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  • Rommel

    by Desmond Young ...
    This book contains the story of Rommel, the famous German Field Marshal of World War II, commonly known as Desert Fox. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rommel: The Desert Fox

    by Desmond Young ...
    ''Rommel: The Desert Fox'' is a highly influential 1950 biography written by British Brigadier General Desmond Young. As the first major biography of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, it became an immediate bestseller and significantly shaped the Western public's post-war perception of the military commander. Desmond Young had a personal connection to the subject; he fought against Rommel's ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Battle of Stalingrad (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    The Germans were masters of Blitzkrieg. But in the rubble of a ruined city, the Russians knew the troops of the Third Reich were reluctant to engage in the hand-to-hand battle that victory required. The Soviet soldiers were fearless; time was blood. The Red Army commander’s tactics were brutally simple – defend the city or die...Read about the Attack by the German army on Stalingrad; the brutal ... Read more

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  • Operation Zitadelle 1943

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    by Mark Healy ...
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  • A Short History of World War I

    by James L. Stokesbury ...
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  • The First World War

    by John Keegan ...
    The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War – the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, ... Read more

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  • Panzer Leader

    by Heinz Guderian ...
    Series series Penguin World War II Collection
    Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939.Personally leading the devastating attack which traversed the Ardennes Forest and broke through French lines, he was at the forefront of the race to the Channel coast. Only Hitler's personal command to halt prevented Guderian's tanks and troops ... Read more

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  • Barbarossa

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    by Alan Clark ...
    The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. From the ... Read more

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  • Poland 1939: The Blitzkrieg Unleashed

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.General Heinz GuderianThis is the powerful record of the lightning campaign against Polandas documented by the Kriegsberichter.This book incorporates the whole of the results of extensive post war interviews carried out by the US department of the Army. The result is a vivid military history of the Polish campaign of September 1939 from the front lines. ... Read more

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  • The First World War

    An Illustrated History

    by Professor A J P Taylor ...
    A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and ... Read more

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