Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War. The Collapse of an Empire, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Prof. Peter (Ostasieninstitut, Germany) WetzlerNumber of pages: 256Collection: SOAS Studies in Moder...

Reducere. Much has been written about the causes for the outbreak of World War I and the ways in which the war was fought, but few historians have tackled th...

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 ...

This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Ra...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

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

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian a...

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Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

Reducere. The battleships of the Kongō class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classifi...

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of t...

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World War

During the last months of the war, the wasted Japanese industry could not manufacture fighters that were sufficiently advanced to face the Superfor...

War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and trans...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

DescriptionWhen Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not...

Reducere. DescriptionAs German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carrie...

DescriptionFighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India...

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British an...

Highly illustrated account of the major naval battles fought in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword B...

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A history of Norfolk in the Second World WarPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Frank MeeresNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2008Dimens...

Robin Brook's action-packed book describes the military airfields of Berkshire during the last war, including Greenham Common, Membury, Welford, an...

The author identifies the most important decisions taken by Churchill between May 1940 and the end of the Second World War.

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

Previously untold stories and unpublished photographs of Norwich in wartimePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Neil R StoreyIllustration(s):...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makep...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

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