Modern warfare Books
Arcadia Publishing Hampton Roads The World War II Years Images of
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Arcadia Publishing World War II Chicago Images of America Arcadia
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing World War II Shipyards by the Bay Images of
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Farragut Naval Training Station Images of America
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£21.24
Simon & Schuster 109 East Palace
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, from the bestselling author of TUXEDO PARK, the intimate story of the thousands who came to a desert Shangri La where the world's leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end.Trade Review"The Manhattan Project was a chapter of history rich in the drama of human strengths and frailties, as Jennet Conant chronicles in her illuminating 109 East Palace.... Yet, for all the doubts and hardships, the scientists and workers at Los Alamos were part of something extraordinary.... Thanks to Conant's vivid book, we understand why." -- BusinessWeek"A haunting, beautifully realized and highly entertaining story.... A stunning accomplishment." -- Edmonton Journal"Terrifically engaging reading.... A story that, especially in times of uncertain security, we should read and heed." -- San Jose Mercury News"A unique and interesting portrait of the development of the atomic bomb and the brilliant man who oversaw the process.... Conant gives the reader one story after another, revealing the humanity of these people within the framework of the project that ushered the world into the Atomic Age.... Highly readable." -- San Antonio Express-News"Bears the weight of inexorable drama.... Excels in showing how bedeviled the brilliant, oddly spineless but extraordinarily powerful Oppenheimer was." -- St. Petersburg Times"A spellbinding account of a venture that often teetered on the brink while the future of the world lay at stake.... Vividly told, the interplay of personalities that would ultimately transform the world." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)"More than any other account of Los Alamos that I've read, Conant's narrative evokes the texture of life there.... A well-told narrative of daily life in a top-secret operation." -- Newsday"An engaging portrait of life on the remote mesa that served as backdrop for the world's most audacious scientific enterprise.... Conant packs her book with colorful, little-known details that bring the quotidian side of the bomb-building effort to life." -- Baltimore Sun
£18.08
The History Press Ltd The Last Raid
Book SynopsisWhen Germany occupied the originally `demilitarised’ Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey.
£26.02
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The 79th Fighter Group Over Tunisia Sicily and
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Blohm Voss Bv 141
Book SynopsisA concise history pictorial of Richard Vogt''s well known asymmetrical flying machine. Includes many never before published photographs and schematics.
£11.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Wilfried Sonnenthalâs Memories of the WaffenSS
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£19.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd SturmgeschÃtz
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£17.09
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Operation Medusa
Book SynopsisThis is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations
£18.69
Johns Hopkins University Press Officer Nurse Woman
Book SynopsisOfficer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible-and divisive-war.Trade ReviewVuic offers an important new contribution to how we understand women's participation in the U.S. military after World War II. -- Tanya L. Roth H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews 2010 Vuic's book is important reading for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of more than just the Vietnam War or nursing history. Its relevance also encompasses enduring complexities of gender, cultural representations, and collective memory. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Utilizing a feminist paradigm, Kara Dixon Vuic's evocative and unique dissection of the collective gender experiences of Army Nurse Corps officers in Vietnam and its aftermath breaks new ground in the history of military nursing... I found Officer, Nurse, Woman quite intriguing. I can unreservedly recommend it as a valuable addition to the literature documenting nurse participation in the Vietnam War. -- Mary T. Sarnecky, DNSc, RN Nursing History Review 2011 Excellent study... The strength of this book is Vuic's main source: nurses who served in Vietnam... Officer, Nurse,Woman enriches a growing body of literature on second-wave feminism's broad impact and successfully challenges and complicates the dominant narrative of military history and destabilizes familiar categories-especially our notions about women and war. -- Susan Gelfand Malka Journal of American History 2010 A well researched, well written account that will be used by professors and students who wish to understand better the complexity of gendered military service. -- D'Ann Campbell Journal of Military History Provides an important foundation for understanding how military women reflect social and cultural gender roles, how institutions respond to and influence gender norms, and how the response shapes and challenges our understanding of citizenship and nation... Vuic's book will be important for scholars of the time period as well as those interested in gender, women's work, nursing history, and the military. -- Julie Fairman Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 The best one volume treatment available that integrates the personal experiences of nurses with a nuanced understanding of social, political, military, gender, and