Comprehensive record of all the major events, weapons, battles, and personalities of World War II containing sixteen hundred entries.
Find out the facts on the key players and major events, with fascinating profiles on the soldiers, sailors, tanks, guns, bombs, and much more.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; Condit, Doris M. Case Study in Guerrilla War: Greece during World War II. ... Groves, Leslie (1896–1970) U.S. general who headed the Manhattan Project Born in Albany, New York, Leslie Richard Groves ...
... 211 Ciliax, Otto, 198 Clapper, Raymond, 876 Clark, Kenneth, 562 Clark, Mark W., 27, 43, 102, 103, 212-213 (bio), 234, 240, 245, 265, 356, 416, 417, 470, 592-593, 694-695, 711, 726, 727, 866, 897 Clauberg, Karl, 255 Clay, Lucius D., ...
An exhaustive reference which features more than 300 military vessels from World War II to the present day; contains numerous action photographs and detailed illustrations showing every aspect of the featured ships.
Thoroughly revised to include 25 conflicts not covered in the previous edition, as well as expanded and updated information on previous coverage, this illustrated reference presents descriptions and analyses of more than 170 significant ...
World War II: Visual Encyclopedia shows children the causes, battles, people, and aftermath, while cutting-edge CGI technology brings infamous events back to life.
More than forty-five hundred cross-referenced entries provide detailed and comprehensive coverage of the issues, strategies, campaigns, battles, heroes and traitors, weaponry, and intelligence secrets and networks of the Second World...
... 1937 a new constitution was prepared for the Irish Free State by President Eamon de Valera, former Irish Republican Army (IRA) chieftain and mortal opponent of Michael Collins and the majority IRA faction during the Irish Civil War.
From the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire to the Yakovlev Yak-3, Messerschmitt Me 109, and Vought F4U Corsair, this comprehensive encyclopedia presents the most important aircraft flown by all the combatants in Europe and the Pacific.
Beginning with the classic battleships of World War II and moving on to the nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the present day, this volume is a survey of more than 300 of the finest battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, submarines ...