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Paperback. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. American Soldiers at War with Japan. 304 pages, 16, 16 black & white plates. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230274365
- ISBN
- 9780230274365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.61
€ 31.61
Paperback. Omaha beach attracts over one and a half million visitors yearly, making it the most visited WW II battlefield site in Europe. This narrow strip of Normandy coastline was crucial to the successful outcome of Overlord - the largest amphibious operation in history - and to the WW II itself. This title presents the story of this area. Editor(s): McIlwain, John. Series: Military and Maritime. Num Pages: 24 pages, 18 Colour and 32 black and white pictures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 24
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841650968
- ISBN
- 9781841650968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.12
€ 8.99
€ 8.12
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458968
- ISBN
- 9780853458968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.78
€ 25.78
Paperback. The remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement Num Pages: 372 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBG; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814743317
- ISBN
- 9780814743317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 169 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146. Shocking Tales from London's Gruesome Past and Present. 176 pages, maps. London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; WTH. Dimension: 113 x 169 x 13. Weight: 172.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780590691
- ISBN
- 9781780590691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardcover. Allen J. Frantzen traces chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behaviour for men in combat. Num Pages: 360 pages, 26 colour plates, 93 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226260853
- ISBN
- 9780226260853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 46.16
€ 53.41
€ 46.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, 8pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 50. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349138800
- ISBN
- 9780349138800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 148 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 188 x 10. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750952347
- ISBN
- 9780750952347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917 Num Pages: 384 pages, 16, 6 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304367191
- ISBN
- 9780304367191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226526805
- ISBN
- 9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. This may not be the last book you read on Little Bighorn, but it should be the first. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7, 5 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801895012
- ISBN
- 9780801895012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.93
€ 32.93
Paperback. Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. This book gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 42. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099551799
- ISBN
- 9780099551799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive study that combines combat, political, and administrative history. This title shows the reader not only how this regiment fought, but also how it was administered, for better or for worse, and how commissions were gained and lost, and how this unit eventually became one of the Unions steadfast, reliable fighting formations. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810849969
- ISBN
- 9780810849969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.34
€ 143.34
Paperback. Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare, showing their cultural as well as military significance. Series: Warfare in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270279
- ISBN
- 9781783270279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.03
€ 33.99
€ 29.03
Paperback. A collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his rhetoric. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442068
- ISBN
- 9780141442068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardcover. 41 Squadron is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons still in existence and has seen service from the First World War, policing the Middle East in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, and more recently in the First Gulf War and Yugoslavia. This is the first comprehensive study, concentrating on its Second World War between August 1942 - May 1945 Num Pages: 1088 pages, 350 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 254 x 50. Weight in Grams: 2074.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd
- Number of pages
- 1088
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781551936
- ISBN
- 9781781551936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.62
€ 46.99
€ 36.62
Paperback. Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304367382
- ISBN
- 9780304367382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. The author, formerly one of Lyndon Johnson's lawyers, explains why he believes that Johnson was behind the Kennedy assassination. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616081973
- ISBN
- 9781616081973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.93
€ 20.99
€ 19.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300225976
- ISBN
- 9780300225976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.40
€ 18.99
€ 15.40
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630489
- ISBN
- 9780691630489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.45
€ 111.45
hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20, 3 colour plates, 16 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801452260
- ISBN
- 9780801452260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 photos & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBW; JWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811701648
- ISBN
- 9780811701648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.85
€ 24.99
€ 19.85
Paperback. Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. This book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain, offers a fresh perspective on the conflicts, and concludes with a critique of the hunting controversies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBT; WSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300145458
- ISBN
- 9780300145458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.15
€ 20.99
€ 17.15
Paperback. Explores the tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813544199
- ISBN
- 9780813544199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.19
€ 40.19