Recounts U.S. amphibious operations in the central Pacific, on islands like Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Saipan, and the friction between leaders of the Pacific fleet that further complicated the Allied attack...
Winifred Wagner's story is a remarkable one. The Welsh-born orphan became Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, one of Adolf Hitler's closest personal friends. Brigitte Hamann presents the first major, unbiased biography of...
HASTINGS was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says '...There was a god-almighty explosion and we went into the passage...
Kiriakos: A British Partisan in Wartime Greece
SS Jeremiah O'Brien. The "trip of a lifetime" story of her 5 1/2 month 18,000-mile voyage back to Normandy for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. The only ship from the...
Here is a handsome gift edition of Bliven's bestselling, dramatic account of the Allied Forces' landing on the Normandy beaches of Nazi-controlled France in 1944. The author participated in the...
Peter Calvocoressi's engrossing volume explores controversial questions about the ending of World War II and its long-term consequences. He discusses fundamental and highly charged issues including both the Nuremberg Trials...
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of...
Modstandsbevægelser; Modstandsgrupper; Partisanbevægelser; Guerrillakrigsførelse; Guerrilla Warfare; Partisan Warfare; Frihedsbevægelser; Resistance; Frihedskæmpere; Sabotage; Jugoslaviske Partisaner; Vichy-Frankrig; Tito; SOE; Special Operations Executive; SOE Directives; SS; Schutz Staffeln; Gestapo; Tyske Besættelsesmagt; Tysk Okkupation;...
The Blast of War, 1939-1945
Quiet Flows the Rhine: German General Officer Casualties in World War II
World War II marked a crucial watershed in the political history of modern Britain. This book seeks to explain, through the eyes of contemporaries, how the transition occurred from the...
General von Senger sheds new light on the history of World War II. Here is an authoritative analysis of the campaigns in the European and Mediterranean theaters where the General...
The Legend of Betty Pack is simple enough. She was a beautiful American spy recruited first by the British Secret Intelligence Service in 1938 and later by the American OSS....
Linking the imperatives of high politics and strategy, Gelb tells about the greatest escape story in history. His is the first book to combine the day-to-day drama on the beaches...
Cutting through a maze of legend and myth, this landmark book is the firts to analyze the entire field of underground wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe.
On the night of April 28, 1944, six weeks before D-Day, more than 700 American servicemen stationed in England were killed in a military exercise. Nigel Lewis uncovers the terrifying...
The Fall of France in 1940 has been well chronicled but numerous misconceptions remain.This fascinating and thought-provoking collection of essays on wide-ranging issues covering the politics and fighting on land,...
Et omfattende studie af tysk efterretningstjeneste og spionage i Latinamerika i 1930erne og 40erne samt USAs kontraspionage.
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