women's history alongside feminist theory. Minerva: Women and War This is a wonderful book, chock full of oral history and riveting personal stories. It makes a meaningful contribution to Vietnam War and twentieth-century gender historiography. -- Penelope Adams Moon Historian 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Lady, you're in the army now"1. "The Bright Adventure of Army Nursing": Meeting Nursing Demands for the Vietnam War2. "An officer and a gentleman": Gender and a Changing Army3. "A wonderful, horrible experience": Nursing Education and Practice4. "Helmets and hair curlers": Gender and Wartime Nursing5. "I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": Wives, Mothers, and Pregnant Nurses in the Army6. "You mean we get women over here?": Gender and Sexuality in the War Zone7. "Not All Women Wore Love Beads in the Sixties": Postwar Depictions of Vietnam War NursesConclusion: Officers, Nurses, and WomenNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£47.50
Henry Holt & Company The Day of Battle
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.The Italian campaign''s outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino wer
£36.00
Holt McDougal The Second World War
Book SynopsisMartin Gilbert's presents A magisterial (New York Times) single-volume history of the Second World War. It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day-August 14, 1945 -it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of thirty million people. In one brilliant volume, eminent historian Martin Gilbert offers the complete history of WWII. With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill as well as one of the leading experts on the Holocaust, weaves together political, military, diplomatic, and civilian elements to provide a global perspective on the war, in a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping, dramatic narrative. In his transmission of the horror
£33.60
Northwestern University Press The World Is a Prison
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Presidio Press Citizens of London
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s Lend-Lease program in London; and John Gilbert Winant, the shy, idealistic U.S. ambassador to Britain. Each man formed close ties with Winston Churchill—so much so that all became romantically involved with members of the prime minister’s family. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skillfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious Franklin Roosevelt and reluctant American public to back the British at a critical time. Deeply human, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, Citizens of London is a new
£17.41
Random House USA Inc The Hardest Place
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The University Press of Kentucky The Unknown Dead
Book SynopsisRenowned historian Peter Schrijvers, a native Belgian, describes the horrific war crimes committed by German military units on the front lines and by Nazi security services behind the battle lines, as well as the devastating effects of Allied responses to the enemy threat, including massive bombings of small towns.
£48.71
The University Press of Kentucky Replacing France The Origins of American
Book SynopsisUsing recently released archival materials, Replacing France explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s.Trade ReviewFresh and important. Statler provides persuasive answers to some of the key questions about the decisions that led the United States into Vietnam. - Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in VietnamTable of ContentsIntroduction 'A Most Disagreeable Mirror': Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory, and the 2008 Presidential Race James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand About James Baldwin: On Baldwin's Politics of Freedom Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Socrates in a Different Key: James Baldwin and Race in America Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays 'Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live': James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism Baldwin's Individualism and Critique of Property James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal James Baldwin and #BlackLivesMatter Tell Him I'm Gone: On the Margins in High Tech City
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky The War That Never Ends New Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisThe War That Never Ends sheds new light on the evolving historical meanings of the Vietnam War, its enduring influence on current matters of global significance, and its potential to influence American foreign policy, in times of peace and war.Trade ReviewThese excellent essays by some of the leading historians of the war represent the best of the new international history - reassessing traditional interpretations, exploring new questions and neglected aspects of the conflict, and drawing on extensive research in recently accessible archival material in Vietnam and elsewhere. - Andrew L. Johns, coeditor of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War ""Does an excellent job posing and answering the question of why Vietnam still matters and why it will remain the 'war that never ends'."" - Kathryn C. Statler, author of Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky The USS Flier Death and Survival on a World War
Book SynopsisNoted historian Michael Sturma's vivid recounting of the harrowing story of the USS Flier has all the elements of a classic World War II survival tale: sudden disaster, physical deprivation, a ruthless enemy, friendly guerrillas, and a dramatic escape from behind enemy lines.
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky Striking Back Combat in Korea MarchApril 1951
Book SynopsisStriking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring of the war's first year.
