Blood and Ruins. The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945, Hardback - Richard Overy

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard OveryNumber of pages: 1040Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 49Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

A] stupendous achievement.. .Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...it is history at its best, down to the fine...

Reducere. Originally published in 1980 and still the best one-volume aerial history of World War II, Richard Overy's classic work remains profound and highly...

Reducere. Description"An essential part of the literature of World War II." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post From acclaimed World War II historian Ric...

As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen mater...

A concise history of the Second World War.

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandab...

Drawing on a wealth of evidence to account for the Soviet Union's victory against invading forces, this book offers an account of the epic struggle...

New in paperback. This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Ri...

Now in its 5th edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a Eur...

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Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumsIllustration(s): 25 color plates, 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 20...

Reveals new hitherto unknown stories and adds many more unseen images about the twelve boys caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

Using a remarkable collection of previously unseen images, Missing is a sweeping, epic story that is as resonant and relevant today, as a hundred y...

Europe's second Thirty Years' War--an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single histor...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Richard HoughNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

This fascinating new history follows the course of Japan's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Unsparing in its treatment ...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Adrian KerrisonNumber of pages: 80Collection: Imperial War Museum Photography CollectionPublication date:...

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A superbly illustrated new history of the Third Reich from a world-class historian.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Richard OveryNumber of p...

Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occu...

Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Kate ClementsNumber of pages: 80Collection: Imperial War Museum Photography CollectionPublication date: 2...

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The history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocid...

The Imperial War Museum open its world-famous archives to celebrate the letters, diaries and spoken words of those who witnessed the key events of ...

Volume five of this monumental series commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean which preceded the advance northw...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 237 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did? What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of t...

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Reducere. The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies over...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Hans LengererIllustration(s): 150 b/w photos & line drawingsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency -- Pearl Harbor -- a...

Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, ...

In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukr...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinki...

The true story of how Britain won the First World War.

70th anniversary edition of this definitive short account of history's most famous air battle, with a new introduction and jacket.

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