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  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C. McDonald III
    Born to Fly China’s wide-open skies were perfect… if you didn’t mind typhoons, sand storms,  blizzards, uncharted mountains and  Japanese Zeros hunting you. Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II.  He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flyin...
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    34,81 €

  • Renatus' Kayak
    Rozanne Enerson Junker
    Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus...and to his daughter, Harriot?Woody had seldom spoken about his World War II service when he and six other G.I.s manned a secret American weather stat...
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    14,59 €

  • Operation Barbarossa
    Nigel Askey
    In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Sovie...
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    40,02 €

  • The Axis Forces 4
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Book magazine dedicated to the German, Italian and Japanese armed forces and their allies during WW2.In this issue. The battle of Narva 1944, The japan in war, The Italian Alpine Division Monterosa of RSI. Eastern Volunteer insignia. Heinrich Sonne. Knight Cross Holder. ...
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    12,71 €

  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their...
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    10,86 €

  • Surviving War, Oceans Apart
    Yanek Mieczkowski
    This work takes readers to two countries ravaged by World War II, Poland and Japan, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko. Bogdan’s family abandoned its home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and fled to Warsaw, where Bogdan fought for the Polish Home Army in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. During this brutal conflict, as Poles tried to oust occupying Germans, Bogda...
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    57,46 €

  • Alba, a disputed city 1944-1945
    Paolo Crippa
    The town of Alba was the backdrop to the clashes between partisans and Axis troops between 1944 and 1945 and was even occupied by Resistance forces in October 1944, who, however, only maintained control for a few days, the famous ’23 days of Alba’, described by Beppe Fenoglio in his book of the same name. The town was again attacked by partisans on 15 April 1945, in a clash tha...
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    24,98 €

  • The Requisitions
    Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
    September 1, 1939: Łódź, Poland is on the brink of invasion.When the sirens begin, the professor is sitting at the Astoria Café. The Astoria Café really did exist, but the professor is only a figment of a boy’s imagination.In this work of historical metafiction, our present-day narrator recounts the story of Viktor Bauman, a disillusioned academic forced into the notorious ...
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    19,38 €

  • KILL OR GET KILLED
    Rex Applegate
    Rex Applegate’s 'Kill or be Killed' is a timeless classic of WW2 military combatives. Printed in 1943 for military and civil markets, it explores the core techniques and training needed to stay safe in the warzones and combat theatres of the second world war.Kill or Get Killed, via a wide array of photographs and illustrated diagrams explore unarmed combat, use of blades, pisto...
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    24,48 €

  • Home front heroism
    Ellena Matthews
    Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated. ...
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    157,03 €

  • The Fight of Their Lives
    Andy Kutler
    'An ideal introduction to that awful yet important page in our history, as well as a vivid and fast-paced refresher for those better acquainted with the past.' -Gregory J.W. Urwin, Professor of History at Temple University and author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake IslandSeptember 1939. To fuel his hate-filled quest for global supremacy and an eternal Third Reich, Ger...
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    30,83 €

  • My Journey
    Charles H. Meacham
    Charles H. Meacham was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, in a hunting and fishing lodge hand-built by his father. As a 'free-range' child, he hiked, camped, fished, and hunted his way through childhood and adolescence.At age seventeen, Charles enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served with the elite Marine Raiders Special Operation Force in WWII, ...
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    22,09 €

  • WWII Jeep Guidebook
    Ren Bernier
    This book has what you want to know, and what you need to know. Written by Ren Bernier and based on his thirty years of experience with vintage jeeps, this book answers your questions about finding, evaluating, owning, driving and enjoying one of the most historically significant vehicles ever made.Ren Bernier’s interest in old jeeps began in 1975 with purchasing and rebuilding...
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    23,74 €

  • All My Love and Then Some
    Margaret Melhorn
    In the middle of World War II, in September 1942, an enthusiastic eighteen-year-old named Polly Meilman boarded a train to Toronto. She was leaving her home in Nova Scotia for her basic training in the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). By July 1943, her abilities were recognized with a promotion to the rank of corporal. She continued to serve until her di...
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    20,20 €

  • World War II Sea War, Volume 24
    Don Kindell / Donald A. Bertke / Gordon Smith
    Volume 24 provides additions and corrections for January-March 1943 in the 'World War II Sea War' series. It is designed to be used with: 'Volume 8: Guadalcanal Secured' (December 1942 -February 1943) and 'Volume 9: Wolfpacks Muzzled' (March - June 1943). Highlights for this volume include:EUROPEAN THEATRE (ETO): Updates on German U-boats.CHINA, BURMA AND INDIA THEATRE (CBI): U...
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    84,70 €

