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

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.--The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and

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

Together We Stand - North Africa 1942-1943: Turning the Tide in the West (Holland James)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This book looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the involvement of the US and the way this early collaboration to defeat shaped the whole Anglo-American

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

Hitler's War in Africa 1941-1942: The Road to Cairo (Mitchelhill-Green David)(Pevná vazba)

Adolf Hitler's war in Africa arose from the urgent need to reinforce the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, whose 1940 invasion of Egypt had been soundly beaten. Of secondary importance to his ideological dream of conquering the Soviet Union, Germany's F hrer rushed a small mechanised force into

British Are Coming - The War for America 1775 -1777 (Atkinson Rick)(Paperback / softback)

'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York

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

Operation Torch 1942: The Invasion of French North Africa (Herder Brian Lane)(Paperback)

Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of French North Africa, designed to relieve

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

Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942 - February 1943 - Volume 5 (Morison Samuel Eliot)(Pevná vazba)

Recounts the role of the United States in World War II at sea, from encounters in the Atlantic before the country entered the war to the surrender of

Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign (Delve Ken)(Pevná vazba)

Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel's Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - Anderson Scott

‘A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington’s fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.’ New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as

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

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

Summary of design and operational history

Somewhere in the Midlands - A History of U.S.A.A.F.Station 522, Smethwick (Collins Frances)(Paperback / softback)

Army Force Station 522, at Beakes Road, Smethwick, was created in 1943 in order to meet the increasing demands of the United States Army Air Force in the European Theatre of Operations. This book chronicles the day-to-day running of USAAF Station 522, and the experiences of the men based

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

Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942-February 1943 (Glantz David M.)(Pevná vazba)

On 1 January 1943, with German Sixth Army about to be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka (Soviet High Command) launched Operation Don, a strategic offensive conducted by the Red Army's Southern, Southwestern, and Trans-Caucasus Fronts aimed at demolishing German defenses in the southern

Elsie and Mairi Go to War - Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front (Atkinson Dr Diane)(Paperback / softback)

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her