The Fall of Malaya and Singapore: Images of War, Paperback - Jon Diamond

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese ...

The story of the Imperial Japanese Army's victory over the British forces during World War II, focusing on the significance of the aerial campaign ...

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* In-depth illustrated history of one of the most successful post-war British tanks * Specially commissioned full-colour artwork showing the main v...

* In-depth illustrated history of the most famous Allied tank of the Second World War * Detailed description of the design and engineering of the S...

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

An engaging new collection of archive photography, offering readers new insights into the conflict that played out in the skies over Burma during t...

One man's story of an experience shared by thousands of children. The idyllic upbringing of the child of a Navy officer in Malaya and Singapore dur...

Twin sisters - Jill Robertson and Jan Slimming - provide an exhilarating account via their father's secret POW diary.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle,...

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Op HUSKY was a vast and daring multi-national amphibious and air landing. The dramatic story is told in well-researched text and superb images true...

DescriptionThe American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945. 350 miles from Japan, Okin...

Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century

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Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

These amazingly well preserved photographs originate from German collection. They cover the full gamut of the dreadful conditions that all troops i...

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

Includes information about: H bomb, Cambridge Spies, Protect and Survive (leaflet issued in 1963 and 1980 on how to survive a nuclear attack), Fall...

The most powerful story in stamp history, revealing the little icons at the heart of wartime propagandaIllustrations: 48 Plates, color; 100 Illustr...

The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is har...

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This Element provides an overview of existing descriptions of the pronunciation of Standard Malay before briefly considering the pronunciation of s...

Following The Ranger of Marzanna, The Queen of Izmoroz continues Jon Skovron's epic fantasy trilogy about two siblings on opposite sides of a magic...

In more than 300 pictures, this book presents a gallery of the main ships of the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American war. Most images come from o...

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

Covers operations by the British multinational 14th Army and also the American-Sino troops of General Stilwell and Chiang Kai-Shek.Publisher: Pen &...

From the beginning in 1935, this book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions. It is a visual account with 270 black-a...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul ThomasIllustration(s): 250+ B & W imagesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 244 x...

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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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Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's Hist...