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  • Stalingrad to Kursk

    Triumph of the Red Army

    by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    An acclaimed WWII historian presents a provocative reassessment of the Eastern Front battles that turned the tide against Hitler's advance.The epic battles fought at Stalingrad and Kursk were pivotal events in the war on the Eastern Front. After the catastrophic failure of the German offensives of 1942 and 1943, the Wehrmacht was forced onto the defensive. Never again would it regain the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905

    by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    The Russo-Japanese war saw the first defeat of a major European imperialist power by an Asian country.When Japanese and Russian expansionist interests collided over Manchuria and Korea, the Tsar assumed Japan would never dare to fight. However, after years of planning, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian Port Arthur, on the Liaoyang Peninsula in 1904 and the war that followed saw Japan ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Second World War (5)

    The Eastern Front 1941–1945

    by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East.In this concise e-guide, Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected to conquer Russia in only four months, but at Stalingrad and then Kursk the Russians ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The First World War

    The war to end all wars

    by Geoffrey Jukes, Michael Hickey, Peter Simkins ...
    Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Front, as well as the Mediterranean conflict.Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The First World War (1)

    The Eastern Front 1914–1918

    by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    Now in compact, e-guide form, this book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the Eastern Front in the First World War.The author details Russia's sudden attack on German forces, despite her inadequate resources. A crushing defeat at Tannenberg was followed by Germany inflicting humiliation after humiliation on desperate Russian troops. For a while, those forces led by General Brusilov and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Second World War

    by David Horner, Robin Havers, Professor Alastair Finlan, Mark J Grove, Paul Collier, Geoffrey Jukes, Russell Hart, Stephen A. Hart, Philip D. Grove ...
    Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict.The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Labouring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

    Untying the Kurillian Knot

    Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, the Northern Territories/Southern Kuriles problem.The ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact

    A Diplomatic History 1941-1945

    by Boris Slavinsky ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German front where they contributed significantly to Soviet victories from Moscow to Berlin. Slavinsky suggests that Stalin's agreement with Churchill ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • When Titans Clashed

    How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

    by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia’s clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germany’s Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war. Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, much of it the authors’ own work, this new edition ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942

    WWII: Strategic & Operational Planning: From Directive Barbarossa to the Battle for Stalingrad

    by U.S. Department of Defense ...
    U.S. Department of Defense's book 'The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942' provides a comprehensive analysis of the pivotal years of World War II when Germany turned its attention towards the Eastern Front. The book meticulously details the military strategies, battles, and key events during this tumultuous period. Written in a straightforward and factual style, the book offers a wealth of ... Read more

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  • Germany Ascendant

    The Eastern Front 1915

    by Prit Buttar ...
    A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of ... Read more

    $18.59 CAD

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  • The Battle for Moscow

    by David Stahel ...
    In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometres away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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