The Philippine Sea 1944: The Last Great Carrier Battle (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

The Philippine Sea 1944: The Last Great Carrier Battle (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

After suffering devastating losses in the huge naval battles at Midway and the Soloman Islands, the Imperial Japanese navy attempted to counter-attack against the US forces threatening the Home Islands. Involving the US Fifth Fleet and the Japanese Mobile Fleet, the battle of the Philippine Sea

Arnhem - The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect

The Falaise Pocket: Normandy, August 1944 (Buffetaut Yves)(Paperback)

A highly illustrated account of the battle of the Falaise Pocket, Normandy 1944.The battle of the Falaise Pocket, in August 1944, was the turning point in the Normandy campaign. By early August the German Army was in turmoil: while it was managing to hold back the Allies, the defense involved

The Falaise Gap Battles: Normandy 1944 (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the Allies had broken loose from the bocage and

Last Battle (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful paperback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline

The Last Battle: Full Color Edition (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

A full-color paperback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-color cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest

Armageddon - The Battle for Germany 1944-45 (Hastings Max)(Paperback / softback)

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 is the stunning bestseller from one of Britain's most highly regarded military

Kampfgruppe Peiper: The Race for the Meuse (Cooke David)(Paperback)

On 16 December 1944 Hitler's last great offensive commenced, pushing through the difficult terrain of the Ardennes in Belgium. Its objectives were the Meuse bridges and, beyond them, Antwerp. Hitler's aim was to cut off the northern British and American armies and force them to surrender or

US Navy Ships Vs Kamikazes 1944-45 (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

The ineffectiveness of conventional air attacks on U.S. Navy surface ships, particularly heavily defended targets such as carrier task groups, forced the Japanese to reevaluate their tactics in late 1944. The solution they arrived at was simple: crash their aircraft into American ships. This notion

The Battle for Budapest 1944 - 1945 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet of modern foreign-built warships. Coupled

US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1942-45: Wwii-Built Ships (Stille Mark)(Paperback)

Dominating the seas during World War II, the US aircraft carrier played a crucial role in every major naval combat of the war. Development of the Essex class began in 1941, and was the largest class of carrier ever built. During the Pacific War it formed the backbone of any fighting force and

Catalaunian Fields Ad 451: Rome's Last Great Battle (Macdowall Simon)(Paperback)

The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful Empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive more than fifteen years afterward, while the Huns, shattered and demoralized,

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Beevor Antony)(Paperback)

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies

Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (Wheelan Joseph)(Paperback)

A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350

Waterloo: Great Battles Series (Forrest Alan)(Pevná vazba)

Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved huge armies and heavy losses on both sides. For those who fought in it - Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops - it was a murderous struggle

Missing of the Somme (Dyer Geoff)(Paperback / softback)

Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time'

Battle of Surigao Strait (Tully Anthony P.)(Paperback)

Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls

The Last Human (Jordan Zack)(Paperback)

The last human in the universe must battle unfathomable alien intelligences--and confront the truth about humanity--in this ambitious, galaxy-spanning debut 'A good old-fashioned space opera in a thoroughly fresh package.'--Andy Weir, author of The Martian 'Big ideas and believable science amid a

Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic

Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the

Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge (Tolhurst Mike)(Paperback / softback)

By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of The Fatherland'

Last Battle (Lewis C. S.)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful hardback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline

Turning the Tide - The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway(Paperback / softback)