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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 €

  • 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 €

  • Undercover Angels Virginia Hall And The Spy Women Who Fought The Nazis During World War II
    Davis Truman
    Step into the covert world of World War II's untold heroes, the female agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). While history often overlooks their pivotal roles, these daring women defied societal norms and infiltrated enemy lines, rewriting the rules of warfare."Undercover Angels: Virginia Hall And The Spy Women Who Fought The Nazis During World War II" uncovers ...
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    14,46 €

  • Untamable
    Billy Sprague
    In every great love story, someone goes the distance against the odds.Aneska Latva was born to play piano, April 4, 1929, in Hamburg, Germany. Just two months older than Anne Frank, child prodigy Aneska battled the shadows of the same villainous tyranny. Like Anne, the darkness threatened her family, dreams and life.Through it all, Aneska’s weapons were music, faith, undying lo...
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    14,85 €

  • 8 settembre 1943
    Francesco Mattesini
    Quest’opera descrive in due volumi, in modo esaustivo, come dopo lo sbarco degli anglo-americani in Sicilia il 10 luglio 1943, il Governo italiano, il 3 settembre a Cassibile (Sicilia), concluse con suoi rappresentanti un armistizio, 'senza condizioni' e quindi 'resa totale', con emissari degli anglo-americani; armistizio che entrò in vigore il successivo 8 settembre. Le condiz...
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    27,29 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    Journey through the war-torn landscapes of Normandy, Stalingrad, and Midway. Witness the power struggles and tactical genius of leaders like Churchill, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin. Understand the profound sacrifices of the ordinary men and women who fought on the front lines and the home front, whose resilience shaped the fate of nations.From the blitzkrieg assaults that thun...
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    7,71 €

  • The Greatest Escape
    Samuel & Freda Quigley and family
    An unlikely love story with the greatest escape. This love story is not your typical boy meets girl, and they ride off into the sunset. No, this love story has everything fit for a movie. This is the true story of a Prisoner of War soldier from Northern Ireland and a poor farm girl from Germany. The Second World War would bring them both together. Despite everything against the...
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    13,06 €

  • My Journey
    Wendy Billington
    Shaped today by the experiences of yesterday. This  is the theme that is clearly yet sensitively portrayed throughout the book . We meet a shy, sensitive youngster enjoying all that life has to offer her when  at the age of eight everything changes. Holidaying with her family on the Isle of Wight and sitting in rows on the beach alongside other holidaymakers, she hears the voic...
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    23,97 €

  • Your Loving Son Ty
    Jody Beck
    Madsen 'Ty' Cobb Kokjer grew up in a small city in the middle of Nebraska. Halfway through college in 1940, he chose the adventure of becoming an Army Air Corps pilot instead of finishing his studies. This book is the memoir he might have written about the war he so unexpectedly found himself in the midst of.After a year of exhilaration-learning to fly, visiting places he had n...
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    19,35 €

  • My Father’s Letters
    Garth M. Stiebel
    Framed by the violence and chaos of a global conflict is my parents’ love story, touchingly told in a series of letters from Max to Rosaleen from the day after they met in 1941 to my mother’s disembarkation in Halifax from the Queen Mary as a war bride in 1946.Max Stiebel, one of five sons of German immigrants to Canada, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec becoming one of t...
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    31,28 €

  • My Mask. My War.
    Gary Metivier / Norma Thoeming
    The streetlights were dark. Black-out curtains hung on every window on every home. The buzz of bombers circled above, searching for targets in the night.For a little girl named Norma, this was the only life she knew. This was life in World War II England.A shiny apple for Christmas was all her father could give. Her mother had walked away without saying a word to her children, ...
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    12,91 €

  • Twenty Six Letters
    Jane M Meadows
    This charming and uplifting book came about because of a carrier bag full of old letters. Written simply and with empathy, it tells the story of two people who meet in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Told half as letters and half as narrative it is a simple tale of love and hope. A book to read curled up by a roaring fire - and just as warming. ...
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    15,13 €

  • Earning Their Wings
    Sarah Parry Myers
    Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied ove...
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    38,15 €

  • Earning Their Wings
    Sarah Parry Myers
    Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied ove...
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    126,99 €

  • Hitler’s Library
    Ambrus Miskolczy
    The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an ideal reader of Schopenhauer, nevertheless his remarks destroy that image, particularly if we see how he read Ernst Jünger, Richard Wagner, or Paul de Lagarde, and how he reread Mein Kampf.The book describe...
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    27,86 €

  • The bad German and the good Italian
    Filippo Focardi / Paul Barnaby
    This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini’s fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally ...
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    156,92 €

  • Friends and enemies
    Karen Garner
    This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure - or reject - Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in their existential conflict with the fascist Axis powers. ...
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    35,64 €

  • An Average Pilot
    Bev Morris / Luca Lazzara
    On 11 November 1941, four Fairey Swordfish of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm took off from Hal Far base in Malta to fly a mission over the Strait of Sicily. Their plans quickly went awry, turning their story into one of skill, determination and grit that is only now being fully told.This book, inspired by a photo of an aircraft upside down on Cefalù beach in Sicily, led to years ...
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    25,37 €

  • Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler’s Wolf Packs
    Alex Anderson
    Early 1939 saw a world already in turmoil and Great Britain enter deeper into a period of momentous political upheaval and decision-making around the growing threat of a second World War. That said, daily life went on, and so it was for a nineteen-year-old Perthshire lad, son of the local headmaster and one of four siblings, who had just graduated from Dundee’s Wireless College...
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    15,69 €

  • VICTORY IN THE WEST ATLAS
    Major L. F. Ellis
    A full and useful assembly of all 96 General, Situation & Sketch maps from the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - VICTORY IN THE WEST: THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY.The maps are in chronological order, full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects, allowing the reader to follow the liberation of German-occupied west...
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    55,69 €

  • VICTORY IN THE WEST ATLAS
    Major L. F. Ellis
    A full and useful assembly of all 96 General, Situation & Sketch maps from the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - VICTORY IN THE WEST: THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY.The maps are in chronological order, full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects, allowing the reader to follow the liberation of German-occupied west...
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    75,90 €

  • From the South Pacific to the New River
    John Emerson Campbell
    This book is a unique love story between our Father and Mother, during WWII when the death of one of his brothers serving in Hawaii, was killed in a friendly fire accident, started what would become a great love story between the two of them. The first letter was written to this young girl of 15 years of age, expressing his and his family’s condolences on the loss of her boyfri...
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    21,56 €

  • Finding Takashi
    Chōkōdō Shujin
    Finding Takashi tells the true story of Takashi Akutagawa, the second son of Japan’s greatest writer, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. After Ryūnosuke’s suicide shocks the nation, Takashi is left to grow up in the shadow of his famous father, along with his older brother, Hiroshi, and his younger brother, Yasushi. While Hiroshi pursues a career in the theater, and Yasushi demonstrates musi...
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    20,35 €

  • Finding Takashi
    Chōkōdō Shujin
    Finding Takashi tells the true story of Takashi Akutagawa, the second son of Japan’s greatest writer, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. After Ryūnosuke’s suicide shocks the nation, Takashi is left to grow up in the shadow of his famous father, along with his older brother, Hiroshi, and his younger brother, Yasushi. While Hiroshi pursues a career in the theater, and Yasushi demonstrates musi...
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    32,29 €


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