Frustrated Ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944, Hardcover - Richard Bruce Meixsel

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DescriptionA revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and the...

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One of the bloodiest European battles of the Second World War was that from January to June 1944 for the Gustav Line, anchored on Monte Cassino, fa...

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans att...

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DescriptionVolume 1 of this two-part work puts the reader firmly into the footsteps of the 2nd and 5th Rangers as they arrive in England in 1943. I...

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American op...

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With production in excess of 55, 000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of ...

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Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from t...

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A new and overdue definitive study of the British involvement in the (largely ignored) Salonika Campaign from the military angle.

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