  • Occupied Hearts II
    Alice Parker
    'I found a Pandora’s box exploding with such emotional tales, I was not really prepared to hear. In many of the Japanese I interviewed, there was this driving-need for the world to know their harrowing experiences, as they had been almost randomly tossed into, in the countries Japan had occupied.' Occupied Hearts: Japan as the Occupier & The Occupied is the second book in the s...
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    26,61 €

  • The Stage of Survival The Art of Theater in Buchenwald Concentration Camp
    Davis Truman
    Many of the concentration camps and ghettos under the Nazi regime had cultural and artistic activities which have been reported upon. The cabaret was very popular in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Any available space could be transformed, as was done in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Theresienstadt. It seems apparent that these cabaret presentations were acts of resi...
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    14,52 €

  • STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY 1939-1945 - ATLAS
    Colonel Penny
    The ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command’s strategic air offensive against German cities, and industrial targets, in a series of 35 maps extracted form the four volume official history of the air offensive against Germany.Britain’s bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Brita...
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    37,03 €

  • Fit to Fight
    Robert O. Babcock
    The 4th Infantry Division (4ID) was the Utah Beach assault division at H-Hour, D-Day, June 6, 1944; a liberator of the port city of Cherbourg on June 25, 1944; part of the St. Lo breakout on July 25, 1944; and a liberator of Paris on August 25, 1944. On September 11, 1944, 4ID troops were the first to breach the 'impenetrable' Siegfried Line. In November 1944, they slugged it o...
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    30,86 €

  • Bielski Brothers, The
    Peter Duffy
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    15,31 €

  • Matter of Honor, A
    Anthony Summers / Robbyn Swan
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    18,02 €

  • The Flying Life
    Stefan A. Cavallo
    The Flying Life is the life story of our father, Stefan Cavallo, a test pilot at Langley Field during World War II, who passed away peacefully on September 25, 2022, at 101.While attending the School of Aeronautical Engineering at New York University, he also took flying lessons at Teterboro Airfield in New Jersey through a government-sponsored program and graduated with a comb...
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    16,46 €

  • SOLDIERS of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, WW2
    Bruce Morton
    Soldiers, of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, WW2, Who They Were and the Battles They Fought, is a history of Canada’s contribution to WW2, told in brief biographies of about 200 soldiers of all ranks. Author, Bruce Morton, the official historian of the regiment, previously recorded the regiment’s history in his books One Hundred Years and the French equivalent Cent An...
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    57,79 €

  • Cent Ans
    Bruce Morton
    Cent Ans retrace l’évolution du North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment depuis sa création au Nouveau-Brunswick, au Canada, il y a plus de cent ans, en mettant l’accent sur les expériences et la contribution du régiment pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le régiment a fait partie de la première vague du débarquement en Normandie, en France, le jour J, le 6 juin 1944, et a partici...
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    51,07 €

  • Waffen-SS 1939-1945, A ruthless Enemy
    Perry Pierik
    The Waffen-SS, as fourth ’army branch’ of the German army, is still surrounded with a certain mystical fog. Some divisions, mostly from the first levies, have general fame, like Hitler’s body guard division, the ’Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, or the ’Das Reich’ division. However, the fact that Waffen-SS grew into a significant force - 38 divisions - during the war, is largely un...
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    27,85 €

  • The Dairy Of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank
    'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank is a Holocaust-era diary chronicling the experiences of a Jewish adolescent during World War II. Anne Frank’s diary serves as a historical document of immense significance, capturing the raw emotions and struggles of life under Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. Through her diary, Anne Frank provides a deeply personal account of survival ami...
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    16,74 €

  • No Life Without You
    Franklin Felsenstein
    The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz (’Mope’) and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged in an English translation from the original German, this vast correspondence and diaries has been expertly compiled and annotated by their son, Franklin Felsenstein, w...
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    60,94 €

  • Dive Bomber Down
    Bryan J. Dickerson
    James A. Nist lived an extraordinary life in his 24 years. Raised on a New Jersey farm, he graduated high school at 16 and earned both a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a private pilot’s license. In 1942, he joined the Navy as an aviation cadet, earning his wings and an officer’s commission in the Naval Reserve. He became proficient in three of the Navy’s high-...
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    58,67 €

  • 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber
    Paul Bewsher
    'Green Balls' by Paul Bewsher is a riveting account of military aviation during World War II, offering a firsthand glimpse into the harrowing experiences of fighter pilots. As one of Paul Bewsher’s notable works in military aviation fiction, this book stands as a compelling testament to the courage and sacrifice of those who served in the air. Through vivid aerial combat narrat...
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    13,83 €


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