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The Douglas A-20 Havoc
Schiffer Military£72.99| /Of all the Allied bombers of WWII, the Douglas A-20 Havoc is probably the least well known, but was a major contributor to the air war effort, flyi...
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The Drilling
Schiffer£45.99| /The Drilling is a triple barreled, shoulder held firearm. The gun's name is derived from the German word for three "drei". As a "combination gun," ...
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The Eight Ballers: Eyes of the Fifth Air Force
Schiffer Military£36.99| /Beginning operations in April 1942 with a shoestring flight of four Lockheed F-4 Lightnings (the photo-recon version of the famed P-38), the 8th Ph...
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The Endless Battle
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Shortlisted, 2018 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingSuggested Reading by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative AssociationNear...
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The F-101 Voodoo
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Conceived in the waning days of World War II as an escort for the mammoth Convair B-36 bomber, the McDonnell Model 36 “Voodoo” first took to the ai...
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The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
Schiffer£54.99| /The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife stands symbolic for daring secret operations that Britain ran during World War II. This book provides an insight...
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The Famous B-24 "Witchcraft"
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book captures the story of "Witchcraft," a B-24 Liberator, based in Rackheath, England, toward the end of World War II, that had a unique reco...
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The Fifth Fighter Command in World War II
Schiffer Military£63.99| /Following his first two massive volumes describing the day-by-day history of the 5th Fighter Command and associated tactical, strategic, and grand ...
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The Flying Pencil
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Versatile German medium bomber also used as recon and assault.
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The Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Along with the Bf 109, the Fw 190 was a stalwart of the Luftwaffe and one of the top fighters of WWII.
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The Ford Tri-Motor 1926-1992
Schiffer Military£45.99| /A large number of people in the United States had their first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor during the 1920s and 1930s, a plane that remains to...
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The Forgotten Squadron
Schiffer Military£63.99| /The men of the 449th Fighter Squadron called themselves the "forgotten squadron." Despite serving to great effect as the only P-38 fighter squadron...
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The French Foreign Legion in Indochina, 1946-1956
Schiffer Military£63.99| /This detailed, highly-illustrated study presents a unique and comprehensive collection of uniforms, insignia, and equipment used by the French Fore...
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The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion of Frontiersmen was conceived and organized in 1905 as a body of frontier sentinels, and they first published...
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The Future of the American Military Presence in Europe
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Ten years have elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, which served as a fitting symbol for the end of the Cold War. That historic juncture brou...
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The German 88 Gun in Combat
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book by renowned World War II historian Janusz Piekalkiewicz presents the history of the famous German "88" in its ground combat role - a role...
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The German Anti-Partisan Badge in World War II
Schiffer Military£18.99| /During World War II nearly every Wehrmacht soldier outside of Germany came into contact, either directly or indirectly, with the nearly one-million...
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The German Fighter Units over Russia
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Covers the aircraft and many pilots of JG 3, JG 5, JG 51, JG 52, JG 54 and JG 77.
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The German MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns
Schiffer Military£22.99| /The German MG (Maschinengewehr) 34, along with the later-war MG 42, was a recoil-operated, air-cooled machine gun and is considered the world’s fir...
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The German Navy at War
Schiffer Military£36.99| /Covers the ships, commanders, harbors, bases, uniforms and insignia of the U-Boot Waffe in over 270 photos.
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The German Navy at War
Schiffer Military£45.99| /Covers the ships, commanders, harbors, bases, uniforms and insignia of the U-Boot Waffe in over 270 photos.
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The German Sniper Badge 1944-1945
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Hitler created the Sniper Badge on August 20, 1944, to impel soldiers to train and be used as snipers. Thus the strategic importance of single comb...
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The German Tank Destruction Badge in World War II
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The close-range engagement of tanks became extremely important mainly because of the Soviet T-34 and KV-I tanks, which for a long time were superio...
