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  • Otto Skorzeny
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Quella di Otto Skorzeny è sicuramente una delle figure più controverse ed interessanti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, alla quale molti storici hanno dedicato articoli e libri, per esaltare o denigrare le sue azioni che nel bene o nel male furono comunque straordinarie: la liberazione del Duce sul Gran Sasso, l'operazione 'Panzerfaust' nell'ottobre del 1944, l'operaz...
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    28,71 €

  • Death in the Baltic
    Cathryn J Prince
    January 1945: the outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army’s way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port, three Sovie...
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    16,52 €

  • A Terrible Revenge
    Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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    24,93 €

  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • Renatus' Kayak
    Rozanne Enerson Junker
    Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus...and to his daughter, Harriot?Woody had seldom spoken about his World War II service when he and six other G.I.s manned a secret American weather stat...
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    14,59 €

  • The Axis Forces 4
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Book magazine dedicated to the German, Italian and Japanese armed forces and their allies during WW2.In this issue. The battle of Narva 1944, The japan in war, The Italian Alpine Division Monterosa of RSI. Eastern Volunteer insignia. Heinrich Sonne. Knight Cross Holder. ...
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    12,71 €

  • Frecce Nere
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenzione su un periodo di un mese, sino al marzo del 1937, quando avvenne la battaglia di Guadalajara, enfatizzando l’unico insuccesso del C.T.V. (presentato comunemente come una sconfit...
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    33,56 €

  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their c...
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    11,85 €

  • Historia del Trotskismo británico
    Ted Grant
    Grant ofrece un relato detallado de estos inicios, desde el debate de 1924 sobre el trotskismo en el Partido Comunista Británico, pasando por los acontecimientos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con las actividades bélicas de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores y el Partido Comunista Revolucionario, y su papel como teórico principal. Las actividades incluso llamaron la atenci...
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    16,64 €

  • The Battles of the British Empire VOLUME SEVEN 1919 to 1945
    Nehal Kaur
    The vast scale and number of battles that the British Empire engaged in during its colonial expansion is truly monumental. It is this historical enormity that has inspired the creation of this book series, 'The Battles of the British Empire.' This series serves as a tribute to the remarkable military endeavours and strategic genius demonstrated by the British forces over centur...
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    46,21 €

  • Grain and Power
    Kwesi Ofori-Nyama
    When shipping lanes close or harvests fail, it is not only traders and farmers who worry. Cabinets, central banks, and general staffs suddenly discover that food - so often relegated to humanitarian briefings - is a foundation of power. Grain and Power: Food Security as Grand Strategy shows how wheat, maize, rice, and the routes they travel shape who is secure, who is exposed, ...
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    44,69 €

  • Greatest Generals of World War II
    Nehal Kaur
    'Great Generals of World War II' presents a captivating account that reveals the strategic genius and unwavering determination of the twelve most prominent military commanders of the Second World War. This book chronicles the events and changes that occurred during the turbulent years of 1939-1945, a time characterised by widespread international war and profound development. T...
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    34,75 €

  • Plymouth Blitz
    Michael C. McLaughlin
    Plymouth Blitz recounts the deadliest civilian incident in Plymouth during the Second World War, when a German bomb struck the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter. Through eyewitness accounts and archival research, this book captures the courage, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living under the threat of aerial attack. On the night of 22-23 April 1941, as the German Luftw...
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    35,72 €

  • LEGENDS OF WAR - RISE OF A HERO
    C. A. PORTNELLUS
    A sweeping tale of courage, heritage, and resilience. Legends of War - Rise of A Hero: is Book Two of Sparrow Wars in the Garden of Bliss: A La Barre Family Saga by C.A. Portnellus, offers a powerful exploration of World War II through the eyes of Barton Barre, a young man determined to rise above the shadows of his family’s troubled past. Set against the haunting backdrop of W...
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    33,08 €

  • The Empire Strikes South
    Tom Lewis
    Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II.For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires. Big twin-engine Betty bombers rained down blast and fire upon airfields and towns...
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    43,84 €

  • Fathers of the Master Race Eugenics, the SS, and the Nazi Campaign to Breed a New Aristocracy of Blood
    Julia Wolbrook
    They could sterilize the 'unfit' by law. They could not order the 'fit' into the nursery.Adolf Hitler’s Germany promised a thousand-year Reich, but a thousand years demands heirs. To get them, the Nazis turned to a science that had been respectable in London, New York, and Berlin for half a century: eugenics.At the center of their plan stood Heinrich Himmler and his SS, the bla...
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    14,47 €

  • 《当世界破碎时》
    Julian Claudio Nabozny
    他们素未谋面。两人出生地相隔数千英里。然而,第二次世界大战那台灾难性的机器,早已将他们推向一场意想不到、足以改变人生的碰撞。在法西斯统治下的意大利,历史悠久的山城乌尔比诺,当种族法和党卫军的清剿行动日益严密时,玛丽亚·巴尔代斯基冒着被处决的风险,将她那位遭追捕的犹太朋友藏在自家屋顶的椽子下。在欧洲大陆另一端的波兰,爱德华·纳博兹尼作为一名捍卫国家东部边境的精英边防卫士,被入侵的苏联军队俘虏,在古拉格集中营忍受着零下严寒与饥饿的折磨,随后踏上了一段史诗般的求生之旅,最终重返盟军阵营,加入波兰第二军--在北非的沙海和蒙特卡西诺血腥的山坡上,他率领部队发起猛烈进攻。他们各自的奥德赛之旅穿越了饥饿、致命的恐惧、流离失所和无法弥补的损失--从北极的伐木营地、托布鲁克之围,到意大利中部那座废墟般的本笃会修道院。他们没有任何理由相信彼此的人生会产生交集。然而,全面...
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    24,63 €

