Search Results: Authors starting with M from Military History Books

(Subject: World War II - Pacific) Operation Iceberg, the WWII amphibious operation in 1945 by the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to invade Okinawa. The Japanese defended the island furiously using Kamikaze suicide tactics against the invasion fleet, and holing up in complex cave networks which had to be taken by hand-hand fighting and flame throwers. The book not only looks at the US assault, but also includes much previously unpublished material from the Japanese side. (Published: 1978) (Publisher: E P Dutton Books) (ISBN: 052593006X) (Pagination: 184pp, over 75 photos, 3 maps, further reading, index) (Condition: Good in rubbed and faded dw. ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Very good in good d/w with faded spine. The history of the CSS Alabama, the best known ship from the American Civil War. Under the command of captain Raphael Semmes the Alabama wreaked havoc on the food and military supplies to the North in raiding cruises from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic. She was eventually sunk in a ship to ship duel with USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg. Includes material that was discovered only after the location of the wreck. (Published: 1995) (Publisher: Leo Cooper) (ISBN: 0850524350) (Pagination: 232pp, 18 ills) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) A revealing study of General George Smith Patton Jr. GCB, KBE. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. The popular image of "Old Blood and Guts" contrasts with historians' image of a brilliant military leader whose record was marred by insubordination. (Published: 1983) (Publisher: Bonanza) (ISBN: 0517455951) (Pagination: 261pp, 23 photos, bibliography) (Condition: Good in blue boards. no d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Land Vehicles & Weapons - General) The first ever examination of the unknown story of WWII Canadian tank production, based on official reports and coupled with many recently uncovered photographs. The vehicles described in this book proved that Canada was capable of developing and constructing tanks which could more than hold their own, but the realities of economy of scale meant that Canadian Divisions eventually came to be equipped with American Armoured Fighting vehicles. (Published: 2001) (Publisher: Service Publications) (ISBN: 1894581067) (Pagination: A4 format, 56pp, 51 b/w ills) (Condition: Like New) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: History & Development of Warfare - General) An examination of the theory of insurgency warfare, its practice, counter-insurgency, isolating the guerilla, the security forces, combat operations and propaganda. With numerous case studies from the Congo, Kenya, Rhodesia, Angola and Kurdistan. (Published: 1991) (Publisher: Galago Books) (ISBN: 0946995877) (Pagination: 118pp, 45 photos, diagrams) (Condition: New in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - Eastern Front) The people of Leningrad endured everything that the German Army could throw at them and, by their success, blocked Hitler's ambition to rule Europe. Nearly 4000 starved to death on Christmas Day, 1941 alone! All battles during the siege are extensively covered and the book contains previously unpublished photos from Soviet sources, first hand accounts and colour maps showing deployment of German and Soviet forces. (Published: 2001) (Publisher: Cassell) (ISBN: 9781407221328) (Pagination: 332pp 120 B&W photos & diagrams, maps) (Condition: Very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - Eastern Front) On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by air support, the Wehrmacht advanced from the Soviet Union's western borders to the immediate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov in less than six months. The sudden, deep, relentless German advance virtually destroyed the entire peacetime Red Army and captured almost 40 percent of European Russia before expiring inexplicably at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. (Published: 2003) (Publisher: Tempus) (ISBN: 0752426923) (Pagination: 319pp illustrations) (Condition: Very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - Eastern Front) Hungarian text. A translation of David M Glantz'z classic work on the 900 day siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. (Published: 2001) (Publisher: Gold Book Kft) (Pagination: 314pp, 14 b/w photos, maps) (Condition: As new in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Military Reports) Technical report 1027. An official US Army technical study on the impact of sickness whilst using Virtual Reality equipment during training. (Published: 1995) (Publisher: US Army Research Inst.) (Pagination: xi + 47pp + 10pp appendices) (Condition: stapled covers, vg) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - Pre World War II ) Facsimile reprint in paperback of Volume VIII of The Official History of Australia at War. Almost half of the text (12 of the 27 chapters) is devoted to the Australian air force in the skies over Mesopotamia (Iraq), Egypt, Jordan and Palestine. The AFC arrived on the western front in 1917 and Australian airmen supported ground attacks in the Battle of Cambrai in November, and during the great German spring offensives in the following year. Australian bomber planes backed up the Allied counter-offensives which broke the Hindenburg Line in the summer and autumn of 1918. (Published: 2004) (Publisher: Naval & Military Press) (ISBN: 9781843429128) (Pagination: 