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Human Smoke

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

£12.49 21 Jul 2008 Audio Cd Tantor Media, Inc

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy---a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II.

Human Smoke

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

£35.49 21 Jul 2008 Audio Cd Tantor Media, Inc

Human Smoke

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

£17.49 21 Jul 2008 Audio Cd Tantor Media, Inc

The 93rd Bomb Groups in Norfolk

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Pictorial History of the USAAF's 93rd Bombardment Group at Hardwick, During

By Peter Bodle, Paul Thrower

£6.00 21 Jul 2008 Paperback Liberator Publishing

Bagration to Berlin

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Final Air Battles in the East 1944-1945

By Christer Bergstrom

£27.99 17 Jul 2008 Hardback Ian Allan Ltd

A history of air operations on the Eastern Front supported by data tables and technical assessments.

The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Attempt on Hitler's Life in July 1944

By Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel

£13.99 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Countdown to Valkyrie

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler

By Nigel Jones

£19.99 17 Jul 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Barbarossa (No. 6522)

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Kirchubel

£12.99 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Concord Publications Co ,Hong Kong

Building Hitler's Missiles

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Traces of History in Peenemunde

By Volkhard Bode, Gerhard Kaiser

£14.99 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Christoph Links Verlag

The Stars Were Big and Bright (v. I)

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The United States Army Air Forces and Texas During World War II

By Thomas E. Alexander

£16.50 15 Jul 2008 Paperback McWhiney Foundation Press,U.S.

Presents a portrait of Texas during World War II and illustrated how the coming of thousands of strangers in military uniforms forever changed the faces of eight towns and cities across the Lone Star State. This book describes each community, establishing each location's pre-war condition.

Fire in the Cane Field

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861 - January 1863

By Donald S. Frazier

£20.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback McWhiney Foundation Press,U.S.

Tells the tale of bravado, reaction, and war and describes the consequences of disunion for the hapless citizens of Louisiana. This book also tells the tale of the Federal Government's determination to suppress the Confederacy - and nearly succeeding - by putting ever-increasing pressure on its adherents from New Orleans to Galveston.

Manila Memories

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Four Boys Remember Their Lives Before, During and After the Japanese

By Juergen Goldhagen

£9.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

Contains four narratives of life in Manila under Japanese occupation in World War 2.

Mrs Cordie's Soldier Son

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A World War II Saga

By Rocky R. Miracle

£17.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Texas A & M University Press

Tells the story of D C Caughran Jr, Mrs Cordie's son who left the comfort of home and family to become part of World War II. This book also tells the story of "the home folks" who anxiously watched for letters from their "soldier boy" and wrote faithfully of their love and prayers for his safety.

Anatomy of Perjury

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Field Marshal Albert Kesserling, Via Rasella, and the GINNY Mission

By Richard Raiber

£37.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Associated University Presses

Carefully reviewing the microfilmed German operational records, the author solves a World War II mystery involving Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and the Italian campaign he directed.

Guerrilla Daughter

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Virginia Hansen Holmes

£17.50 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Kent State University Press

Just 9 days before her 7th birthday, Virginia (Ginger) Hansen heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. She lived on the Philippine Island of Mindanao with her two brothers, her sister, her mother, and father. This title presents the experiences of this family during World War II.

Anthropological Intelligence

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

By David H. Price

£13.99 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Duke University Press

Examines anthropologists' little-known contributions to the Second World War. This book looks at the role played by the two primary US anthropological organizations, the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, in facilitating the application of anthropological methods to the problems of war.

Bagration to Berlin

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Final Air Battles in the East 1944-1945

By Christer Bergstrom

£27.99 10 Jul 2008 Hardback Ian Allan Ltd

A history of air operations on the Eastern Front supported by data tables and technical assessments.

The Origins of the Second World War

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R.J. Overy

£14.99 10 Jul 2008 Paperback Pearson Education Limited

Hitler had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This work explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941.

Prisoner of War in Germany

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Doyle

£5.99 10 Jul 2008 Paperback Shire Publications Ltd

During WWII, German prison camps swelled with Allied Prisoners of War, captured during fierce conflicts, from the Battle of France in 1940 to the bomber offensives over Germany from 1943. This book looks at the life of average private soldiers.

Combat History of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503 in World War II

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann, Richard Freiherr von Rosen

£18.50 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Stackpole Books,U.S.

Tells, with first-hand accounts as well as photographs, the combat history of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503, the senior Tiger battalion of the German Army, equipped with both the Tiger I and the King Tiger.

T-34 in Action

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Artem Drabkin, Oleg Sherem

£10.50 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Stackpole Books,U.S.

