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Supremacy at sea Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific victory
Mawdsley, Evan
Ebook
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force--and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy   Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft...
ALLIED CONVOYS TO NORTHERN RUSSIA, 1941-1945 politics, strategy and tactics
Smith, William.
Ebook
A carefully researched work providing an overview of the strategic factors dominating the costly yet war-winning Arctic convoy program. While the experiences of the men and ships who sailed in the Allied convoys to North Russia between August 1941 and May 1945 have been fully...
Normandy, the sailors' story a naval history of D-Day and the battle for France
Hewitt, Nick (Naval historian)
Ebook
The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign   The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history. The assault phase, Operation...
Vanquished and victorious World War I veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938
Šmidrkal, Václav
Ebook
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Empire Javelin, D-Day assault ship the British vessel that landed the US 116th infantry on Omaha Beach
Bujak, Philip
Ebook
Drawing heavily on firsthand accounts, the author details both the actions of the Empire Javelin herself and of the landing craft launched from her. Empire Javelin an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She...
The Atlanta Campaign, 1864: Sherman's Campaign to the Outskirts of Atlanta
Powell, David A.
Ebook
A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams. The campaign for Atlanta was pivotal to the outcome of the American Civil War. Roughly 190,000 men waged war across northern Georgia in a struggle that lasted 133...
Nimitz's newsman Waldo Drake and the Navy's censored war in the Pacific
Bean, Hamilton
Ebook
When Lt. Cdr. Waldo Drake, USNR arrived in Pearl Harbor in June 1941 as the U.S. Pacific Fleet's first Public Relations Officer (PRO), he was an admired maritime reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Reserve Officer appointed to intelligence duties. By October 1944, he was hated by most...
The road past Monchy : fighting the first World War at Arras, 1914-1918
Loveridge, Terence
Paper Book
Terence Loveridge offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western front during World War I. The story of the Great War is usually one of condemnation or rehabilitation of strategists and consecration of the common...
Rommel's ghost division dash to the Channel - 1940 : rare photographs from wartime archives
Mitchelhill-Green, David
Ebook
Erwin Rommel's rapid and unexpected advance through France culminated in a key victory during the 1940 invasion of Europe and was branded the "Ghost Division". Adolf Hitler invaded Western Europe on 10 May 1940. After breaking through the supposedly 'impenetrable' Ardennes, Erwin...

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