£60.71
The University Press of Kentucky Surface and Destroy The Submarine Gun War in the
Book SynopsisExplores the nature of submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean during World War II and investigates the challenges of facing the enemy on the surface. This is a thorough analysis of the submariner experience and the effects of surface attacks on the war in the Pacific, offering a compelling study of the battles that became “intolerably personal”.
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky Endkampf Soldiers Civilians and the Death of the
Book SynopsisFritz examines the predicament and outlook of American GI's, German soldiers and officials, and the civilian population caught in the arduous fighting during the waning days of World War II.
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky Surface and Destroy The Submarine Gun War in the
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£23.00
The University Press of Kentucky Team 19 in Vietnam An Australian Soldier at War
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£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky Southern Voices
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts add a new layer to the history of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction History of Biet Dong Saigon Gia Dinh Committee Tu Cang, NLF Senior Officer Bay Son, Biet Dong Senior Officer Nguyen Huu Loi, Biet Dong Soldier Ms. Le Hong Quan, NLF Soldier Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Nga, Biet Dong Soldier Ms. Do T
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The University Press of Kentucky Lessons in Leadership My Life in the US Army from
Book SynopsisIn 1975, he received his fourth star and became commander of the US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command.In Lessons in Leadership, this exceptional soldier not only discusses working with some of the army's most influential and colorful leaders -- including James M.
£40.46
The University Press of Kentucky Fallen Tigers The Fate of Americas Missing Airmen
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£35.68
The University Press of Kentucky Watchman at the Gates A Soldiers Journey from
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£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary
Book SynopsisThese volumes of wartime correspondence provide new insight into the work of a legendary soldier and the historic events in which he participatedTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction to the Collection Introduction to Volume I April 1917 May 1917 June 1917 July 1917 August 1917 September 1917 Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography for Volume I Index
£59.00
The University Press of Kentucky Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano
Book SynopsisBrings a young French lieutenant's memoirs to English-speaking audiences for the first time.Table of ContentsCrossing the Atlantic. London We Return to France Bayeux Fontenay-sur-Mer Cavigny near St.-Lo Mortain-Falaise Le Mans-Paris Northern France Belgium Brand Brauweiler Wetzlar Buchenwald Epilogue
£25.00
The University Press of Kentucky Desert Redleg
Book SynopsisPart military history, part personal memoir exploring the largest US artillery bombardment since World War II.
£23.75
The University Press of Kentucky The USS Flier Death and Survival on a World War
Book SynopsisNoted historian Michael Sturma's vivid recounting of the harrowing story of the USS Flier has all the elements of a classic World War II survival tale: sudden disaster, physical deprivation, a ruthless enemy, friendly guerrillas, and a dramatic escape from behind enemy lines.
£26.00
The University Press of Kentucky A Strange Whim of the Sea
Book SynopsisHighlighting the underreported role auxiliary vessels played in the war, A Strange Whim of the Sea: The Wreck of the USS Macaw should engage the military historian and lay reader alike with the previously untold story it tells of struggle, sacrifice, death and survival in the Pacific in World War II.Table of ContentsRough Start On the Rocks Troubled Waters Off to War Perilous Passage South Pacific The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Midway Emergency Exit Business on Great Waters Aftermath
£35.57
The University Press of Kentucky Unwilling to Quit
Book SynopsisPrentice reframes Nixon's choices, emphasizes Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's outsized yet subtle role in the decision-making process, and considers how South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu and North Vietnam's Le Duan decisively shaped the American exit.Table of ContentsIntroduction Good Times, Bad Times Only the Strong Survive My Way Going Up the Country Come Together Give Me Just a Little More Time It's Too Late Alone Again, Naturally Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography
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The University Press of Kentucky Uniting against the Reich
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction The Road to Casablanca The Casablanca Directive and Breaking Command Unity Testing the Casablanca Directive The Breaking Points Reorganization Taking the Fight to the Luftwaffe The Spring Campaign Against European Transportation The Summer Oil Offensive Breaking the German Way of War Punishing the Reich Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Preface
£68.40
Ohio State University Press Nuclear Rivals AngloAmerican Atomic Relations
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University of Alabama Press Gaudalcanal Remembered
Book SynopsisGuadalancal was a pivotal World War II battle in the Pacific Theatre. As a press officer in the Marine Corps Reserve, Merillat was particularly well positioned to record the military action and this combat memoir offers on-the-spot reportage of all the action.