485pp. maps. illustrations.) (Condition: New in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) An appraisal of Royal navy ships and their effectiveness in combat. Includes Battleships, K-Boats, Flower Class Corvettes, MTBs and MGBs, Armoured Carriers, Tiger and Blake and Blackwood Class ASW Frigates. (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Ian Allan) (ISBN: 0711015198) (Pagination: 120pp illustrations) (Condition: Very good in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Colonial & Other Wars ) Living in exile following a failed insurrection in Piedmont in 1834, news of the outbreak of revolution in Palermo in January 1848 and agitation elsewhere in Italy encouraged Garibaldi to lead some sixty members of the Italian legion home. He returned to Italy and offered his services to Charles Albert of Sardinia. Rebuffed, he and his followers crossed into Lombardy where they offered assistance to the provisional government of Milan. Garibaldi took up the command of the defence of Rome but the city fell on June 30, 1849 and Garibaldi was forced to flee to the north. (Published: 1928) (Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons) (Pagination: 314pp. maps. frontis portrait) (Condition: Blue boards rubbed at edges. Good) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - General) Dustwrapper faded from blue to brown in some parts. Text and boards good. The saga of US Army and Marine Parachute and Glider Combat Troops During World War II, the book vividly recreates the legend of airborne troops of all nations in their epic actions. This wide-ranging account includes the battles in North Africa and Sicily, Italy, the South of France, Normandy, Holland, The Ardennes and the Rhine crossing in Europe. The book goes on to describe the actions at Noemfoor Island, Leyte, Manilla, Los Banos and Corregidor in the Pacific (Published: 1979) (Publisher: Robson Books Ltd) (ISBN: 0860510689) (Pagination: xvii + 717pp, 200+ photos, 20 maps) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - General) In the last years of his life the former US National Security Adviser, McGeorge Bundy, revisited the role he played in leading the nation into the Vietnam War as a counsellor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In this original and provocative work the author draws on his prodigious research as well as interviews he conducted with Bundy before his death in 1996 to distill the essential lessons of America's involvement in Vietnam. (Published: 2008) (Publisher: Henry Holt & Co ) (ISBN: 9780805090871) (Pagination: 300pp) (Condition: New in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) An autobiographical account from 1900 to 1919. The author was a British travel writer and journalist. During the First World War he was an official correspondent for the British Army in France. He returned in 1917 to work on 'The Nation', a publication opposed to the war. Born in the East End of London, his first job was as a Shipping Clerk. He then he became a journalist for the Morning Leader, for whom one of his assignments involved travelling up the Amazon. (Published: 1930) (Publisher: Heinemann) (Pagination: 539pp) (Condition: Black boards, rubbed. foxing on page edges but text unmarked.) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: History & Development of Warfare - General) A social history from 1661 to the 1980s. The emergence of the "Redcoat" to the all-professional modern Army. With chapters on Marlborough's men, the Wellingtonian period, the Colonial period, WWI and WWII. (Published: 1986) (Publisher: The Bodley Head) (ISBN: 0370305515) (Pagination: viii + 208pp, index) (Condition: vg in dw) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - General) Continuing the record of british Fighters of 1914 to 1918 started in Volume One, this volume provides detailed histories of all known fighting aircraft from the Robey-Peters Scouts to the Sopwith "F.1 Camel. In this volume are the histories of many aircraft of the Royal Aircraft factory that were intended for, or employed, however inappropriately on fighting duties, and a substantial start is made on the great family of Sopwiths. (Published: 1968) (Publisher: Macdonald) (ISBN: 0356014738) (Pagination: 165pp, illustrationss) (Condition: Good in d/w with faded spine) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - General) This volume completes the histories of the British Fighting aircraft used or designed during the 1914-1918 war. It is predominantly a record of Sopwith and Vickers aircraft picking up at the Hippo and the Vickers F.B.5 through to the Sopwith Snapper of 1918. (Published: 1969) (Publisher: Macdonald) (ISBN: 0356014908) (Pagination: 150pp illustrations) (Condition: Previous owner name on endpaper. Good in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) The escape from the Soviet Union by a former WW.II German Fallschirmjager Officer - who had been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment -his was a three year epic march (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Granada Publishing) (ISBN: 0583125069) (Pagination: 222pp) (Condition: Very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - World War II ) A contemporary account of the RAF in the early months of WWII. The book covers the attack on the Maastricht Bridge, the "Epic of Norway", Coastal Command, the lessons of Spain and France and Victory at Dunkirk (Published: 1940) (Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton) (Pagination: 160pp, 60 photos) (Condition: very good. d/w slightly creased but whole. Some light foxing in text and edges ) UL-XXXXXX