While 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 Walther PP (Polizeipist...Lasīt vairāk
Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Lasīt vairāk
The American battalion was trapped, under siege and under fire, and one man was their best, last hope.Delivery Man: The Enemy-Alien Nisei Translator Who Saved His Battalion in World War II is the suspenseful, tragic and true story of a...Lasīt vairāk
The little-known history of the Hawaii-based Seventh Air Forces war as it fought in all the major island campaigns from the Gilberts and Marshalls to the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa....Lasīt vairāk
A detailed guide to the Soviet forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition, containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides.This supplement for Bolt Action: Third Edition brings the fu...Lasīt vairāk
An authoritative, illustrated history of how Germany fought to dominate the North Sea in early World War II, and take the naval war to Britains coasts. An authoritative, illustrated history of how Germany fought to...Lasīt vairāk
The invasion of the Soviet Union saw the Red Armys vast tank fleets crushed by the outnumbered Germans. Fully illustrated and packed with data, this book explains how and why.Contrary to popular belief, the largest tank battles of...Lasīt vairāk
Now in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one familys defiance in the face of injusticeand how their story echoes across generations. Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Inas mothers diary and her fathers haikuthro...Lasīt vairāk
Written by an authority on the Normandy battle, this book examines the battles between German airborne troops and US Army forces in July 1944. For six weeks in the summer of 1944, US forces tasked with capturing the vital road hub of Sain...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on an incredible archive of historic and contemporary imagery, former Imperial War Museum photo curator Hilary Roberts charts over 150 years of photographic manipulation in the causes of national morale, subterfuge and control of the winni...Lasīt vairāk
From a top scholar of World War II, the definitive history of Germanys U-boat campaign that challenged British naval supremacy and brought international trade to its knees Winston Churchill once remarked that the only threat to truly...Lasīt vairāk
BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCEJames Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging missio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250374479)
The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy. There was one submarine that outfought all other boats in the Silent Service in Wo...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299353902)
Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, it has navigated overlapping national and international identities. After existing on the margins of the German religious landscape while sol...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780593657386)
A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War IItracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germanys implacable hostility towards Soviet RussiaIn the West, World War II is commonly underst...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250373083)
From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Awardwinning author: a gripping novel of foreboding, betrayal, heroism, and hope set in World War II BudapestBy the end of 1943, nearly all of Europes Jewish population...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111580029)
Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in todays Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultu...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered the epicentre of the final solution.Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life i...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered the epicentre of the final solution.Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life i...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first comprehensive study to examine the place of the Eastern Front or Soviet-German War in European memory from a truly comparative perspective across Europe; it encompasses the Soviet and post-Soviet space, Germany (both GDR a...Lasīt vairāk
On 28 October 1940, Italian armed forces invaded Greece from Albania as part of Mussolinis parallel war for control of the Mediterranean basin. What promised to be a military walkover turned into an unmitigated disaster as the Greeks, spurred on by...Lasīt vairāk
Fought between November 1942 and May 1943, the Second World Wars Tunisian Campaign has often been described as where the Allies learned to fight. The vital culmination of the conflict fought across the breadth of North Africa, as well as an import...Lasīt vairāk
A feast of colorful artwork adorns the walls of a Second World War-era officers club in the North Atlantic city of St. Johns -- cartoons painted onto ship gun shields that convey stories of courage and cowardice, resolve and resilience, triumph...Lasīt vairāk
Tanks in Unexpected Places considers how fighting effectiveness was both produced and maintained during the Second World War. 4th Independent Armoured Brigade, the subject of the study, was part of the relatively small minority of British formations...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872843)
In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams a...Lasīt vairāk
From its pre-war inception and difficult gestation as a high-speed bomber to its adaptation as a night fighter, torpedo bomber and reconnaissance platform, the Junkers Ju 88 was one of the most versatile and widely used aircraft of World War II. Junk...Lasīt vairāk
The full story of the valiant defense of the Losheimergraben crossroads by a motley band of American infantry, which delayed the German Ardennes offensive and bought the Allies critical time to regroup. The heroic stand at Losheimergraben Cro...Lasīt vairāk