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The University of Alabama Press My Fathers War Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers
Book SynopsisTells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. Carolyn Ross Johnston draws on her father’s account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naïve southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level.
£999.99
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Battalion Artist A Navy Seebees Sketchbook of
Book SynopsisExplores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolours, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history.
£33.56
University of Missouri Press Truman and Korea Volume 1
Book SynopsisDetailing for the first time the story of America's homefront during the Korean War, Truman and Korea fills an important gap in the historical scholarship of the postwar era. Paul Pierpaoli analyses the political, economic, social, and international ramifications of America's first war of Soviet containment, never losing sight of the larger context of the cold war.
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University of Missouri Press American Girls Beer and Glenn Miller
Book SynopsisA product of newly created mass consumerism, the soldier of 1940 had expectations of material comfort, even while at war. Historian James J. Cooke presents the first comprehensive look at how General George C. Marshall’s efforts to cheer soldiers far from home resulted in the enduring morale services that the Army still provides today.Trade Review"Cooke (emer., Univ. of Mississippi) uses numerous archival, primary, and secondary sources to explain the importance of positive morale to the war effort, and how the combined activities of the army and private initiative helped maintain that necessary ingredient to victory." -- J. P. Sanson, CHOICE"Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods and services kept the armed forces' spirits up under the alienating conditions of global war."—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century
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University of Missouri Press Pattons War
Book SynopsisDuring his life, George S. Patton Jr starred as an Olympic athlete, chased down Mexican bandits, and led tanks into battle in World War I. But he is best remembered for his exploits in World War II. Patton's War follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent.
£42.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Nijmegen US 82nd Airborne Guards Armoured
Book SynopsisIn the first of three books covering the battles on the road to Arnhem, Tim Saunders describes the US 82nd Airborne Division's daring seizure of the Grave Bridge and their battles for the Grossbeek Heights, and the struggle for the vital Nijmegen Bridge.
£12.99
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Men of Valour
Book SynopsisBased on the Second World War, this narrative poem, with its evocative drawings, captures the devastation of this global war and the dramatic events that took place. It is the author's dedication to the courage displayed by men and women of every participating nation.Table of Contents1 The Approach of War 9 2 Blitzkreig 15 3 The Fall of France 23 4 The Battle of Britain 37 5 The Greek Disaster 47 6 Barbarossa 61 7 The Japanese Onslaught 73 8 Axis Occupation 85 9 The War at Sea 91 10 Midway 101 11 The Dieppe Raid 111 12 Bomber Command 117 13 El Alamein 125 14 Stalingrad 141 15 Guadalcanal 155 16 The Clearance of North Africa 161 17 The Warsaw Ghetto 171 18 Crisis in the Atlantic 177 19 The Dambusters’ Raid 187 20 The Battle of Kursk 193 21 The Fall of Mussolini 201 22 Jean Moulin 209 23 The Bombing of Hamburg 21724 Allied Advances 221 25 The Teheran Conference 227 26 The Siege of Leningrad 235 27 Monte Cassino 241 28 Tito’s Partisans 255 29 The Defence of India 261 30 The Normandy Invasion 273 31 The Marianas 291 32 The Stauffenberg Plot 301 33 Bagration 311 34 Victory in Normandy 315 35 The Warsaw Rising 325 36 The Liberation of Paris 333 37 Arnhem 339 38 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 351 39 The Battle of the Bulge 359 40 Victory in Burma 369 41 The Yalta Conference 379 42 Iwo Jima 385 43 The Fall of Nazi Germany 393 44 Hiroshima 405 Source of Words in Quotation Marks 413 Main Works Consulted 415
£20.85
Michigan State University Press General Eisenhower Ideology and Discourse
Book SynopsisDuring the World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower formulated an ideology that encompassed deeply held ideas about human nature, society and political life. This text reveals how one man helped construct the sense of national and global insecurity that pervaded American life for decades.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press They Cant Take That Away from ME The Odyssey of
Book SynopsisThis work recounts not only Ralph Rentz's devastating three-and-a-half years of captivity in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, but also his involvement in a secret government mission that has never been revealed.
£999.99
