trilogy (Barker Pat)(Paperback / softback)

At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and

Big Sky - Kate Atkinsonová

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. It's a picturesque setting, but there's something darker lurking behind the