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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 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C. McDonald III
    Born to Fly China’s wide-open skies were perfect… if you didn’t mind typhoons, sand storms,  blizzards, uncharted mountains and  Japanese Zeros hunting you. Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II.  He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flyin...
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    34,81 €

  • 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 €

  • Operation Barbarossa
    Nigel Askey
    In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Sovie...
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    40,02 €

  • 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...
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    10,86 €

  • Blue Skies, Troubled Waters
    Brian Kimmel / Martha Walandouw Lohn
    Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the remarkable true story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is uprooted and deported to the jungles of Indonesia due to their father’s undocumented status. Their new life is quickly shattered when, in 1942, Japan invades, and the family is imprisoned as civilian prisoners of war. Through the eye...
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    15,72 €

  • A Gate in the Wall
    Melinda Barnhardt
    This book shares the story of the Lindeijers, a Dutch colonial family in Indonesia, first during their time as captives of the Japanese during World War II and then during the postwar decades, as they struggled to come to terms with their wartime trauma. The protagonists speak, as much as possible, for themselves through their documents. The father, in his prohibited POW d...
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    57,25 €

  • The Hidden History of Military Technology in Everyday Life
    Brent Christiaens
    The Hidden History of Military Technology in Everyday Life explores the profound and often surprising ways in which military innovation has shaped the modern world. From the internet and GPS to medical advancements and materials science, this book reveals the hidden military origins of technologies we use every day.Author Brent Christiaens takes readers on a journey through tim...
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    27,50 €

  • The Battle of the Bulge
    Captivating History
    The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Gamble in World War IIDid you know the Battle of the Bulge was the largest ground battle fought by the United States Army during World War II? In the final months of 1944, as the Allies closed in on Germany, Hitler launched one last desperate attack-a surprise winter offensive through the dense Ardennes Forest.Why did Hitler risk his last ...
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    17,20 €

  • Mi Lucha
    Adolf Hitler
    Mi Lucha (Mein Kampf) es el libro escrito por Adolf Hitler durante su encarcelamiento en 1924. En él, el autor expone su visión del mundo, sus ideas políticas, raciales y nacionalistas, así como su plan para el futuro de Alemania. Dividido en dos partes, el libro abarca su autobiografía y el desarrollo de su ideología.Esta obra, profundamente controvertida, ha sido estudiada co...
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    18,17 €

  • Mi Lucha
    Adolf Hitler
    Mi Lucha (Mein Kampf) es el libro escrito por Adolf Hitler durante su encarcelamiento en 1924. En él, el autor expone su visión del mundo, sus ideas políticas, raciales y nacionalistas, así como su plan para el futuro de Alemania. Dividido en dos partes, el libro abarca su autobiografía y el desarrollo de su ideología.Esta obra, profundamente controvertida, ha sido estudiada co...
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    12,33 €

  • Survivor of a Lost Generation
    Geoffrey W Heap
    This is the memoir of a soldier and actor, from his childhood, playing with toy soldiers and making up plays, through the trenches of the first world war, to being evacuated from Dunkirk in the second war. He describes the gritty reality of trench warfare, the thrill of doing aerobatics in biplanes with open cockpits, and meeting TE Lawrence of Arabia while learning to drive ta...
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    31,79 €

  • Passing Misery
    Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers
    The Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO), or the Compulsory Work Service, program remains one of the most unsettling features of France’s history in World War II. Established by the Vichy government in 1943, this initiative saw young men provide forced labor, primarily within France or Germany, in support of the Third Reich’s war effort. In this illuminating translation of the ...
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    184,38 €

  • The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
    The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either ...
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    53,31 €

  • Solitary Confinement
    Christopher Burney
    Parachuted into France as a British secret agent, Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation. With little human contact and nothing to distract him, Burney developed a mental and spiritual regime that enabled him not just to survive but to develop an internal...
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    19,93 €

  • Simple Sabotage Field Manual
    Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
    The Simple Sabotage Field Manual was originally written during World War II by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the agency that later became the CIA. Created as a guide to help civilians behind enemy lines disrupt enemy operations, it detailed easy, low-risk actions anyone could perform to slow productivity, spread confusion, and subtly sabotage the enemy’s infrastructur...
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    6,64 €

  • The Jewish Hand in the World Wars
    Thomas Dalton
    That Jews have long had a negative reputation is common knowledge. The causes for this are plentiful, ranging from their anti-Christian ideology and social exclusivity to arrogance, conceit, greed, and maliciousness. Their belligerence and animosity are legendary. But less well known is their involvement in war-hence the reason for this book.When we examine the causal factors f...
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    17,56 €

  • From Blinker Hall to Room 39
    Anthony Wells
    Dr. Wells offers an exhilarating deep dive into the world of British Naval Intelligence, exploring its intricacies with a level of detail and professionalism never before seen. As the only living person to have served in both British and United States Intelligence, and having been trained by the leading figures of British Naval Intelligence during World War Two, Anthony Wells b...
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    14,73 €

  • From Blinker Hall to Room 39
    Anthony Wells
    Dr. Wells offers an exhilarating deep dive into the world of British Naval Intelligence, exploring its intricacies with a level of detail and professionalism never before seen. As the only living person to have served in both British and United States Intelligence, and having been trained by the leading figures of British Naval Intelligence during World War Two, Anthony Wells b...
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    26,05 €

  • War Dancer
    Rita Ernstein
    War Dancer: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope on the Front Lines of WWIIA Remarkable True Story of Courage, Performance, and Survival in World War TwoAmid WW2, as bombs fell and soldiers braced for battle, brave performers took to the stage-not as fighters, but as performers bringing escape where it was needed most. War Dancer is the extraordinary memoir of Rita, a young perform...
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    7,46 €

  • Chamberlain and Churchill The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy
    Alan I. Saltman
    From the author of No Peace with Hitler comes another masterful examination of Britain’s leadership from 1938 through 1940. In Antagonists, Saltman delivers a riveting account of the complex dynamic between Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain-two towering figures whose decisions shaped the course of history. With meticulous research and compelling storytelling, Saltman ex...
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    38,11 €

  • Chamberlain and Churchill The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy
    Alan I. Saltman
    From the author of No Peace with Hitler comes another masterful examination of Britain’s leadership from 1938 through 1940. In Antagonists, Saltman delivers a riveting account of the complex dynamic between Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain-two towering figures whose decisions shaped the course of history.With meticulous research and compelling storytelling, Saltman exp...
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    27,93 €

  • Scattered Blossoms
    John I Wood
    An aging B-29 pilot returns to his childhood home in Japan to learn the fate of his adoptive family and the girl he loved, people he ironically may have bombed. He meets an enigmatic host who seems to know more about him than he could imagine. ...
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    13,87 €

  • Hotel Lancaster
    L.W. Hewitt
    Johanna was beautiful, beguiling, cunning ... with a lust for wealth. She sought out the very rich plying the steamship lines from Italy to Argentina. Konrad Ackermann was young, naive ... a former captain of the SS who abandoned Berlin as the Russian troops stormed the Führer bunker in April 1945. Konrad Ackermann ... who financed his escape with a stash of solid gold coins, t...
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    16,59 €

  • Red Storm Over the Balkans
    David M. Glantz
    Germany’s Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been 'forgotten' by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army’s invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced nearly 200,000 casualties and tarnished the reputations of its commanders. The redoubtable David Glantz, the world’s leading au...
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    48,95 €


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