Second World War Tank Crisis - The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 (Taylor Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Second World War Tank Crisis - The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 (Taylor Richard)(Pevná vazba)

British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in many ways a disgrace. But why was Britain,

Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 (Edwards Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War, Britain's merchant fleet performed a vital role,

Mapping the Second World War - The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 (Chasseaud Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert

European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations (Parker David)(Pevná vazba)

British Armoured Divisions and Their Commanders, 1939-1945 (Doherty Richard)(Pevná vazba)

A total of eleven British armored divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.In 1940, only 1st Armored Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that the armored division concept

The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War (Mandler Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of the Meritocracy answers this question not by

British Battle Tanks: British-Made Tanks of World War II (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

Building on the earlier volume dealing with British armor of the First World War, this is the second of a multi-volume history of British tanks by renowned British armor expert David Fletcher MBE. This volume traces the story of the British use of the tank through the early years of World War II,

Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-1945: The Longest Struggle (Gustavsson Hakan)(Pevná vazba)

The Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945 was the longest struggle of the Second World War. It started with the Japanese aggression in July 1937 and soon accelerated into a full-scale war with the Chinese Kuomintang government. The Chinese Air Force was to suffer large losses during the whole conflict

Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 (Newman Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Toland John)(Paperback)

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author's words, 'a factual saga

Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Fennell Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime

Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War (Makepeace Clare)(Pevná vazba)

This is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British prisoners of war (POWs) in Europe during the Second World War, focussing on how they coped and came to terms with wartime imprisonment. Clare Makepeace reveals the ways in which POWs psychologically responded to surrender, the

The Second World War (Horner David)(Pevná vazba)

The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Reill Dominique Kirchner)(Pevná vazba)

Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the

Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean During the Second World War (Hammond Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large

British Infantryman Operations Manual: The British and Commonwealth Soldier 1939-1945 (All Models) - An Insight Into the Weapons, Uniform, Accoutremen (Falconer Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

British soldiers in World War II, with their old-fashioned helmets, spring-powered PIAT anti-tank guns and veneration of heroic defeats, may have lost the propaganda war - to be fair, the cut of a British Army battledress blouse probably did that on Day One - but their record speaks for itself

Road To 1945 - British Politics and the Second World War Revised Edition (Addison Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of

Centurion: Armoured Hero of Post-War Tank Battles (Jackson Robert)(Paperback)

The fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to out-gun and out-perform the latest German tanks, such as the formidable Panzer V Panther. It was one of the most successful tanks ever produced, and this volume in the TankCraft series

Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939-1944 (Wills Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict - the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was formed shortly after

Tiger Tank (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

The German Tiger I was the most feared battle tank of the Second World War. Its invincibility lay in its main 8.8cm gun and heavy defensive armour. Tiger Tank gives a rare insight into acquiring, owning and operating one of these awesome fighting machines, using the UK's Tank Museum's Tiger 131 -

German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history. As the conflict progressed,

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 (Allport Alan)(Paperback)

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan

The Steam Engines of World War II in Europe: The German 'Kriegsdampflokomotiven' and the British and American War Engines (Horton Phil)(Pevná vazba)

Few events had a greater influence on Europe's railways in the 20th century than the Second World War. As described in this book, thousands of steam engines were produced for the conflict by all sides. Although many were damaged during the war, most survived. Indeed, many of the British and

The Untouchables: Liverpool FC 1919-1923 (Goulding Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

The Untouchables: Anfield's Band of Brothers chronicles the rise and fall of one of the greatest Liverpool teams ever. In 1918 an enlisted man, Tom Bromilow, stepped off the streets of Liverpool and straight into the team. Still in uniform, he was one of tens of thousands of Liverpudlians who