Offers an inside view of armoured warfare in World War II, from the perspective of the Soviet soldiers who went to war in the T-34. This book features first-person accounts that evoke the reality of combat, from confrontations with German panzers to the perils of close infantry support and bombardment from German artillery and aircraft.

Massacre at Tobruk

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter C. Smith

£10.50 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Stackpole Books,U.S.

In the summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps stood close to breaking through to Cairo and the Nile. In an effort to halt the Germans and buy time for the Allies, it attempted to storm Tobruk and destroy the Axis port there. It failed with terrible losses. This book offers the facts and highlights the endurance of those who participated.

Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Combat History of U.S. Army Tank Battalions in the Pacific in World War II

By Gene Eric Salecker

£21.50 09 Jul 2008 Hardback Stackpole Books,U.S.

Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands in 1941, the US Army's independent tank battalions fought from the very start of the war, and proved instrumental in winning World War II in the Pacific. This book describes the exploits of American tanks on the jungle islands where troops engaged in savage combat.

Cambridgeshire (No. 3)

08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Julian Evan-Hart

£14.95 08 Jul 2008 Paperback Air Research Publications

Spitfire Women of World War II

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Giles Whittell

£8.99 07 Jul 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.

Luftwaffe Fighters and Fighter Bombers Over the Far North

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Akra Kjetil, Andreas Brekken

£27.99 03 Jul 2008 Hardback Ian Allan Ltd

Studies the Luftwaffe's campaign in Scandinavia and the Far North - the Eismeerfront - from 1940 to 1945. This book emphasises on camouflage and markings and details the structure and organization of the units where these have a bearing on camouflage and/or markings as well as operations, losses and accidents, and senior and junior commanders.

Dambusters

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Illustrated History of 617 Squadron

By Chris Ward, Andy Lee

£19.95 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Air Research Publications

Details the Dambuster Raid, the formation of the squadron and the men who were lead by Guy Gibson. This work explores the extraordinary raids 617 Squadron made after the dams, to targets like the Battleship Tirpitz, the Dormunt-Ems Canal and U-Boat pens.

Endgame 1945

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Victory, Retribution, Liberation

By David Stafford

£10.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Little, Brown Book Group

* An absorbing, moving book about the weeks leading up to - and beyond - VE Day, 1945

Refusal

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Soazig Aaron

£7.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Vintage

Tells the story of Klara, who, after her release from Auschwitz, wandered through war-ravaged Europe for two months before returning to Paris in August 1945. This book reveals the horror of the author's experiences in Auschwitz.

The Souvenir

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War

By Louise Steinman

£11.99 02 Jul 2008 Paperback North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Creates an evocative testament to the ways in which war changes one generation and shapes another.

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan

By Terese Svoboda

£8.99 02 Jul 2008 Paperback Graywolf Press,U.S.

In 1946, Terese Svoboda's uncle served as a military policeman in occupied Japan. He was assigned to guard convicted fellow Americans-GIs gathered from all over the Pacific. "The captain called a meeting for all the MPs. He said the prison was getting overcrowded, terribly overcrowded. He said he was going to have to start executing the prisoners, the ones in the death cells." Svoboda's uncle remained a silent witness to the unqualified punishment of American prisoners, many of them African American. His closely guarded secret remained under wraps for decades.

As a child Svoboda thought of her uncle as Superman, with "black Clark Kent glasses, grapefruit-sized biceps. "At nearly eighty, he could still boast a washboard stomach - and tell war stories. With the news of Abu Ghraib, he fell into a terrible depression, and the tapes he sent Svoboda ended abruptly with his suicide. Svoboda launched her own investigation, traveling to Japan, digging through buried files at the National Archives, and contacting the few surviving vets who served with her uncle.

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent reveals how the vagaries of military justice can allow the worst to happen and be buried by time and protocol.

Goodwood: Normandy, July 44

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Men and Battles

By Lodieu, Didier

£12.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Histoire & Collections

From July 18 - 20, 1944, British and Canadian forces launched Operation Goodwood in order finally to capture Caen and push the Germans back towards the south, beyond Bourgue'bus.

Among the armored divisions engaged in the fighting, the book follows the British 11th Armoured Division in particular. In four days, the English advanced over six miles and destroyed more than 100 German tanks but at a cost of 5,500 men and 413 tanks destroyed.

Didier Lodieu is a recognized specialist of the Battle of Normandy and is the author of a number of works on this period. He gives us a different perspective on Operation Goodwood by following the Guards Armoured Division.

The book contains numerous plans and maps and is richly illustrated with many often previously unpublished photographs together with full color armor profiles.

