This highly illustrated book, first published to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, will reconstruct the historic landings and the resultant battle for Normandy using artefacts, documents, interviews, film, art and photographs from the archives at IWM.
ISBN-13: 9781912423217
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
The 80th Anniversary of D-Day falls on June 6, 2024 In the early hours of that morning, three divisions of paratrooper and glider forces descended on Normandy. Already assembling offshore was the largest seaborne invasion fleet in the history of the world, ready to unleash over 130,000 troops against Hitler's Atlantic Wall. More than 7,000 ......
Imperious, outspoken, and a self-promoter extraordinaire, Douglas MacArthur polarized opinions throughout his career. In this carefully researched book that's sure to be as controversial as the general himself, James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.
The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies
By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.
It was a crucial moment of WW2. 1940. The Royal Air Force, virtually alone, defended the skies of Britain against massed formations of German bombers. They put up such a ferocious defence that Hitler gave up ideas of invading Britain and turned his attention to an assault on the Soviet Union.
The Rhineland-Westphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1935-1945
Drawn primarily from German sources, especially the rare divisional and regimental histories and personal accounts and letters of its soldiers, Soldiers to the Last Day: the Rhineland- Westphalian 6th Infantry Division presents the German view of WWII from inside divisional headquarters down to the individual Landser.
Volume 5 in Blaine Taylor's photographic history of Hermann Goering sees the Reichsmarschall at his most powerful: commander-in-chief of the fearsome Luftwaffe and the Fuhrer's named successor. Victories for the Luftwaffe in Spain and Poland cover him in glory, and yet he is fearful of what's to come and uncertain whether his nation will survive.
Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI's Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole
The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent.
A comprehensive, highly detailed, and highly illustrated history of Soviet-built fighters used during the Second World War including detailed descriptions of both operational and experimental fighters. It has photographs and colour profiles of all fighter aircraft. Drawings from period flight and technical manuals are also included.