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The German U-Boat Base at Lorient, France, Vol. 2
Schiffer Military£40.99| /Volume two (of a four volume series) reveals the story of the seventy-eight German U-boats that passed through the port of Lorient from July 1941 t...
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The German U-Boat Base at Lorient, France, Vol.1
Schiffer Military£40.99| /This first volume (of a four volume series) on the German U-boats at Lorient, France, covers the period from June 1940 to June 1941, and reveals th...
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The Glittering Mountains of Canada
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£101.99| /"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but includin...
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The GMC DUKW
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The General Motors Corporation DUKW was without a doubt the most successful amphibious military vehicle ever constructed. This is due in large part...
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The Great Pacific Air Offensive of World War II
Schiffer Military£27.99| /These are pictorial studies of the Allied air offensive that defeated Japanese air forces in the vast Pacific Ocean region, destroyed Japan's navy ...
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The Great Pacific Air Offensive of World War II
Schiffer Military£27.99| /These are pictorial studies of the Allied air offensive that defeated Japanese air forces in the vast Pacific Ocean region, destroyed Japan's navy ...
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The Hat in the Ring Gang
Schiffer Military£45.99| /The names Raoul Lufbery, Doug Campbell, Reed Chambers, Ham Coolidge, and the greatest American fighter ace of World War I, Eddie Rickenbacker, are ...
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The Heavy Flak Guns 1933-1945
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Superb study of the 88, 105, 128 and 150mm guns.
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The HG Panzer Division
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Luftwaffe Panzer division formed from the paratroop corps was one of the elite units in the Wehrmacht and fought in North Africa and Italy.
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The History of Dyess Air Force Base
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This book covers the history of Dyess Air Force Base from 1941 to the present. The reader is led from the construction and World War II training op...
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The History of German Aviation
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book, the first in a multi-volume history of German aviation, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of of jet aircraft design and dev...
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The History of German Aviation
Schiffer Military£45.99| /Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany’s aeronautical design engineers. This book examines Messers...
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The History of German Aviation
Schiffer Military£45.99| /Shows the developmental history of every German airplane utilized in the aerial attack and reconnaissance roles. The many types, variants, and mode...
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The History of German Aviation: Kurt Tank
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This volume, the second in a mulit-volume history of German aviation, discusses the life work of one of Germany's greatest aircraft designers in pi...
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The History of the 24. Waffen-Gebirgs (Karstjäger)-Division der SSand the Holders of the Anti-Partisan War Badge in Gold in the Second World War
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Take a detailed look into the brutal anti-partisan warfare in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. The SS war against the partisans, dubbed Band...
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The History of the Panzer Troops 1916-1945
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Chronological history of the German Panzer Corps, and it role in modern warfare in photos, charts, maps and documents.
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The History of the Steel Helmet in the First World War
Schiffer Military£72.99| /This illustrated two-volume set is a further detailed look at the helmets of all nations using an identifiable helmet during the First World War, a...
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The History of the Steel Helmet in the First World War
Schiffer Military£72.99| /This illustrated two-volume set is a further detailed look at the helmets of all nations using an identifiable helmet during the First World War, a...
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The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten's remarkable aeronautical...
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The Horten Flying Wing in World War II
Schiffer Military£9.99| /Pre-cursor to modern Stealth technology, a jet powered version flew in February 1945.
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The Horten Ho 9/Ho 229
Schiffer Military£45.99| /Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight t...
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The Horten Ho 9/Ho 229
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight t...
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The Illustrated Manual of U.S. Portable Flamethrowers
Schiffer Military£45.99| /This is the first book to cover U.S. portable flamethrowers in detail, and explores the development of each model, the prototypes, failures and sta...
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The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£34.00| /A great wave of fundraising patriotic associations followed in the wake of Great Britains declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at hom...
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The Imperial German Armies in Field Grey Seen Through Period Photographs 1907-1918
Schiffer Military£72.99| /These books present in detail the field-grey uniforms, helmets, weapons, and equipment used before and during the First World War. The origin and t...
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