Hitler & Mussolini: The Secret Meetings

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Secret Meetings

By Corvaja, Santi

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Enigma Books

Few political associations have had as disastrous an outcome as the one forged between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Axis alliance in defeat ultimately destroyed its two founders and their regimes, as well as the lives of millions of people in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the process. Yet the deeper motivations that were the root cause of the alliance between Germany and Italy, with the added ingredient of Imperial Japan and the political and personal relationship between Hitler and Mussolini, are explained while many aspects remain strangely mysterious even to this day. This book offers a complete chronicle of the Axis alliance.

The Spitfire Smiths: A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms. R.I.A. Smith with Christopher Shores

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms

By Smith, Rod Smith, R. I. a.

£20.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Grub Street

Rod Smith and his brother Jerry became Spitfire pilots during World War II, leaving their home in Canada only to find themselves - serving together in the defence of Malta during 1942. In late 2001 Rod Smith died tragically at his own hand, leaving behind a part-written autobiography and many notes. This book is a testament to them.

Messerschmitt Bf 110 B, C, D, & E: An Illustrated History

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vasco, John

£35.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Classic Publications

A study of the Luftwaffe's prime heavy fighter, which met its match against the fighters in the Battle of Britain.

Luftwaffe Colours 1935 - 1945

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Ullmann

£34.95 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Hikoki Publications

A Noble Crusade

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The History of the Eighth Army 1941-45

By Richard Doherty

£14.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback The History Press Ltd

Offers the history of Eighth Army. This book uses official records, personal accounts and Victoria Cross winners' stories to deliver a tale of the Eighth Army from its beginnings in the sands of North Africa through the victory of El Alamein to the end of the war and eventual victory.

Churchill and Spain

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945

By Richard Wigg

£19.50 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Sussex Academic Press

Explores the political, economic and diplomatic relations between Spain and Britain during the Second World War and explains how Churchill's lenient policies towards Franco helped significantly in the survival of Franco's regime after the war.

Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ackerman, Diane

£16.46 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk BBC Audiobooks

Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Smith, Larry

£13.73 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Tantor Media

The men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.

Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Smith, Larry

£38.46 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

The men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.

Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Smith, Larry

£19.23 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

The men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.

Military Training Pamphlets (v. 1)

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

General Staff's Series, 1938-1948

By G. Thomas Davis

£5.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback G Thomas Davis

Maria Gulovich, OSS Heroine of World War II: The Schoolteacher Who Saved American Lives in Slovakia

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jason, Sonya N.

£19.23 01 Jul 2008 Paperback McFarland & Company

In the Polish Secret War: Memoir of a World War II Freedom Fighter

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mazgaj, Marian S.

£19.23 01 Jul 2008 Paperback McFarland & Company

World War II (Square)

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chant, Christopher

£13.73 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Chartwell Books

607 Squadron

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Shade of Blue

By Robert Dixon

£14.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback The History Press Ltd

Flying into Hell

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Bomber Command Offensive as Recorded by the Crews Themselves

By Mel Rolfe

£8.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Grub Street

A collection of twenty stories, which offer a chance to learn what WWII was like.

Spitfire Pilot

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Crook, Richard Overy

£8.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Grub Street

Written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich, this work presents a personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest.

The Battle of the River Plate 1939

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark J. Grove

£13.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Osprey Publishing

Explores the tactics of the battle and the role of surface raiders, this title covers the personality of Captain Langsdorff and the influence of Hitler on the battle. The Allies' victory was a terrible blow to German propaganda, and this key opening naval battle changed the course of naval strategy for the rest of World War II.

Aichi 99 Kanbaku 'Val' Units of World War 2

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tagaya Osamu

£12.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Osprey Publishing

Explores the combat operations of the Aichi Type 99 Carrier Bomber (D3A), code named "Val" by Allied intelligence, the mainstay of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier dive-bomber force from 1941 to 1943. This book explores the Val's participation during the World War 2, which sank the Allied warship tonnage.

Steeds of Steel

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History of American Mechanized Cavalry in World War II

By Harry Yeide

£18.99 27 Jun 2008 Hardback Motorbooks International

Follows tank combat form the days of WW II to the finish, from landing in North Africa in Operation Torch, fighting on the jungle-clad slopes of Guadalcanal, the campaigns of the Mediterranean, Europe, and the battles of the Pacific. This book provides a view of the use of tanks, how they changed the nature of war and gained the final victory.

Totenkopf

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By C Trang

£40.00 26 Jun 2008 Hardback Editions Heimdal

The history of the famous armored division involved in the fighting from the outset in 1939 right up until the end of the war, and also in war crimes analyzed here.

