Second World War Books
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The History of the 24. WaffenGebirgs
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Third Reich Bravery and Merit Decoration for
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German UBoat Ace Adalbert Schnee
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£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Monetary Men The Allies Struggle to Recover and
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Famine Sword and Fire The Liberation of Southwest
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£27.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Famous B24 The Enchanted LiberatorA Unique US
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German World War II Reenacting The Wehrmacht in
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Knights Cross Holders of the Fallschirmjger
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£34.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Ruhetag The Day to Day Life of the German Soldier
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Last Ride of the Valkyries
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£58.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd MatterhornThe Operational History of the US XX
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£54.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Kampfpanzer Maus
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£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The 8th Army Air Force in Color As Seen Through
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£41.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Japanese Military and Civilian Award Documents
Book SynopsisThe history of Japan during the Imperial Age, 1868 to 1945, is rich and complex. Japan went from a feudal and secluded Asian nation to a world powerhouse in less than fifty years. Japan's relationship with the United States was just as complicated, moving from reluctant trading partner to ally in war to enemy. The documents from this era are a piece of that history. This book is an introduction to the field of collecting Japanese award documents. Over sixty-five documents are featured in color photographs that highlight their beauty and details. The documents range from awards given to farmers for growing crops to the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, signed by the emperor and given to a prime minister. The book also features tools to help the collector translate and identify documents, as well as to store and display them.
£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Ruhetag The Day to Day Life of the German Soldier
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£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Douglas XB19
Book SynopsisIn 1935, the intent of the Army Air Corps was to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a Guardian of the Hemisphere; they granted Donald Douglas a contract to build the world's largest bomber. Over the past 75 years, there have only been a few magazine articles on the gigantic Douglas XB-19 bomber, usually showing it in photos dwarfing the aircraft around it. Since the XB-19 project was top secret and there was only one example, there is little information remaining for researchers. William Wolf presents this enigmatic bomber, a Flying Laboratory that was the precursor to America's first intercontinental bomber, the Continental B-36 Peacemaker. Wolf has used original Douglas and Army Air Force documents and very rare (as few were needed for one bomber) Erection & Maintenance Manuals in this history, which also includes never-seen-before photos and color profiles. This volume is a must for the aviation historian, enthusiast, and modeler.
£34.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Heinrich Himmler
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£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Albert Schwenns Memories of the WaffenSS An SS
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd An Artist at War
Book SynopsisIn 1942, Ed Vebell landed with the US Army in North Africa and was recruited by Stars & Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper, as their official staff artist. Daily, he drew illustrations and reported on the progress of World War II throughout Europe. This book offers a selection of his sketches, drawings, paintings, and photographs from that time, and presents one artist's view of the war from North Africa, through the campaigns in Italy, France, and Germany. After the war, the author spent two weeks with the Russians in Berlin, and was then assigned as the courtroom artist during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Along the way are Ed's reminiscences about such personalities as famed war correspondent and artist Bill Mauldin, singers Josephine Baker and Edith Piaf, Charles de Gaulle, Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr., and many others. Ed also reminisces about his two years photographing backstage at the Folies Bergere in Paris, as well as his time as an Olympic fencer.
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Rubber Soldiers
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd World War II Quilts 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisMany American women made warm and attractive quilts to honor and benefit US soldiers during the period 1940-1945, either as outright gifts or as raffle items to raise money for the war effort. This book reflects extensive original research of newspaper and magazine articles of the era, and authenticates the patterns and designs available to quiltmakers, anchoring the quilts historically in time. Color photos and descriptive text identify many patriotic quilts made for donation to the Red Cross and organizations such as Bundles for Britain. When possible, original patterns and designs that inspired the quilts are included. The quilts can now be interpreted from factual and objective perspectives, enhancing their historic and emotional importance.
£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Above an Angry Sea Men and Missions of the United
Book SynopsisThis is a revised and expanded second edition that examines United States Navy patrol and bombing squadrons equipped with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator (PB4Y-1) and its successor, the Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer. The author's previous book, We Flew Alone, discussed the Navy's use of the B-24 Liberator from February 1943 to September 1944. He now examines in dramatic detail the use of the B-24 and PB4Y-2 during the last eleven months of the war against Japan. The author has collected personal stories, over 300 images, a tabulation of all aerial kills credited to PB4Y patrol plane commanders, a roster of all personnel killed in action or in the line of duty, individual squadron records, and a list of all known B-24 Liberators and PB4Y-2 Privateers assigned to the Pacific between 1943 and 1945.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd We Flew Alone 2nd Edition
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Knights of the Skull Vol. 1
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£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd M40 Gun Motor Carriage and M43 Howitzer Motor
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Wilfried Sonnenthalâs Memories of the WaffenSS
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£19.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Eagles in Spanish Skies
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£34.84
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Let It Destroy You
Book SynopsisInspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer.It is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more lethal variation on the atomic bomb. He invented a radiation machine to cure his young daughter’s cancer, despite knowing that the very same technology was capable of great destruction, and inevitably profited from disaster. But are his intentions relevant when the fate of the world is at stake?August’s former wife, June, will also attend the hearing. Restless in her Hague hotel room the night before, she keeps watch over their daughter and reflects on the events that brought them here. She had nothing to do with making the bomb. But is she innocent? Wouldn’t any wife and mother have done the same thing in her shoe
£16.11
Park Row The Winter Guest
