An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945
Author: Andrew Holborn
This study traces the journey made by the three battalions of the 56th (Independent) Infantry Brigade from 1940 through to the Normandy landings. Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully l ... |
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The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II
Author: Sigrid Macrae
Tells the history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS, predecessor of the CIA. This title sheds light on Franklin Roosevelt's surprising stan ... |
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Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780
Author: David K. Wilson
This book presents a reexamination of major Southern battles and tactics in the war for independence. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book ... |
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Author: Patrick Lindsay
In 1942 a small band of young Australian soldiers overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve Australia's freedom along the Kokoda Track. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolis ... |
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The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
Author: Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial arch ... |
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The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Author: Peter Grose
The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mateship, determination and improvisation - the dark side of the story lingers ... |
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The Japanese on the Kokoda Track
Author: Craig Collie & Hajime Marutani
"We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back." Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous sp ... |
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Author: Theodore P. Savas & J. David Dameron
A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution, a war that began with a brief skirmish at Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and concluded on th ... |
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Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs
Author: John H. Gill
In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon's progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria's invasion of Germany and Italy. Aft ... |
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Author: Sandy Woodward
Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days af ... |
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Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Author: Peter Englund
'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian tr ... |
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Wellington's Lightning Strike into Spain
Author: Rene Chartrand
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Altho ... |
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The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
Author: Gordon Weiss & Gordon Weiss
The Cage is a brilliant yet harrowing account of Sri Lanka's fall into darkness. From one of the most promising nation states of the post-colonial world, Sri Lanka descended into bitter civil conflict between a vicious a ... |
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The Life of Billy Sing
Author: John Hamilton
The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, ... |
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The Period of Balance, May 1942-October 1943
Author: H. P. Willmott
Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was the beginning of the United States' battle with Japan during World War II. In the months following the attack, Japan was successful in a series of victories throughout ... |
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Author: Gareth Glover
Volume III of the remarkable Waterloo Archive series is brimming with personal letters and private journals written by participants in the campaign. By reading them we can share the innermost thoughts of those involved i ... |
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The Dare Mark Campaign
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
All too often, histories of Civil War battles concentrate on the events of the battle, ignoring the larger campaign and undervaluing the battle's impact on subsequent events. This work reveals and explains the vital conn ... |
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Last Chance for the Confederacy
Author: Richard M. McMurry
"The fall of Atlanta in September 1864 was an important strategic and psychological victory for the war-weary North, virtually assuring that the Union would win the Civil War while assisting Lincoln in his reelection eff ... |
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The Central Epic of the Spanish Conflict 1936-1937
Author: Robert G. Colodny
The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that were waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this struggle, beginning with the col ... |
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