The Generals

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From Victory to Defeat, Leadership in the Burma Campaign, 1941-45

By Rob Lyman

£25.00 26 Jun 2008 Hardback Constable and Robinson

Presenting an account of war in Asia, this book analyses the effectiveness of the Japanese, British and American commanders who lead their forces in defeat and victory during the longest continuous campaign of the Second World War. It looks at the desperate struggle between both sides in what the British describe as 'the Forgotten War'.

Poles in India 1942-1948

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Second World War Story

£15.00 26 Jun 2008 Paperback Association of Poles in India 1942-1948

After the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War, hoping to return to their own country. Unfortunately the Yalta Agreements made that impossible. This book quotes the original documents in order to convey the spirit of those days.

Iwo Jima

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

By Larry Smith

£16.99 26 Jun 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

On 19 February 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days approximately 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 American soldiers died, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of the Second World War. This title presents stories from Iwo Jima veterans.

Medicine and Victory

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

British Military Medicine in the Second World War

By Mark Harrison

£22.50 26 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Medicine and Victory shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres of the war, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital.

Germany and the Second World War (v. IX/I)

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the

By Ralf Blank, Jorg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jurgen Forster, Winifried Heinemann, Tobias Jersak, Armin Nolzen, Christoph Rass

£165.00 26 Jun 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Volume IX/I of this series focuses on how the war affected individuals - from soldiers to slave labourers. After examining the Party's role in moulding public attitudes and how German society related to the Holocaust, it looks at the social structure of military units, ideological indoctrination of the troops, and resistance to the regime.

British Army of World War Two: War Establishment Tables: Northwest Europe: (v. 7)

25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

79th Armoured Division

By G. Kennedy

£19.99 25 Jun 2008 Paperback Military Press

Franco and the Axis Stigma

20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Wingeate Pike

£45.00 20 Jun 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Examines Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, and demonstrates how Franco's cause never waned until the very end. This book presents study of the Spanish press in its four dimensions of the period (Church, military, monarchist, Falangist). It includes German Admiralty and Wehrmacht reports.

SS Regiment Thule

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Photoalbum of the Totenkopf

By Charles Trang

£9.95 19 Jun 2008 Hardback Heimdal

Hitler's Armada

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Royal Navy and the Defence of Great Britain, April - October 1940

By Geoff Hewitt

£19.99 19 Jun 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Battle for Crete

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Hall Spencer

£19.99 19 Jun 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Missing Believed Killed

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service

By Stuart Hadaway

£19.99 19 Jun 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Medicine and Victory

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

British Military Medicine in the Second World War

By Mark Harrison

£22.50 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Germany and the Second World War (v. IX/I)

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the

By Ralf Blank, Jorg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jurgen Forster, Winifried Heinemann, Tobias Jersak, Armin Nolzen, Christoph Rass

£165.00 19 Jun 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Road to Destruction

16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Operation Blue and the Battle of Stalingrad: a Photographic History

By Ian Baxter

£25.00 16 Jun 2008 Hardback Helion & Company

Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Koh Wee Hock

£18.50 15 Jun 2008 Paperback Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Shows that the political and social fallout from the Second World War is divisive. This volume presents an example of how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asian integration and wider Asian integration.

Jungvolk

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich

By Willhelm Gehlen, Donald Gregory

£19.99 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Casemate Books

"Jungvolk" is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency. Gehlen provides an intimate glimpse of life inside Hitler's wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare.

Kamikazes, Corsairs and Picket Ships

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Okinawa 1945

By Robin Rielly

£19.99 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Casemate Books

Basing his work on primary sources, including ship and aircraft action reports, ship logs, and personal interviews, Rielly delivers an engrossing narrative of the American assault on Okinawa in spring 1945.

Hitler's Miracle Weapons (v. 3)

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Friedrich Georg

£34.95 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Helion & Company

The third volume in this now-established series expand its coverage to examine Nazi Germany's efforts to develop intercontinental weapons and nothing short of a space program. The author begins by examining whether the V2 rocket was the final development produced by Hitler. He then proceeds to examine, in great detail, Germany's efforts to develop what was called the 'America Rocket', an intercontinental weapon.
Much evidence is produced to suggest that planning and preparation were underway for an attempted intercontinental rocket launch against New York at war's end. A final section of the book examines further German rocketry projects that were on the drawing board by the end of the war, including sophisticated orbital craft.
The text is supported by a selection of photographs and diagrams, as well as 16 superb pages of color artwork, including profiles, computer-generated images of drawing board designs, and pictures of the author's own models.

The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Allied Bombers 1939-1945

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Chant

£19.99 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Amber Books Ltd

US Forces in Europe

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

1st US Infantry and 2nd US Armored Division

By Steve Smith, Ian Westwell