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  • Operation Sealion

    The Invasion of England 1940

    by Peter Schenk ...
    An in-depth analysis of Nazi Germany's unused strategy to invade the UK during the Battle of Britain in World War II.It is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers had any experience of large amphibious operations. German planning for Operation Sealion was concerned with pioneering new techniques and developing specialized landing craft. Remarkably, in ... Read more

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  • German Secret Weapons of the Second World War

    The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons & New Technology of the Third Reich

    by Ian V. Hogg ...
    "A comprehensive, highly detailed study [that] displays a stunning wealth of technical knowledge . . . a brisk and understandable narrative." — HistoryNetThe phrase "German secret weapons" immediately conjures up images of the V-1 and V-2 missiles that bombarded London in 1944. But what of the V-3 and V-4? What of Schmetterling, the Rochling shell, the Kurt bomb, the Hs293? These, and many other ... Read more

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  • Kursk 1943

    Last German Offensive in the East

    by Ian Baxter ...
    Series series Casemate Illustrated
    An illustrated history of World War II's largest tank battle that went down near the Russian city.In the summer of 1943, Nazi Germany launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. This offensive resulted in the Battle of Kursk.Kursk quickly became a fierce contest of attrition, as Wehrmacht and elite Waffen-SS Panzer-Divisions with their powerful ... Read more

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  • Operation Lusty

    The Race for Hitler's Secret Technology

    by Graham M. Simons ...
    A fascinating overview of the Allies' post-WWII program to gain access to advanced Nazi war machines and the technology they ultimately recovered.Prior to the Allied D-Day assault on Normandy, France, rumors had already been circulating that high-tech Nazi super-weapons ( wunderwaffe) had reached or were near completion. At the war's end, a mad scramble ensued to discover the enemy's secrets, ... Read more

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  • Luftwaffe Over America

    The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II

    by Manfred Griehl ...
    The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid - and bomb - New York and the eastern seabord are revealed in this book. They were were based on the use of transoceanic aircraft planes, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the Third Reich was unable to produce such machines in sufficient numbers. If the Soviet Union had been conquered, however, these plans would have become a reality. ... Read more

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  • The Polish 'Few'

    Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain

    by Peter Sikora ...
    They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans. Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then to Britain, to fly alongside the Royal Air Force just as Fighter Command faced its greatest challenge the Battle of Britain.Many of the Polish airmen joined existing RAF squadrons. The Poles also formed their own squadrons, but only four became ... Read more

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  • Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–1941

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series Book 1 - War in the Far East
    "An excellent primer about World War II in Asia prior to the involvement of the United States"—part one of a fascinating history trilogy ( New York Journal of Books).War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves ... Read more

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  • Landing in Hell

    The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

    by Peter Margaritis ...
    A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. ... Read more

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  • The Goths

    by Simon MacDowall ...
    Series series Conquerors of the Roman Empire
    The fascinating history of "a race that simply would not accept defeat" ( Books Monthly).In the late fourth century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 378 was one of Rome's greatest defeats. Both western (Visigoth) and eastern (Ostrogoth) branches of the Goths had a complex relationship with the Romans, ... Read more

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  • Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943–1945

    Red Steamroller

    by Robert Forczyk ...
    The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II.By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost ... Read more

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  • Instruments of Darkness

    The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939–1945

    by Alfred Price ...
    The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during the Second World War, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other sought to wrest the initiative in the struggle to control the ether. This ... Read more

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  • Valkyrie: the North American XB-70

    The USA's Ill-fated Supersonic Heavy Bomber

    by Graham M. Simons ...
    "A fascinating insight into one of the Cold War's most interesting concept aircraft . . . [with] new information, photographs and first-hand accounts." —FlypastDuring the 1950s, plans were being drawn at North American Aviation in Southern California for an incredible Mach-3 strategic bomber. The concept was born as a result of General Curtis LeMay's desire for a heavy bomber with the weapon load ... Read more

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