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The Cavalry of the Wehrmacht 1941-1945
Schiffer Military£27.99| /This new book is a detailed study of one of the lesser known aspects of the German Wehrmacht in World War II. Covered are the variety of unit types...
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The Cavalry Regiments of Frederick the Great 1756-1763
Schiffer Military£86.99| /A large format, color volume on Frederick's cavalry regiments. All currasier, dragoon and hussar regiments are illustrated with two color pages for...
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The Century Series: The USAF Quest for Air Supremacy, 1950-1960
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This is the history of fighter aircraft that transitioned the United States Air Force into the supersonic era. By 1952, fighter designations that s...
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The Clay Pigeons
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This book is centered around the author's father's World War II diary. Robert C. Sage was a B-17 pilot who flew twenty-nine missions out of Thurlei...
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The Colt M1911 .45 Automatic Pistol
Schiffer Military£22.99| /The Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its leg...
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The Complete Book of U.S. Military Pocket Knives
Schiffer£36.99| /This book is a color celebration of the pocket knives of the United States military, and features both U.S. and foreign-made models. It is a histor...
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The Confederate Steam Navy
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both d...
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The Curtiss Hydroaeroplane
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This is the first book to detail the design and service history of the U.S. Navy?s first airplane, and presents the formative years of naval aviati...
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The Curtiss X-Planes
Schiffer Military£45.99| /This book is a lavishly illustrated story of Curtiss Wright Corporation's 1950s and 1960s efforts in developing a vertical takeoff (VTOL) aircraft....
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The Debden Warbirds
Schiffer Military£40.99| /The P-51 Mustangs of the 4th Fighter Group were the first to escort bombers over Berlin during World War II, the first to escort bombers from Engla...
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The Doolittle Raid
Schiffer Military£27.99| /It was the biggest gamble of World War II, but Lt. Co. "Jimmy" Doolittle\s legendary bombing raid on Tokyo gave America the morale boost it needed ...
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The Doolittle Raiders
Schiffer Military£15.99| /Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick respo...
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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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