Second World War
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Last Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942
Christopher L. KolakowskiCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese i...
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Final Hours in the Pacific: The Allied Surrenders of Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore
Donald J. YoungCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one. It was to be the darkest period of the almo...
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Shadow: A Cottontail Bomber Crew in World War II
Neil Hunter RaifordCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50This is the poignant and exciting story of a statistical anomaly, a B-24 bomber crew that completed 50 combat missions in World War II. This cre...
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African Americans in the United States Army in World War II
Bryan D. BookerCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The political, economic and social landscapes of the United States in the early 1940s were split by one overriding factor--race. This volume explor...
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African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars
Paul GarsonCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colon...
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Hitler''s Wehrmacht: German Armed Forces in Support of the Fuhrer
James SteinerCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50On August 2, 1934, Hitler required all members of Germany's re-emerging military to take an oath of allegiance to his regime. As the war progressed...
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I Worked Alone: Diary of a Double Agent in World War II Europe
Lily SergueiewCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50During World War II Nathalie Lily Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy...
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The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943
John VirtueCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to he...
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Get the hell off this ship!: Memoir of a USS Liscome Bay Survivor in World War II
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...
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The Aleut Internments of World War II: Islanders Removed from Their Homes by Japan and the United States
Russell W. EstlackCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. ...
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The Japanese Administration of Guam, 1941-1944: A Study of Occupation and Integration Policies, with Japanese Oral Histories
Wakako HiguchiCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99During World War II, Guam was the only American territory where Japan administered the occupied local people. Organic integration was the purpos...
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Wendell Fertig and His Guerrilla Forces in the Philippines: Fighting the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
Kent HolmesCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable...
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The Battle for Vella Lavella: The Allied Recapture of Solomon Islands Territory, August 15-September 9, 1943
Reg NewellCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guada...
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Bound for Theresienstadt: Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp
Jeff McLaughlinCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghet...
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Valor of Many Stripes: Remarkable Americans in World War II
Scott BaronCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it. Many acts of notable courage and self-sacrifice occur on the ba...
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The International Medical Relief Corps in Wartime China, 19371945
Robert MamlokCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Both before and during World War II, the Nazis curtailed the rights of Jewish and communist doctors living in countries they controlled. Some of th...
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Bolt Action: Ostfront: Barbarossa to Berlin
Warlord GamesCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Take charge of Operation Barbarossa and drive towards Moscow or command the steadfast defenders of the Soviet Union. From the early battles for Len...
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Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood: A Memoir of the Russian Occupation
Bernie StritzkeCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with h...
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Americans at War in Foreign Forces: A History, 1914-1945
Chris DickonCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common hi...
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Jewish Aviators in World War II: Personal Narratives of American Men and Women
Bruce H. WolkCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigot...
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North Carolina and World War II: A Documentary Portrait
Anita Price DavisCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one s...
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Virginia in the War Years, 1938-1945: Military Bases, the U-Boat War and Daily Life
Joseph P. FreitusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in...
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Escape from Bataan: Memoir of a U.S. Navy Ensign in the Philippines, October 1941 to May 1942
Ross E. HofmannCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months l...
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