Military History Period Books
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The Kamikaze Campaign 1944–45
ACM 29 Paperback Published 26 May 2022An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 - the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets.As summer changed to... -
Barents Sea 1942
CAM 376 Paperback Published 26 May 2022A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route... -
Operation Jericho
RAID 57 Paperback Published 26 May 2022This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in... -
Siege of Budapest 1944–45
CAM 377 Paperback Published 26 May 2022A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube.The... -
Smashing Hitler's Guns
GNM Multiple formatsWritten by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc.The Ranger attack on the... -
Going Downtown
GNM Multiple formatsThis vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian... -
At the Gates of Rome
GNM Multiple formatsA dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths.It... -
Challenger Main Battle Tank 1982–97
NVG 23 PaperbackThe successor to the Chieftain from the 1960's, work began in 1976 on development of a new MBT specifically for the Iranian army, who needed a more capable tank than the Chieftain to suit their climatic... -
The Dutch Resistance 1940–45
ELI 245 Multiple formatsDescribes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45.The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands... -
Walther Pistols
WPN 82 Multiple formatsWhile the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.The innovative...
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