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MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns

de Chris McNab & Ramiro Bujeiro

With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower - the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself the MG 34 was an excellent weapon: an air-cooled, recoil-operated...

British Light Cruisers 1939-45

de Angus Konstam & Paul Wright

Cruisers became Britain's essential vessel for protecting battleships, carriers, and convoys versus Japanese, Italian, and Nazi German commerce raiders, submarines, aircraft, and destroyers. 

The light cruiser...

US 10th Mountain Division in World War II

de Gordon Rottman & Peter Dennis

The 10th was the only American mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. It did not arrive...

Defense of the Third Reich 1941-45

de Steven Zaloga & Adam Hook

During World War II Germany was subjected to the growing threat of Allied bomber attack, from RAF night bombing to American daylight bombing. From flak artillery to fortified structures, this book focuses on...

Panzerj?ger vs KV-1: Eastern Front 1941-43

de Robert Forczyk & Ian Palmer

As the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union, it discovered that the Russians possessed heavy tanks that German anti-tank guns were ineffective against.

The German Army developed the 37-mm Pak 36 in 1936 to provide...

Meteor I vs V1 Flying Bomb: 1944

de Donald Nijboer & Jim Laurier

British jet fighters initiated jet vs. jet warfare when they fought Hitler's Nazi German V-1 attacks on London in World War II.

The V1 attack on London began on the night of 13/14 June 1944 from bases in Normandy....

The Mareth Line 1943: The end in Africa

de Ken Ford & Steve Noon

The battle of El Alamein in World War II saw the shattering of Germany's hopes for victory in North Africa. From this point on the end was inevitable, as Rommel's forces began the long retreat that was to end...

Coronel and Falklands 1914: Duel in the South Atlantic

de Michael Mcnally & Peter Dennis

Admiral von Spee's German East Asia Cruiser Squadron of World War I stand out amidst the annals of 20th century surface naval warfare. Upon the outbreak of war in August 1914, the British Royal Navy was deployed...

Iraq Full Circle: From Shock and Awe to the Last Combat Patrol in Baghdad and Beyond

de Darron Wright

Col. Wright served three tours of duty in the Iraq War, commanding the last active combat brigade to withdraw from Operation Iraqi Freedom. His book personalizes the broader operational conflict we’ve all...

Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II

de Michael Walling

Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin’s Soviet Russia with critical equipment and foodstuffs...

Sopwith Camel

de Jon Guttman & Simon Smith

A British icon of World War I aerial combat, just as the Supermarine Spitfire is for World War II, the Sopwith Camel might more aptly be compared to the equally iconic (if one is Japanese) Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero....

The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans

de Don Philpott, Janelle Hill & Cheryl Lawhorne

The second edition of this popular resource guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect new policies, additional benefits, updated procedures, and changes to insurance, including traumatic injury insurance...

Lost Treasures of American History

de W. C. Jameson

With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has...

Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict

de Edwin P. Hoyt

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.

The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg 1945-1949

de Sean Brennan

This book analyzes the relationship between Soviet military authorities, the East German Communists, and the leadership of the Protestant and Catholic Churches in the Soviet zone of Germany, especially its central...

History of Libraries of the Western World

de Michael H. Harris

This edition of the History of Libraries in the Western World represents a substantial revision of the earlier edition, taking into account the "information revolution" that has swept the West since 1945 and...

Generally Speaking: The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

de Richard Rohmer

Major-General Richard Rohmer, lawyer, litigator, journalist and best-selling author, has met with such public figures as Queen Elizabeth, "Intrepid" Sir William Stephenson, Presidents Eisenhower, Regan, Clinton...

Columba

de Tim Clarkson

Who was Saint Columba? How did this Irish aristocrat become the most important figure in early Scottish Christianity? In seeking answers to these questions this book examines the different roles played by the...

The Picts: A History

de Tim Clarkson

The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their importance in Scottish history they remain shrouded in an aura of myth and misconception....

The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland

de Tim Clarkson

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium...