Eleven Days in August. The Liberation of Paris in 1944, Paperback - Matthew Cobb

A gripping day by day account of the liberation of Paris from the Nazis in August 1944

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence...

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Publisher: Helion & CompanyTranslator: Richard HarrisonNumber of pages: 534Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 244 x 33Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLCAuthor(s): Chris SimsNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 275 x 213 x 6Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Gabriel King was a born chicken. He’s afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. Gabe’s best fri...

A comprehensive account of the Royal Artillery at Normandy: unparalleled level of information drawing on personal account and official records

When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they confronted a terrible challenge, inside the camp were people, who ...

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for ...

By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sa...

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A true World War II Christmas story from the bestselling author of Silent Night. It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but...

A new history of the battles in Burma in 1944, the outcome of which decided World War II in Asia and influenced the next 75 years of Asian history....

Matthew Cobb explores the sense of smell - its complex evolutionary history, and its many functions in a wide variety of animals, including humans....

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voic...

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DescriptionOn the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the in...

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Reducere. Decision at Strasbourg relates the remarkable and largely unknown story of Lt. General Jacob Devers' lost opportunity to launch a bold attack into ...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle...

Reducere. Woody Allen made the glamour of Paris in the twenties magical in Midnight In Paris--but was that really the case? The Lost Generation made up one o...

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Reducere. DescriptionBased upon exhaustive research in all presidential libraries from Hoover to Clinton, the voluminous archives of the African National Con...

Reducere. On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10, 000 unburied, putrefying corpses ...

when her son died, a piece of Olivia died too. On the night of a bomb threat, Olivia and Peter meet accidentally in Paris. Peter, once so sure of h...

Reducere. "A gripping insight about the liberation of Guam." - ReviewerGuam's Japanese garrison fought practically to the last man.By invading Guam, US force...

Reducere. "Today there is much discussion of the liberation of women, " writes Marie-Louise von Franz, "but it is sometimes overlooked that this can only suc...

DescriptionA groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout "M...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Monique W. MorrisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Eleven walks which look at Bath through the eyes of eminent authors as diverse as Smollett, Jane Austen, Dickens, Fanny Burney, Sheridan, Georgette...

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Antony Beevor's "Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949" is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of...

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