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£999.99
Mira Books The Codebreakers Secret
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£16.14
Kensington Publishing Blackout
Book SynopsisBuckle up for an intense plunge into the darkest heart of wartime Berlin with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow’s blistering new World War II thriller perfect for fans of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Trilogy, Howard Linskey, James D. Shipman, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie…Berlin, 1939. The city is blanketed by snow and ice. In the distance, the rumble of war grows louder. In the shadows, a serial killer rises . . . As the Nazis tighten their chokehold on the capital, panic and paranoia fester as blackout is rigidly enforced. Every night the city is plunged into an oppressive, suffocating darkness—pitch-perfect conditions for unspeakable acts.When a young woman is found brutally murdered, it’s up to Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke to solve the case quickly. His reputation is already on the line for his failure to join the Nazi Party. If he doesn’t solve the c
£8.54
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower Columbia
Book SynopsisVolumes XII and XIII follow Eisenhower's career from January 1, 1951 to the day before his inauguration.Trade ReviewAn editorial accomplishment of the highest order. Saturday Review I found the documents irresistible. And they were partly so because, among other virtues, they are firmly and unpretentiously literate. John Kenneth Galbraith
£264.10
Johns Hopkins University Press The First Strange Place
Book SynopsisFor a million soldiers, sailors and marines, Hawaii was the "first strange place" on a journey to war - and to the new American post-war society. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, this book shows how these changes were tested and explored in the environment of wartime Hawaii.Trade ReviewThe First Strange Place is in the great tradition of oral history and yet it makes marvelous use of archival records-I was reminded both of Studs Terkel's sensitive ear and of Shelby Foote's sweeping vision. Boston GlobeTable of ContentsPrologue: December 7, 1941Introduction: Wartime Hawaii and American IdentityChapter 1. Into the War ZoneChapter 2. Culture of HeroesChapter 3. Hotel Street SexChapter 4. Strangers in a Strange LandChapter 5. Fragile ConnectionsEpilogueNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£29.04
Johns Hopkins University Press The World Must Know
Book SynopsisIt includes new photographs, redrawn charts, a new section on the Holocaust in Greece, an updated bibliography, and a new foreword by the museum director.Published on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumTrade ReviewAn excellent choice for those who are not well acquainted with the subject or who need a concise synopsis; it will inspire readers to visit the museum and will enhance the experience of those who do. Library Journal Clear and well organized... This beautifully produced book is worth considering for purchase in all libraries. -- Paula Rohrlick Kliatt 2006 A comprehensive coverage from before the war till the arrival of survivors in America... The book is excellent. Jewish Chronicle 2006 An outstanding memorial propelling its images beyond museum walls. California Bookwatch 2006 The photographs scattered throughout The World Must Know are sharp and clear and usually chilling... a book worthy of any good library. -- Sheldon Kirshner Canadian Jewish News 2006 An excellent introduction to the Holocaust... It belongs in all public, academic, school, and synagogue libraries. -- Barbara M. Bibel Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter 2006Table of ContentsFrom the Museum DirectorFrom the Founding DirectorIntroductionI. The Nazi AssaultII. The HolocaustIII. The Last ChapterAfterwordBibliographical NoteAbout the MuseumAcknowledgmentsIndex
£25.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion
Book SynopsisS. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000Trade ReviewThe close reading required by these essays is well worth the time. -- Marcia G. Synnott Journal of American History 2007Table of ContentsJohn Guillory, "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"; Roger L. Geiger, "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"; Joan Shelley Rubin, "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers"; Martin Jay, "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"; James T. Kloppenberg, "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"; Bruce Kuklick, "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"; John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"; Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"; Rosalind Rosenberg, "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"; Leila Zenderland, "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"; David C. Engerman, "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"; Andrew E. Barshay, "What is Japan to Us"?; Rolena Adorno, "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000".
£44.00
University of Toronto Press Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Book SynopsisThroughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.
£26.99
Henry Holt & Company Inc The Holocaust A History of the Jews of Europe
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£29.06
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
Schocken Books All Rivers Run to the Sea Memoirs Memoirs of Elie
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£13.95
University of Oklahoma Press The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian
Book SynopsisIn this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott - despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck - made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II's most effective officers.Trade ReviewIn The Last Cavalryman, the remarkable ride of the Oklahoma schoolteacher, horse soldier, polo player and commanding general is presented the way the general would have wanted it: effective, honest and quietly charming."" - Wall Street Journal
£23.36
Kensington Publishing 999
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£16.15
Kensington Publishing Churchills Shadow Raiders The Race to Develop
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history. One of the most readable World War 2 history books I have read in years” —We Are the Mighty In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device—a “Wurzburg Dish”—appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly precise, and pointed directly across the English Channel. Britain’s experts found it hard to believe the Germans had mastered such groundbreaking technology. But one young technic
£21.60
Kensington Publishing Churchills Band of Brothers
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£15.26
Kensington Publishing The Ghost Tattoo
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£22.40
Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Anne Frank
Book SynopsisDrawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have created the first authorized and exhaustive graphic biography of Anne Frank. Their account is complete, with The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography covering the lives of Anne''s parents, Edith and Otto; Anne''s first years in Frankfurt; the rise of Nazism; the Franks'' immigration to Amsterdam; war and occupation; Anne''s years in the Secret Annex; betrayal and arrest; her deportation and tragic death in Bergen-Belsen; the survival of Anne''s father; and his recovery and publication of her astounding diary.
£16.20
Northwestern University Press Medallions Jewish Lives
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£999.99
Northwestern University Press Lessons and Legacies Holocaust in International
Book SynopsisAs the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. This title covers topics such as: greed and theft as motives for Holocaust perpetrators and bystanders; sexual violence and what it tells us about the experiences of both victims and perpetrators; the durability of anti-Semitism after 1945; and more.Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Dogmur Herzog The Holocaust as Leitmotif of the Twentieth Century, by Omer Bartov; Part I: Avarice; Part II: Ideology; Part III: Gender and Sexual Violence; Part IV: Collaboration and the Eastern Front; Part V: Dimensions of Memory; Part VI: Documentary; Part VII: Historiography and Pedagogy.
£999.99
