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  • D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector

    The US Navy's Western Task Force

    Serien Buch 9 - Fleet
    A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,40

  • British Pacific Fleet 1944–45

    The Royal Navy in the downfall of Japan

    Serien Buch 3 - Fleet
    An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy's primary contribution to the direct defeat of Japan in 1945, and is among the most powerful fleets Britain has ever sent into action. With naval supremacy in home waters achieved by 1944, many of the best and Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,40

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  • Battle of the Atlantic

    von Marc Milner
    World War II was only a few hours old when the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of the Second World War and the most complex submarine war in history, began with the sinking of the unarmed passenger liner Athenia by the German submarine U30. Based on the mastery of the latest research and written from a mid-Atlantic – rather than the traditional Anglo-centric – perspective, Marc Milner Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,79

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    von Andrew Rawson
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,79

  • The Battle of Okinawa 1945

    The Pacific War's Last Invasion

    von Jon Diamond
    Serien series Images of War
    A pictorial history of one of World War II's most bitterly fought campaigns.The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation Iceberg, was fought from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Three hundred and fifty miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty-second Army defenders were on land and the Imperial Navy Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,97

  • Tarawa 1943

    The turning of the tide

    von Derrick Wright
    Serien Buch 77 - Campaign
    An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,51

  • Pacific Victory

    Tarawa to Okinawa 1943-1945

    von Derrick Wright
    The American 'island-hopping' campaign in the Pacific during the Second World War was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan in 1945. The assault and capture of these islands meant US bombers and their fighter escorts could now reach mainland Japan, disrupting and eventually crippling its war economy. The battles on Tarawa, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas group, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,98

  • US Marine Corps in the Second World War

    von Michael Green
    Serien series Images of War
    The United States Marine Corps played a leading role in the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until VJ Day on September 2, 1945. Living up to its motto the "First to Fight," the 1st Marine Division landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal in the south Pacific on August 7, 1942 and fought its way up the central Solomon Island to Cape Gloucester in the territory of Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,15

  • The War in the South Pacific

    von Jon Diamond
    Serien series Images of War
    The Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands in May 1942 with the aim of building an airfield at Guadalcanal. After an epic six month struggle they were repulsed and the island became a staging base for US Admiral Halsey and his South PacificForce. Comprising powerful naval, marine and army assets as well as land and carrier-based aircraft, Halseys Forces mission was to neutralise the Japanese Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,15

  • Iwo Jima 1945

    The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

    von Derrick Wright
    Serien Buch 81 - Campaign
    A definitive account of the battle of Iwo Jima, from its origins to its hard-fought conclusion.One of the decisive battles of the Second World War in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as 'The most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps' - a titanic struggle that eclipsed all that had gone before Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,51

  • The Sinking of the Bismarck

    The famous war correspondent delivers an edge-of-your seat account of the naval chase and battle to take out one of Hitler's most powerful warships.The Bismarck wasn't just any warship. Its guns were much stronger and more accurate than any others in its day—meaning it could easily sink enemy ships without getting in range of their fire. It was one of Hitler's most powerful weapons, and the Allied Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,77

  • Sea Combat

    From World War I to the Present Day

    von Robert Jackson
    Naval warfare - and the weapons used to conduct it – has changed greatly since World War I. Sea battles are no longer dominated by large battleships, but by even larger aircraft carriers. Ships have been relegated to floating missile platforms. Containing full- colour artworks and action photographs, Sea Combat is a comprehensive guide to how the ships, submarines and naval weapons that have been Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,22