  • My Wartime Trip Around the World
    Arnold N. Johnson
    In August 1941, Arnold Johnson was a college freshman planning to become an accountant. By December, Pearl Harbor had changed everything.This memoir traces Johnson’s journey from a stunned university dormitory on the day of the attack through basic training, flight school, and into the skies over the China-Burma-India theater, one of World War II’s most grueling and least-remem...
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    13,78 €

  • Deal with the Devil Hitler, Stalin, and the Road to Barbarossa
    Julia Wolbrook
    In August 1939, two men who despised everything the other stood for shook hands and carved up Europe. For nearly two years, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia traded oil for steel, territory for silence, while the world waited for the inevitable betrayal.Deal with the Devil unravels the secret diplomacy, mounting paranoia, and fatal miscalculations that turned an alliance of conven...
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    14,44 €

  • Attack Transport
    Kenneth H. Goldman
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    23,48 €

  • Dangerous By Design
    Chuck Watson
    Mata Hari danced for kings and died in front of a firing squad - but the truth about what she actually betrayed has been debated by intelligence agencies for a century. Christine Granville survived Nazi interrogations, Allied bureaucracy, and three separate intelligence services, and was murdered in a London hotel stairwell by a man who couldn’t accept that she didn’t love him....
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    13,36 €

  • Hitler’s Architect Albert Speer, Nuremberg, and the Question of Guilt
    Julia Wolbrook
    He built Hitler’s dream of an empire, and then tried to explain why. Albert Speer was an ordinary architect who became one of the Third Reich’s most powerful men, running the war machine that kept Hitler’s armies fighting long after defeat was certain. At Nuremberg, he did what no other major defendant would: he accepted guilt. But guilt for what, exactly, and how much? Hitler’...
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    14,38 €

  • The World Wars
    History Brought Alive
    In 1914, soldiers rode into battle on horseback. By 1945, a single bomb erased an entire city. In between: two wars that toppled 4 empires, redrew the map of the world, and left over 80 million dead.This 2-book collection tells that story from the first shot in Sarajevo to the final surrender in Tokyo Bay - the battles, the leaders, the betrayals, and the decisions that still s...
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    19,47 €

  • Kurt Knispel
    Ian Neumann
    He is credited with 168 tank kills - more than any other gunner in the German army, more than any tank commander on any front. He was never awarded the Ritterkreuz. The story goes that he was nominated four times and rejected four times, for insubordination, for defending a Soviet prisoner, for refusing to look like a hero. Almost none of this can be documented . One army commu...
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    56,56 €

  • Kurt Knispel
    Ian Neumann
    168 Abschüsse. Kein anderer Richtschütze der deutschen Und kein wird mit einer höheren Zahl geführt. abgelehnt, Ritterkreuz. Viermal eingereicht, viermal Feldgendarmen verteidigte. Einen Belegt ist davon so gur wie nichts. Der Wehrmachtbericht vom 25. April 1944 nennt 101 Panzer. Das ist die einzige amtliche Zahl, die erhalten blieb. Alles Weitere stammt aus einem Veteranenband...
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    56,63 €

  • To War and Back with the 9th Bomb Squadron
    Charles B. Kastner
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    42,64 €

  • One Volk The Nazi Promise of Belonging
    Julia Wolbrook
    Before the camps. Before the war. There was a promise.One Volk uncovers the seductive lie at the heart of the Third Reich: not hatred alone, but belonging. Before Germany became a machine of conquest and genocide, it became a family, curated, exclusive, and intoxicating to millions who had felt invisible, humiliated, and lost.This is the story of how a nation of individuals was...
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    15,37 €

  • SD.KFZ. 251 'Hanomag'
    Luca Stefano Cristini
    Tra i veicoli che hanno segnato la seconda guerra mondiale, pochi sono riconoscibili come l’Sd.Kfz. 251. Il suo profilo, con il muso spiovente e il vano di combattimento scoperto, è diventato sinonimo della fanteria meccanizzata tedesca, l’immagine stessa dei Panzergrenadier che avanzavano al seguito dei carri armati. Questo semicingolato corazzato per il trasporto truppe, prod...
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    37,06 €

  • SD.KFZ. 251 'Hanomag'
    Luca Stefano Cristini
    Among the vehicles that marked the Second World War, few are as recognizable as the Sd.Kiz. 251. Its profile, with its sloped nose and open fighting compartment, has become synonymous with German mechanized infantry - the very image of the Panzergrenadiers advancing in the wake of the tanks. This armored half-track troop carrier, produced by the Hanomag company, was the vehicle...
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    37,06 €

  • Kurt Knispel
    Ian Neumann
    Il 25 aprile 1944 il Wehrmachtberiche fece il nome di un sottufficiale. Non era mai quasi accaduto per un carrista, e non accadde più. Kurt Knispel, ventidue anni, apprendente di officina nato in un villaggio dei Sudeti, aveva distrutto 101 carri nemici in venti mesi. Era, secondo ogni conteggio mai tentato, il puntatore più letale nella storia della guerra corazzata. Non ebbe ...
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    56,56 €